Frida .\, Mnr h • • 1 976 UNEMPLOYMENT On th onomi front -the U.S. "" mr,lo m nt rat continues to declin , ac ording lo fig11rc relea •d today. Also t " tal employment agat,a r aclai11g I'. r,re- Eigl,ty- ix-point-Three MflHo,r America11s - agai,s gainfully emf)loy d. Go ernment e t,ert Juliu Slllslll,a saying: "The recovery continues to be stronger In emr,loymcnt than following the recession of Nineteen-Fifty- Seven and 'Fifty-Eight. " ATLANTA The flu epidemic currentl · su eeping the nation the Hong Kong flu epidemic - 'f 'Sixty-Eight and 'Sixty-Nine. -1.,.Q "-- Government doctors at Atlanta saying the d i s e a s e . , A ~ E!;" in all parts of llie country. Wlaile it may have f>ealled in the No'rtlaeast - S RINGFIELD On the campaign trail - for President Ford - the start of a two-day swing through Illinois. At St>ring/ield, proptJsing an increase in esta le tas ese•t>tions - so tltat owners of family far•s ca,a "laa•d tltem 4own from generatio,a to ge,aeration, without /orce4 Ii qui 4 a ti on . " T II e Pres id e ,at s a y in g: " T 01/n u c Ii la b or a" d lo"• go i,ato tlle developme,at of a paying farm - to dis•antle II witli every new generation. " MIAMI BEACH FOLLOW SPRINGFIELD O, tlae Democratic side - at Miami Beach ~ Ji,nmy Carter)..,lashi"P. out today at Scoop Jacllso,a; acc•ai,ag tlae latter of distorting his views - on national security. Carter saying: "I did not i,atend to be elected - by 7/Jut critici•i•g tlaose w,lao ru,a agaiast me." ..,, adding: "I l•o• ,\. to set tlae record straiglt." POSTAL An attempt by the Postal Ser ice to close tx W£4- l111ndred rural post offices 1' temporarily blocked today ,,. Waslliflgton. Judge Smith sayinr the Postal Service fail•d to comply .,,,,. its o.,,. regxlations - o,ae of .,laicll reqe,ir•• ,ai,aely days' ,aotlce before any post office ca,a be slull do•"· SEATTLE From the Boeing Company in Seattle - an admission oday that it was forc e d to pay nearly Seventy Million to foreign agents over the last six years - to help sell jet planes. lfl Waslaiftgton - the State Det,artme,at sayiflg an ~~ i,1tert1atiot1al treaty is needed - to combatAcorporate briberyj • rMNdc ,U1Uc:J t•e draft of s•c• a treaty ~ be sub,nitted to tlae U.N. Permaftet1t Commission on __ Trat1s,aation 10 ,eort,oraUons ➔ 11th I A now meetiflg ifl LIMa, Peru. LONDON Why - nobody seems to know yet; but tlae value of the B'r'itisla Pound, fo'r' some reason - plunged today to its lowest level in history; on the big London market - ending 111> at a Dolla'r'-Ninety-Etgh.t, Ame'r'ican • .... NEVI YORK A state bill banning the Concorde super onic airliner from New York airport/~I'4oJJicially s ig,aed into law, today by New York Governor Carey. Observers noting tlaougla -the bill's legality is certain to be claallenged. CINCINNA Tl The implication o Richard Ni o,a' r c 11t , islt to Chi,aa were again being di cus d today - ut a '" " " ' of f> r om i" en t Clain a-watchers i" Ci" c i "" a ti. Th xp rt agr •Ml, ta Pekiag's main />Mrt,ose -was •••• w.r "lro,aor~ a,a old fr4•""·" A... -. ..,_ Wilson of tlae U,aiversity of Lo,adot1, edllor of "Tl,e Clsi,aa Q•arterly, " sayi,ag tlae Clei,aese were llot1orl•1 tlae one person - "wlao broke llee American boycott of Cllhu,." "And 1 believe" - said lee - "Nlso,a will be r•,,.••beretl ,,. •orld lsistory - mucli more for Iris Clei,aa •orll tlJa• for Watergate. " ENERGY 'l'he development of a re olutionary new light bulb anno•nced today by the U.S. Energy Research and Development Admii istration. The new "Litek" bulb - said to last up to "a decade or more" undef' nof'mal us•; a,ad bettef' still, p,-ovide the same amount of liglat as co,ave,ational bulbs - using less tlaan one-tlaif'd the •,aef'gy. Tlae pote,atlal savings - we are told - "tlae eq1dval•,al of• Half-Million baf'rels of oil pe,- day." LIVONIA 7bday, at Livonia, rtfPlt: u, e s u ~ ~~~- Michigan - a new ttois ~ t C Cte s Six b a II d Us arm e d ., it la mac It h1i g '"' s - r a,. s a c II i,. 6 a -- Livo11ia bani,; dumt>ing tlleir loot into a bag - graciously 1>rovided ~ by ba,all emt>loy••• about to malle good l1'eir eacat,•, " wl1a tl,e bag ext>loded a,llomatically - coveri,ag tla•m a,ad Ill• money tltey stole K1itll red dye. Tl111 ba,adH• g11tti,ig a•ay - a1td ~ -~~~~ ~ ..., emt>ty-handed; ➔ tC3l61 r '•I ,r-11 lg-JJetroit. SACRAMENTO America's new "Queen of the Road" - a t,ert mother 0 of four na ,,,ed Geri Ann Atherton of Sacramento, California; tlae winner of a competition - sponsored by the truckers' magazine open Road. The new queen - barely five-feet tall - age Tlairty-Tliree - tlae feminine lialf of a lausband-and-111lfe