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The POCOBO Record Vol. 83--No. 161 The Stroudsburgs, Pa. Saturday morning, Oct. 9, 1976 20 Cents Jobless rate virtually unchanged I )as done too little lo rempriv A I I Unemployment remained virtually unchanged in September, dropping only slightly to 7.8 per cent, the Labor Department reported Friday.

The O.I per cent decline reversed a steady three-month upward surge in joblessness that had been plaguing President Ford's political campaign. But this final report on unemployment prior to the Nov. 2 election offered Ford little relief from Jimmy Carter's relentless accusations that he has done too little to remedy the situation. The present figure is only 1.1 per cent lower than the recession peak of 8.9 per cent. Some Carter supporters even suggested the September figure a a ployment.

Robert Georgine, head of the AFL-CIO Building Trades Department, said he was "baffled" by a reported decline in construction unemployment. Rep. Augustus Hawkins, D- co-author of the so-called Humphrey-ffawkins full employment bill, also complained that many that many jobless workers are not counted. He estimated Ihcre are as many as 20 million persons now out of work "and that's a conservative guess." The statistics also offered indications that a rapid yearlong surge in job holders -which Ford has emphasized in his campaign --may be cooling off somewhat. The'total of job holders declined slightly for the first time in four months.

FAR-OUT FAN Pocono Mountain football manager George Brosser watches Pocono Mountain's hockey team from the highest seat in the house the lop of the football bleachers. (Staff photo by Donald Fisher) Local merchants interested, too Pa. rate sounds worse than it is HARRISBURG I The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate climbed to S.5 per cent in September, the state Labor and Industry Department said Friday, but the news was not as bad as it sounds. The officials said the climb from 8.2 per cent in August to 8.6 per cent in September was largely a statistical one In unadjusted figures, the rate actually declined from 7 5 per cent in August to 7.3 per cent in September. On a national basis, unemployment dropped to 7.8 percent last month the first decline in the overall jobless rale in four months, according to the U.S.

Department of Labor The August rate was 7.9 per cent. However, officials noted the number of persons working also slipped for the first time since June. Federal officials said the job market has been unchanged over the past three months. There were 7.4 million persons unemployed nationally in September, down from 7.5 million in August. Preliminary figures show about 369,000 Pennsylvanians were out of work and looking for jobs last month, a decline of about 8,000 compared to the August figure.

Mangan said general improvement in the cconmomy was responsible for the reduction in unadjusted unemployment rates. However, he said the adjusted figure climbed because of unexpected layoffs in primary metals, construction and apparel industries. September was the sixth consecutive month that unemployment volume was smaller (nan it was at the same time a year ago. Campaigning in Los Angeles, Ford told an audience Ibe figures showed "we're moving in the rigbl direction, but not with make-work jobs at the tax payers' expense." The gloomiest note in the report was a 300,000 increase to 3.3 million in the number of persons working part-time because they cannot find full-time jobs. But there was a small drop in the ranks of those who have given up their search for employment.

Despite these fluctuations, the job market has shown little change over Hie pas) three months since it rose from a post-recession low of 7.3 per cent last May. Although it did not hit 8 per cenl in September as some economists feared, unemployment must improve substantially lo fulfill Die administration's I97G goal 7 per cent, "These figures mean America enters this presidential election with the highest unemployment rate in post-war history." commented AFL-CIO President fieorge Meany. "The last previous record high was G.I per cenl in I960 again after eight years of Republican mismanagement of the econo- Some 7.4 million persons were unemployed in September Unemployment declined for teen-agers, women and blacks. The total number of persons available fur work also took a bigger drop a in any month since a 1975. The civilian labor lorcc now totals 95.2 million persons.

Stores line up mall slots By DEBORAH ENYEART Record Reporter STROUDSBURG The developer of Stroud Mall said Friday that 13, stores and a bank have agreed to locale in the multi-million dollar -enclosed mall which will include Hess's Department Store of Allen town. Louis Meshon, in charge of leasing for Montgomery Development also said that announcement of a second major store for the mall is expected in 30 days. The stores that Meshon said have agreed lo locate in the mall are Sigal's Country Corner, a ladies clothing store based in Easton; Endicott Johnson Shoes; Deb Shop, a young women's clothing store based in Philadelphia. Also, Kinney Shoes; Italian Delight, a restaurant chain; Rea and Derick; Kay Jewelers, a Washington. B.C., based chain; Holiday Hair, an Allentown women's hair stylist.

