Home rule bills delayed again in Arkansas Senate
The Arkansas Senate postponed action on Pryor administration home rule bills after a three hour hearing. One bill would allow local income taxes and other levies with voter approval. the second would transfer 17 percent of state net personal income tax to cities and counties. Brewer fault lines and industry concerns surfaced as the body set the measures for Monday.
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Senate
David Pryor
J. A. “Dooley” Womack
Camden
Bill Walmsley
Batesville
Walmsley
Womack
Pryor
Joe Ford
Ford
Allied Telephone Co
Arkansas
Missouri
Allied
John Gill
Arkansas Municipal League
League
Gill
Morrell Gathright
Pine Bluff
Gathright van & Storage Co
Gathright
Bread tops list as most-used edible item in study
A Progressive Grocer analysis of 170 grocery items from 30,000 interviews found wrapped bread used by 96.7 percent of respondents, with table salt flour mayonnaise catsup margarine and granulated sugar also in high demand across 900 product categories.
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Washington
Progressive Grocer
Arkansas Legislature Acts on Retirement Reform and Civil Rights Stays
The House amended a proposed major revision of state retirement to exclude the largest system the teacher retirement plan. The Senate spent three hours on administration home rule bills and delayed action to Monday. A resolution praising Anita Bryant for opposing a Florida anti gay ordinance was introduced in the House.
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Little Rock
House
Senate
Anita Bryant
Florida
Arkansas
Albert “Tom” Collier
Newport
Miss Bryant
Arkansas House Votes to Bar Teachers from Retirement Revision
The Arkansas House, amid lobbying by the Arkansas Education Association, voted to exclude teachers from a revised state public retirement system. The move aims to shield teacher plans from changes while other measures proceed. The session also approved restoring felons to voting rights and a statewide obscenity standard with 71-0.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Education Association
W. E. Beaumont
AEA
Beaumont
House
Charles Wade
Texarkana
TNT plant shuts down in Chattanooga after wartime runs
Army Lt. Col. Richard J. Baird says the last U S TNT plant has halted production and is placed on standby. The Chattanooga facility employed 552 workers, down from a wartime peak of 2,800, with 120 kept on in standby and key personnel retained by ICI. Others will lose jobs but receive job-finding aid as the plant ends operations.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
United States
Army
Richard J. Baird
Chattanooga
Vietnam
Baird
Imperial Chemicals Industries
ICI
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