Odessa May jobless rate hits record high at 9.7 percent
Odessa's May jobless rate rose to a record 9.7 percent from 9.4 in April as teens enter the labor market and the workforce shrinks. TEC data show 71,500 in the Odessa labor force, 64,600 employed, 6,900 unemployed, with 900-plus placements in May.
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Odessa
Texas Employment Commission
Odessa Tec
Jerry Damm
Damm
Odessa Jobs Service Office
TEC
Permian Basin
Midland
Jerry Adams
Midland Tec Office
Talking computer spurs late night health club pitch in Fort Wayne
Alternatives in Marketing Inc. marketed the Cansmark Contactor 8300 named Vivian a non stop business associate. It automatically dials numbers and offers a free week membership at a health club. Vivian kept calling until dawn, prompting about 80 residents to complain and one caller to turn the tables with her own answering machine.
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Fort Wayne, Ind
Alternatives In Marketing Inc
Cansmark
Vivian
Kim Meinzer
Watchdog group cites $5 billion in 1981 electric utility federal taxes
Environmental Action Foundation says the 100 largest electric utilities charged customers $5 billion in federal taxes in 1981 but paid only $1.3 billion to the IRS. The group cites $25 billion in deferred tax accounts and argues regulators should pass tax savings to customers as they occur.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Environmental Action Foundation
IRS
Richard Morgan
Foundation
Morgan
The
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Energy Department
Richard Braatz
Edison Electric Institute
Braatz
Ruth Caplan
Environmental Action Inc
Commonwealth Edison Co
Chicago
Public Service Co
Oklahoma
Judge Connally Rebuked by Assistant Attorney General
An assistant attorney general labeled incompetent by Odessa Judge Joe Connally demands a public retraction of his remark. In a June 10 letter Dave Preister of the state AG environmental division said he was shocked and disappointed at Connallys statement about Preisters handling of a Permian Chemical Co. air pollution case.
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244Th Judicial District
Joe Connally
Connally
Dave Preister
State Attorney General
Odessa
Preister
Permian Chemical Co
Permian Chemical
Jim Mattox
ChemCentral Inc
East U.S. 80
ChemCentral
Mattox
State Disciplinary Board
Prague youths clash as demand for freedom renews
In Prague police used clubs to disperse youths shouting We want freedom during the opening of a World Peace conference rally. About six arrests were made as 300 demonstrators later gathered in Wenceslas Square, while President Husak linked nuclear deployments to U.S. power. Romesh Chandra urged no missiles worldwide.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Peace and Life
World Assembly For Peace and Life
Soviet Bloc
U.S
Europe
Wenceslas Square
Communist Party
Alexander Dubcek
Moscow
Gustav Husak
United States
Western
Husak
Romesh Chandra
India
World Peace Council
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Mark White
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Mark McKenna
Shirley
Mass
Watchdog Organization
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