Senate Approves 1982 Budget Limit View of Reagan Plan
The Senate voted 78 to 20 to approve a 1982 budget limit of 700.8 billion dollars, a non-binding outline aligned with the House plan. Negotiators will work to resolve technical differences while aiming for a bipartisan compromise by week’s end, as advocates push a 50.5 billion deficit target for 1982 and a 1984 balanced-budget goal contingent on further cuts.
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Washington
Senate
Reagan
House
Cranston
Lowell Weicker
R-Conn
House Passes Sales Tax and Budget Bills in Charleston
The West Virginia House approved a 56 to 40 vote for a $103 million consumer sales tax increase from 3 to 5 cents, effective midnight May 31. Lawmakers also sent a budget compromise to a joint conference committee while debating SSI supplements and school funding amid coal strike losses.
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Charleston
W.va
House
Jay Rockefeller
Senate House
Joint Conference
Senate
Rockefeller
Del
Larry Swann
R-Doddridge
Thomas Knight
D-Kanawha
Swann
Bluefield voters nominate 10 for city board slate
Bluefield voters nominate 10 candidates for the city board in the primary. Paul Cole Jr led with 1,673 votes, followed by J. Peter Richardson and incumbents Paul E. Oliver Sr and Ben Paine. A charter amendment passed 1,838 to 508 and a leash law won 1,797 to 713. The 10 advance to the June 2 general election for five seats.
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Bluefield
Jim Terry
Daily Telegraph
Paul Cole
C. Edwin Elliott
Allan Connolly
Lee Puckett
Ronnie Martin
Dictaphone Corp
David Stephenson
Reagan Aims Social Security Overhaul With Cuts
President Reagan proposed a broad Social Security overhaul to cut benefits by 46.4 billion over five years, lower payroll taxes, and tighten disability rules. Current recipients would suffer little, but future retirees face a 10 percent reduction. The plan also raises work-history requirements and lifts earnings limits for those 65 to 71. The 36 million current beneficiaries would miss only a July cost-of-living increase.
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Reagan
Senate
Washington
Charles T. Mannatt
Social Security
Wednesday Index Bridge and Bulletin Board Highlights
Page six presents a mix of locally focused items including court and church notes, editorials, magistrates summaries, Mercer County notes, and brief items from Old Dominion. Obituaries and school news appear among short notices and community updates.
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Bridge
Bulletin Board
Mercer County
Old Dominion
Principals Switched and Family Life Education Vote
The Tazewell County School Board voted 2 to 0 to not implement the Family Life Education curriculum, with one abstention. The board will swap principals at Graham and Pocahontas high schools next year, and Evan Sweetser will receive a one year probationary contract. The 11 hour meeting drew about 100 people as a majority supported proceeding with the program next year.
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Wilson Ramsey
Daily Telegraph
Tazewell
Tazewell County School Board
Graham and Pocahontas High
Evan Sweetser
Tazewell Middle School
James Dudley
Bernard Simmons
Dudley
Linda Moore
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Mitterrand
Francois Mitterand
Boulevard Saint Germain
Paris
French Stock Exchange
AP Luserphoto
Sen
Alan Cranston
California
Bill Bradley
D-N.j
Bradley
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
D-N.y
Senate Finance Committee
Miner
J. Spencer Thompson
G.R
Dick) Silbaugh
Credit Department
Bluefield Community Hospital
Cole
Walker
Martin
Connolly
Richardson
Stephenson
Oliver
Paine
Puckett
Elliott
Ronald Reagan
Richard S. Schweiker
Secretary of Health and Human Services
UMW
National Weather Service
Bland
Mercer
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