City sets rate hike hearing for utility services
City proposes up to 400 percent rate increases to fund water and sewer maintenance. City Manager Robert J. Bob Owen told the Daily Record a 7:30 p.m. hearing on Tuesday at City Hall invites public input. Ordinances would authorize $10 million in revenue bonds to finance $4 million in needed water system upgrades and pressure improvements per a master plan.
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Robert J. Bob Owen
the Daily Record
City Hall
Owen
Carter backs Lance despite impropriety investigations
President Carter says he has confidence in Budget Director Bert Lance but that Lance would quit if investigators prove financial improprieties. The interview touches on Treasury probes into loans Lance obtained as a Georgia banker and related reviews by the comptroller of the currency and IRS.
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Richard E. Meyer
Associated Press
Washington
Carter
Bert Lance
Lance
Treasury Department
Comptroller of the Currency
Georgia
ABC News
Plains
New York Times
John Heimann
the Times
Robert Bloom
Heimann
Calhoun First National Bank
Times
Internal Revenue Service
Comptroller’s Office
IRS
The
Bloom
Senate Committee
Federal Reserve
Lance Bank
National Bank of Georgia
Roswell Proposes Water Sewage Fee Increases Amid State Rules
Suspects held in Lincoln County Jail await grand jury as city faces self sufficiency rule requiring higher revenues. Mayor and city manager defend rate hikes for garbage, sewage, watering meters with bulk increases up to 34 dollars for large water meters and urge public turnout at Tuesday hearing.
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Environmental Protection Agency
Smith
Runnels hedges on future political career plans
U S Representative Harold Runnels of New Mexico says he will announce his plans after Congress reconvenes in September and refuses to commit to re election or a move to state government He discusses pipeline policy immigration and his stance on Mexico United States cooperation and economic issues with the Daily Record in Roswell.
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Carter
Ford Administration
Africa
Middle East
China
Panama
Henry A. Kissinger
Gerald R. Ford
Earier
Kissinger
Israel
Geneva
Deborah Walker
U.S
Harold Runnels
D-N.m
Runnels
Roswell
The
Daily Record
Congress
New Mexico
U.S. Congress
San Francisco
Calif
House
Interior and Insular Committee
Ruidoso couple charged in 17 month old daughter death
A Ruidoso couple, Ron D. Britton and Oralia Britton, are jailed in Lincoln County after being charged with abuse of a child resulting in death in the death of their 17 month old daughter Raquel. Magistrate James Wheeler set bonds at 50 000 each and the Lincoln County Grand Jury will hear the charges next Wednesday.
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Raquel
Lincoln County
Carrizozo
Lincoln County Sheriff's
Gary Bowers
Ron D. Britton
Ruidoso
Hugh Stiles
Britton
Oralia
Ruidoso-Hondo Valley
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