California lawmakers push to end oil depletion allowance
Lawmakers consider AB117 to end the oil depletion tax break and raise state revenue by about 50 million annually. ACA15 would lower drinking age to 18 if approved by voters. SB29 and SB50 would provide 450 million and 300 million respectively for low cost housing loans. Senate budget hearings feature Roy Bell testimony on an 11.3 billion plan.
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UPI
California
Ronald Reagan
Assembly
Senate
Bill Lockyer
Dsan Leandro
Revenue and Taxation Committee
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Robert C. Cline
Northridge
Judiciary Committee
Ate
George N. Zenovich
Fresno
George Moscone
San Francisco
Roy Bell
Finance Committee
Assembly Governmental Organization Committee
John Vasconcellos
Vasconcellos
British call new IRA peace conference
British officials in Northern Ireland invited IRA envoys to new peace talks aiming to revive a cease-fire that ended with the Christmas truce. A 7 year old boy was killed by a mine near the border, the first fatality since the truce ended, as both sides prepared for another session.
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Pueblo crew volunteers for war prisoners study
UPI reports the U S Navy Center for Prisoner of War Studies asks Pueblo crew members to volunteer for a data collection project on POW treatment and interrogation. The study compares Pueblo data with other returned prisoners for research purposes.
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UPI
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Pueblo
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Ray Spaulding
Edward Murphy Jr
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Canadian filmmaker to file affidavit on spy request in Nevada
Bruce B. McInnes of Richmond British Columbia says two men claimed to work for an oil company asked him in 1973 to monitor John Meier in Nevada and report on Meier connections with Donald Nixon Howard Hughes and Jack Anderson. Meier, a former Hughes aide, faced tax evasion charges in 1969-70.
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Richmond
B.C
John Meier
Nevada
Donald Nixon
Hughes Tool Co
Jack Anderson
Meier
Hughes
California
Robert Wyhak
Vancouver
McInnes
Las Vegas
Famous muralist Thomas Benton dies
Thomas Hart Benton, famed muralist and friend of Harry S. Truman, collapsed at his Kansas City home and died at Menorah Medical Center. A regionalist painter celebrated for murals in Missouri and Indiana statehouses and the Truman Library, he chronicled working Americans with swift lines and bright colors.
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UPI
Thomas Hart Benton
Harry S. Truman
Menorah Medical Center
Benton
Independence
Truman
America
Missouri
Indiana
Joplin
Grant Wood
John Steuart Curry
Midwest
South
Ford Chrysler sales push GM to rebate
Strong mid January sales reports expected from Ford and Chrysler could push General Motors into a rebate price war. Analysts expect mid January sales to be among the best since the 1975 models and GM hints at a price cut program. Chrysler and Ford report deliveries up since Chrysler’s car clearance carnival began.
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UPI
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Chrysler
Ford Dealers and Company
Exclusive remodeling contracts hit for California legislature
The Sacramento Union reports Kimmel Construction Co. of Sacramento acted as nearly the exclusive contractor for legislative remodeling. Over nine years the firm billed the Assembly about 400000 dollars and the Senate about 300000 dollars, with the largest assembly bill of 156090 dollars in 1969 70. Senate costs grew mainly in 1971 72 on a cost plus basis. John Williamson of the Senate Rules Committee said no formal bids were sought because Kimmel had performed well.
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Sacramento
UPI
The
Sacramento Union
Kimmel Construction Co
Assembly
Senate
Union
Assembly Chamber
John Williamson
Senate Rules Committee
Kimmel
Mao's New Chinese Constitution Formalizes ONE-Party Rule
China adopts a new constitution centering power on Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung. It designates Mao commander in chief, makes the NPC the highest organ of state power under party leadership, abolishes the head of state post, and creates Chu Teh as ceremonial head of state.
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UPI
China
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
New China News Agency
Mao
National People’s Congress
NPC
Peking
Liu Shao-chi
Liu
Chu Teh
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