Carter asks Congress for carefully limited IRS help
President Carter urged Congress to provide carefully limited income tax funds to shore up Social Security cash reserves, warning they could run out in the early 1980s. He proposed six steps including compensating trust funds from general revenues, raising the payroll tax base, shifting Medicare funds, and raising self-employed rates to fix short term financing and improve equity.
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Carter
Congress
White House
Social Security Trustees
Health, Education and Welfare
Labor
Treasury
Medicare
Miller urges limited strike right in next coal contract
Morgantown article notes Arnold Miller UMW president calls for a restricted local strike right after a majority vote to curb wildcat actions. He cites rule differences between local and national levels and mentions over half of 15000 miners under wildcat strike in eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia returning to work. District 6 official John Guzek provides the update from Bellaire Ohio.
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United Mine Workers
Arnold Miller
Miller
United Mine Workers Union
Ohio
Panhandle
West Virginia
UMW District 6
John’ Guzek
Distict
Bellaire
Hope Natural Gas refund checks to be mailed this week
Under orders from the Public Service Commission Hope Natural Gas Co will mail 275000 refund checks to most of its 108000 customers in north central West Virginia this week. The refunds cover rate reductions from Feb 19 1973 to Jan 15 1974 and Jan 16 1974 to Nov 30 1975 with six percent interest through May 9 1976.
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Hope Natural Gas Co
State Public Service Commission
West Virginia
PSC
Hope
Carter seeks energy department compromise in Senate panel
Government aides work through the weekend on a pricing plan dividing authority between the energy secretary and a board with the President retaining final say. House panel approves a bill keeping Carter’s pricing layout.
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Carter
Department of Energy
Senate
Governmental Affairs Committee
House
Pope condemns violence during beatification of nun in Rome
Vatican leader denounces crime arms race abortion and kidnapping as Sister Maria Rosa Molas y Vallve is beatified. He urges world to reflect on the sanctity of life and the danger of armaments. Police report a separate hijacking attempt from Tokyo to Moscow by Bruce Kohl Trayer who was intoxicated and subdued by crew on a Northwest flight.
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Paul VI
Maria Rosa Molas Y Vallve
Northwest Orient Airlines
Moscow
United States
Bruce Kohl Trayer
Prairie du Chien
Wisc
Honolulu
Pacific
Appalachian faces refunds as PSC cuts charges by 10 percent
The Public Service Commission orders Appalachian Power to reduce rates by about 10 percent and issue refunds averaging about two months of bills for low usage customers. Expected refunds scale with consumption, from 14 dollars at 100 kilowatts to 106 dollars at 2,000 kilowatts. Grover Smith called the decision the commission’s most comprehensive. Utility officials weigh an appeal amid claims the case used a 1974 test year. Appalachian serves 656,000 West Virginia customers. the company totals 336,810 residential and commercial customers in 21 counties.
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Grover Smith
PSC
Commis
Sion
Appalachian
West Virginia
Spee
Appalachian Power
Mary Charles Nurse Midwife Redefines Childbirth Care
Mary Charles, a Beckley nurse midwife with 2% years of practice, delivers most babies personally with a physician on call. Patients praise her calm, explanatory approach and emotional support, noting she explains medical matters in plain terms and spends time with mothers during and after birth.
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Mary Charles
Robin Sparks
Oceana
Computer error sent Social Security checks to wrong addresses
Treasury official Jamies Abbott says about 150000 elderly and disabled recipients nationwide may have received checks at incorrect locations last week due to a computer misdirection. Michael Naver of the SSA confirms the slip and notes the error is fixed.
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Treasury Department
Jamies. Abbott
Abbott
Carter confronts steelmakers over big price hikes
President Carter challenged steelmakers after a 46 percent rise in flat roll products used in autos and appliances. White House aide Jody Powell flagged a possible showdown as Big Steel kept price increases while 18 percent higher in the past year. The action followed Carter's London trip and the seven nation summit.
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Carter
White House
Jody Powell
Big Steel
London
Leach Faces Additional Trials in West Virginia
Ashley Leach 31 of Huntington faced a preliminary hearing in Municipal Court after a disorderly conduct arrest and a suicide attempt. He recently earned a conviction tied to the Chessie System takeover and was committed to Cleveland Psychiatric Institute following a protest incident on Public Square.
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Ashley Leach
Leach
Huntington
Chessie System
Cleveland Psychiatric Institute
Chessie
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Public Square
Carter Assad talks stage in tense Geneva security
Carter arrives at Geneva for meetings with President Assad as security tightens around the six mile motorcade route to the Hotel Intercontinental. Crowds wave large American flags along the route amid a near armed camp atmosphere.
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Assad
Geneva
Carter
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