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t 24 - THE HERALD, Thura., March 5, 1981 Inflation and prices decrease teen-age unemployment up 0.3 per­ Important news forultijilow tar smokers. WASHINGTON (UPI)(U P I) ^ , teen-age unemployment up 0.3 per- (jjapdian wage wage and and salary salary earr earnings for cent from last month’s 19 percent Unemployment and inflation in families increased only 6.8 percent wholesale prices both eased slightly figure. over the yepr, from $388 to $415 in February, the Labor Deiiartment Unempioyment among biack and weekly, compared to an increase in other minority teen-agers, however, reported today, but the figures con­ the Consumer Price Index of 12.6 per­ continued a deciine, dropping 1.1 cent. cealed several major changes affec­ percentage points to 35.4 percent. At The department attributed the ting Americans. the end of 1980, the rate stood at 37,5 The jobiess rate deciined siightly sm alt increase in earnings to percent. workers losing their jobs or being from 7.4 percent in January to 7.3 There were 7,754,000 unemployed percent in February, but teen-age reduced to part-time employment joblessness reached 19.3 percent as it workers. Producer prices show the amount' Taken together, the two reports kept up its steady climb. Serving The GreaterHerall* Manchester Area For 100 Years of inflation at various levels of showed little overall change from the Energy prices at the wholesale production before goods reach con­ Manchester, Conn. Friday/ March 6, 1981 25 Gents high rates of both inflation and un­ sumers. level rose 3.6 percent during the employment that have prevailed lor month, their fastest in c r e ^ since the past half decade. Because • price changes ripple March 1980, the department said. year. s increase in January. same pace contimled a full year. With the figures rounded off, each The index stood at 262.4 in The Labor Department reported through the econcjpiy on different Gasoline prices went 4.7 percent and The r e ^ t was that the overall Thursday inflation rose faster during timetables for different goods, an in­ home heating oii rose 6.5 ^rcent. Producer ^ r ic e Index for finished of those monthly rates amount to a February, which means that goods compound annual inflation rate of which cost $100 in 1967 now cost 1980 than did the earnings of crease in producer prices an one On the other hand, wholesale level goods ceddy for retail sale rose 0.8 American families. month does not mean the Cdn.sumer food prices feil 0.6 percent, their first 10.7 percent, showing how much $262.40. percent in February, a very slight Fourth-quarter figures showed me­ Price Index automaticallv will rise. actual decline since April of last deciine from its 0.9 percent rate of producer prices would rise if the The unempioyment figures showed Defense budget gets top priority / WASHINGTON (UPI) - The ad­ in Reagan’s budget message last package of budget and tax cuts. ministration says it wants a bigger month. If the House budget panel succeeds defense budget even if Congress Reagan made a campaign pledge in ferreting out waste, it could com­ doesn't cut other progfaOM»<eQguglrto' §t fall to cut 2 percent from the pensate for program cuts some pay for it, and s/ifne D em o cr^ are federal budget by eliminating that Democrats vigorously oppose. making it clear they will fight some triple threat to government efficien­ But if defense spending is in­ proposed reductions. cy, but Budget Committee Chairman creased to the proposed level without Budget Director David Stockman James Jones, D-Okla., said Reagan’s cuts in other areas, the fiscal 1982 testified Thursday before the House early proposal lacked the promised deficit would grow well beyond the Banking Committee which has assault on mismanagement. $45 billion already anticipated. jurisdiction over nearly half of Presi­ “There is waste, fraud and abuse Stockman told the banking panel dent Reagan’s approximately $45 and this committee intends to the administration can accomplish billion in proposed spending cuts. eliminate that before valuable its goal of lower inflation, faster He said even if Congress approves programs are destroyed,” Jones said economic growth and reduced un­ only about half the suggested cuts, at a committee hearing. He later employment if its package of Reagan’s proposal to increase said the effort would accompany massive spending cuts and tax reduc­ defense spending by. about 16 percent program cuts, rather than precede tions is “not dismantled and diluted next year, to $184.8 billion, is essen­ them. ... so long as it is still comprehensive tial. "The fraud, waste and abuse effort and integrated.” Stockman said the proposed in­ we are going to make ... is not at all Banking Committee Chairman creases "are basic