ERA Vote This Week in Missouri Legislature
ERA advocates seek floor action as Senate calendar lists Harriet Woods led measure. House reviews consumer protection bill with changes from Public Counsel Barvick. Senate also to consider a $100 reenlistment bonus for National Guard and a death definition bill. Public counsel reforms have stalled in two sessions since 1974 reorganization.
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Ibis Pee City
Missouri House
Joseph P. Teasdale
House
Democratic
Consumer Protection Committee
William Barvick
Senate
Harriett Woods
University City
Associated Press
ERA
Missouri Senate
de Soto
Jack Gannon
Missouri National Guard
Congress To Launch New Gas Withholding Probe
Congressional hearings set this week by two House subcommittees to probe alleged gas withholding by Gulf of Mexico producers to spur deregulation and higher prices. Interior and Commerce panels will hear officials and an industry rep, Texaco’s Richard Palmer, amid a broader budget vote on Carter stimulus measures totaling about 17 billion dollars.
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Congress
Washington
House
Interior Department
Gulf of Mexico
Interior
Cecil Andrugs
Commerce, Oversight and Investigations
Department’s
Gulf Coast
Commerce Subcommittee
Texaco Vice
Richard Palmer
Senate
Carter
Senate Budget Committee
Judge Into 51st Year Without Taking Vacation
Montgomery County judge Oscar A Kamp, probate and magistrate, marks 51 years in public service with only two illness days. Elected prosecutor in 1926, judge since 1946, Kamp has faced no opposition in 12 elections and serves as a senior figure in regional courts. He reflects on crime deterrence and the value of public esteem, noting his view on punishment and leniency.
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Montgomery City
Oscar ‘A. Kamp
Montgomery County
Judge Kamp
Kamp
Supreme Court
Audrain
Callaway
Warren
Gasconade
Missouri Association of Probate Judges
Mardi Gras Amid Grocery Runs And New Baby News In Mexico
New Orleans Mardi Gras atmosphere spills into local life as stores stay open until Tuesday. In Mexico, Mrs. Dora Sue Lue, 60, dies, services pending in Mexico with burial at Elmwood Cemetery after a long illness. Her survivors include a foster daughter and seven sisters. Kimberly Lynn Becker, born Sunday at Audrain Medical Center, weighs six pounds five ounces with proud parents Phillip and Mrs. Becker and extended family in Mexico and Laddonia.
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New Orleans
Washington
New Orleana
Phillip D. Becker
Route 3
Kimberly Lynn ‘Becker
Audrain Medical Center
Leaile Whalen
Mexico
Anthony Becker
Laddonia
G. C. Burchfield
John Whalen
Lue
Community Civic Club
Weaver Workers Mission Circle
Second Baptist Church
Bernice Fry
Kansas City
Gertrude Hughes
Midnight
Willie Gillon
Katherine Reaves
Eliza Kyles
Hazel Childs
Sallie Brandagen
Moorehead
Niecy Coleman
Columbia
B.C. Jordan
Ledger Society
Waterbury
Conn
Allen Nursing Home
Thomas Robert Smoot
Arnold Funeral Home
Thomas Adams
Mexico United Methodist Church
Sarah Graves Bourn
Dwight H. Helling
Route 5
Michael Dwight Helling
Virgil Helling
Harold Walkenhorat
New Haven
Emil Brune
Arthur Borcherding
Larry J. McCune
N. Clark
Scott David McCune
Audram Medical Center
Michael Bryan
William Beamer
James McCune
Kirksville
Alvin Beamer
Homer Cameron
Mr. McCune
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Service Store
Western Governors Call for Water Study Amid Drought Aid Push
In Denver, 11 Western and Midwestern governors plus others met Interior Secretary Andrus to back a task force studying water shortages and seeking immediate federal aid. They voiced concern over Carter funding cuts to 18 water projects, while drought reports showed West streamflows at 40 to 50 percent of normal and agriculture and livestock at risk. Governors from Oklahoma, Oregon, California, Washington, Montana, Utah, Idaho, and South Dakota attended. Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, Arizona, Nevada, and Wyoming sent representatives.
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Denver
Interior
Cecil Andrus
Colorado
Richard Lamm
Andrus
Carter
COS Aid Cient Teen Oakhheard
North Dakota
Arthur Link
Jack Barnett
Western States Water Council
West
Nebraska
James Exon
Exon
Oklahoma
Oregon
California
Washington
Montana
Utah
Idaho
South Dakota
Texas
New Mexico
Kansas
Arizona
Nevada
Wyoming
Father wins toy raffle and asks children who should receive it
The father of five wins a toy in a raffle and gathers his kids to pick who gets the present. Five small voices respond in unison, You play with it, daddy, in a playful ending.
States miffed by Carter cuts
Officials in 14 states warn President Carter may display poor judgment and timing by seeking to withhold fiscal 1978 funds from 18 water projects mainly in the drought hit West. Utah and North Dakota leaders react, while critics predict Congress will reject the move amid long underway efforts and hundreds of millions already spent.
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Associated Press
Carter
West
Congress
Felix Sparks
Colorado Water Conservation Board
Donald Landry
Terrebone Parish
Louisiana
White House
John Sieh
Oahe Conservancy Subdistrict Board
South Dakota
Edward Clyde
Utah
Garrison
North Dakota
Mixed reaction to Carter Meramec cutoff in Missouri
President Carter proposed cutting 10 million dollars for the Meramec Lake Project near St. Louis, drawing cheers from opponents like Don Rimbach who called it a campaign promise kept, while Rep. Robert Young warned of disastrous consequences for eastern Missouri residents. House members, including Rep. Richard Schord, anticipated restoring the funding.
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Jefferson City
Jimmy Carter
Meramec Lake
Missouri
Don Rimbach
Meramec Dam
Robert Young
Dmo
Meramec
St. Louis
Carter
Gerald R. Ford
Rimbach
Young
Illinois
James F. Gamble
Meramec Basin Association
Gamble
Richard Schord
D-Mo
House of Representatives
Trudeau in Washington for wide ranging talks
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau arrives at the White House for two days of talks with President Carter covering nuclear controls fishing rights and East West relations. A state dinner is planned and troops greet the visitors with limited pomp while discussions focus on economic environmental and energy concerns.
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Washington
Carter
Canada
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
White House
Walter Mondale
Trudeau
Jose Lopez Portillo
London
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Heart Monitor
Stribling House
William
Tuggle
R.N
Roy Guile
Mrs. Guile
Richard Vance
Dora Sue
Kimberly Lynn Becker
Henry Winkler
Fonz
Television
Superdome
Ridera
Central Utah Project
Bonneville
Utah Mountains
Clyde
Pardee Dam
Pardee
Lodi
Calif
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