The Tax Rebels in America Rise as April Deadline Nears
A Reuters inspired profile traces tax protest groups led by Ed Ellison and Irwin Schiff. It profiles Free State Constitutionalists and Sheriff’s Posse Comitatus style factions claiming taxes infringe liberty. The IRS cites 2,781 jailed for fraud in four years, with protests rising nationwide.
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Mitgang
Times Square
Ed Ellison
Free State Constitutionalists
Baltimore
Queens
N.Y
Garden Grove
Calif
Ellison
Irwin Schiff
Internal Revenue Service
America
IRS
Tony Bombadere
Vincent Walker
The
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Uncle Sam
James Wickstrom
Tigerton, Wis
Sheriff's Posse Comitatus
Maryland
Committee of Correspondence
Thomas Jefferson Equal Tax Society
Virginia
Golden Mean Society
Montana
Tax Patriots
Sumter
S.C
Committee For the Restoration of the Constitution
New York
Americans For Constitutional Taxation
Frederica
Del
Americans For Constitutional Rights
Boston
Walker
Manhattan
Weather forecast for Texas regions includes warm eays and variable skies
The National Weather Service Midland reports partly cloudy to warm conditions tonight and Wednesday with southerly winds 15 to 20 mph shifting to southwest and gusty on Wednesday. Highs reach mid 80s today and low 80s tomorrow, with nightly lows around mid 50s. East Texas remains partly cloudy, North Texas mild nights, South Texas warm with 80s to 90s along the coast.
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Permian Basin
National Weather Service
Midland Regional Air
South
Texas
Marfa
McAllen
Rio Grande
Oil halt turning point promises boom in Permian Basin
The American Petroleum Institute cites decontrol of crude prices since 1979 as spurring drilling activity. February 1980 motor gasoline deliveries fell 6.6 percent, distillate fuel oil 5.5 percent, with total domestic deliveries down 7.7 percent and national crude production 1.4 percent. Permian Basin projections show 6,790 wells by year end, up nearly 1,300 from 1979, while local officials anticipate major gains for production and Ector County amid a broader industry upturn.
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American Petroleum Institute
Permian Basin Petroleum Association
Bob Madison
Ector County
Madison
U.S
Miller
Ector
Texas
Budget row split over one year tax cut amid veto threat
The committee split 17 to 13 supporting a one year tax cut as opposed to the president's automatic three year 30 percent cut. All 12 committee Republicans and Rep. Gramm opposed. Earlier the committee voted 17 to 13 to reject the president's overall spending blueprint with the same lineup.
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Phil Gramm
Texas
Texas Electric faces fuel and rate hike pressures
Company officials say higher coal and natural gas costs raise fuel charges, with two thirds of the expected rise from fuel and equipment costs. A $67 million Public Utility Commission rate increase last year, plus five prior requests totaling $400 million since 1977, also shapes the rise. Fuel costs pass through to customers with no profit, while base electricity costs include profit and construction costs. From January to April the base rate stayed at 3.56 cents per kWh, and fuel adjustments ranged 1.588 to 1.81 cents per kWh.
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Gotcher
Texas Electric
Public Utility Commission
Brooklyn student charged in teacher death at Bushwick High
16 year old Anthony Davis faces manslaughter charges after police say he struck 37 year old teacher John Sette during a fight at Bushwick High School in Brooklyn. Sette died March 19 from skull fractures and is described as the first teacher to die from student violence. The other student involved was not charged. Denver oilman Marvin Davis agreed to merge his family company with 20th Century Fox in an 800 million deal.
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NEW York
Brooklyn
Bushwick High School
John Sette
United Federation of Teachers
Anthony Davis
Davis
Sette
Denver
Marvin Davis
20Th Century Fox Film Corp
Miami execution stayed in overlapping death row cases
A federal judge stayed the Wednesday electric chair death of David Leroy Washington after a plea by Richard E. Shapiro of a New Orleans defense group alleging inadequate counsel. The Florida Supreme Court had refused a stay, while in Louisiana Judge John V. Parker granted a stay for Colin Clark in the August 1979 robbery killing. Dalton Prejean remains scheduled for April 15.
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Miami
David Leroy Washington
Richard E. Shapiro
Southern Prisoners Defense Committee
U.S
C. Clyde Atkins
Washington
Clair
Florida Supreme Court
Louisiana
John V. Parker
Shapiro
Colin Clark
Dalton Prejean
Navy seeks Walter Mittys in Dallas for aviation career day
The Navy aims to recruit new pilots from a wide range of careers including waiter Chip Toland and bank clerk Robert Mediger. In Dallas Fort Worth, the Naval Air Station Grand Prairie hosts a two day Aviation Career Day with live demonstrations by more than a dozen Navy aircraft. Vice Admiral G E R Kinnear II attends as Atlantic Air Forces commander to showcase opportunities and rewards of Navy aviation.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Tampa
Florida
Navy
Navy Recruiting College
Walter Mitty
Atlanta
Chip Toland
Robert Mediger
Southwestern Aviation
Financial Center
Naval Aviation
Dallas-Fort Worth
Naval Air Station
Grand Prairie
Dallas-Forth Worth
Norfolk
G.E.R. Kinnear II
Atlantic Air Forces
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Lufkin
Marta McAlien Midang
Mineral Wells
Palacios
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Matthew King
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Gregg, Hockley, Andrews
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Hemphill, Moore, Winkler, Galveston
Panola Counties
Hildage
Matagorda
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Panola
San Patricio
Hemphill
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Chambers
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Gaines
Harris
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National Briefs
Walter Mittys
U.S Navy
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Naval Flight
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Air Force
Pensacola
Fla
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North Texas State University
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