Senate approves budget with deficit under forty billion
The Senate on Saturday gave final approval to a fiscal 1979 budget plan detailing $487.5 billion in spending, $448.7 billion in revenue, and a $38.8 billion deficit. Senate leaders projected inflation relief as Congress targets early budget balance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Robert C. Bryd
D-W.va
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
President Carter
Carter
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Senate Budget Committee
Byrd uses parliamentary move to speed ERA extension
Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd executed a rapid procedural plan on a Saturday to place the Equal Rights Amendment extension on the calendar. The maneuver clears a path for a vote as House action already approved extending the deadline to June 30, 1982, and signals Byrd may bring the bill up as early as Monday.
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Washington
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Congress
Byrd
House
Cedar Rapids News Briefs highlights schedule and local ads
Readable items list Friendsmobile Cedar Rapids Public Library weekly program across Eden Day Care Center Kirkwood Lincoln Day Care Center Jack and Jill Preschool plus morning sessions at Buttons and Bows Edgewood Road and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Kitchen Fellowship at St Pauls Methodist. Also relocations from Linn County Orthopedists to Cedar Rapids Medical Center with dates and a flood of local ads and events through late September 1978.
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Friendsmobile
Friendsmobile of the
Cedar Rapids Public Library
Eden Day Care Center
Kirkwood-Lincoln Day Care Center
18Th Ave
9Th St
Jack and Jill Preschool
Johnson Ave
Edgewood Road
Jack and Jill
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
42Nd St
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Third Ave
14Th St
Mary Moppets
Town Road
Linn County Orthopedists
P.C
William John Robb
Earl Y. Bickel
Leland G. Hawkins
James W. Turner
Albert R. Coates
Fred J. Pilcher
Cedar Rapids Medical Center
10Th St
Deregulation Bill Gains Senate Support for Gas Price Plan
Senate Democratic leader Byrd said approval of a natural gas deregulation bill is assured with 52 to 60 senators likely to vote yes at the 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday final vote. He noted opponents’ motions to send the measure back to committee would be defeated by a similar margin. The bill would phase in higher prices for newly discovered gas until price bids are removed in 1985.
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Congress
Senate
Byrd
Howard Baker
Tennessee
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Idaho
Kentucky
Nebraska
Justice Department
Washington
Carter
Robert C. Byrd
Two Men Arrested in C R on Assault Escape Charges
Police arrested David Fifield aged 18 on escape and intoxication charges after he allegedly walked away from the Linn Correction Center. William Schminkey, 27, of 1130 16th St SE, was arrested after allegedly assaulting Anita Schminky at the same address. An intoxication charge followed the assault arrest.
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David Fifield
Linn Correction Center
William W. Schminkey
16Th St. SE
Anita Schminkey
Senate backs countercyclical aid to high unemployment regions
The Senate approved a two year extension of the countercyclical revenue sharing program 44 to 8. The bill limits aid to cities with jobless rates above 6 percent and lowers projected costs for fiscal 1979. It sets a ceiling of 2.25 billion for two years but expects under 600 million first year.
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Washington
Senate
Carter
House
John C. Danforth
R-Mo
Danforth
Daniel P. Moynihan
D-N.y
Starmont FFA teams sweep at National Dairy event
Starmont Vocational Agriculture Future Farmers of America dairy judging teams from Strawberry Point won top honors at Waterloo’s National Dairy Cattle Congress. The dairy cattle judging trio of Jay Mills Keith Knight and Mark Hamlett and the milk quality and dairy foods team of Julie Knight Martin Morris and Barb Streicher led 61 and 43 teams respectively. Instructors are Dennis Miller and Kelvin Seibold. Grand champions named include Gary Kruse Earlville Brown Swiss Allen Hampeter Garnaville Guernsey Jerry Hatfield Newton Jersey Barbara Lyons Lansing Holstein Tom Gruenwald Lost Nation Milking Shorthorn Jill McHone Ames Ayrshire.
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Dennis Miller
Kelvin Seibold
Gary Kruse
Earlville
Allen Hampeter
Garnaville
Guernsey
Jerry Hatfield
Newton
Jersey
Barbara Lyons
Lansing
Holstein
Tom Gruenwald
Lost Nation
Jill McHone
Ames
Ayrshire
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Center Foreground
Cairo
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Cedar Rapids
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Yankee Coiffure
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5Th Ave
Microsoft
Guaranty
Bishop's
Jim Vavra
Berlin
Kiwanis
Bill Rossey
Mid-America Arabian Corporation
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Roosevelt Royale Hotel
Jerry Reed
Illinois Opry
D.J
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Rotary Club
William Spellman
Coe College
Roosevelt Royale
N.E
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1St Ave
Lucken
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Kirkwood College
Cedar Rapids Garden Club
Toman’s
Armstrong's
New Orleans
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Natchez
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Iowa City Armory
Woodfield Mall
Chicago
Mount Vernon
Mississippi River Basin
Apple Orchards
Walltex
Barney’s Paint & Wall
Berger Furrier, Marion
Wayne Phillips
Coe
Jerry Clark
Cornell
Jack Shepherd
Linn County Nursery
Center Point
Frontier
Johnson Nut Co
Eagles Ladies
Eagles Club
All Saints School
YWCA
Nicholas Endre
Evanston, Ill
John J. Hess
Ellis Boulevard
Travel & Transport
Sacred Heart Parish
Walker
Kay
Western Union
10Th Ave. S.E
Jerome's
IE Tower
Llama Lounge
Mart East
Niederecker
Arcade Opticians
Medical Technologists
The
American Society For Medical Technology
Hilton Hotel
Omaha
Thomas Plumbing Service, Inc
15Th St
United States
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
INC
Magnavox
Marion TV & Records
7Th Ave
Marion
C.R
Starmont
Iowa
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