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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1983
Page
7
Ottawa University's basketball team endures an overtime setback, adding pressure as readers see how the loss affects their season. Wellsville delivers a bold win against a larger foe on page 5, while administration steps up push for the PIK farm program on page 10.
Governor John Carlin unveiled a FY 1984 budget of 3.06 billion dollars prioritizing higher teacher pay, highways, and tech recruitment while trimming state employee pay, university faculty, and welfare programs due to a weak economy and tight finances.
Washington AP reports a $169 billion Social Security rescue package draws dislike from retirees, workers, and small businesses even as Reagan and O'Neill back it. The plan boosts payroll taxes, taxes benefits for higher earners, delays July COLA, and expands coverage to new federal employees starting 1984, projecting long-term solvency despite political headwinds.
Gregg Svoboda of Southwestern Bell told about 230 people at the Greater Ottawa Chamber of Commerce banquet on the Ottawa University campus that local and long distance rates will shift after the divestiture. He outlined service changes, equipment handling, and the potential return to manufacturing as of Jan 1 1984, with long distance largely taken over by others while local lines stay with Bell. The evening also saw awards for civic and business leaders, including Steve Dailey and W Keith Gaeddert, and notes on chamber finances and developments in 1982.
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