Moore orders continued state spending at current levels
Gov Arch Moore directs department heads to ignore 19 percent budget cuts as a new fiscal year nears July 1 with a $1.49 billion plan. He says agencies must not overspend and will face potential legal action. House leaders call the move preposterous and warn of law violations while schedules are prepared for legislative review.
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Reagan undergoes routine exam finds benign polyps
President Reagan had two benign appearing polyps removed during a routine colon cancer recurrence check at the White House medical office. Col. John Hutton said the president is in excellent health and the polyps will be analyzed with results due Monday. The 76-year-old and Nancy Reagan then left for Camp David for the weekend.
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Pleasant Saturday Forecast With Sun and Clouds
Accu Weather reports a sunny day with some afternoon clouds, lower humidity, and a refreshing breeze. High near 76 degrees, tonight mostly clear and cool with a low around 55. Details A-10.
Blue Field Hardware Defeats Norfolk & Western 9-3 in League Play
June 27, 1923 in company baseball action Blue Field Hardware Company rolled to a 9-3 victory over the Norfolk & Western office staff. Pitcher Spitzer held the railroad squad to nine hits while the hardware squad amassed 14 hits and five players with at least two safeties.
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Powell leaves Supreme Court after 15 years as swing vote
Justice Lewis F Powell announces retirement from the bench at age 79 amid his battle with prostate cancer. The move, disclosed from the bench by Chief Justice Rehnquist, signals potential shifts in the court’s ideological balance under President Reagan, though Powell says policy outcomes did not drive his decision. Powell reflects on a career shaping American law during the 1980s, while White House aides scramble to prepare successors.
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Retiring Powell Jr. leaves court after landmark votes
Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., a decisive moderate who cast pivotal fifth votes on abortion rights and affirmative action, retired due to age and health. The resignation affords President Reagan a historic chance to reshape the Supreme Court.
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Powell Reluctant to Leave Supreme Court Staff
Powell, 79, in retirement remarks 150 years after his confirmation, said he will miss being an active justice though he initially refused the post. He was confirmed to the Supreme Court in 1971 by an 89 to 1 Senate vote after nomination by President Nixon, saying the job frightened him and he was too conscious of his responsibilities.
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Roberts claims he raised the dead and will rule with Jesus
Tulsa audience hears Oral Roberts say he has raised people from the dead and that God told him he would return with Jesus to reign on Earth. He described reviving a dead child during a tent revival and said his return would bring a world to come to Tulsa.
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Grun dy supervisors weigh funding for teachers in tense session
In Grundy Virginia Buchanan County supervisors meet in a special session to revisit teacher pay amid a crowded public hearing. About 350 of 542 teachers filled the county administration building Friday night protesting budget cuts from the 1987 88 year as officials planned borrowing to cover county bills and close the fiscal year.
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Supreme Court curbs government access to private property
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that government regulators cannot broadly grant public access to private property and limited state power to tax out of state liquor while exempting domestic beverages. Justice Powell swing vote helped overturn California beach access on private land, as term closes amid other rulings and plans for a Powell retirement.
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