Senate Keeps Windfall Tax Fight Alive Amid Close Vote
The Senate narrowly backed a Byrd amendment to widen the windfall profits tax on oil, a move opposed by Harrison Schmitt. The vote was 53 to 44 to keep the amendment alive, with Vice President Mondale ready to break a tie if needed. The measure would add about 30.8 billion to the windfall tax over ten years, bringing the Senate version to roughly 185 billion, opposed to the House’s 277 billion. President Carter urged support as Treasury and Energy Secretaries watched the proceedings. further votes on the amendment and related measures were anticipated, with potential moves toward speeding oil tax passage and a separate 50-cent gasoline tax proposal by Stevenson that could cost motorists 39.6 billion annually starting 1980.
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Associated Press
Washington
White House
Senate Today
Treasury
William Miller
Energy
Charles Duncan
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
Harrison Schmitt
R-N.m
Byrd
Carter
House
Jody Powell
Adlai Stevenson
D-Ill
Stevenson
Senate Finance Committee
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Middle East
Lloyd Bentsen
D-Texas
Shortage of bilingual teachers hits Texas classrooms
In Tyler Texas AP report consultant Robert L Tipton testifies that Texas faces a critical lack of adequately trained bilingual teachers for Spanish speaking students. He cites 155 000 teachers in the state with only 7 860 certified bilingual teachers and notes this as a major obstacle in the federal lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency.
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Texas
Texas Education Agency
State of
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Robert L. Tipton
Tipton
Chamber rejects merger plea for Pecos police and sheriff
The Pecos Chamber of Commerce board refused to back consolidating the Pecos Police Department with the Reeves County Sheriff's Office, overruling Merchants Committee pressure. Three letters were presented including the consolidation request, a downtown tree maintenance plea, and a complaint about Merchant Freight Lines. after discussion, the board kept its stance. Charlotte Slack outlined a president-elect recommendation, with McGowen to be president and Ron Etheridge named vice president.
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Ron Etheridge
Leman Barmore
Chamber of Commerce
Brady
Texas
Pecos
Charlie Osborne
Jayne Robinson
Pecos Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
W.R. Lob’ Bickley
Reeves County
W.O. Pigman
Hinz
Merchants Committee
Enterprise
Mer
Charlotte Slack
McGowen
Snyder Student Dies In Icy Bus Collision Near Snyder
A Snyder school bus overturned on icy U S 180 injuring and killing a pupil. The bus carried about 15 students en route to North Elementary and Snyder Junior High. Driver Robert Adams was treated for shock while a boy was crushed to death. the boy’s name was withheld.
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Snyder, Texas
Snyder
U.S. 180
West Texas
Robert Adams
North Elementary School
Snyder Junior High School
Carter plans $14 billion defense budget increase
President Carter backs a defense budget with 3.5 percent real growth next year to reassure SALT II critics. Defense Secretary Harold Brown will preview about $14 billion more for fiscal 1981, boosting total federal defense outlays from $127.4 billion to about $142 billion, with plans for continued increases over the next four years. The proposal aims to satisfy Sen. Sam Nunn and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who back roughly 4 to 5 percent annual increases to strengthen conventional and strategic forces amid SALT II negotiations.
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Washington
Carter
Senate
Administration
Defense
Harold Brown
U.S
Soviet Union
Sen. Sam
Nunn
D-Ga
United States
Russia
Day-long clash ends as police shield Iranian students
San Antonio College students on a second day of hunger strike were escorted to a police car and station after a day-long confrontation with a crowd of over 200. J D Ry and Jud Ashmore urged action, insulting signs were torn, and council denied a permit for an anti shah parade.
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Texas
San Antonio College
City Hall
Shah of
Iran
Lackland Air Force Base
Ricci Ware
Jud
Ashmore
Ware
Ayatollah Khomeini
Weather Outlook Icy Mix Persists in West Texas
Cloudy skies with freezing rain and sleet expected to continue through today in Pecos and vicinity. Clearing should begin tonight with temperatures not as cold on Thursday. High Tuesday reached 79, low 32 this morning with 0.7 inch moisture recorded.
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Pecos
West Texas
Panhandle
Carter overtakes Kennedy in new Gallup poll for 1980 nomination
The Gallup Poll completed December 9 shows Carter at 48 percent and Kennedy at 40 percent among Democrats with Carter gaining from a 2 to 1 lead for Kennedy in October. Independent support shifts to Carter 56 to 31 percent. Poll results based on 1,303 in-person interviews December 7-9 nationwide.
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