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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1976
Page
2
December price increases lift the yearly inflation to 7 percent, the best in three years. Labor Department data show paychecks held steady month to month but up 3.8 percent for the year due to tax cuts. Food costs rose 6.5 percent in 1975 while nonfood goods up 6.2 percent and services 8.1 percent.
A House subcommittee voted 6 to 1 to subpoena regulatory reports on Citibank and Chase Manhattan, after the comptroller of the currency refused to disclose them in a closed session. The aim is to scrutinize bank supervision amid concerns of secrecy and risk growth. The full committee meets to decide next.
In Moscow Brezhnev and Kissinger opened negotiations aiming to limit strategic arms after Angola tensions. Both leaders signaled a cautious path toward a framework with months of technical work to follow in Geneva.
Frank R. West head of American Beef Packers faced a federal court verdict reading on mail and wire fraud charges connected to a 105 count indictment with top aide Robert E. Lee. The case centers on diverting accounts receivable from GECC, with alleged schemes totaling several million dollars during ABP’s attempted reorganization.
The bulletin reports cold, partly clearing conditions in the Northern Valley with tonight’s lows in the upper teens to low 20s and a breezy, colder Thursday. It records temperatures, rainfall, and historical climate data, then notes Susan Ford’s amateur ski race at Vail ending with a photo finish loss by one hundredth of a second.
A group of 120 James River dependent workers filed a $2.7 million federal suit in Richmond against Life Science Products Inc. Allied Chemical Hooker Chemicals Plastics Corp and William P. Moore. They accuse the defendants of repeated willful polluting contaminating the river and its tributaries with Kepone.
The Edinburg Town Council, opposing a 13 cent letter charge, votes unanimously to hire former Mayor Peter Craig to hand deliver water and sewer bills at 62 cents per letter. Officials warn the post office will be notified and no bills will go into mailboxes.
Officials say no employees are suspected after a $350 leather flight jacket worn by General MacArthur disappears at the memorial in Norfolk Virginia. Capt. Robert Alexander, memorial director, notes a tourist found the loss and that MacArthur’s name on the jacket suggests theft by an outsider.
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