Bureaucratic bungling at the FEC cited in Washington column
Jack Anderson recounts the Federal Election Commission’s first year naming 127 bureaucrats at an average $17 463 salary, producing forms before regulations and publishing them in the Federal Register at taxpayer cost. He notes nine discrepancies found by the House staff and mocks the mis ordered process. Ford quotes reflect tense White House views on spending cuts and energy deregulation.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
Federal Election Commission
Commission
Federal Register
House Administration Committee
House
Bob Owens
Ford
Harry Truman
White House
Pentagon
Capitol Hill
House Commerce
Harley Staggers
D-W. Va
Belly
Staggers
Republican Conference
Carl Curtis
R-Neb
Republica Policy
John Tower
R-Tex
Ray Cromley The nuclear safety numbers game
Washington reports a Nuclear Regulatory Commission study calculating low odds of nuclear accidents and deaths. The piece notes a math anomaly may distort results, and warns that insufficient experience with nuclear power makes probabilities uncertain. It argues nuclear power remains not clearly more dangerous than cars or planes.
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Washington
NEA
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Silver shortage looms as recycled X ray film tops supply
Editorial notes growing world demand outpacing silver production. Recycled film from hospitals, notably Ag-Met Inc of Frackville, Pa, becomes a major source. Incinerated used X rays yield sludge smelted into 99.9 percent purity silver, with seven million ounces expected recycled in 1975, against US mine output of 30 million ounces.
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United States
Ag-Met, Inc
Frackville
Ag-Met
Critics claim official employment data distort the economy
AP analysis notes rising critique of official job statistics, arguing many hundreds of thousands or even millions are understated. Critics say definitional changes and seasonal adjustments distort unemployment rates, with implications for revenue sharing and policy decisions. Julius Shiskin and Robert Gordon push for a review.
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John Cunniff
New York
Julius Shiskin
Bureau of Labor Statistics
White House
Robert A. Gordon
John Kennedy
Gordon
American Economic Association
BLS
Charles C. Killingsworth
Michigan State University
Killingsworth
Shiskin
On This Date December 30 1975 Historical Highlights
The daily feature lists events tied to December 30 across history. Notable items include Sun Yatsen elected first provisional president in 1911, the 1853 US Gadsden Purchase, Rudyard Kipling’s 1865 birth, the Iroquois Theater disaster in 1903, and Brezhnev’s 1974 transit. Also birthdays and anniversaries plus a reflexive footnote on Quebec.
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Associated Press
Sun Yatsen
Republic of China
United States
Gadsden
Mexico
Arizona
New Mexico
Rudyard Kipling
Chicago
George
Greece
Michael
Romania
Britain
Saigon
U.S
Wooton
Kremlin
Middle East
Leonid Brezhnev
Carol Reed
Bert Parks
Tokyo Faces Financial Trouble Weighing on Global City
Tokyo, the world’s largest city, nears default risk described as a municipal reconstruction. The Japan Economic Journal notes the designation carries strict national supervision of finances, a fate New York avoided by a $2.3 billion loan guarantee.
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New York
Tokyo
Japan Economic Journal
Congress
First U S Mint set up in Philadelphia in 1792
The first U S Mint was established in Philadelphia by the Act of April 2, 1792 to coin gold silver and copper. George Washington supported the Mint and allegedly donated his tableware to be melted for the first coins the half dismes. The World Almanac notes.
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U.S
Philadelphia
George Washington
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Ray Cromley
Nyc
Frederick the Great of
Prussia
Canada
Quebec
O’ferrall Pauly
Texas Press Association
Senate
Austin
W.E
Pete’’ Snelson
Capital Building
Texas
Dick Slack
Pecos
5Th & Cypress
State Board of Education
M.C. Brockette
Texas Education Agency
11Th St
Ben R. Howell
el Paso
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