House GOP outlines plan to reform Social Security
The GOP proposes a 70 year reform including delaying automatic benefit increases, raising full retirement age to 82 in stages, adding 1.25 percent payroll tax, and bringing all federal workers into Social Security. The plan cuts earnings indexing, shifts funds to the Social Security trust, ends the earnings test by 1980, and expands benefits for women with a working spouse and remarriage provisions.
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UPI
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Social Security Trust Fund
Boards set meetings on Monday for two districts
Columbus and Lakeview Boards of Education schedule Monday night sessions. Lakeview plans a resolution on a special election to extend grades seven and eight, plus driver education, school pickup proposals, and other items. City agenda covers Duncan building contracts, roof, furniture bid, land condemnation near Duncan, vehicle bids, superintendent auto, and school census computerization.
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Local Readings Quietly Record Weekend Sun and Moon Events
The town clock notes midnight on Friday and a 9:05 dusk reading. It lists moonrise on Sunday, sunset Sunday at seven, sunrise Monday at 7:45, and Monday sunset.
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Munrise
Hospital Costs Rise at Million-Dollar Hour
HEW Secretary Joseph Califano told a House subcommittee that hospital costs grow about 1 million dollars per hour and could rise to 24 trillion more over time. He backed Carter’s plan to curb inflation and aid child health programs, noting current hospital expense trends and proposed rate limits.
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UPI
HEW
Joseph Califano
House Health Subcommittee
Califano
Carter
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
House
Paul Rogers
D-Fla
Congress
Roth
Sen. Budget Committee
Edmund Maskie
Dmaine
AlaskaCanadian gas line cost plan outlined by Schlesinger
Energy Secretary James Schlesinger presented a joint US Canada gas pipeline plan linked to the Carter Trudeau agreement. He noted a 37 percent cost overrun on the Alaskan North Slope line, estimated at 13 to 14 billion dollars, with US consumers paying about 2.50 per thousand cubic feet, while gas would reach the Midwest and California by 1982 and 1986 for Canada, respectively.
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UPI
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Energy
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Schlesinger
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California
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Midwest
U.S
Carter
Pierre Trudeau
White House
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Yukon
Congress
Senate clears 459.9 billion federal budget for 1978
The Senate approved a 459.9 billion budget for fiscal 1978 in a 63 to 21 vote, defeating multiple tax cut and spending-reduction amendments. The measure, sent to a House Senate conference, faces revisions to reconcile with a similar House bill of 459.6 billion.
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UPI
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Congress
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Calif
Sen
Orrin Hatch
Utah
Hatch
Opera Opening Goes On After Downtown Bomb Blast
San Francisco society attended the opera gala marking the season opener despite a bombing at the Carriage Entrance of the Opera House and War Memorial Building. The New World Liberation Front claimed responsibility, calling the act benign while describing it as a protest. The blast shattered 28 windows and delayed the curtain by 11 minutes as repairs were prepared.
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Glennbe Currie
SAN Francisco
UPI
San Francisco Society
Nob Hill
Opera House
War Memorial Building
Opera
VISTA volunteers keep happy and busy in Columbus
Deb Gondringer profiles three young VISTA volunteers from New York Minnesota joining in Columbus Nebraska. Nancy Bushnell Nancy Brody and Janis Sokolowski explain aims of VISTA building RSVP at the Senior Center and developing Camp Pawnee facilities. They seek grants and community support while adjusting to western life and the $ minimum living allowance.
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Deb Gondringer
Columbus
Nancy Bushnell
Bushnell
Nebraska
Elmira
N.Y
Nancy Brody
St. Paul
Minn
Janis Sokolowski
New Yorker
Utica
America
VISTA
Action Wich
Broady
Sokolowski
Camp Pawnee
Mississippi
Alaska
Discover Columbus Days Prayer Breakfast Details Announced
District Judge John Whitehead announced the third annual Discover Columbus Days prayer break fast to be held Saturday October 1 at 7 a.m. at the Holiday Inn with speaker Ann Kiemel. Tickets are available at the Book Center and Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce.
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Holiday Inn
Ann Kiemel
Whitehead
Kiamer
Book Center
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