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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes january 1978 jobless Bill is called unrealistic Washington up the chamber of Commerce told Congress Friday he Humphrey Hawkins Bill sets an unrealistic goal for reducing a employ gives too Low a priority to fighting inflation and is weak on encouraging Pri vate the Bill promises too Jack the business groups chief econ said in testimony prepared for a House meaningless or Overly ambitious policy declaration should be the wave of the not the wave of the the drafted by the late Hubert and Augustus would set an interim National goal to reduce unemployment recently percent to 4 percent by 1983 for All workers Over the age of Carlson said that la unrealistic Given current trends in the he said the labor Force contains a higher proportion of teenagers and women than in the and since they tend to change jobs More frequently than other workers their presence raises the unemployment in Carlson current Wel fare programs decrease incentive to work and the hardship of unemployment is reduced because now there Are More families with two or More Carlson said the Bill should be changed to give equal importance to fighting inflation As to reducing unemployment and to put More emphasis on private he said the Bill unwisely would make the Federal Reserve Board subservient to the executive Branch and would allow wages for Public jobs higher than the mini mum wage and higher than Many in subs the Economy has created 43 million new jobs since Carlson 9 out of 10 of them in the private he said this country is More successful in creating jobs than any other Industrial but he said Congress and the Carter administration have been destroying jobs faster than they Are created increases in the minimum higher social Security failure to deregulate natural Gas and other Carlson win mean destruction of 3 million jobs by Biko poster banned Cape town api the government has banned a poster of the late Black Active Steve produced by the now banned Black Peoples Biko died in Security police custody on 12 of brain an inquest found no one responsible for his protesting Farmers chant during thurs Days rally on the Capitol presi Dent Carter said be had noticed the shouting their message Farmers la the Snow at he arrived for his state of the Union and that toe sight made him think of the prob lems of my fellow Carter listed his accomplishments and promises for a photo Farmers on Capitol Hill to see if we Are going to get paid for our work Washington a thousands of banners seeking a Way out of a bust in the Market for grains and other crops Are taking their cases directly to Washington lawmakers and about Farmers rallied on Capitol Hill on vowing to pay close at Tention to president Carters state of the Union address to As Stanley Moore of Nebraska if we Farmers Are going to get paid for our Carters prepared speech did not men Tion but he noted in Impromptu remarks that he had seen protesting Farmers in the Snow outside the Capitol As he the president said the sight made him think about the problems of my fellow and added whats Best for Farmers and their families in the Long run is Best for american in a formal 50page message accompanying the Carter listed his accomplishments and promises for the message called decent farm income and a Strong family farm system vital to National economic stability and working with the Congress in the past we have adopted new programs and policies designed to strengthen farm income and to ensure reason ably priced food for Carter partially As a result of these poli settles suit Over woman death slaying leads to sports program Detroit a an 80yearold sports promoter who sued the City after his wife was killed by Young thugs has agreed to a settlement in which Detroit will finance a Simillion athletics program to get similar youths off the front Page and onto the sports the out court expected to be approved by the City came in a suit filed against the City by Leo who was beaten unconscious with a Crow his was stabbed to death in the same attack in their City officials said the proposed Settle which they describe As a precedent called for the establishment of a foundation to promote Amateur athletics in in his suit for j3 million in Salakin claimed that when the thugs began smashing in the front door of his Home on May he called the 911 police Emer gency number and was told by the opera Tor to find out who was Salakin recovered consciousness shortly after the intruders left but was unable to move for three Days while his wife Crum pled body Lay four persons later confessed to the murder and but they recanted their confessions and a jury allowed them to go Leo says he wants to take some of these Detroit kids off the front Page and put them on the sports Victor Salakin said in announcing the settlement he wants them to take out their aggression in the gym rather than in the Salakin could not be interviewed he was Down with the his attorney spoke for Hanson said much of Salakin career was devoted to organizing sports and recreation programs for Detroit Edison employees and their he also was chairman of the Michigan Amateur athletic Union for four cies and farm prices Are now he we cannot be satisfied with the economic condition of Many american Farmers late thursday an estimated protesters marched through Busy intersections More than a mile to the Agri culture dozens jammed Secretary Bob Berglands outer de manding to meet with littering the floor and pasting far strike bumper stickers on the Bergland was not in his but Deputy Secretary John Texas agriculture commissioner for 26 years and incoming democratic party talked to the the mainly from farming areas of the Southwest and mid vowed 14 not to buy production sell their crops or Plant this Spring unless they Start getting prices in the Market that would give them buying Power comparable to what Farmers had 65 Yean the government and private economists have said that if those demands were farm income would double and food prices could Rise by 15 if the government provided supports at that the taxpayers Bill would be is billion instead of billion under Legisla Tion enacted just three months the agriculture department the agriculture department maintains that the strike has not had any discernible effect on food prices or supplies and that the farm Economy is slowly improving from the Price slumps caused by still heavy Grain  
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