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...thrift holiday cut some 500,000 Ohio depositors off from a total of $4 billion in savings. "The longer this goes on, the scareder I am," said Mary Lou Dehler of Cincinnati, who with her husband Richard, a retired postal worker, had accounts in Molitor Loan & Building. "My stomach just rolls over. They have got my whole life in that bank." The financial suffering in Ohio rattled consumers across the U.S. and worried foreign investors as well. In a classic sign of anxiety, moneymen bid up the price of gold by $35.70 last Tuesday, to $339 an ounce...
Labor officials helped Walter Mondale win the Democratic presidential nomination last year. Now the presidents of three federal unions have learned that their support may cost them their Government jobs. Kenneth T. Blaylock of the American Federation of Government Employees, Moe Biller of the American Postal Workers Union and Vincent R. Sombrotto of the National Association of Letter Carriers were told to resign or retire from federal employment by Feb. 26 or face charges under the 1939 Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from "partisan political advocacy." The advisory was issued by the Office of the Special Counsel, the enforcement...
...Orleans, Warren Woodfork was working as a postal clerk when he accompanied a friend to police headquarters for a recruitment test. "As a kid," said Woodfork, who grew up in the city's housing projects, "I never had a desire to be a policeman." But on an impulse he took the test, got the job, "and fell in love with it." Three weeks ago, Woodfork, 48, became the first black police superintendent of New Orleans...
What most troubled Martin's office, as well as some Senators, was Meese's presence at two informal White House meetings at which John McKean, Meese's personal accountant, was approved for appointment to the U.S. Postal Service board of governors. Meese did not tell the other participants at the meetings that McKean had helped him get some $60,000 in unsecured loans. Davis said that he finally concluded this was not an ethics violation by Meese because the money actually came not from McKean but from a fund controlled by one of his partners. Meese, however, had dealt only...
...fresh-killed elk another neighbor wanted Newt and Sharon to have. All along the route this day, he would be transferring gifts, books, food, goods and good wishes between these isolationists. It is a service not set down in his $20,000-a-year contract with the postal service. "Oh, I take it out in trade," Ray said. "The weather could ground me, and then I'd have to stay overnight with them, so I stay on their good side...