Vance Picked as Secretary of State by Carter Cabinet
President elect Jimmy Carter selects Cyrus R. Vance a veteran diplomat and defense official to head the State Department. Vance 59 held posts under Kennedy and Johnson and served as Carter campaign adviser. A Senate confirmation is required and Carter planned to announce a second appointee budget director Thomas Lance.
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Thomas Bertram Lance
State Department
Pentagon
National Security Council
Treasury
Vance
New York
Carter
Defense
Senate
Kennedy
Johnson
White House
Clarksburg
W. Va
Lyndon Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Defense Department
Army
Jobless rate stays low in Harvey County October data
Harvey County October unemployment held at 2.8 percent with total labor force 15 250 down 475 from August but up 475 from October 1975. Employed 14 825 down 475 from August. unemployed 425 steady vs August. Manufacturing declined to 3 950 from 4 250 in August. average Wichita area factory earnings rose to 224 51 in September.
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Harvey County
Newton Job Opportunity Center
Wichita
Steel industry price debate and farm land squatters flare in Mexico
The president-elect opposes wage and price controls except in emergencies while no Ford intervention is expected to roll back steel price rises. In Sinaloa thousands of peasants disrupt farming to press land demands, threatening crops and planting with landowners urging Gov. Calderon to intervene.
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Plains
Jimmy Carter
Ford Administration
Culiacan
Mexico
Sinaloa
Alfonso Calderon
Gilberto Partida
Weather Data for South Central Region
Partly cloudy through Saturday with highs in the 50s today and lows in the 20s tonight. Cooler Saturday with highs in the low 40s. Light northerly winds tonight. Airport reading Kirg 41 degrees, humidity around 70 percent, barometer 30.33 to 30.15 inches. Wind NI15 to N17.
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South Central
Carter faces decision on B1 bomber production cost
President elect Carter must decide whether to cancel or continue the B1 bomber program after the Ford Administration awarded three year contracts totaling 704.9 million to Rockwell GE and Boeing to build initial aircraft. The plan would extend current funding to June 1 to allow Carter time for review. The program aims at a fleet of 244 bombers costing 22.9 billion with supporters citing need against Soviet growth and opponents calling it obsolescent in the missile era.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
Ford Administration
Carter
Air Force
Rockwell International Corp
General Electric Co
Boeing Co
Congress
Pentagon
Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
Ford
Thomas C. Reed
Supreme Court delays Gilmore execution for 1 day
The court postponed Gary Mark Gilmore’s Monday execution and ordered Utah officials to respond by 5 p.m. Tuesday to his mother’s plea to spare his life. Chief Justice Burger and Justices Rehnquist and Stevens would have denied the request.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Gary Mark Gilmore
Utah
Gilmore
High Court
Warren E. Burger
William H. Rehnquist
John Paul Stevens
Hear Ye Answers on Health Office Services
The Harvey County Health office states all vaccinations and tests are available to anyone regardless of income race age or sex. While funded by county taxes they prefer Harvey County residents but will not deny services based on a client's residence.
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Harvey County
Plan seeks to ease medical costs in Kansas
Kansas insurance commissioner Fletcher Bell will urge the 1977 legislature to adopt a catastrophic health insurance plan with mandatory offers to insurers, voluntary purchase for individuals, and a state health care commission to control costs and ensure access to major medical care. The plan targets $5000 per individual and $7500 for families, with cost containment and quality controls.
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Topeka
Kan
Fletcher Bell
Kansas
Bell
Kansans
Insurance Commissioner
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