Carter weighs tax cuts to shield budget plan
President Carter aims to keep the federal budget near 500 billion while considering a 20 to 30 billion tax cut to offset higher energy and Social Security taxes. Officials expect most relief to individuals, with a plan for a start of the 1979 fiscal year. Carter previews moves ahead of Christmas and a televised review of his administration.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
House
Senate
Plains
Gerald Ford
Panama
Public Broadcasing Corp
Deadly Iran quake hits Bab- Tangal and Zarand
TEHRAN Iran UPI reports a 6.2 magnitude earthquake devastated two south central villages Bab- Tangal and Zarand killing at least 350 and injuring about 500. Officials say 300 wounded were moved by train to Kerman as the armed forces organize relief and civilian rescue efforts. The Shah’s relief office has taken charge, suggesting higher casualties.
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Tehran
Iran
UPI
Bab- Tangal
Zarand
Bab-Tangal
Kerman
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Non-union mines on list for strikers
United Press International reports striking United Mine Workers members in Ohio sent a second auto caravan of pickets to Kentucky non-UMW mines to halt soft coal production. In Washington talks between UMW and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association resume to end the 15 day old nationwide strike. Kentucky police say no extra troopers are being deployed and strikers are instructed not to bring whiskey or firearms.
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United Press International
United Mine Workers Union
Ohio
UMW
Kentucky
Bluegrass
Washington
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Don Nunley
UMW District 6
Wilkesville
Ashland Post
Council votes higher cemetery fees here
The Washington City Council adopted new cemetery rules for Woodlawn and Elm Grove, raising adult grave spaces from 80 to 125 dollars and increasing interment charges. A controversial clause makes funeral directors pay grave opening charges at burial, a move opposed by local directors but supported as standard elsewhere. The package, proposed by the cemetery committee led by Councilman Richard Pratt, passed 5 to 0 as the 1977 council session neared its end.
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Washington
Woodlawn
Elm Grove
Richard Pratt
Dick Anderson
Hubert Lehrer
Harold Johnson
Pratt
Ray Moyer
Don Hanson
Johnson
Cub
Lehrer
Dwain Johnson
Rodney Woods
Bob Erlenbush
Paul Anders
Harold Haifley
Department of Environmental Quality
Anderson
East Main Street
Snow and Wind Disrupt Eastern Iowa Traffic
Up to four inches of new snow and gusty northwest winds snarled travel in central and eastern Iowa causing numerous stranded motorists. A travelers advisory stayed in effect as a fast moving storm dumped snow from Lamoni to Des Moines and toward the Mississippi River with up to an inch more possible. Police reported many cars in ditches though no serious crashes. sections of I 35 and I 80 faced closures briefly. Western Iowa saw lighter snow and improving road conditions. If cold temperatures persist, the snow may stick through Christmas per the National Weather Service.
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Iowa
Lamoni
Des Moines
Interstate 80
Mississippi River
Warren County
Sheriff's Office
National Weather Service
Cedar Falls Man Donates $5500 for Police Vests
Cedar Falls Iowa businessman Paul Barnes donated 5500 to buy bulletproof vests for the 43 city police officers. He said the gift, made in memory of his father Kenneth Barnes founder of Barnes Builders Supply, could save lives and benefit the community.
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Cedar Falls
Iowa
UPI
Paul Barnes
Barnes
Barnes Builders Supply
Kenneth Barnes
Shooting death of Iowa man near Red Rock dam
Des Moines UPI reports 19 year old Iowa City man Randal A. Kujaczynski was found dead Sunday in a public restroom near the Red Rock dam. An assistant Polk County medical examiner said he probably bled to death from eight gunshot wounds from four bullets. The exact time of death and bullet caliber are pending, with the victim believed dead for several hours before discovery.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa City
Polk County
Emmanuel Lacsina
Randal A. Kujaczynski
Lacsina
Kujaczynski
Red Rock Dam
Weather outlook for Iowa turns windy and cold tonight
Iowa forecast calls for mostly windy and cloudy conditions with light snow tonight and lows around zero to 10 above. Wednesday remains cold with partly cloudy skies and scattered snow flurries east, high in the 20s.
