State aid for schools up to seventy five million dollars
The Nebraska legislature approved LB33 raising state aid for schools from 55 million to 75 million on a 31 to 17 vote. Gov. Exon is expected to veto within five days, needing 30 votes to override. Key lawmakers worked to lock in support as the 1977 session nears its end.
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Frank Lewis
Bellevue
J. J. Exon
Sens
Lewis
Gerald Koch
Ralston
Exon
Koch
Herbert Schimek
Nebraska State Education Assn
Bill Nicholas
Fowler
Lincoln
Education Committee
Nelson Merz
Falls City
William Hasebroock
Merz
West Point
Hasebroock
Walter George
Blair
Guy Cooper
Humbolt
Omaha
Patrick Venditte
William Peters
Barnett
Bereuter
Boughn
Carsten
Cope
Callan
DeCamp
Duis
Fitzgerald
George
Goodrich
Hefner
Kale
Keyes
F. Lewis
Luedtke
Marsh
Maxey
Newell
Nichol
Rasmussen
Reutzel
Rumery
Savage
Schmit
Simon
Warner
Brennan
Burrows
Bills on jobs funded a major step for economy
President Carter signed a $20.1 billion stimulus bill to fund job creation with an estimated 1.5 million new positions and a separate $4 billion public works jobs measure. The package includes $8 billion for 725,000 public service jobs and $1 billion for youth employment awaiting congressional authorization.
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Washington
Carter Friday
Carter
Congress
House
Senate
Walter Mondale
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Commerce
Juanita Kreps
China hit by strong quake northeast region rattled
A strong earthquake measured 6.6 struck northeast China near areas already devastated by last July’s quakes. The tremor was confirmed by Chinese officials via a DPA dispatch from Peking and was accompanied by mild shocks in Tokyo Christchurch and areas of Bangladesh and Bangladesh’s cyclone activity followed the tremor.
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China
Peking
Tokyo
Japan
Christchurch
New Zealand
Bangladesh
Indian Subcontinent
DPA
Elvis fans camp out for Pershing concert tickets
More than 200 diehard Elvis Presley fans camped outside Pershing Auditorium to secure seats for a June 20 show. Tickets went on sale Friday dawn with prices at 10 12 50 and 15 dollars and sold out by 1130 a.m. The scene mirrored Omaha where about 200 waited for a June 19 concert and a 10546 seat sellout was expected within four hours.
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Elvis Presley
Pershing Auditorium
Presley
Pershing
Omaha Civic Auditorium
Leslie Springsteen
Omaha Auditorium
Charles Mancuso
Curtis seeks FOI details on meat lab move from Lincoln to St Louis
Senator Carl Curtis used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain documents about moving a meat inspection laboratory from Lincoln to St Louis Missouri. The plant, planned to begin in September, would inspect Midwest meat and employ scientists and inspectors. Curtis cites contractor costs and questions data backing the reversal.
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Curtis
Information Act
Meat Laboratory
Washington
Carl Curtis
Lincoln
St. Louis
Midwest
Francis J. Mulhern
Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service
APHIS
Freedom of Information Act
Ag-40 seeks NU funding. committee blocks request
The Ag-40 lobbying group pushes for nearly 600000 more for the University of Nebraska Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources but fails 19 to 19 on a key Budget Committee vote. Senator Jerome Warner opposes extra spending as the budget tightens, denying the request and other education amendments.
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Ag-40
University of Nebraska
Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources
IANR
Jerome Warner
Waverly
Warner
Technical Community
Warner Committee
Sam Cullan
Alliance
Farm Bureau
Richard Goodding
OPEC Abandons Planned 5 Percent Oil Price Increase
The Middle East Economic Survey reports most OPEC members have dropped the July 1 5 percent price hike. Eleven members had agreed at Doha last December to lift prices 10 percent January 1 and 5 percent July 1. If canceled the market crude price stays at 12.70 dollars per barrel.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Middle East Economic Survey
The
News Weekly
Doha
Qatar
Lincoln Journal items and notices from the paper
Weather and editorial notes brief the page 28 forecast fair mild with 20 percent rain risk and a high of 88. coverage on government fluorocarbon sprays questions their ban timing. A Lincoln Foundation grant honors retired publisher Joe W. Seacrest on page 6. Local labor views align with typical wage hike positions. Big Eight Commissioner Nevias says KU is a test case as IRS seeks tax on football and basketball broadcast income.
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Lincoln Journal
Joe W. Seacrest
Lincoln Foundation
Charles Nevias
University of Kansas
NCAA
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Classified ad call line and waterbed promo
Toll free number announces Nebraska wide classified ads with a contact line for Journal-Star sales. Advertises special prices on double and twin waterbeds from Land & Sky at 1325 O Street at the corner of O and 0 Streets.
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Journal-Star
Nebraska
Adv
Land & Sky
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