Mining City residents ignore pile of cash
Butte-Silver Bow public works funds total $260,000 for low interest home remodeling loans and grants not repayable. Only $40,000 spent as residents wait, while HUD and Block Grant funds have already aided homeowners. Loans require eligible shelter costs over 25 percent of income, with $6,500 block grants and 3 percent bank-backed loans.
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Judie Tilman
Butte-Silver Bow
Jack Frost
Tilman
Aeity of
Butte
Montana National
First Metals
HUD
Denver
Carter Loses Gas Tax Vote As Energy Plan Advances
The House rejected a five cent per gallon federal gas tax and a four cent alternative 339-82 and 370-52 respectively, amid debate on Carter's energy plan. The energy department was created and James Schlesinger nominated as first secretary, with Senate approval.
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Washington
House
Carter
Department of Energy
James Schlesinger
The
Senate Energy
White House
Joe Waggonner Jr
D-La
Social Security Fund
U S faces strike of phone workers
A union leader warned a nationwide Bell System walkout by about 700000 workers could begin at midnight Saturday as talks stall. Bell executives expressed optimism a settlement may be reached, with limited service expected to continue by management staff.
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Washington
Bell System
Glenn Watts
The
Communications Workers
Dynes
CWA
Watts
Budget hearing seen as secretive open session planned
Butte-Silver Bow commissioners held a budget session in a locked building after doors to City Hall and Montana Power were locked. Committee chair Joe Ivanich said the meeting was intended to be open and blamed an oversight for the lack of notices and keys.
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Butte
Ivanich
Mike Micone
City Hall
Old Butte
Commission
President Overhauls U S Spy Agencies Under Turner
President Carter orders all U S intelligence agencies placed under CIA Director Stansfield Turner to centralize control. Turner will oversee budgets and activities, with Brzezinski directing overall intelligence policy through the National Security Council. the plan creates a National Intelligence Tasking Center and a Policy Review Committee.
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Washington
Carter
CIA
Stansfield Turner
Turner
Naval Academy
Defense
Treasury
Federal Bureau of Investigation Administration
National Security Council
National Security
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Departments of Defense
State, Treasury and
Justice
Central Intelligence Agency
Dan Inouye
Senate Intelligence Committee
Personal income surges in Q1 1977 led by Western states
Personal income rose 9 percent from Q1 1976 to Q1 1977, outpacing a 5 percent rise in consumer prices. Nevada led with a 14 percent increase due to tourism, followed by Michigan 12.9 percent, Wyoming 12.7 percent, Utah 12.7 percent, Oregon 12.4 percent, and Idaho 12.2 percent, aided by federal civilian and manufacturing payroll gains.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Nevada
Michigan
Wyoming
Utah
Oregon
Idaho
North Dakota
Frisco Hotel Eviction Ends Nine Year Anti Eviction Battle
Police and deputies cleared 45 elderly tenants from the International Hotel in San Francisco after a nine year campaign to resist eviction. Demonstrators, many elderly Filipino and Chinese residents, faced forceful entry with metal axes and sledgehammers as 1,000 protesters clashed with mounted officers. The city Housing Authority pledged relocation help, while a 79 year old tenant voiced despair at leaving.
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San Francisco
Chinatown
International Hotel
James Denman
The
City Housing Authority
International Hotel Tenants’ Association
Felix Ayson
Examiner holds six hour hearing on Butte labor charges
A Montana Board of Personnel Appeals examiner heard nearly six hours of testimony on two unfair labor practice charges against Butte-Silver Bow. The case centers on the county government’s contract bargaining with MPEA and the authority to negotiate, with a ruling due in about a month.
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Montana Board of Personnel Appeals
Butte-Silver Bow
Montana Public Employes Association
MPEA
Silver
Afscme
Board of Personnel Appeals
Helena
Micone
Tom Schneider
Council of Commissioners
Schneider
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Deer Lodge
Nine Mile Canyon
Stratton’s Mill
Fish Creek
Highlands
Whitehall
Lockhart Meadows
Boulder
Walter Hinick
Senate
Pat Schroeder
D-Coro
James Jones
R-Okla
U.S
Richard Kandy
Standard
Chris Carroll
Frisco Hotel
Brian Mertz
Mike
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