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Iowa
Contested Access Road Plan for Kalona Bridge
Public hearing on the Highway No. 1 bridge over the English River drew four attendees after earlier larger crowds. The DOT agreed to fewer trees and less land takings but will proceed with an access road up the hill to the highway. A rear-road alternative was scrapped due to nearly $50,000 cost. the 758000 project targets 1978 construction.
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Evening Journal
Department of Transportation
Kalona
Vernon Hartzler
Hartzler
DOT
White Christmas Snow Hits Washington County Area
Old Man Winter dumped four inches of snow on Washington County Monday afternoon and evening. Blades and salt spreaders worked as drivers faced limited visibility and drifting roads. By mid morning traffic returned to normal though drifts lingered on rural routes and several minor to serious accidents were reported.
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Evening Journal
Old Man
Washington County
Trips to Panama Now Very Popular
Washington UPI reports that a winter trip to Panama is growing in popularity as senators prepare for canal treaty deliberations. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will unofficially visit Panama before panel resumes in January, with critics Dole and Laxalt planning orientation trips to the Canal Zone this month.
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Washington
UPI
Panama
Senate Foreign Relation Committee
Robert Dole
R-Kan
Paul Laxalt
R-Nev
Canal Zone
Little action in farm strike continues nationwide
Picketing by striking farmers was limited to a few states as leaders and Agriculture Department officials said the action is largely symbolic and not aimed at starving the nation. Deputy Secretary John White called 100 percent parity a slogan and difficult to negotiate. organizers in Springfield, Colorado insisted they do not intend to disrupt food supply unless worse comes to worse. Grain elevator activity slowed but remains typical for the season as farmers protest low wheat prices.
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Agriculture Department
Agriculture
John White
Springfield
Colo
Bud Bitner
Five Children Die in Detroit House Fire
DETROIT UP I neighbor described the two story home of Council Graham his wife Victoria and their five children as festooned with Christmas lights. The lights may have created a fantasyland that became an inferno killing all five children trapped inside. Graham and Victoria escaped through an upstairs window and by jumping from the porch roof. Names of the dead: Walter 1 David 6 John 7 Michelle 2 Kimberly 4. Graham and a neighbor attempted to reenter but heat and flames blocked access.
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Detroit
UPI
Council Graham
Graham
Victoria
Walter Graham
David
John
Michelle
Kimberly
Lloyd Hines
Kalona woman dies in head on crash west of Wellman
Carolyn Rose Zillmer 36 dies at the scene after a head on collision with a vehicle driven by 19 year old Ronnie West on highway 22 west of Wellman. West is injured but in good condition at Mercy Hospital Iowa City. Funeral set for Powell Funeral Home Wellman with burial in Wellman cemetery. She lived in Kalona and worked 15 years in housekeeping at University Hospitals. She leaves her mother Mabel Zillmer, two sisters Shirley and Linda, two brothers Lowell and Kenneth, and a Kalona grandmother Amelia Burkholder. Her father died in 1967.
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The
Evening Journal
Carolyn Rose Zillmer
Kalona
Ronnie Lee West
North English
Sheriff's Deputies
West
Wellman
Iowa City
Miss Zillmer
Reschly
Powell Funeral Home
Carl Smeltzer
Wellman Cemetery
Howard and
Mabel Burkholder Zillmer
Wellman High School
Carter signs social security bill to raise taxes
President Carter signed legislation to raise 227 billion dollars in new Social Security taxes over ten years. The measure aims to rescue the system that issues checks to 33 million people annually and increases taxes for 107 million workers and their employers. Carter spoke at a White House signing ceremony noting the bill as wise.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
White House
Scientists probe beneath Antarctic ice shelf
An international team drilled a 10 inch hole through the Ross Ice Shelf to sample water and sea bottom life believed hidden beneath at least 120000 years of ice. Crustaceans, foraminifera, fossil diatoms, and deep sea microbes were found as researchers await February continuation under Dr. John Clough of the University of Nebraska.
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Washington
API
Antarctic
Ross Ice Shelf
National Science Foundation
Duwayne Anderson
NSF
Anderson
John Clough
University of Nebraska
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