Bill on iGrain Licensing to be Heard by Missouri House
Missouri House Agriculture Committee to discuss a bill requiring state licensing of all grain dealers who buy grain for resale with a $50 annual fee plus 5 to 10 dollars per vehicle. Rep. Ray Hamlett notes the bill would empower the agriculture director to inspect books and set rules. A separate agenda item involves a beekeeping regulation bill and a public hearing on tax rate procedures and unemployment benefits adjustments.
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House
Beef Grading Change Draws Consumer Protest
Washington AP reports the Agriculture Department will expand the Choice grade to about 90 percent of graded beef, improving Good grade standards while adding yield grading. Consumer Federation of America calls the move a serious rip-off, saying shoppers will pay Choice prices for Good beef. Industry groups helped craft the plan and nearly 5,000 comments were received.
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Agriculture Department
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Tax Man Finds More Anger And Bitterness Among Taxpayers
AP from Kansas City: Henry Bloch of H R Block reports taxpayers grow angrier and more bitter as inflation and unemployment rise. A surge in early returns, broader deductions, tax rebate confusion, and checkoff attitudes show strained finances. Donations to religious groups rise as income averaging gains favor amid wage-earner households.
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Henry Bloch
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Watergate witness John Dean speaks to Kansas City crowd
John Dean, former White House counsel, told a Music Hall audience about his Watergate role and the moral stakes. Boos faded as he recounted early denials, the “Great Decision,” and a memorable Nixon budget scene with college editors.
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University of Missouri-Kansas City
Nols
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Oval Office
Howard Hunt
Can't Change Withholding Edelman Says
Jefferson City Missouri AP Delaying payments of school foundation formula funds is the only alternative to continuing under exaggerated income tax withholding tables budget director Mark Edelman told a House committee. He said revising tables midyear would create a five month state deficit and force delaying school formula payments to the last quarter. Fdelman noted receipts and expenditures do not align, with about 15 million in early school payments at risk to balance the budget.
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Mark Edelman
House Committee On Revenue and Economics
Richard Rabbitt
Edelman
Treasury
Fdelman
Auto Plants Open in St Louis Area Next Week
General Motors and Chrysler Corp announced that their St Louis area assembly plants will reopen next week. GM will run all 23 U.S. plants for the first time in four weeks, with about 2,000 St Louis workers returning Monday after a one week layoff. Chrysler said all U.S. plants will operate next week, including the Fenton car and truck lines employing about 5,400 workers.
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General Motors
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U.S
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Fenton, Mo
Magruder to Lecture Tour in Canada for Toronto Talk
Former Watergate figure Jeb Stuart Magruder, freed in January, begins a Canada lecture tour and will be paid 2500 dollars for a speech at the University of Toronto on April 4. In Troy, Dr. Jose A Navajo from the Philippines joins the practice of Drs Louis P Hetlage and James Lincoln, previously based in Manchester, Missouri.
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Jeb Stuart Magruder
Canada
Magruder
University of Toronto
Troy
Jose A. Navajo
The
Philippines
Louis P. Hetlage
James Lincoln
Manchester, Mo
Bond Session Brings Retort From Democrats
Gov. Christopher Bond met Missouri’s congressional delegation to discuss revenue sharing unemployment and energy. He claimed the Defense Department planned to close Richards Gebaur Air Force Base provoking a Democratic rebuke. The Air Force will move its communications service headquarters to Scott Air Force Base Illinois with no base closure planned.
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Christopher S. Bond
Missouri
Department of Defense
Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base
Grandview
Kansas City
Jerry Litton
Gene Taylor
Bond
Stuart Symington
William Randall
Richard Bolling
Air Force
Richards- Gebaur
Scott Air Force Base
Ill
Analysts Question Oil Index Pricing Plan
New York AP report notes OPEC’s move to link petroleum prices to import costs may aim for talks with consuming nations. Analysts see potential short term price concessions in return for assurances prices stay stable, with April Paris session planned among Saudi Arabia Iran Venezuela and Algeria.
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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Maurice Adelman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
OPEC
Milton Lipton
Walter J. Levy Consultants Corp
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Venezuela
Algeria
Paris
Adelman
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