Carter names Califano as HEW head during Christmas pause
President-elect Carter completed the Cabinet sweep naming Joseph A. Califano Jr. to head Health, Education and Welfare and named James R. Schlesinger as energy policy chief and Theodore Sorensen as CIA director. He will meet his new team after Christmas at St Simons Island to map policy directions for the new administration. Carter vows a politically quiet Christmas as family plans include his 78-year-old mother in hospital.
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Lillian
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Here
James Schlesinger
Jimmy Carter
CLA
Theodore Sorensen
Joseph Califano Jr
Ford's son eyes Wyoming ranch job after White House exit
President elect Carter prepares to take office as JACK FORD, 24, searches for forestry work. He plans California visits after inauguration and eyeing a large Wyoming ranch needing a management plan amid overgrazing concerns. Ford studied forestry at Utah State University.
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Ford bruised skiing Gift exchanging tradition in Vail
President Ford plans midnight services and a Christmas morning gift exchange despite a skiing mishap. Officials offered varying explanations for his limp with one later stating a bruised hip from a fall. Ford had skied earlier but rested yesterday citing fatigue and stiffness.
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Five Die In Crashes And Fire In Central New York
State police report multiple fatal incidents across Oneida and Tompkins counties. Norman L. Hilliker, 29, of Durhamville, was killed near Verona when his car hit a pole and electric wire. David Sullivan, 18, of Seneca Falls, died in a car fire after a crash in Geneva. Gary L. Storms, 25, of Bath, died when his car struck a cable pole near Corning. Frank R. Tozer II, 36, of Binghamton, died in a Dryden crash after losing control on Ellis Hollow Road.
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Weather map notes cooler, mixed precipitation ahead
Milder in east and west, colder inland with showers in the central Gulf turning to snow in eastern Oklahoma and Kansas and the lower Midwest. AP photo map notes cloudy conditions with a 30 percent chance of snow tonight increasing to 68 percent tomorrow. Low tonight in the low 20s, high tomorrow near 25. Sunset 4:34 p.m., sunrise 7:35 a.m. Snowfall to date 41.1 inches.
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Snowstorm Dumps Up To Fourteen Inches On Buffalo Area
Buffalo residents woke to a white Christmas as a snowstorm dumped up to 14 inches, with nine inches falling in squalls. Travel restrictions affected last minute shoppers and travelers. The National Weather Service forecast flurries then clearing by afternoon and mid twenties temperatures with cloudy skies and more snow for Christmas.
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Bilbo Widow Linda Bilbo Dies at 100
Linda Ruth Bilbo widow of Theodore G Bilbo former Mississippi governor died in Pompano Beach Florida at age 100 She outlived the segregationist governor who served from 1916 to 1920 and 1928 to 1932 Died yesterday at a local hospital AP report
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Oswego DA asks state to probe Schiano murder
Oswego County District Attorney Eugene Sullivan Jr. ordered transfer of the Alfred Schiano homicide to the Organized Crime Task Force amid indications of intercounty and interstate organized crime links. Investigators say nine agencies are involved and the death, initially thought a hit and run, may have occurred in Oswego County.
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Alfred Schiano
Organized Crime Task Force
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Ray T. Chesbro
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Fukuda, 71, easily wins Japan prime minister post
Takeo Fukuda, 71, conservative economic expert and new LDP president, swept to the prime ministership in a Diet vote. He succeeds Takeo Miki, who resigned after LDP’s poor showing in December elections. Fukuda has long pressed for the post and previously held deputy PM and economic planning roles.
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Takeo Fukuda
Liberal-Democratic Party
Japan
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Takeo Miki
LDP
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Auto sales hit second-fastest mid-December pace in history
DETROIT AP reports pre-Christmas domestic car sales for December 11-20 reached a robust rate, totaling 223,556 cars in eight selling days for a daily 27,945. This 33 percent rise from last year signals 1977 deliveries approaching record levels, with 8,553 cars per day the mid-December record set previously in 572.
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