Budget showdown ends with narrow House Senate approvals
Democrats in Congress secure near unanimous backing for fiscal 1979 budgets. The House passes 413.2 billion and the Senate 412.8 billion, with a conference committee set to reconcile minor differences and return a final version next week. Ford faces inflation and unemployment concerns as Congress asserts budget control.
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Washington
UPI
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Senate
House-Senate
Ford
Congressional
Delbert L. Latta
Rohio
Cities seek local tax leeway to fix own finances
Kansas city officials from Overland Park Kansas City Topeka and Wichita pressed lawmakers for local sales earnings and real estate taxes to fund city needs They urged amending statutes to allow motor fuel tax repeal inflation adjusted property tax lid land value assessments interest recycling and exemptions for mass transit and street lighting plus road fund rebates
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UPI
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Wichita
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R Westwood
Jack Walker
Gaar
Chanute Safari Jaycees to Sell Jelly Sunday Fundraiser
The Chanute Safari Jaycees host a Sunday jelly sale from 12 30 to 4 p m at the Safari West Community Room to raise 750 for the Kansas Jaycees Cerebral Palsy Foundation. Volunteers fund a dollar per jar with cold drinks supplied. proceeds support camping and respite services for cerebral palsy families through the Kansas Jaycees and United Cerebral Palsy of Kansas.
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Chanute Safari Jaycees
Safari West
Kansas Jaycees Cerebral Palsy Foundation
Kansas Jaycees
Dave Wehrli
Stan Schapeler
United Cerebral Palsy of
Kansas
Butler County
Jaynes
Tax bill expands credits and tightens shelters
The proposed tax revision preserves existing cuts through 1977 while increasing the minimum tax for individuals and corporations. It tightens shelters in real estate, farming, oil and gas, movies and other areas, expands child care and moving expense breaks, lowers estate and gift taxes over five years, raises the capital gains holding period to 12 months, allows $3,000 of capital losses to offset regular income by 1978, makes the 10 percent investment credit permanent, adds employer stock ownership credits, expands taxpayer rights, and permits Social Security numbers for tracing runaway fathers.
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Washington
UPI
Internal Revenue Service
Defense debate between Carter and Ford in Topeka
Kansas group proposes alternatives to Gov Bennett prison plan as campaign rhetoric intensifies. Ford accuses Carter of weakening alliances while Carter cites waste and mismanagement in the Defense Department amid ongoing exchange on defense budgets and arms sales.
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Kan
UPI
Kansas Citizens For Justice Coalition
Robert Bennett
Bennett
Forrest Swall
Swall
Ford
Carter
America
B'nai B'rith
Washington
Israel
Defense Department
Governor Bennett to attend Neosho GOP fund raiser at Barr residence
Gov Robert Bennett will headline a Republican reception at 8 pm at 221 East 8th Street. St Paul GOP chairman Jim Carter said the event follows his Chanute speech on the Mexican Fiesta. Proceeds fund local candidates in Neosho County. A photo with the governor will be taken for each attending couple.
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John Barr
East 8Th
GOP
Jim Carter
St. Paul
Chanute
Carter
Neosho County
Democrats Open New Headquarters in Neosho County
Neosho County Democrats have opened a new headquarters at 104 West Main. An open house will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Coffee and cookies will be served and most Democratic candidates will attend. The public is invited and volunteers may call 431-3980 or 431-3070 to help.
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Neosho County
Democratic
West Main
Federal forms drop loyalty questions on job applications
The Civil Service Commission announced that standard form 171 will no longer include questions 27 to 29 or any loyalty questions. The move ends the long running postwar practice begun in 1953 aimed at identifying Communist party members and sympathizers, seen as overbroad and infringing on association rights.
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Communist Party
U.S.A
Civil Service Commission
Weather Area Forecast Partly cloudy through Saturday
Partly cloudy through Saturday with lows tonight in the mid to upper 50s and highs Saturday in the low 80s. Winds will be south at 10 to 15 mph tonight.
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