to national securi­ intended to avoid efforts to reduce Fernand St. Germain, D-R.I., said ty ... and must be funded." program spending,” he told United the budget cuts represent "a substan­ Meantime, House budget writers Press International. He said the ad­ tive shift of priori^es and a major went after the “waste, fraud and ministration failed to address those downgrading of odr commitment to abuse” thev said were not mentioned issues in its haste to produce a urban communities.” Humanistic education debate draws crowd Translator Ben Torrey (left) and Jung Shik currently participating in the World Skating tify what is important to them. She Shin listen to an explanation of the workings Championships. In Korea, he is also a sub­ By ANN MESSECAR Opposing humanistic education were Robert Matney, the head­ responded to critics who say of the electrical substation on Olcott Street station supervisor and so he took time out Herald Reporter master of the ^ m a n u e l Christian teachers will impose their own value by Robert Kiefer, the area supervisor. Jung to visit this substation here in Manchester. MANCHETs TER - About 100 per­ Academy in Newington, and Nancy systems on children by explaining Shik Shin is visiting the United States ^s a (Heraid photo by Messecar) Ultra Lights! sons turned out to attend[ the forum McCavanagh, a resident of that a teacher does not say “that is team leader of the Korean skating team. on humanistie,education last night at Manchester. good” or “that’s bad” in responding Manchester High School. Panelists Does humanistic education subvert to a child’s expression of feelings. continued a familiar debate on the family values? Its critics feel it does. “The teacher is just saying ‘Feelings definition of humanistic education “The use of values clarification (in are,” ’ she said. “There are no value the MERIT idea has been introduced at only 4 mg tar- the schools) is totally out of line. It’s judgem ents put on the child’s O’Neill, solons differ Abw and whether it has any place in the schools. illegal. It Infringes on our con­ feelings.” Should discussions of values take stitutional rights and it is something According to Dr. Krupp, activities New MERIT Ultra Lights. A milder MERJT for those whoprefer place in the classroom, or should that is not supposed to handled in our are designed as open-ended they be soley the responsiblity of school system, Mrs. McCavanagh questions, letting the child form his over cutting method parents in the home? Does said. “I’m trying to bring up my own opinion, “I do not believe a child brought up in a home with strong an ultra low tar cigarette. humanistic education subvert family children as responsible citizens, but HARTFORD (UPI) - Gov. estate tax). But in actuality, the incorporated business tax, ' 0,'Neill values will lose them in school.” values by imposing a teacher’s own the curriculum is tearing down my William O’Neill’s ideas on how to buyer pays it,” O’Neill said. He said said. view on a impressionable child! Has values.” Matney said he thought parents whittle down a $45 million deficit in he also objected taxing meals under He has proposed a 10 percent tax on humanistic education created more She cited a textbook which dis­ had abdicated their responsiblities. the state budget still differ widely $1 because that meant t^ixing people unincorporated businesses to balance New MERIT Ultra Lights. Its going to set a whole new taste problems with young people by cusses population control in a world “ 1 tell my children what to do for "coffee and donuts. the 1981-1982 budget The tax. he said, from the proposals of legislative because I know best,” he said. “The allowing them to make their own of dwindling resources and then asks leaders. The governor also said he'd com­ would raise an estim ated $113 choices at too early an age, without students “How may children do you Bible says you must train up a child. The governor said he told key promise and eliminate only half of million. Instituting it early could standard for ultra low tar smoking "firm parental direction? These were think you will have?” Matney added Train does not mean teach. It means Democratic legislators during the the $6.8 million in per pupil grants to mean $25 million to $50 million. c -4ome of the questions raised during there are other books used in the to direct. Parent’s must mold their nearly two-hour closed door meeting wealthier communities and give O'.Neill proposed a variety of the discussion. schools which undermine student children’s lives while they are under Thursday that he didn’t approve of municipalities half of the $10.7 measures to cover this year's loss of Supporting humanistic education religious and American values.

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