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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1981)
Inflation rate slows down lAf A OUIU/'TAU / A r-»\ ii ... »i v/11 ^r\i j — imia~ tion slowed to a 7.5 percent annual rate in March, the lowest pace since last summer, due largely to moderating energy prices, the government said Thursday. The March inflation figures triggered a rise in benefits to the nation’s 36 million Social Security recipients. The 11.2 percent adjustment, which will go into effect in July, will boost me avciayc icuieu wurntJi 5 monthly check from $337 to $374. Overall, consumer prices in March rose a seasonally adjust ed 0.6 percent, the lowest one month rise since last July, ac cording to the Labor Depart ment. In addition to energy costs, the Labor Department figures showed a slowing in the rise of entertainment costs and —making the news— From Associated Press Reports WASHINGTON — Pres. Reagan will address a joint session of Congress Tuesday night on his economic pro gram. The president, who has not been seen in public since he was shot in an assassination attempt March 30, will go before the House and Senate at 6 p.m. deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said today. His address will come one day after Congress returns from a two-week Easter recess. Speakes said Reagan’s economic recovery program was “a subject the president believes is of the utmost importance to the nation and one on which he believes he should communicate in person with members of the House and Senate at this time.” “He feels it is particularly important that he outline his views as his program moves forward in the legislative process,” Speakes said at a White House briefing for reporters. “He is eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to be back on Capitol Hill.” moderate gams in iooa prices. But prices for clothes shot up for the second straight month with the introduction of spring fashions, the department said. The Consumer Price Index "report for March is good news and I hope that it can be repeated in the months ahead,” said Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the President's Council on Economic Advisers. But, he said, "we can’t be satisfied with an inflation rate of 10.5 percent over the past year. The basic conditions which have led to the high underlying rate of inflation and poor productivity performance of the past several years remain with us.” The inflation report was the second favorable economic breakthrough of the week. The Commerce Department report- \ ed Monday the economy grew at an annual rate of 6.5 percent in the first quarter. But administration officials were cautioning against taking | a too optimistic view of the gains, which could make more difficult administration efforts to sell Pres. Reagan's economic recovery program to Congress. The 7.5 percent annual infla tion rate of March followed a 12.1 percent annual rise in Fe bruary and 9.1 percent in Jan uary. Women disrupt hearing on bill legalizing abortion WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative fresh man Senator opened an emotionally charged hearing today on legislation to redefine human life as beginning at conception and thereby pave the way for laws outlawing abortion. The hearings convened by Sen. John East, R-N.C., mark the opening of the first attempt in the 97th Congress to overturn the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortions. Organizations as diverse as the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Pa renthood complained that they have been ex cluded from testifying during two days of hear ings. The first round had barely begun before it was interrupted twice by women who shouted slogans and raised signs proclaiming their oppo sition to the legislation. "Stop these hearings,” three women shouted in unison while standing on chairs. “What about the lives of women? Women will control their lives.” A similar demonstration followed about 10 minutes later. Both times, police escorted the women from the room and officials said they would be charged with disrupting a committee of Congress. The women identified themselves as being members of a group called "Women's Liberation Zap Action Brigade." The object of their protest was legislation sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., that would define life under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution as applying to an unborn fetus, thus allowing states to outlaw abortions. 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Whatever your motives, a summer job at Harrah’s is the best kind of job you can get. Good conditions. Great fun. And maybe a future for you. Harrah’s Personnel Representatives will be interviewing on campus Tuesday, April 28. Applications are available through the State Employment Division, University Branch. »>. .m >a*8«. >se< >:«*: 'swse raw* x«< aM&xw*
