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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, December 8, 1977
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Committee compromises on gas-guzzler tax
WASHINGTON (UPI)—A House-Senate conference committee made its first major compromise on energy taxes yesterday, as lawmakers considered automobiles that would begin in 1979.
Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill said time is too short for Congress to complete an energy program this year. The best that can be done is to continue the conference work before President Jimmy
Carter leaves on his post-Christmas foreign trip.
The tentative compromise agreement, the committee's first major decision in 11 days of meetings, would set a tax of $200 for a car getting fewer than 15 miles per gallon, $300 for cars getting fewer than 14 mpg and $550 for cars getting fewer than 13 mpg, beginning in 1979.
The tax would rise sharply as mileage
decreased and as each year went by until a maximum tax of €1,850 would charge for every year.
Unfold the agreement, negotiators agreed to drop a House plan to do away with the federal income tax deduction for state and local gasoline taxes.
with "something" for the president to take with him.
O'NEILL, REFERRING to the six-nation carrier trip expected to begin Dec. 29, said Mr. Neill had "been very positive" with
O'Neill said that "something" did not include final passage by Congress.
"I'm talking about the conferees agreeing on a program," he said.
Until then, O'Neill had staunchly advocated passage of a complete energy package during this first session of the 90th anniversary of the war. Byrd said last Saturday he remained
hopeful that an energy program could be completed by Congress before Christmas
The gas-guzzer agreement, suggested by the Senate, was less strict than the House bill, which would have charged larger fines in the first two categories during the first year. The agreement also would charge less if cars for car buying exceeded $250 of the cars for cars getting fewer than 17 miles per 1980 and $200 instead of $250 for those making fewer than 18.5mpd in 1981.
Carlin . . .
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The committee's bill would provide free tuition for each year a student agreed to practice in Kansas after graduation, plus a financial assistance fee. The bill would go to medically underserved regions.
He said the tuition increase might discourage some of the best students from attending.
1980 for students who did not practice medicine in Kansas after graduation.
"I'm also concerned about the fact that it seemed to have no student support, he is."
SIMILAR PROPOSALS, introduced in the 1977 session, drew opposition from medical students who said the plan would discourage top candidates from applying at KU.
Also resurfacing this year is talk of a new state correctional system.
Carlin said he supported an interim committee's recommendation that the department should conduct
THE SPECIAL Committee on Correctional Facilities, composed of seven House
and Senate members, recommended the development of three additional honor camps in the state, renovations of the state penitentiary at Lansing and of the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory at Hutchinson, including plans for a new 108-bed outside prison reformatory. The state now has one honor camp in Toronto, in southeast Kansas.
Clinton Lake, four miles southwest of
Lawrence, had been proposed by several legislators and Hemett as a possible site for the project.
Carlin said that building smaller honor camps now would benefit the public sooner than the medium security prison previously proposed by Bennett. He said a larger correctional building would take at least five years to construct.
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A car that police had been looking for as a possible lead in the slaying of Samuel C. Woodworth Co. department store at 911 Massachusetts St., was found abandoned in Kansas City, Mo., early yesterday afternoon to Mike Malele, Douglas County attorney.
The car, identified earlier as a brown 1977 Chevrolet Caprice, was thought to have been stolen.
Richard Stanuw, Lawrence police chief, the car was seen in Lawrence Monday.
The occupants of the car found yesterday were believed to be two men and a woman. Warranties were issued Saturday for two of the occupants, the occupants, but their names were not released.
Norwood was found dead last week by a police officer on a routine patrol.
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