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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1983
Page
2
March 11, 1983 dateline reports Fink urging new taxes. Brief items cover a barroom rape case involving women, a border angel death, grass boom in Iowa, and a defector in limbo across pages A3, A4, A6, A7, and A9.
President Reagan sent Congress a bill creating a $2.50 minimum wage for youths and a hiring voucher system for the long term unemployed, plus extending federal supplemental unemployment benefits to 2 million people from March 31 to Sept 30. Labor secretary Donovan estimates 200,000 jobs this year and 500,000 next year. The unemployment rate stood at 10.4 percent in February.
In Oceanside California police chased two more transients from an abandoned cemetery mausoleum where three vagrants camped last month. Neighbors complained prompting a raid. The two men were not arrested but questioned and told to move on. The crypts held carpet remnants blankets pillows and a baseball catcher's mitt.
In Coldwater Michigan police report thieves used a 2.4 ton dumpster to smash through a cement wall at Coast to Coast Hardware. The crash created a hole to reach store shelves and an undetermined amount of merchandise was taken before officers arrived. No suspects were in custody.
John W Hernandez Jr a former college professor now acts as EPA administrator amid calls to restore public trust and employee morale. He vows to return the agency to its core job ensuring a safe healthy environment as Anne Burford defends her record and resigns.
Polar air chills the East with freezing temps and snow flurries into the Southeast. Flurries cover the Ohio Valley and Appalachians while mountains of West Virginia and surrounding states face up to three inches of snow. Freeze warnings stretch from South Carolina to southeastern Tennessee as skies stay overcast from the Great Lakes to Georgia. Showers and thundershowers spread from the Great Basin to the northern Rockies with rain along the north Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Sunset 6 06 p m, sunrise 6 22 a m. AIR POLLUTION INDEX 31. Weather data broadcast 24 hours daily on NOA A frequency 162550 Mt.
Senate Finance Committee approved a bipartisan Social Security rescue measure closely mirroring the House plan 165 billion in cost with phased retirement age changes. It retains key provisions: slower COLA, higher payroll taxes, Medicare rate structure, and extended unemployment benefits while liberalizing mothers benefits and mandating coverage for new federal workers.
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