Deficit-Cutting Plan Clears Senate Panel
The Senate advances an $85.6 billion three year deficit cutting plan including a permanent cigarette tax hike. Bipartisan vote 93 to 6. House plan differs. bipartisan talks will reconcile both packages toward a balanced budget by 1990 or 1991.
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Washington
Senate
Pete Domenici
R-N.m
Senate Budget Committee
House
Reagan Administration
Congress
Domenici
Silver Haired Legislature backs tax hike and death penalty
In Topeka the Silver Haired Legislature approved first reading bills to raise the state sales tax from 3 to 4 percent and to reimpose the death penalty, while defeating a proposed constitutional initiative. Final votes set for Friday as the 3rd annual assembly nears close.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas House of Representatives
Capitol
Kansas
Oklahoma farmers oppose Farm Credit consolidation push
Enid meeting draws about 200 farmers as Billy Joe Holcomb and another northwest Oklahoma farmer denounce a proposed consolidation of 37 FLBAs and 32 PCAs into a regional district spanning Oklahoma Kansas Colorado and New Mexico. They cite spending on ads a jet and new offices amid farm stress while urging delay pending federal funding and Congress action. Jerold Harris of Wichita defends the plan saying pooling resources will avert closures. voting dates are set for November 26 and December 3 with headquarters in Wichita and local lending decisions elsewhere.
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Enid
Okla
Pond Creek
Oklahoma
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Billy Joe Holcomb
Northwest Oklahoma
Holcomb
Enid Production Credit Association
Jerold Harris
Wichita
Kan
Pcas
Harris
Jack Perry
Farm Credit Banks of
Congress
Farm Credit
Orla Ratliff
Red Rock
Flbas
FLBA
PCA
Jury Recommends Life For Tate
In Missouri a Boone County jury recommended life without parole for David C. Tate, convicted of first degree murder in the April 15 killing of Highway Patrol Trooper Jimmie Linegar. Sentencing is set for January 6. Tate’s relatives and public defenders urged mercy, noting his youth and claiming the system’s mercy, while prosecutors said the result reflected the defendant’s actions and the jury’s duty.
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Columbia
Missouri
David C. Tate
Betty Tate
Boone County
Tate
Frank Conley
Athol
Idaho
Conley
Missouri Highway Patrol
Jimmie Linegar
Patrick Deaton
David
Deaton
James Justus
Justus
Highway Patrol
Allen D. Hines
Hines
Linegar
Sinegar
Denton
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Uri Savir
Kansas Corporation Commission
Oklahoman
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