Squires Approve 38 Million Budget With Largest Tax Rate
Sullivan County magistrates approved a 38.38 million budget the biggest yet and a 3.96 percent tax rate, the highest faced by taxpayers. The plan raises salaries, funds materials, and adds a drainage fund while restoring a 46.37 percent across the board increase for county employees at the 15,000 level, with constitutional officers getting 11 percent. Some double taxation relief efforts were proposed for Bristol and Kingsport residents affected by city and county taxes.
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Sullivan County
Squires
Squire James King
Bristol
Kingsport
King
Kingsport Budget Hikes to 83 Million in Final Reading
Kingsport's city budget for the new fiscal year passed final reading with extensive revisions and a potential tax rise of about 15 percent. City Manager Ernest Clark noted remaining uncertainties about revenue from Sullivan County and the county budget, and officials warned the tax rate may need adjustment up to $2.75 per $100 assessed value to cover a projected deficit near $300,000.
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Kingsport
Board of Mayor and Aldermen
Sullivan County
Ernest Clark
State
Public Safety Department
Ieaf
Clark
Three Hampton youths pass time along Hampton Bay
Three Hampton Virginia youngsters spend a summer morning by the water in Hampton Roads Bay as they haul stones and joke they will not run out before the day ends.
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Hampton, Va
Hampton Roads Bay
Ann Landers Ends 36 Year Marriage in Divorce
Chicago based syndicated columnist Ann Landers announces in her column that after 36 years of marriage she and Jules Lederer are divorcing. She describes the split as deeply painful and notes the decision reflects a desire to be honest with readers who feel like friends.
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Ann Landers
Chicago
UP1
Jules Lederer
Chicago Sun-Times
Epple Lederer
Mrs. Lederer
Jules
Abby
Health Department Clears Ex-Employe In Core Probe
The State Attorney General’s Office found no wrongdoing by Gary Phillips, a former Health Department official who later worked for a major landfill company. The review consulted Health Department engineering data on Phillips’s sites, with Howard Hubbard noting minor department counsel edits. Community official Herman May questioned the probe’s reach and depth.
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Health Department
State Attorney General's
Gary Phillips
Sullivan County
William Hubbard
Int
Times-News
Department
Hubbard
Phillips
Russians flee whale clash in Pacific confrontation
Greenpeace activists aboard Phyllis Cormack challenged a Soviet harpoon ship to save a sperm whale off the Pacific coast. Two crewmen in a rubber raft blocked the vessel while harpoon shots narrowly missed them. Greenpeace reports eight whales saved as the Russians fled southward.
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San Francisco
UPS
Ecologists
Pacific
Phyllis Cormack
Greenperce Foundation
Bob Hunter
Vancouver
B.C
Sun
Hunter
George Korotova
Rod Manning
Greenpeace
Manning
Sunrise over fuel mix signals solar energy rise in UPI report
Federal Energy officials abandoned nuclear breeder reactors as a primary power source and pushed for a balanced mix of sun, breeder, and fusion. The 25 year blueprint foresees U.S. energy costs doubling by 2000, continued oil imports until 1995, and aims to boost solar and other energy research with a $63 million budget increase.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Energy Research and Development Administration
ERDA
Robert C. Scarians Jr
Congress
Ford
Seamans
ETSU med school accreditation letter confirms no approval yet
ETSU officials released a letter from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education showing no letter of reasonable assurance of accreditation for the ETSU College of Medicine at present. A survey team report cites lack of doctorate level education, limited teaching-hospital experience, and insufficient time to integrate community hospitals, urging delays in admitting an entering class until 1977 or later.
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Johnson City
East Tennessee State University
ETSU
D. P. Culp
ETSA
Liason Committee On Medical Education
Etsu College of Medicine
Culp
State Board of Regents
Gav
Ray Blanton
Dad Started Kung F u Fight To The Death
Roy Wetzel, a 26 year old karate instructor, testified in Beaver County Court that he killed his father Willy during a night of dispute over finances and home loss. He described a 20 to 25 minute battle using swords knives and karate sticks, and said his tactic of tying karate sticks around his father's neck backfired.
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Beaver, Pa
UPI
Roy Wetzel
Wetzel
Beaver County
Willy
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