West Virginia boards approves 7 percent pay hike for teachers
The West Virginia Board of Education approved a preliminary 1979 80 budget totaling 451 697 555 with a 7 percent average pay raise for teachers and service personnel. Department staff would see 12 2 percent under 16 000 10 percent for 16 000 to 19 999 and 7 4 percent above 20 000. The plan aims to keep wages with living costs amid CPI rise. The budget must be submitted by Aug 15 and was approved subject to modification.
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Charleston
W.va
State Board of Education
Department of Education
Daniel Taylor
Mary Martha Merritt
Robert Myers
John F. Kennedy
West Virginia
Sales and Marketing Management
Mine Safety Board Is Studying Unsafe Equipment Rule
The state Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety resumed work on a regulation implementing miners right to refuse unsafe equipment. A prior public hearing drew unfavorable reactions, prompting a revised draft. The 1977 amendments require rules to settle refusals versus inspector findings and outline pending formal regulations for underground equipment movement.
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Herb Little
Charleston
W.va
State Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety
Sevenanan Board
United Mine Workers
Walter N. Miller
State Department of Mines
Miller
State Supreme Court
Tax Bills House Carter Compared
AP outlines House passed 16.3 billion income tax cut bill versus President Carter proposals. It covers personal exemptions increases, bracket widening, standard deductions, and credits versus Carter across the board rate cuts, a $240 per family credit, corporate rate changes, investment credits, capital gains proposed changes, and itemized deduction limits including gasoline tax and political contributions deductions.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Carter
Senate panel may reshapes 16.3 billion tax cut is starting point
Sen. Russell B. Long signals changes to the House approved income tax cut. He aims for about 20 billion in relief, higher capital gains relief, more help for lower brackets, and incentives for employee stock ownership plans. Long favors simplifying filing with targeted credits and remains skeptical the package offsets higher Social Security taxes and inflation.
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Washington
House
Senate Finance Committee
Russell B. Long
Senate
Finance Committee
Long
Senate Committee
Treasury
Nitrite's Cancer Risk Questioned By U S Government
Washington reports nitrite the common preservative in hot dogs bacon and other processed foods may cause cancer in animals and possibly humans MIT study ordered by FDA shows potential hazards while noting nitrite also guards against botulism and that banning it would disrupt food supply.
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Washington
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
U.S
US Department of Agriculture
MIT
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