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Unemployment is rising inexorably throughout the oil patch. Louisiana's 13.2% jobless rate is the highest in the U.S. Last week 600 workers turned up at a Marathon Petroleum plant in Garyville, La., responding to the company's advertisement to fill five jobs. In Texas, where the unemployment rate has reached 8.4%, Paul Rogers six weeks ago lost his job as an oil pipe fitter. Says he: "I'm 21 years old and have 44 years of this left. What will...
...taxes on energy production are falling dramatically. In Alaska, where oil-related businesses account for about 85% of all economic activity, experts project a $1 billion shortfall in the state's budget by June 1987. The government last week proposed cutting $120 million from operating expenses. Both Texas and Louisiana are facing $1 billion deficits. Says Texas Governor Mark White, in a classic understatement: "We can't take oil for granted anymore...
...sore spot as well. The oil-patch states of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana have been so severely affected that their troubles could spoil the rest of the country's party, at least in the short run. Bankruptcies and layoffs plague the oil business and nearly every industry connected with it. Though the Labor Department announced last week that U.S. unemployment dipped to 7.2% in March, down a notch from 7.3% in February, the jobless rate has stayed unexpectedly high at least partly because of the oil- patch slump. Unemployment in Louisiana has reached...
...more than a month, agriculture officials in six states have been monitoring cattle for contamination from feed tainted with the pesticide heptachlor, which has caused cancer in laboratory animals. Milk has been recalled in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, and heptachlor traces have also turned up in beef. Last week the disaster took on a new dimension: tests showed low-level concentrations of heptachlor in the breast milk of some 70 Arkansas mothers. The women were among several thousand who brought samples of their breast milk to laboratories around the state. As more than 1,000 additional women...
...Associated Press Top Twenty advanced, led by No. 3 Kentucky. The Wildcats mauled Davidson 75-55, No. 4 St. John's downed Montana State 83-74, No. 5 Michigan held off Akron 70-64, No. 9 Syracuse buried brown 101-52, No. 11 Nevada-Las Vegas swamped Northeast Louisiana 74-51 Navy whipped Tulsa 87-68 and No. 19 Illinois walloped Fairfield...