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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1975
Page
3
Washington announces higher taxable earnings base from 14 000 to 15 300 next Jan 1, affecting about 18 million workers and adding up to 70.20 in taxes for some while boosting benefits. Employers pay the same, self employed up to 1 208.70. total revenue funds 8 percent COLA increases for recipients.
Gov. Hugh Carey joined Mayor Beame in snubbing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in New York. Carey declined a planned morning meeting, sending a spokesman to arrange a private session later at the Waldorf Towers. Sadat pressed for Geneva peace talks with PLO participation as he warned of further Arab-Israeli tension.
Two Missouri truck drivers, Larry Jolly and James Hutchinson, were convicted in Phoenix federal court of interstate shipment of stolen property after taking a trailer and about 15,000 western shirts worth roughly 137000 dollars from an Amarillo factory. They allegedly sold items for 12000 dollars and a sports car. the trailer and shirts were recovered later in Tucson and Phoenix. Sentencing is set for November 24.
The Missouri Rural Letter Carriers Auxiliary backs S O S Week under the slogan Lets Bring Back Safety On The Streets. Vice president Mrs. Dale Sumpter notes the four year NSCs campaign focuses on public awareness and action on auto bicycle pedestrian and street safety with more than 1200 members statewide and listed Audrain Laddonia Vandalia Martinsburg Martinsville members named.
A chartered DC9 with 127 aboard crashed four miles from Ruzyne Airport Prague. At least 60 died with many survivors in critical condition. Most passengers were Czechoslovak union members returning from Yugoslavia’s Adriatic coast. crew of five Yugoslavs aboard. plane belonged to Inex-Adria and one of four Prague flights from Tivat.
Washington AP reports the House defeated a bill to raise the debt limit by 30 billion, 217 to 178, a move seen as symbolic and a protest against spending. Republicans opposed it 87 to 42, Democrats 136 for, 130 against, with analysts saying it won’t avert a future borrowing need.
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon papers, charged in Missoula that the CIA has been used against American citizens for a generation. He said the agency operates beyond the law and questioned its control, citing covert techniques and even assassination as possibilities, while speaking after a University of Montana appearance.
In London’s West End a doorway blast at the Trat toria Fiori in Mayfair wounded 18, including four Americans. Edwin Daly and his daughter Ruth, visiting from Bryn Mawr, were released, while Alan Ward and his wife Ruth remained hospitalized. The IRA-linked attacks come amid a spate of bombings across Britain.
White House aides say President Ford will scale back domestic trips as he shifts focus to year end budget and legislative work. Rumsfeld noted eight states remain unvisited since his 14 percent months in office, with remaining dates including Jacksonville Florida Boston Springfield Massachusetts and possibly Atlanta before international trips to Paris and China.
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