01 Sep 1977
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1977
Page
1
The Labor Department reports wholesale prices rose 0.1 percent in August, with farm prices falling 3.3 percent for a fourth straight month. Industrial commodities up 0.5 percent driven by lumber and transportation gear, while processed foods and feeds eased 0.8 percent. Overall, the 12 month wholesale rise stood at 5.9 percent.
About 4 000 delegates from 64 nations at the World Psychiatric Association sixth World Congress in Honglule vote to censure the Soviet Union for alleged psychiatric abuses and to create a committee to review such practices. The American and British associations urged curbs on political misuse of psychiatry, while Soviet delegates denounced the charges as slander.
The National Safety Council estimates 470 to 570 people will die in traffic accidents over Labor Day weekend. Americans are expected to travel 13 billion miles during the 78 hour period from Friday 6 p.m. to Monday midnight. Last year 501 fatalities occurred in a similar three day span. About 400 died in a nonholiday period at the same time of year.
Atlanta based AP report notes eight federal regulations will raise hospital bills by about 22 dollars per patient this year. The American Hospital Association estimates total costs rising 863 million dollars in 1977. AHA President Alex McMahan criticizes regulatory cost versus benefit while citing specific measures and potential savings from a unified billing form.
Thousands of applicants across Europe vie for the first Western European astronauts crew for the ESA Spacelab mission. Among 660 Britons, a 70-year-old woman and two other female applicants were eliminated by medical or academic tests. Final selections will narrow candidates to three by next June for roles aboard the space shuttle mission with seven days near the space station, conducting about 90 experiments in atmospherics, astronomy, weather and solar physics.
AP report from Brownsville describes Hurricane Anita closing in on the Texas coast from the Gulf of Mexico with sustained winds near 105 mph and extending gale force winds hundreds of miles north. Brownsville and Matamoros sit near the storm path as warnings rise and coastal tides surge, with the hurricane projected a southwestern track toward the lower Rio Grande Valley.
Fragmentary reader notes from Inside The Mail Today reference price items and delayed pages. Mentions a mistreated pony case and an alleged county boss, with scattered page citations and partisan-leaning labels.
A federal court ordered the Labor Department to approve importing about five thousand foreign workers to harvest the Eastern apple crop. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall said the department will take all legal steps to prevent the order from taking effect and will seek enough domestic workers to fill the harvest. Judge Ames C. Turk indicated the order was not stayed but avoided speculation on contempt.
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