30 Mar 1977
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Newspaper
Playground Daily News
Location
Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1977
Page
1
President Carter faces a partisan test as Congress debates his 50 dollar tax rebate plan. Press secretary Powell says the rebate aims to boost the economy despite inflation concerns and will prompt immediate lobbying efforts.
Billy Carter and wife Sybil will relocate with six children to a house 19 miles north of Plains within two to three months to escape persistent visitors. They say autograph seekers and photographers invade their yard, endangering their younger children, especially Mandy, 9, and Earl, 6 months. The couple cites safety concerns and seeks privacy, noting several minor incidents and calls to authorities.
President Carter and First Lady Rosalynn endorsed a $2.2 million Sumter County High School referendum but did not obtain absentee ballots. About 5,000 voters were eligible as communities debated replacing Plains High and Union High with a new facility near Americus, Georgia.
London reports the Labour government cuts income tax and raises taxes on gasoline and cigarettes while declaring Britain through the worst of its economic crisis. Chancellor Denis Healey pledges no VAT hike and outlines a 1977-78 deficit near 14.96 billion dollars with a 68 billion spending plan.
The commission pledged a probe into planning and zoning oversights after a dispute over land included in a marina proposal. Officials blamed clerical errors and advertising gaps while noting potential zoning changes may be needed to permit construction.
Washington and Havana officials held secret 1974 75 meetings in airport coffee shops the forerunner of modern U S Cuba contacts. They yielded prisoner releases some easing of Cuban subversion in Puerto Rico and expanded trade but were halted by hard line Cuban revolutionaries.
White House may propose removing barbiturates from the market with doctors allowed to prescribe only for hospitalized patients. Bourne cites fatalities from barbiturate use and overdoses especially among children and youth mixing with alcohol. He notes safer alternatives now exist.
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