Star to hold line on advertising rates in 1975
The Star will not raise ad rates in 1975 despite rising costs. Ad volume rose in June and July, offsetting inflation. Newsprint and service costs climbed, but the paper plans to absorb them and keep prices steady while subscriptions may rise later. Treasury Secretary Simon previews a Ford plan to cut taxes for business to boost profits.
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Star
The
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Associated Press
Hope Water & Light to print bills on new form
Utility bills beginning with August will switch to a different form showing the fuel adjustment as a separate item. The change aims to provide clearer totals, with fuel charges presented as a total monthly figure rather than per mill. The article notes costly fuel shifts, nuclear power growth, and a 1977 nuclear plant completion with coal use as a stabilization path.
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Hope Water & Light Plant
Service Commission
Arkansas Power & Light
Ford proposes $14 billion business tax cut plan
Washington AP Ford administration urged Congress to cut corporate and stockholder taxes by about 14 billion over six years. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon framed it as benefiting savers and urged broad incentives for personal savings, including broadening 1974 IRAs. He outlined dividend tax elimination via a 50 percent corporate deduction and a stockholder tax credit, with phased in annual savings to stockholders totaling about 6.3 billion yearly and 7.5 billion to corporations.
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Washington
Ford Administration
Congress
Treasury
William E. Simon
House
Ways and Means Committee
Simon
Reopening of U S bases hinted by Turkish minister
Turkish Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel met with President Ford and suggested the possibility of reopening U S bases in Turkey, noting they were shut for the time being. He said relations with the United States are valuable and efforts would be made to remove roadblocks to closer ties.
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Helsinki
Finland
Suleyman Demirel
Ford
U.S
Demirel
Turkey
United States
Harold Wilson
Helmut Schmidt
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
Sible
Britain
France
West Germany
European Security Conference
Western
Europe
Vladivostok
Great White Sharks Harpooned Off Southern California
Two large great white sharks were harpooned in Southern California waters within a week. A marine biologist says there is no evidence of behavioral change driving more sightings, while another researcher argues ocean conditions show no shift. Local divers note warmer currents. officials say offshore waters are cooler by about three degrees and sightings remain underreported.
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San Diego
Calif
California
Santa Catalina Island
Squire
Taiwan Jet Crash Kills 26 At Taipei Airport
A Far Eastern Air Transport Viscount jet with 75 aboard crashed in heavy rain near Taipei airport, killing 26 including three foreigners. Authorities say a first landing attempt failed, a second was authorized, but the right wing struck the ground and the aircraft broke apart at the runway edge. The flight originated from Hualien, Taiwan.
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Taipei
Taiwan
F. Waverly
F. Margo
Far Eastern Air Transport
Hualien
Arkansas Weather Forecast Clouds and Showers Spread North
The forecast from the Associated Press notes increasing cloudiness tonight and Friday as showers and thundershowers develop across the state. Highs in the mid to upper 80s with tonight’s lows around 20 degrees.
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Associated Press Arkansas
Brezhnev Defends Sovereignty At European Summit
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev urged no outside meddling as he pushed for military detente in central Europe and stressed that only a state's people can decide its internal affairs. He linked detente to reducing arms and praised the summit's progress toward concrete disarmament.
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Helsinki
Finland
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Europe
Communist Party
Ford
Brezhnev
Makarios
Cyprus
Suleyman Demirel
Turkey
Mediterranean
Executive kidnaped by guerrillas in Argentina
British executive Charles Agnew Lockwood was abducted by guerrillas about 20 miles northeast of Buenos Aires, after a gun battle that wounded his chauffeur and two bodyguards. The 67 year old man had been kidnapped previously on June 6, 1973 and freed after a multimillion dollar ransom payment.
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Argentina
Charles Agnew Lockwood
Lackwood
Lockwood
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Palmer
Arnold Palmer
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