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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1985
Page
2
Congressional negotiators announce a tentative agreement to slash deficits by decade's end. They expect final passage by mid next week and a debt limit hike above 2 trillion dollars. The plan imposes automatic spending cuts across nonexempt programs and seeks to balance defense and domestic programs while easing Pentagon impacts.
Budget director James Miller warned that the federal deficit for the current fiscal year could exceed $200 billion and possibly equal the 1985 record of $212 billion. He said Reagan would propose $50 billion in further spending cuts in February and noted the 1986 deficit may rise before a bipartisan plan aims to cut deficits to $172 billion by fiscal 1986 and fall by 1991.
A 34 year old Tacoma Vietnam veteran Gino Casanova ended a 51 day fast after a call from President Reagan agreeing to meet him about American soldiers possibly missing in Southeast Asia. Casanova weighed 45 pounds lighter and left his bamboo hut with persuasion to end his last 10 days early. Reagan ordered an anti dumping probe into Japanese memory chips, marking the first such case by the US against Japanese semiconductors. Carroll Cole, who confessed to killing more than a dozen women, was executed by lethal injection and his brain was removed for research on criminal behavior. The State Department will decide next week if a Syrian stowaway who sought asylum may stay in the US after leaping into the Mississippi River handcuffed.
Anne Johnson, injured in a collision, suffered a fractured pelvis and broken leg. Despite an initial normal fetal heartbeat, a few hours later no heartbeat was detected and a Caesarean produced a stillborn. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner found intracranial hemorrhage from closed head trauma as the cause. the stillbirth attributed to fetal head injuries from the crash.
State court again sought extended bus service after road improvements but the board refused. In August the board told the Kennedys no bus for the school year. The mandamus petition followed after a county prosecutor advised transportation is mandatory. The Supreme Court upheld compulsory transport even on private roads, noting winter conditions will be hard as the road is unmaintained.
In Sacramento investigators say raw milk used to make Jalisco brand cheese and a pasteurization failure likely caused a listeriosis outbreak tied to more than 80 deaths. Dr. Michael Linnan of the CDC stated the raw milk entering the plant is the probable cause.
Snowshoe Resort reported 7 inches of new snow with an additional inch on the ground and opened skiing. Canaan Valley received 5 inches, totaling 6, with a planned December 13 opening. Winter Place prepared to open at 9 a.m. as 4 inches fell from natural snow. Weather officials noted statewide advisories largely canceled except for higher elevations, with 1–4 inches in various counties and localized totals.
In a Wednesday PSC letter Jay M. Hoke of the commission’s consumer affairs office cited Mountaineer’s massive billing problems tied to a faulty Columbia data transfer. Ballard and Chandler blamed limited assistance, noting 4500 wrong addresses among 45 000 third party customers and 60 percent of bank payments uncredited until Mountaineer corrected accounts.
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