Also, Piercing Pagoda, an ear piercing and jewelry store based in Allentown; Crown Jewel, based in Philadelphia; Roger's Vision Center; Musselman's Jewelers; and B. Dallon, a Minneapolis, based bookstore. Meshon also said that United Penn Bank was selected to be a free-standing bank in the mall, which will be located between Jamesway and Gray Chevrolet on Rte. 611. However, United Penn senior vice president and director of marketing Clark Bittner said that "we are still in conversations with the developer to finalize plans." Mall plans call for two major stores, including Hess's, and 40 smaller stores and a twin movie theater.

Meshon said that the company "is negotiating with a number of possible candidates" for the second major store and a decision is expected within 30 days. He said that spaces for the smaller shops are being leased now and that a number of Stroudsburg-area, independent merchants have made inquiries about them. The local store owners have been interested in opening branch stores in the mall and maintaining their present locations as a "home base," he explained. "We would hope to have a combination of national, re- i a a i stores," he said. "A lot (of the chain stores) we have worked with in the past and it's easy to have them go with us." An agreement for the 700- seat twin movie theater is still being negotiated with both local and outside firms, lie said.

Meshon said that Hess's is expected lo open in April, wild the official opening of the mall and other stores scheduled for 10 a.m. on Oct 13, 1977. He said that Montgomery Development has built other shopping centers in Easton, Emmaiis a a where he said they have been well-maintained. 'Domination' denial earns Ford ridicule Information please Index Amusements Ann Landers Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Puzzle Editorial Family Fare Horoscope Sporls Slocks Teen Forum Television Weather Pattern 10-11 6 6 17-23 6 6 4 9 3 10 6 7-8 12 Weather Local forecast: Rain, possibly heavy at Mmei. High tern- protur upper 50t to low 60., Probability of prxlplla.

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Good morning To those doctors who are contemplating going on strike, remember that flmo It a great healer. Stock story Open: 965.09 Close: 952.38 Change: Down 12.71 Volume: 16.74 million By United Press International Eastern and Western European news reports split along predictable lines Friday in their handling of President Ford's statement thai Eastern Europe was free of Soviet domination. Tn Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Budapest, the President's remark in his debate with Jimmy Carter thai "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern was either praised or i Editorials in Western Europe, however, ridiculed the President and said, at best, that he misunderstood East-West relations. Other Western reports cast doubts on the capabilities of both Ford and Carter in foreign affairs. Perhaps the most stinging rebuke to Ford came in an editorial in the conservative French newspaper L'Aurore: "Did you know that eastern Europe was no longer under Soviet domination? Did you know that Poland and Romania have shaken off Moscow's tutelage? No? Like us, you have been ill-informed.

Bui we had some excuse since all Ihis was a secret. A well-kept secret, revealed by the discreet and hero of i sensational liberation Gerald Ford in person." The prestigious Frankfurt Allgemelne Zeltung said In Its editorial that Ford's assessment "must make our flesh In France, the newspaper Le i a said "Gerald Ford seems to have finally made the impardonable gaffe Jimmy Carter has been hoping The Spanish newspaper ABC said "The heaviest blow of the fight, doubtlessly, was the one which Ford landed on himself by saying Eastern Europe was not under Soviet domination." However, the Polish Communist Party newspaper Trybunu Ludu gave Ford high marks. "President Ford defended the Helsinki conference and the sovereignty of the countries participating in it, including Poland," the newspaper said. Ford set to impose meat quotas WASHINGTON (UPI) -Cattle industry sources said Friday President Ford is ready lo announce the imposition of i a on the 13 countries which ship meat to the United States. The sources said Ford would make the announcement during his Friday evening speech to cattle and wheat growers in Lawton, Ford's deputy press secretary, John Carlson, said he could not confirm that such action was imminent, although "a memorandum on the subject of meal imports policy Is being sent to the President today for bis consideration" from the Agriculture Department.

LONG, WET WAIT Senior Citizens wail patiently if soggily in block-long line in front of First Presbyterian Church, Stroydsburg, for their swine flu shots, ducking the persistent rain with umbrellas and, af center, a sheet of plastic. Some 898 people were 'shot' Friday. Siory, other photos, page 13. (Staff photo by Donald Fislier) Another Campaign turns harsh radioactive cloud near Carter, Ford charge 'War' WASHINGTON (UPI) The Environmental Protection Agency reported Friday that a second cloud of radioactive fallout from China's Sept. 26 nuclear test is moving over parls of the eastern United a "This cloud is expected to remain airborne and is expected to pass over with negligible ground results," the announc- ment said.

