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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1998
Page
12
The forecast calls for Saturday night thunderstorms with lows in the 60s and Sunday morning showers with highs in the lower 80s. Monday and Tuesday bring chances of thunderstorms with highs easing into the mid to lower 80s. Stream conditions numbers are Bluestone 466-0156 Summersville 872-5809 R D Bailey 664-9587.
A damaged newspaper notice offers partial readable elements about a local sale action. Officials and specific procedures are unclear, but the fragment hints at a public sale event and involved authorities.
A proposal to replace several business taxes with a single gross revenue based tax and to replace the income tax with a single rate uses federal poverty level exemptions to aid the poor. Supporters argue simplification reduces government costs and broadens tax fairness while opponents urge caution and focus on fairness over rate details.
Summers County business manager Joe Kessler questions a report calling for a constitutional change to make the Legislature sole arbiter of school spending. The article notes a pending Recht v Pauley case, a 1 billion master plan, and a shift toward funding by capacity while highlighting local budget struggles and a recent surplus.
The proposals urge keeping selective revenue taxes to match federal dollars, shifting from a graduated income tax to a single rate with a higher exemption, eliminating local property taxes for education funding, amending the constitution to let the legislature decide education spending, retaining excess local school levies, abolishing personal property taxes, raising real property tax rates to offset the loss, allowing piggybacking on state taxes, and creating a two-step appeal process with an independent board for tax disputes.
Economists view June payroll gains of 205,000 with services leading while manufacturing cuts 29,000 jobs. Dow tops 9000 briefly as Japan banking revival hints ease inflation fears. Unemployment claims jump 24,000 to 390,000 with most rise in Michigan Ohio New York tied to a GM plant strike and related shutdowns.
SANDI Nieves, 34, was booked on suspicion of murder after four daughters aged 5, 7, 11 and 12 died of smoke inhalation in a Santa Clarita home. Investigators found accelerant and at least one fire set. Nieves and her 14 year old son were treated for smoke inhalation. she was hospitalized in satisfactory condition.
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