Tax cut issue approved as Senate extends cuts
The Senate voted to extend this year's temporary tax cuts for six months and rejected a spending ceiling linked to Ford. The House backed oil price rollbacks and price controls for 40 months while Congress approved 2.3 billion in NYC emergency loans as part of a 10.4 billion appropriations bill.
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Ford
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Congress
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White House
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Missouri
Thomas
Ford Administration
Capitol Hill
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Missouri conjugal visits bill faces opposition and cost
A plan for 96 mobile housing units at 10 000 each and over 600 000 in support costs aims to grant conjugal visits to married prisoners. Officials including deputy director George Camp oppose the expense, while Rep. Murray Stone defends the measure as reducing recidivism and costs.
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Jefferson City
George Camp
Missouri
Murray Stone
D-St. Louis
Stone
Edward Haynes
Ike Skelton
Lexington
Skelton
Camp
Moore deemed competent to plead after Ford shooting
Federal judge Samuel Conti ruled Sara Jane Moore mentally competent to plead guilty in the attempted assassination of President Ford but ordered a hearing on guilt and sanity. He urged witnesses and new psychiatric reports while noting Moore’s history of mental illness and her insistence she is not insane.
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Sara Jane Moore
Ford
U.S. District Court
Samuel Conti
Miss Moore
Conti
FBI
William O'Donnell
St. Joseph’s Church
Berkeley
Beef grading reforms loom before Supreme Court in Omaha case
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court ruled against in bank rehearing requests from Omaha packers and intervenors challenging USDA beef grading revisions. IMPAO seeks further appeal while consumer groups lean toward the Supreme Court. The plan would cut fat marbling and may force yield grading on all carcasses, raising costs for producers and shoppers.
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U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. 8Th Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Omaha
U.S. Department of Agriculture
8Th Circuit
Denney
USDA
IMPAC
Israelis chart economic plan to curb costs and jobs
Israel unveiled a tough economic package proposing longer hours, higher prices, and reduced subsidies to counter a faltering economy. The plan includes a $12 billion budget for 1976-77, a value added tax, housing freezes, and U.S. aid risks. Officials warned cuts in aid could raise unemployment and hardships.
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Israel
Treasury
United States
Yehoshua Rabinowitz
Government Statistics Bureau
U.S
Congress
Arnon Gafni
The
Travelers reroute trips as airline strikes disrupt schedules
United cancels all flights through January 5 due to a machinists strike while National Airlines has been shut down since September by a pilots and flight attendants walkout. Passengers face higher fares longer routes and crowded reservations lines as agencies report chaos and itinerary changes.
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United Airlines
United
National Airlines
Dorothy Gusler
Washington, D.C
U.S
Philip
E. Ruppe
R-Mich
Detroit
Alpena
Mich
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Northwest
Rocky Mountain World Travel Association
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Ford
Dorothy Westerman
Globe Travel Agency
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Hawaii
Vancouver
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Miami
Pam Scott
Northwestern University
Illinois
Cleveland
Chicago
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50Th Street
New York City
Council rejects flagpole measure on city right of way
The City Council defeated 7 to 2 a proposal to allow flagpoles on city right of way by adjacent property owners or leasees, citing removal concerns and Environmental Quality Commission opposition. Miss Carolyn McDowell supported the measure, while First Ward councilman Gilbert Ortmeyer was absent.
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First Ward
Gilbert Ortmeyer
Fourth Ward
Carolyn McDowell
Environmental Quality Commission
Miss McDowell
Kenneth V. Wildhaber
Doctor Finch Relocates Practice From El Dorado Springs to Bolivar
Dr. R Bernard Finch moves his medical practice from El Dorado Springs to Bolivar Missouri. He plans to join a countywide health maintenance organization in Bolivar by January 1 and cites hospital discipline as a factor. Finch previously served time in California prisons for his wife’s murder and has faced lengthy trials and parole.
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EL Dorado Springs
R. Bernard Finch
Missouri
California
Harold Fugate
Bolivar
Cedar County Memorial Hospital
Finch
West Covina
Calif
Carol Tregoff
Miss Tregoff
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