Tax-cut plan fuels Albany session and politics
In Albany, Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson pushes a $482 million tax cut package aimed at individuals and businesses. The bills, advancing with Republican support, have no immediate effect and may shape the governor race as Democrats lament the timing and politics of the session.
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Warren Anderson
Anderson
Carey
House
James Griffin
Buffalo
Capitol
Assembly
Perry Duryea
Ohrenstein
Democratic Assembly
Stanley Steingut
Gov
Hugh Carey
Warren. Anderson
Binghamton
Chamber
New York State freezes hiring to stabilize workforce
Gov Hugh Careys administration orders another state hiring freeze with attrition aimed at stabilizing the workforce. Budget Director Philip Toia tells agencies to fill only critical or safety related posts while no employees are fired. The move follows a prior freeze that reduced the labor force from 186000 to about 178000.
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Albany
UPI
Hugh Carey
Albany Times Union
Philip Toia
Blast Fire Kills 30 at Colombian Fertilizer Plant
In Cartagena, a warehouse at Abonos Colombianos storing chemicals exploded during the midnight shift. Fire killed 30 workers and injured 50, with damage estimated at 259000 dollars. Police released the figures as investigators examined the blast site.
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Cartagena
Colombia
Abonos Colombianos
Pact busts SS stall in welfare funding deal
UPI reports House and Senate negotiators reached a welfare funding accord not about Social Security itself. It would provide 187 million dollars to state and local governments to meet welfare costs, with another 187 million planned for next year, while many other issues remain unsettled.
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Washington
Democrats pick Memphis for 1978 miniconvention site
The Democratic Party chose Memphis Tennessee as the location for its 1978 miniconvention over Seattle Denver and Honolulu. The session planned for December next year will host about 1600 delegates plus guests staff and media and will be at the Everett R Cook Convention Center. Memphis offered $150000 in guarantees from local and state governments.
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Washington
Democratic Party
Memphis
Tenn
Seattle
Denver
Honolulu
Everett R. Cook
Mississippi River
Tractorcade Moves Toward Washington Demands Parity
Farmers press nationwide tractor protest led by American Agriculture urging 100 percent parity from the federal government by next Wednesday or face a crop planting and equipment buying boycott. Wayne Eakins predicts 6 000 to 7 000 tractors converge on Washington while Bergland endorses protests and points to NFC Operation 30 as route to fair earnings.
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Associated Press
American Agriculture
Springfield
Colo
Washington, D.C
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Greenwood, del
Washington
Washington Monument
U.S
Eakins
Robert Bergland
Omaha
Neb
National Farmers Organization
Bergland
America
NFC
Oren Lee Staley
First prisoner exchange made
SAN DIEGO AP Loved ones gathered to welcome home Americans jailed in Mexico for years mostly for drug smuggling. The 60 Americans and 36 Mexicans mark the first prisoner exchange under a 1976 treaty. An elderly grandmother and a 2 year old girl born in prison are among returnees.
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Mexico
Houston
Mexico City
United States
Walter Lumpkin
Federal Prison
Lumpkin
Elizabeth Lankton
Oceanside
Calif
Jeanne Lueila McMichael
Fullerton
South America
School funds cut in sex bias cases in federal aid
Washington AP says HEW will withhold new federal funds from 22 districts and colleges after January for refusing pledges not to discriminate against women. First use of five year old law banning sex discrimination in federally aided education under the Carter administration.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Outages Hit 10000 Niagara Mohawk Customers in Central New York
A series of power outages affected nearly 10,000 Niagara Mohawk customers across Central New York with the largest shift leaving 8,346 in Syracuse South Side without service for about an hour. Transmission lines failed near Darwin Glenwood and Onondaga Hill, while 1,500 customers in Bridgeport faced outages from downed lines along Route 31. A third outage hit Ridge Road in Cazenovia affecting 20 to 25 customers.
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Niagara Mohawk
New York
Syracuse
Darwin
Glenwood
Onondaga Hill
Bridgeport
Route 31
Ridge Road
Cazenovia
FDA warns retailers on saccharin posters near store entrances
The FDA told grocers to display saccharin warning posters at entrances and in aisles with saccharin products. The proposed regulation, part of an interim consumer-warning plan delayed by 18 months, requires posters noting cancer risks shown in animal tests and must begin Feb 21.
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Washington
UPI
Food and Drug Administration
Federal Register
Carter
Winter storm swirls through Central New York roads shut
The National Weather Service extended the winter storm warning through tonight with snow flurries and heavy squalls. Winds 30 to 40 mph from the west, a low near 10 to 15 and a high around 20 tomorrow. In Cortland County roads were impassable early today, with Route 81 and several routes hazardous. most roads reopened by 7:15 a.m. but travel remained cautionary. (Concluded on Page Seven)
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Onondaga Cort’ Land
Madison
New York
Cortland County
Pennsylvania
Canada
Homer
Cortland
Virgil
Dryden
Canal pact closer look five part series start Sunday
A five part up to the minute report on the Panama Canal begins Sunday in The Syracuse Herald American and continues daily in The Herald Journal. Written by J Richard Nokes editor of the Portland Oregonian who has just returned from the Canal Zone where he discussed the pros and cons with Zonians natives and others involved.
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Panama Canal
Syracuse Herald-American
Herald-Journal
J. Richard Nokes
Portland Oregonian
Canal Zone
True gentleman holds back tongue on what should not be spoken
A witty remark notes that true gentleness lies in restraint, keeping from saying what never should have been spoken. The quip plays on self control and propriety as a social ideal.
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