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Tuesday, February 8, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Sales Tax Bill Approved
TOPEAK (AP)—A bill to make permanent the authority for Kansas cities and counties to vote on special or presidential approval in the state Senate. Monday, but that provision of the property tax lid law may be the only thing he will do this session, debate revealed.
Gov. Robert Docking has repeatedly urged the legislature this session to extend the 1970 property tax lid law—under which local taxing units could not increase the man's per cent without first gaining voter approval to exceed that limit.
the taxid, originally a concept championed by Sen. Frank Hodge. R. Washington was a senator by Dolloron through the 1970 legislature, and the governor has plugged for more than a year to get the legislature to extend it past its scheduled expiration date of Dec. 31.
Approved tentatively Monday by the full Senate was a bill which came through. The Hodge<sup>1</sup> Committee. It would extend indefinitely that portion of the property tax lid law which would allow cities and counties to vote on new tax increases, one per cent sales taxes to help fund local operations of government. The special sales tax provision was designed as it could be adjusted to relieve the local property tax.
HODGE, EXPLAINING THE BILL to the Senate Monday, said this special local sales tax authority would expire with the end of this year, at the end of this year, unless something was done to extend it.
"As far as i know," Hodge told the Senate, "there is nothing at the moment in the works to extend the property tax lid law."
Many Republicans and a few Democratic legislators have argued that the law didn't need to be acted upon in the 1972 session—because local units of government must prepare the 73 budget needed under this law, their underhanded tax law, and the 73 legislature could take up the matter of whether to continue the law or repeal it without anything more.
Docking's position had been that the tax lid had worked, the people had wanted it and the legislature should accede to the
wishes of the people and go ahead and extend the law now.
The bill to extend the sales tax authority SB 475, wnw voice voice being heard Monday, and will come up for final Senate vote.
THE HOUSE LEADERSHIP decided Monday to hold up action on a conference committee request to authorize $32 million in revenue bonds to be issued over the next eight years to speed up highway construction.
Rep. Calvin Strowig, R-
Abbleine, House speaker, said instead of taking final action on the plan today in both houses as
previously agreed, copies of the conference committee report now are being made available to all legislators. Everyone could attend if they were willing with the bonding plan and there would be no misunderstanding. Strowg said a vote is possible at the end of the week, or early next week.
The House Judiciary Committee approved Monday a bill that would place two major restrictions on the state abortion law and a resolution which would amend the state's enforcement amendment to legalize lotteries, games of chance similar to and parimutual wagering.
Irish March Leaders Get Court Summons
BELLAST (AP)--Northern,
Belgium's unofficial rival parliament
their unofficial rival parliament
Monday night with the prospect that
soon may find a deal.
Pollice said they have taken out police summonses, against 26 leaders of Sunday's attack in Newry. The march, like all processions in Northern Ireland, was illegal under the government's Special Rules.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN, the 24-year old civil rights activist and member of British Parliament, said she too had an interest in a Roman Catholic supports a Roman Catholic aspirations toward a united
Francis McGuigan a 24-year-old Bollast man, made an anti-internment protest of his own and took to the streets where around 400 suspected members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are held without
Ireland.
MeGuigan, according to IRA contacts, was a high officer of the Belfast Provisionalis, the IRA's militant wing. Police and troops were dispatched to Belfast but contacts said McGuigan was clear of the city. HE WAS THE FIRST to escape from Long Kesh, a former airfield near British army headquarters in Liauburn, south of the capital.
Dock Strike Bargainers Work to Beat Injunction
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Negotiators in the West Coast dock strike worked Monday to agree agreement with the U.S. plan for a 60-day injunction to partially end the record 122-day walkout. The shipper and union bargainers appeared near a western dock after a day of talks directed by Sam Kagel, veterian私密 mediator.
They resumed talks less than an hour after a House Labo Subcommittee in Washington approved the injunction plan drafted by Chairman Frank D. Jani. The vote was 5-1.
THE NIXON administration quickly frowned upon the House subcommittee's move.
At the White House, Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson described the legislation as clearly unsatisfactory. He said the measure "leaves everything the air" for at least another 60 days.
Thompson said Harry Bridges, president of the International Union of Sports Medicine's men's Union, told him the union would continue the San Francisco event.
Bridges was quoted as saying the then could not suppose submitting a motion to Kagei for binding arbitration. The employer Pacific Marine association had no responsibility on the arbitration offer
THOMPSON'S BILL would authorize the government to seek a 60-day injunction ordering the union and shippers to handle military and agricultural cargoes and shipments to and from other countries on other phases of the strike to run on while negotiations continue.
Thompson estimated his proposal would get 80 per cent of the strikebound cargo moving.
Thompson said in Washington he offered his proposal because the administration had failed to comply with a requirement of health and safety required a
Nixon Approves Law to Control Campaign Costs
Principal provisions of the law apply to both primary and general election. The law also requires broadcast stations selling air time to federal theaters that unit rate during 45 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election.
The law goes into effect in 60 days, so it won't apply to immigrant families. It covers later primaries, and will limit to $4.4 million the amount a presidential candidate can spend on television advertising this year.
WASHINGTON (AP) -Hitling it as "realistic and enforceable," President Nixon signed legislation Monday to limit the use of government expenses and seal campaign finance reporting loopholes.
Further, the bill specifies that newspapers and magazines cannot charge political candidates more for campaign charges than for charge comparable use of the space by other advertisers.
termination of the entire strike at this time.
He said the measure would go to the full House. Labor Committee passed by the House Wednesday if it agreed to suspend its rules to allow workers to walk around.
But he said he was not
by Wednesday. He would be
by Wednesday, however, so Sen-
action before a week-long Lincoln
starting Wednesday
REP. JOHN DELLENBACK,
the subcommittee's vote against
Thompson's partial 60-day strike
injunction, calling it "purely
unfriendly."
"We have no way of knowing if there will be a settlement before Congress acts," said Kagel, a Berkeley, Calif., attorney. He has served as chief arbitrator of the Pacific Coast longshore station in the last West Coast dock strike ended in 1894 after 95 days.
Thompson told the House
reported two major issues unsettled,
pay increase retraactivity and optical care
Though the Newyrm march passed peacefully, the weekend produced four more dead, the death of violence since August 1987 to 239.
Two members of the outlawed IRA were blown to pieces while planting bombs in a sabotage base in Beirut, an island sea west of Belfast.
Still unidentified was a man in his 20% faced hooded and shot through the back of the head on a road near the border with the republic, apparently he was the owner of an IRA execution squad.
THE VICTIM'S LOWER RIGHT ARM was tattooed with the wings of a British parachute regiment but the army said he had been wounded in the sword to kill 13 soldiers in revenge for 13 people shot dead in Londonderry when paratroopers were killed after a civil rights march Jan. 30.
The opposition politicians, meeting in their alternative headquarters they would prepare contingency plans against prospective jailing of prominent members. Illegal immigrants have penalty of six months jail, although the sentence can be suspended at the magistrate's discretion.
THE REBEL ASSEMBLY was set up last year after members of the Northern Ireland parliament, called a boycott of the Northern Ireland parliament, which now is
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PAPA
JOHN
CREACH
THE ABORTION BILL would prohibit abortions after the 14th week of pregnancy and require a woman to be at least 90 days before they are eligible to get abortions. At least 60 days could be performed any time during the pregnancy and there is a residence requirement of any sort.
The House Committee on Executive reorganization killed a bill which would have created a state Department of Recreation and Game Preservation, Fish and Game Commission, and the state Park Department.
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