Poland confronts food shortages as strikes loom
Panic buying surges across Poland while Solidarity leaders push for talks with government to avert a nationwide four hour Friday walkout and a threatened general strike. Lech Walesa warns against holy war rhetoric as logistics lag. Long lines form outside shops amid looming shortages.
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Solidarity
Mieczyslaw Rakowski
Lech Walesa
Rakowski
Greater
Gas rate hike requests average 4.3 percent
Columbia Gas proposes a uniform residential rate increase across nine Cleveland area communities with Westlake facing 1.9 percent rise and Berea 10.2 percent. The plan aims for an 11.38 percent return, dates to ongoing contract discussions, and cites inflation plus higher costs as drivers.
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Cuyahoga
Lorain
Westlake
Berea
Office of Consumers Counsel
Columbus
James Babcock
Franklin County
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Tom Devers
Columbia Gas
Cuts in Food Programs Hit Lorain County Hard
Nearly 11,000 Lorain County food stamp recipients and thousands of children may lose benefits under Reagan budget cuts. The plan, affecting welfare and non welfare groups, could cost state nutrition funds totaling about 193 million dollars with 107 million in food stamp reductions.
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Reagan
Sanford Weinberg
Food Action and Community Education
FACE
Ohio State Legal Services Association
Weinberg
Mary Vadas
Womens, Infants and Childrens
WIC
Lorain City
Douglas Beckler
Lorain
Oberlin
Gail Brubaker
Elyria City
Elyria Schools Grounded by Colu bus Funding Outlook
Elyria schools project a healthy 1981 year with a 3.6 million carryover and on track receipts. Superintendent Thomas L. Showalter says projections for 1982 look favorable if state receipts stay steady, aided by accurate 1978 emergency levy projections and high investment rates.
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Elyria
Columbus
Thomas L. Showalter
Showalter
Ohio miners walkout lasts into new contract talks
About 250 miners at Oglebay Norton’s Saginaw Mine in St. Clairsville stayed off the job for a second day, with UMW Local 695 president Tim Lyons saying the workers “jumped the gun.” The walkout shadows the 160,000 union members awaiting a tentative contract.
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United Mine Workers
Tim Lyons
UMW
Oglebay Norton
Saginaw
St. Clairsville
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