Carter Proposes Broad Tax Cuts and Job Programs
President Carter outlines a plan to extend $50 per person to many working poor families, provide $0 to Social Security and pension recipients, and raise standard deductions for couples and singles. The package includes tax credits, business incentives, and large-scale public works to fund 4.1 billion in spending next year and create hundreds of thousands of jobs, including youth programs and veteran placements.
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Carter
Winter Storm Cripples Ontario and U S Energy Efforts
Canada reports heavy snow squalls and high winds as Ontario warns against road travel while in the United States Congress debates President Carter’s emergency natural gas bill to ease shortages. Senate leaders caution amendments could derail the measure as Carter tours a Pitts burgh turbine plant.
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Niagara
Transport Ministry
Ontario
Congress
Washington
Carter
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Proposal aims to switch tax to unit basis for gas
Howard notes a price based tax protects against inflation but could be offset by an inflation clause. The idea is under study with no firm conclusions yet. He also cites overburdened duties at the Corporation Commission and says a new agency for utility rates may be feasible this session with details on director selection to be worked out.
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Buffalo
Buffalo Zoo
New Jersey
Brendan Byrne
Public Utility Commission
Joel Jacobsen
Howard
Corporation Commission
Rhodesia settlement aims and U S stance unfold
Secretary Vance urged a peaceful settlement in Rhodesia while opposing any American backing for nonmajority rule. He supported congressional repeal of the Byrd chrome import amendment and noted Britain’s talks with moderate Rhodesian blacks faltered. Vorster pledged South Africa would resist external pressure, and Young’s Africa trip could shape U S policy. Vance also stressed Palestinian rights in the Middle East but did not confirm backing for a state.
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Smith
John Vorster
Rhodesia
Ivor Richard
Vance
South Africa
Andrew Young
U.S
United Nations
Africa
Middle East
County eyes revenue plan to trim federal dependence
Comanche County proposals aim to raise about 150000 annually by reshaping the general fund. Measures include keeping locally earned funds for county use, state paying district attorney salaries, doubling financing statement fees, and moving all court costs to the court fund.
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White
Comanche County
Hines
Lawton Bridge To Be Improved On Cache Road
Lawton city officials plan February maintenance on the Old Cache Road bridge over Wolf Creek between 52nd and 53rd streets. Temporary work will clear dirt on the bridge, widen left turns, and repaint the structure in March while studies on traffic capacity and reconstruction options proceed with state input.
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Constitution
Cache Road
Wolf Creek
52Nd and
53Rd Streets
53Rd Street
West Lawton
52Nd Street
Paul Cullen
Paul Brune
Cullen
67Th Street
Enrollment Open For Prenatal Classes At Health Department
Enrollment remains open for a six session prenatal program at the City County Health Department. Mrs. Connie Overby, public health nurse, coordinates the classes. Free sessions run 7 to 9 p.m. on six consecutive evenings. Subjects include child care prenatal health care nutrition delivery procedures and child development. Instructors include a dietitian a child development specialist a social worker a pediatric nurse practitioner and local physicians.
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Connie Overby
Health Department
Cabinet Meetings Set for Weekly Gatherings
A memo circulated among Cabinet members before a final decision. Reporters were escorted from the meeting soon after it began as Carter described coverage plans. He noted possible rules to limit attribution and recalled open meetings in Georgia. A reporter would attend once and brief others after.
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Carter
Georgia
Winter Gas Curtailments Hit Lawton Businesses
January brought record cold and widespread outages across Southwest Oklahoma. Arkla Gas and Lone Star Gas curtailed gas to several Lawton businesses and customers as temperatures plunged and winds roared up to 60 mph. Snow melt and flurries left streets slick while days briefly warmed to the 50s before new freezes returned.
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Lawton
Arkla Gas Co
Shreveport
Lone Star Gas Co
Oklahoma
Lone Star Gas curtails service with no school closings
A Lone Star Gas Co spokesman in Wichita Falls said the firm would curtail interstate system power to most industrial users including sections of southern Oklahoma, but there would be no school closings as a result of the curtailments.
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Lone Star Gas Co
Wichita Falls
Oklahoma
Arraignment Set In Lawton Shooting Case
McKinley Hall, arrested Friday in a January 1976 shooting at the African Breeze Club, faces a felony count and arraignment today. He allegedly shot James Feaster in the pool hall dispute over a game. Feaster survived. The warrant also names a witness as a shooting target. Hall’s brother Jimmy Lee Hall died in an Oct 17, 1976 club shootout. Ernest Lee Wilson, 22, will stand trial for first degree murder in the February docket over Jimmy Hall’s death.
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McKinley Hall
First
B Avenue
James Feaster
Hall
Feaster
Comanche County
Jimmy Lee Hall
McKinley
Veterans of Foreign Wars Club
Ernest Lee Wilson
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