King urges zero surplus in final NM Legislature address
Gov Bruce King opened the 1974 session urging lawmakers to eliminate the projected 42.5 million general fund surplus. He proposed using reserves, a capital outlay program, and a one time tax cut to leave 14.3 million for taxpayers. He noted lukewarm support for shifting funds to local government.
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Bill Feather
Associated Press
Santa FE
N.M
New Mexico
Bruce King
King
State General Fund
New Mexico Municipal League
Legislative
National Education Association
Association
Nea-Nm
Catherine Smith
D-Otero
Secret Service details microphones still in place at White House tape system
A Secret Service official testified that the White House taping system microphones remained and wires were cut long after dismantling. He said the system was removed July 18, 1973, with signals left intact and wires cut later, amid ongoing Watergate tape scrutiny and expert testimony on the obliterated segment.
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Associated Press
Washington
A _ Secret Service
White House
Louis B. Sims
Technical Security Division
Secret Service
Sims
Richard Ben-Vensste
BenVensste
Ben-Veniste
Rose Mary Woods
Nixon
H.R. Haldeman
Haldeman
Special
Watergate Prosecutor’s Office
Congress
Los Angeles
Atty
Elliot L. Richardson
John B. Anderson
Illinois
House Republican Conference
Henry M. Jackson
Wash
Olympia
Richard H. Bolt
Acoustics Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bolt
Thomas G. Stockham Jr
University of Utah
Stockham
Uber
Toll revenue drop hits East and Northeast states
Declining highway traffic amid a gasoline shortage reduces toll collections in major turnpike regions. The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority reports an 11 percent drop on the main road in December and about 9 percent on the extension. Weather and Sunday restrictions exacerbate revenue declines while leaving plans for highway construction intact.
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Associated Press
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
W.D. Hoback
Oklahoma
Nixon
Indiana Toll Road Commission
R.W. Stevens
Florida Bureau of Toll Facilities
Florida
William R. Smith
Pennsylvania
Roswell Saline Test Facility Funds for Purification Research
The U S Office of Management and Budget released 1 million dollars to operate the Roswell Saline Test Facility for the coming fiscal year. The project studies purification of brackish water and was noted by Sen. Joseph M. Montoya.
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Washington
U.S. Office of Management and Budget
Roswell Saline
Joseph M. Montoya
Identical Segura quadruplets debut in Artesia
The Segura quadruplets born Christmas Eve in Artesia will publicly debut this weekend. Kenneth Bridge of New Mexico Medical Center says the four boys, viewed from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, are all doing well. No fertility drugs were used. parents are Mr. and Mrs. Florencio Segura.
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Segura
Artesia
Kenneth Bridge
New Mexico Medical Center
Bridge
Florencio Segura
Senator Lucero to stand trial for bribery charges in June
State Senator Anthony Lucero of Bernalillo is scheduled for a June 24 trial in Santa Fe on bribery and conspiracy charges tied to alleged bribes involving state licensing exams by the Construction Industries Commission. Also named are George Romero and Mark Sawtell, both from Albuquerque, who were arrested after surrendering.
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Santa FE
N.M
Anthony Lucero
D-Bernalillo
Lucero
Construction Industries Commission
Thomas Donnelly
Donnelly
Eva Morris
Asst. Dist
Atty
Bruce Kaufman
Morris
Castellano
California trip buys area farm near Roswell
Clardy's Farms Inc., a dairy operation southeast of Roswell, was sold to three California buyers for more than 2 million dollars. The sale closes this afternoon in an attorney's office. The dairy began as Evans Sanitary Dairy in 1906, later run by the Clardy family. Eight hundred cows are included in the farming and dairy production unit.
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Carl Clardy
Griffith Clardy
Frances Patterson
Frank Patterson
Clardy
Adoph Weinberg
Downey
Calif
Marion Precise
Bakersfield
Sam Stiefel
Chino
Oil Firms Defend Data Sharing in Congress
Washington lawmakers heard oil industry representatives defend data sharing while critics argued data gaps enable policy manipulation. Exxon senior VP W T Slick Jr disputed claims, asserting majors have long provided operational and financial information to agencies and welcomed a government system to collect and publish petroleum data.
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Washington
Congress Today
W. T. Slick Jr
Exxon
Slick
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N. M
Elton R. Collins
Joseph Montoya
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