At the same time, a group of environmental organizalions charged that the fallout has had an adverse effect on milk in the United States, and asked President Ford to seek through the United Nations to have China to join in the nuclear test ban treaty barring aboveground explosions. In Us report on movement of the second fallout cloud, the EPA said its "radiation network and environmental monitoring systems have been on full alert since Sept. 30 and are continuing to measure levels of radioactivity in air, precipitation and milk throughout the "The measurements to date have shown only slightly increased levels above background radiation in air, and some raised levels in milk in some northeastern states as a result of rainouts on pastures earlier this week. "So far the levels detected from both the intitial and a second cloud are well below any levels for which protective action is recommended." The EPA said it nevertheless will continue monitoring the radioactivity. "No special cautions for people are recommended at this time," the agency said, "since the readings indicate that levels of increased radiation are extremely small." The environmental groups, including Friends of the Earlh and the Environmental Defense Fund, took issue with the EPA findings, saying the fallout "has adversely affected the quality of i used a consumption in the i a By United Preti International President Ford and Jimmy Carter each accused the other i a of being less than and Carter charged Ford was "brainwashed" into believing the Russians don't control their Eastern European neighbors.

It was some of the strongest language of the campaign when Ford tried to recoup some political points lost in Die foreign policy debate i Carter two nights before, and Carter tried to capitalize on Ford's original contention that the Eastern European communist nations are independent of i a Carter referred to Ford's participalion in the Helsinki i last year when the Soviets agreed to a series of human rights principles and (he Western allies agreed not to interfere with Moscow's sphere of influence in Europe. Ford attacked Carter for not being honest when he 'denied during the debate he once supported a $15 billion cut in the defense budget. The President went to Poland a i i a Carter compared Ford lo 1968 OOP presidential contender George Romney whose campaign collapsed after he said U.S. military leaders "brainwashed" him in Vietnam. "Apparently when Mr, Ford went to Poland, as happened lo George Romney last time, he was Carter also called on Ford "lo let the American people know the answers to some of his discrepancies about his own actions, his own conflicting statements." "I call on the A i a people to force Mr.

Ford to lell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." Carter said at a rally in Albuquerque. A Gallup poll done Friday for Newsweek Magazine gave Wednesday's debate to Carter by a margin of 50 to 27. (he rest a i it a tossup or saying they were not sure who won. The poll reported that among uncommitted voters, 40 per cenl said they might vote for Carter as a result of tfie debate while 20 per cent said they might vote against him. Ford drew a 17 per cent vole of confidence while 39 per cent said they probably would vote against him.

Ford told a group of businessmen in Los Angeles, before leaving lo campaign in Oklahoma, that Carter wasn't telling (he (ruth when he denied advocating a $15 billion cut in i i a Robert Dole said the same tiling in a speech to the UPI Editors Conference in a i 5,000 members cheer Leader greets Worldwide Church MOUNT POCONO A standing ovation by approximalcly 5,000 Worldwide Church of God members Frio'ay easily drowned out the sound of heavy rain healing on the auditorium roof as Pastor-General Herberl Armstrong mounted the stage lo welcome the congregation to the start of the Feasl of the Tabernacles. The only sounds heard as their leader spoke were Ihe whimper of a baby and pages being lurned in books and Bibles as members took notes and referred to passages in ihe Bible quoted by the pastor-general. Armstrong told members, "This is my 50th Feast of the Tabernacles and none here can equal lhat." Many world leaders have termed Armstrong as "an ambassador without portfolio for world peace." The 84-year-old white-haired church leader looked fresh and robust and his voice went from emotional to an increasing crescendo as he spoke of ihe "government of God" which he said would eventually become the world governmenl ruled by God. Referring lo members as "my he expressed his firm belief that God had chosen him lo lead his people and the people of the world back to God and God's words. "God's church needs a new birth and it will begin with me," Armstrong said.

"I will get on my knees more times than ever before." Armstrong told members that the church is now on the threshhold of such big accomplishments now lhal il would he "hard fur you to realize. "I'll gel the gospel over, no religion has ever gone into the gospel the way I liavo." ho said. "I'll gel il over in the type of language people will understand and don't consider religious. I tell them we're giving them i lhat science has never learned or disclosed." Armstrong's voice boomed oil Ihe walls the huge auditorium as he inloned passaged from the Bible about creativity. He said, "No religion knows about or has revealed what I'm giving you tonight.

You never heard a Roman Calholic priesl explain this, you never heard a Protestant minisler explain it and never heard a Buddhist explain it, so open your ears my children." He lold Ihe people gathered that "the world's problems of today can be tr.iccd to the fact that people don't realize it is better to give than gel. Our work has always been based on those premises." He explained thai God is working oul a plan. The first 6,000 years are allotted for man to altempt to rule himself, (hen Christ will come again and usher in the last 1,000 years of millennial peace, during whioh humanily will live tinder God's government.