Price Sleuths Track CPI Costs Across Nation
Loretta Petracca joins 350 data collectors in 85 cities for the Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index. The CPI’s December 1980 rise of 1.1 percent and 12.4 percent annual gain influence wages and bargaining agreements. Petracca, paid 5.90 an hour, surveys diverse goods from groceries to tires, noting frequent price increases and regional differences.
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Pittsburgh
Loretta Petracca
United States
Labor Department
CPI
CPT
Petracca
Mount Lebanon
Petracea
Reagan appoints Murray Weidenbaum to head CEA and fills subcabinet posts
President Reagan named Murray L. Weidenbaum to lead the Council of Economic Advisers and announced seven subcabinet picks including California judge William C Clark as deputy secretary of state. Other selections span Treasury deputy, deputy AG, under secretary of agriculture, Army secretary, Navy secretary, and Air Force secretary roles.
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Washington
Reagan
Murray L. Weidenbaum
Council of Economic Advisers
California
Warren Christopher
Center For the Study of American Business
St. Louis
Richard M. Nixon
Weidenbaum
the Treasury
Boeing Co
White House
William C. Clark
California Court of Appeals
Alexander M. Haigh Jr
Clark
William French Smith
R.T. McNamat
Beneficial Standard Corp
Edward C. Schmults
New York
White & Case
Richard E. Lyng
American Meat Institute
Meat Processing
Agriculture
John C. Marsh
Gerald R. Ford
Army
John F. Lehman Jr
Abingdon Corp
Secetary of
Navy
Verne Orr
Motor Vehicles
Air Force
Soviet grain crop declines and meat milk drop in 1980
Soviet grain production fell well below official goals last year while meat and milk output also declined from 1979 levels. Oil production neared the target and natural gas matched planned levels. Officials warn of a persistent food problem as cattle production and diets are expected to improve with a better grain crop.
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Moscow
Statistics Board
U.S
Afghanistan
Central Statistical Board
CIA
KC Woman Wins Probation For Manslaughter Case
Georgia R. Penland, 21, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the February killing of her 26 day old daughter at Whiteman Air Force Base near Sedalia. Judge John W. Oliver granted three years probation, noting the act was not intentional and Penland showed signs of deep despondency. He urged mental health treatment as part of the sentence.
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Kansas City
John W. Oliver
Georgia R. Penland
Air Force Base
Sedalia
Oliver
Final Settlement Petition in Kathryn Cook McClure Estate
The court in Franklin County Kansas will hear Henrietta Faulkner as executor seeking final settlement, executor and attorney fees, and distribution under Kathryn Cook McClure will. Defenses must be filed by February 13 1981. hearing in Ottawa Kansas.
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Franklin County
Kansas
Kathryn Cook McClure
State of Kansas
Henrietta Faulkner
Heraby
Ottawa
Franklin
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