30 Jan 1979
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Newspaper
Snyder Daily News
Location
Snyder, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1979
Page
1
Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal told the House Ways and Means Committee that the administration will press a controversial tax cut plan to shield workers from inflation if they meet wage guidelines. He said the committee’s backing is key to moving the program through Congress.
Tehran says Air France will fly Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini from Paris to Iran, marking the end of nearly 15 years in exile. The government statement confirmed the departure will occur early Wednesday morning, signaling a pivotal political development.
In Austin committee hearings are planned to design enabling legislation for the Tax Relief Amendment with first sessions expected next week. House Speaker Bill Clayton says floor action on the measure remains more than a month away.
A Pratt & Whitney worker bus struck a disabled gasoline tanker on Interstate 91 in Wethersfield Connecticut killing three and injuring about twenty four. About 3000 gallons of fuel spilled from the tanker after the collision.
The SDN Column discusses federal rules on advertising to children under eight and the challenge of monitoring TV ads. Open houses at the county jail and senior center, and a Scurry County Museum exhibit by Robert Gartland of Lawton, Okla., drew many attendees. Sons Club district conference marked Snyder’s busiest Sunday in years, with Gartland noting competition with jail events for attention. Miller Robinson quotes a Nixon Kennedy car remark and WACIL McNair ends with a cactus patch saying about after dinner speakers.
Tom Wadleigh and Lou Hilton thrill seekers at Caprock six miles north of Fluvanna find hang gliding as a risky weekend pastime. Wadleigh recalls a near disaster during a high speed takeoff while Hilton notes a backward flight off Polar Mountain near Snyder. Both emphasize staying calm and recount past crashes as learning experiences.
Gov. Bill Clements considers greeting Chinese Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-ping during a Houston arrival. He says hospitality will be normal despite protests and notes Texas oil interests may benefit from closer ties. The governor spoke amid a rally supporting Taiwan and opposing U.S. recognition of China. Texas Public School Week proclamation followed signing other documents.
Snyder School Trustees plan a noon Wednesday meeting at East Elementary to officially set the date for two board member elections and to revise the calendar to recover four recent weather days. The election is slated for Saturday April 7 with terms for Vera McSpadden Place 1 and Max von Roeder Place 2 expiring. The board will ratify the date appoint election officials arrange absentee voting and consider filing by candidates while four lost instructional days must be made up before summer break. Proposals to make up the days will be discussed at the meeting.
Temperature readings show high 38 in Snyder and 27 at 7 a.m. with no precipitation today. The forecast calls for partly cloudy to start Wednesday, with windy Panhandle and colder tonight. Expected highs range from 30 in the north to 48 in the south, with lows from 12 to 30, and Wednesday highs in the low 40s to mid 50s.
President Carter and Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping wrapped two hours of talks in Washington. Teng hailed broad prospects for a new relationship while Carter called the session rich in adjectives and pledged future brief talks to sign an umbrella agreement on exchanges in students science technology agriculture and energy.
Washington lawmakers discuss a peacetime draft to fill ethics panels as vacancies linger on the House Standards of Official Conduct and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. Spokesmen cite reluctance to judge colleagues and desire for more beneficial committee assignments as reasons for the shortage.
Local officials cite changes in policy saying public schools are no longer subject to federal minimum wage law. Snyder Public Schools reports teacher aide substitutes are paid a daily rate of 15 dollars, a policy dating back about two years.
Nixon attended a White House state dinner for China Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping with little emotion, keeping a low profile. He left Washington for New York to visit his daughter Tricia and her husband Edward Cox, who expect their first child in March, before returning to meet Teng at Blair House.
Enid Irving, 82, a Scurry County native, recalls the spring 1912 opening of the first county jail. She notes the open house style event, the crowd, and compares it with Sunday's more elaborate new jail and adjacent Senior Citizens Building. She attended Snyder School earlier on the site and returned to settle in 1964. Irving later joined RSVP to access senior facilities.
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