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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1976
Page
5
Paris High School seniors are being sponsored by the Missouri Council on Public Higher Education. Invitations were sent to educators community leaders legislators and students for the event.
Jefferson City AP report: budget talks halted after a House member berated Senate negotiators for insults toward the House appropriations chairman. The Education Committee backed a pro constitutional amendment banning long distance busing for racial integration. A Senate panel debated narrowing rape trial evidence and expanding public defender funding amid court rulings.
About 1,900 San Francisco city workers walked out over pay cuts, forming pickets at the municipal bus depot and halting service. A temporary restraining order against the strike was issued, with Judge Henry Rolph granting an injunction. The action could affect as many as 18,000 city workers and possibly longshoremen, while police, fire, and bus drivers did not join the strike.
Washington AP reports that seven weak railroads merge into Consolidated Rail Corp. ConRail will absorb Penn Central Erie Lackawanna Reading Central of New Jersey Lehigh and Hudson River Lehigh Valley and Ann Arbor, creating the nation’s largest railroad by revenue and second by mileage. The change, backed by nearly 2.1 billion in government support, begins tonight as a federal court signs documents for takeover and projects 17,000 miles owned with 3,100 miles subsidized. ConRail plans 100,000 jobs with significant losses expected in first year, while forecasts show profits by 1979 and 1985 after track improvements.
MU President C Brice Ratchford told a Public Higher Education Day Conference in Kansas City that Missouri risks falling further behind without higher state funding. He urged tax rate increases to support education, arguing education yields civic and social benefits beyond jobs. Kansas City attorney Ernest Fremont Jr proposed portable income supplements for underfunded students. The one day conference concluded with multiple calls for increased public investment in higher education.
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