Medicare premiums to rise for 22.5 million aged and disabled
HEW announced a 50 cent increase in monthly Medicare doctor bill premiums on July 1. The hike from 5.80 to 6.30 dollars funds expansion of Medicare to 1.7 million disabled people and kidney disease patients, driven by higher physician use and costlier services, according to HEW Secretary Elliott L. Richardson.
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Washington
UPI
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Elliott L. Richardson
Champion Oil wins nearly 3 million in antitrust suit
Champion Oil Co of Hamilton Ohio was awarded almost 3 million by a federal judge in a case against Atlantic-Richfield Corp of New York. A blue ribbon jury in October found Sinclair Oil Corp now Atlantic-Richfield violated restraint of trade. Champion, seven Southwestern Ohio service stations, contracted to handle Sinclair products in 1958 and said the products were unacceptable but Sinclair would not release Champion from its lease.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Champion Oil Co
Hamilton
Ohio
Atlantic-Richfield Corp
New York
Sinclair Oil Corp
Atlantic-Richfield
Champion
Sinclair Products
Sinclair
California veto session ends with Reagan upholding all 15
In Sacramento legislators failed to override any Reagan vetoes in the last special session, marking the first time since 1946 no veto has been overturned. The vote count shows bipartisan support for the governor's decisions while Assembly members pressed for stronger powers. Meanwhile a separate Willard fire damages Central Elementary, with state marshal investigation and class cancellations announced.
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Sacramento
Calif
UPI
John Miller
Berkeley
Assembly
Ronald Reagan
Earl Warren
Castro Sees USSR Refinancing of Cuba Debt
Fidel Castro announced the Soviet Union will refinance Cuba’s debt, calling Moscow a true friend. The deal gives 13 years before the next payment on aid since 1959, with experts estimating about 3 billion dollars debt not including arms deliveries. Payments extend 10 years into the next century.
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Miami
UPI
Permier Fidel Castro
Soviet Union
Cuba
Ohio bill protects journalists from revealing sources
A proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution by Rep. William G. Batchelder would bar courts from forcing newsmen to disclose confidential sources. The measure shields anyone employed by a newspaper, press association, or radio or TV outlet who gathers, procures, compiles, edits, disseminates, or publishes news during their work.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio
William G. Batchelder
Ohio teen’s comet sighting deemed a mistaken report
Dr. Brian Marsden, director of the international astronomical clearing house, says Dave Sams, 15, Columbus high school junior, likely mistook a comet sighting. Photographs taken the prior Tuesday show no unusual object in the area.
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Cambridge
Mass
UPI
Ohio
Brian Marsden
International Clearing House For Astronomical Information
Dave Sams
Columbus
Marsden
Navy salvage expert to aid search for Clemente crash victims
In San Juan Puerto Rico a U S Navy salvage expert has been brought in to assess assistance for locating the missing bodies of baseball star Roberto Clemente and three others who died in a plane crash near the city on New Year’s Eve.
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San Juan, P.R
UPI
U.S. Navy
Roberto Clemente
Here
Weather and vital records for Norwalk area
Cloudy windy and colder today tonight and Friday with a 20 percent chance of snow flurries today 30 percent tonight and 40 percent Friday. Norwalk highs near 40 today and in the 30s Friday. low around 18 tonight. Births include a boy for Mr and Mrs Leo Stockmaster Norwalk and a girl for Mr and Mrs Russell Edwards Norwalk. Death of Frank S Fisher 85 Norwalk.
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Norwalk
Leo Stockmaster
FT Hospital
Russell Edwards
Churches Unite to Condemn Religious Killings in Belfast
Protestant and Catholic church leaders jointly condemn 122 killings blamed on religious hatreds in the past year amid ongoing sectarian violence. The leaders urge the community to root out evil as police report 679 deaths in 3% years of conflict.
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Belfast
UPI
Church of Ireland
Irish Republican Army
William Whitelaw
Northern Ireland
Storm Rips Midwest Trails Interstate Highways In Snow
A major winter storm swept the Midwest causing fatal crashes near Ottawa Illinois and Nebraska, with blizzard conditions in eastern Nebraska and Iowa. I-80 and US 75 73 corridors clogged by five hour delays and nine inch drifts, Des Moines airport shut, schools closed in Omaha.
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Midwest
Ottawa
Ill
Nebraska
Omaha
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska State Patrol
York
Iowa
Des Moines
Wind toppled 50 foot stack at Norwalk power plant
High winds snapped off a 50 foot section of the main boiler stack at the Norwalk power plant. The section fell near railroad tracks and the water filtration plant, causing no damage to equipment. A new section will be added to the remaining stack.
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Edwin Goehring
Strasburg
Norwalk
Don Ware
Ohio Edison Co
Henry Schaper
Ware
Congress Faces Deaf Ear on Vietnam War News
Congress pressed for White House explanations on resumed North Vietnam bombing but received little clarity. Kissinger to brief freshmen as Senate and House vote on antiwar measures. White House warns action could prolong the war. Senate Republicans back Nixon efforts while many GOP members voice concern over the bombings.
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John Hall
Washington
UPI
North Vietnam
White House
Congress
Henry M. Jackson
Dash
Jackson
Nixon
Henry A. Kissinger
Capitol Hill
House
Ronald L. Ziegler
U.S
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
Europe
State Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
William P. Rogers
Kissinger
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Paul McCloskey
Calif
Northeast
Retired Vietnam War hero works as cafe waiter in Australia
Surfers Paradise reports that David H. Hackworth, the most decorated Vietnam veteran with 91 medals, now waits tables at a cafe on Australia’s Gold Coast. He says he prefers peace and enjoys the work that keeps him active after disillusionment with U.S. policy in Vietnam.
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Surfers Paradise
Australia
UPI
David H. Hackworth
Hackworth
Vietnam
Gold Coast
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