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3-5-1976

Winona Daily News

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This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Friday's ispb Cuba ge^rs liiiivifMIH Job picture brightens TOvttd at 1j *m??k p *utf., . . WASHINGTON (AP) .— The nation's unemploymentrate fell peak beforethe recession, the Labor Departmentnoted up to aid The governmentsaid the February decline in joblessnesswas ' for the fourth straight month In February,dropping to 7.6 per -* *-* -DM cent from 7.8 per cent, as more Americansfound Jons and total spreadthroughout the work force. Tbe jobless rate for heads of Abortion bill OKad by Assembly employment returnedto its prerecessionpeak , the government households fell below the 5 per cent mark for the firsttime since A bill to restrict' the access of welfare recidtentsand Indigent women to said today. late^974 , dropping to 4.9 per cent- public-financed Rhodesia The Joblessrate for married men was unchanged last month abortions was approvedThursday by theWisconsin Assembly. WASHINGTON (AP) Cuba, fresh The Labor Department said total employment, whichplunged Debate on the bill, tent to the Senate 78-18, included questions about tbe r by 2.2 millionduring the recession, increased by another 125,000 at 4.1 per cent, white the rateforallfldiilt menfeM from5.8Jto5.7 from its battlefieldsuccesses in Angola, is per cent. The rate for adult women remained steady at 7.9 constitutionalityof Uniting access to abortions to the basis of ability to pay. gearing up to nelp'Rhodeslarinationalists last month and "has now fully returnedto the July 1974, per Legislators said denying welfare recipients access to abortions available to prere<^sionpeakof88.8miiliori.'' cent The teen-age jobless rate fell from19.JJ to 19.2 percent. trying to overthrewthe whltasupremacist .Joblessness among white workers dipped from 7.1 to 6.8 per other citizens could cyst the state $264 million a year In federal medical regime of Prime MinisterIan Smith, U.S. Unemplpyriieait fell by . 150,000 last month to a seasonally assistance. ; ' adjusted7.1 million, the departmentsaid. Progressin reducing cent, but the rate for blacks and other minorityraces rose from officials believe. ^¦ //' //. . - 7- : // 13.2tol3.'3per cent. • The Cuban plan, the officials said, unemployment and the slowing of Inflationprovides President pit^bly calls for seeding military ad- Ford with fresh ammunition for his election campaign and ef- The size of the civilian labor force was unchangedlast month Pound falls Batty backed forat to sell his go-Blow fiscal1977 budget topongress. at 93.5 million, the government said. It has grown by about 1.9 The pound sterling, visersand training officers to Rhodesia's . once the world's Students at Mesa, Ariz., Westwood eastern nelghbOT, MOMnibtque. Black The last time unemployment has been below 7.6 per cent was million over the past. year. . elite currency, dipped below the $2 High School are raising money to in December 1874, when It was 13, per cent It later rose to a Although total employment continued to show gains last mark for the first tune- nationalist Rnodesianguerrillas have been ¦'-:¦"' . ever today on send telegrams to First Lady Betty using Mozambique as a staging area for recession high[of8.9 per cent: in May, 1975. , month agricultural jobs fel) by 170,000. However, non-farm foreign exchanges tn nervous Ford emphasizing their invitation ¦February's twoftenths of a per cent drop in the jobless rate, employment increasedby^ 300,000. /' ¦7 : ' : dealings, the guerrilla operationsin Rhodes