Panama News-Herald (Newspaper) - May 15, 1987, Panama City, Florida News f Panama City 1987 j m Senate OK - House and Senate committees gave quick approval Thursday to record billion state budget proposals for the next fiscal year as about million and several key philosophical differences blocked a House and its billion spending plan for 1987-88 appeared headed for a confrontation with the Senate and its billion which essentially mirrors Gov. Bob Martinez's billion House has to go down on the We're out of the taxing business so the House is going to have to back away from the trough just a warned J.M. Martinez's chief of staff for external committees voted unanimously for their respective which cover state spending from July 1 to June 30, 1988. The full chambers were expected to consider the bills for final votes next Wednesday and send the measures to a joint conference committee as early as offered on the House and Senate floors next week might dissolve but in any Senate Appropriations Chairman Jim said the differences would not be feel like we've met our obligation to fund a lot of the governor's Scott will all work out in the he his counterpart in the Rep. Sam expressed confidence in the House always have the They House has dominated this process for years and we're going to do it said obstacles to a consensus likely will include whether to depend on money from the state's new how much to put into the state's rainy day fund for emergencies and how much to spend on new prisons to ease the state's overcrowding the chambers are divided over education some programs for the Department of Health and Rehabilitative See 2A Laura packed house applauded Panama City Commissioner Tim blasting of Superintendent Leonard Hall fight has just opponents considering recall more LINN Writer the Bay County School Board on Wednesday reinstated 64 works of literature that had been banned from classroom teaching by Superintendent Leonard the controversy is far from policy needs to be completely What happened yesterday was a a More needs to be said Rosie drama instructor at Gulf Coast Community College of a community movement protesting School Board policy on review and approval of instructional are considering some type of recall for Leonard Hall and looking into how this can be Shumate is just in the simply checking into it at the Susan another drive spoke to the board during Wednesday's eight-hour meeting dealing with Hall's book she presented to the board a letter of protest signed by nearly 2,000 county letter reads the undersigned citizens of Bay believe that the School Board policy on instructional materials and the burdening of creative teaching infringes on the constitutional rights of parents and teachers in this school discourages academic achievement in our and denies students an unbiased and well-rounded support the professional discretion of our teachers in selecting See 2A Courier: North aided Contras despite - National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver North worked directly with a courier who helped get money and weapons to the Nicaraguan Contras at a time Congress had banned U.S. military aid to the the hearings were told by former courier Robert triggered the sudden resignation of a White House official he Johnathan S. second week of the hearings concluded with the testimony by who gave the committees details of his role as middleman between North and Contra Owen will return to the witness table when the hearings resume on Tuesday and is to be followed by Contra leader Adolfo Thursday's Sen. David chairman of the Senate Intelligence said Owen's testimony demonstrated that North and perhaps others in the Reagan administration were clearly involved in providing arms and information to the Contras at a time when a congressional ban on such aid was in appears that Mr. Owen is another kind of well-meaning person who has gotten drawn into a whole series of actions in a tragic way because the government tried to find a way to get around the Boren testified that director of the White House office of had cashed traveler's checks from North for distribution to a leader of the Contra rebels in March 1985. Owen said he recalled that at the time Miller was either 2A Herald File proposed ordinance would bar helicopters from operating south of Front Beach calls for ordinance to ban from RAUCH Writer Panama City Beach City citing concerns for public and bad Thursday directed its attorney to draft an ordinance banning helicopters from departing or landing south of Front Beach council also agreed to ask the Bay to terminate its lease with Ron owner of The county leases land including a heliport to Brown just east of the County Mack Levins abstained from voting because his wife owns a concession 2A surge helps narrow trade - The biggest surge in U.S. exports in six years helped to narrow the nation's trade deficit to billion in March from billion in the Commerce Department reported tempered by a rise in imports to record the report was hailed by many economists as a sign that declines in the value of the U.S. dollar are finally beginning to pay off in easing the trade into at least a slow For we've passed the said Allen chief economist for Shearson Lehman increased by 12.9 percent in to billion the highest level since March 1981, when they were a record of manufactured goods overseas accounted for 80 percent of the increase in with a million rise in the sales of American computers and other office equipment leading the also increased in but at a much slower clip up 2.9 percent to that was enough to bring imports to a record surpassing the billion mark set last that the rise in imports was far less meaningful statistically than the rise in exports up more than 20 percent so far this the total amount spent on imports was reflecting recent increases in the price of many foreign the volume of imports coming into the country appeared to be leveling figures are even better than they The substantial expansion of exports TRADE 1987 US devaluation of the dollar is beginning to reverse the export stagnation of the last several said Jerry chief economist for the National Association of the White presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater trade figures indicate that the nominal trade deficit is gradually Good news on the trade the first three months of this Americans have imported billion more in merchandise than they have suggesting an annual rate of billion compared with the record billion deficit for all of 1986. value of the dollar has fallen nearly 50 percent against other major currencies over the past few President Reagan recently joined other leaders in asserting that the dollar has fallen this drop is expected to ease the trade deficit by making foreign goods more expensive at home and See 2A
