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Friday, March 21, 1975
University Dally Kansan
House passes farm aid bill
WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives passed an emergency bill that would help to aid farmers who have been faced with soaring production costs.
The bill was passed on a 259 to 162 vote and now goes to the Senate. The Senate Agriculture Committee plans to start considering it today.
The bill provides higher government supports for wheat, cotton and vegetable seed grants and offers for more frequent computation of investment in dairy price supports.
Farm experts have estimated it will cost the government $470 million. Figures on its cost to consumers have been disputed. The Agriculture Department estimated that a year from now milk will go up 6 cents a gallon, butter up 15 cents a pound and cheese up 7 cents a pound.
Viet refugees seek safety
SAGION—In the biggest exodus of the Vietnam War, about a quarter-million refugees swarmed toward coastal hvens thursday, safe for the moment from a North Vietnamese takeover of at least a half dozen provinces written off by the Saigon government.
The conceded territory included the old imperial capital of Hue, against which Communist-led forces have launched a heavy shelling attack, officials said. They said South Vietnamese forces were abandoning Hue in order fashion.
One 20-mile-long column of about 120,000 soldiers and civilians reached coastal Phu Yen Province after fleeing the fallen central highlands provinces of Kontum and Pleiku. The column was led by heavy tanks that cleared the way of stalled cars and broken down trucks.
Food costs increase.6%
WASHINGTON — Food prices in February rose at the slowest rate in seven months, continuing on Thursday, as the over-all inflation continued its modesting trend.
The Labor Department said the Consumer Price Index increased six-times of one per cent last month. But the increase was far below the average月度 increase last year when the index jumped from 85.1 in 2014 to 92.4 in 2015, and the food index to one-tenth of one per cent last month, the smallest increase since last July.
Alaska pipeline to be started
ANCHORAGE—The $6 billion trans-Alaska pipeline is finally going to be started.
Billions of dollars and millions of man-hours after the biggest man-made project in history began, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. has announced the first regular section of pipe is scheduled to be installed in Alaskan soil Tuesday.
A 1,900-foot ditch has been gouged out of the Tonsina River and its flood plain 74 miles north of the ice-free port of Valdez. That small town on state's southern coast is the terminal for the 798-mile pipeline which will cross tundra and mountains from its start at oil prudhoe Bay.
The 78-12 roll call endorsing the special break for poor working families was the first tax reducing action taken in three days by the government. What is expected to total around $30 billion?
Senate approves tax cut for poor
WASHINGTON (AP) — A $1.7 billion tax cut for America's working poor was approved Thursday night after the Senate blocked long fight over tax breaks for the oil industry.
Those working families with incomes under $8,000 a year would be allowed a special refund of 10 per cent of earned income to up to a maximum refund of $400.
By an 82 to 12 vote, the Senate agreed to repeal the depletion allowance for major oil companies, but to retain it permanently under certain conditions for independents whose operations generally are confined to drilling and exploration.
The Senate earlier junked a $2.2 billion tax cut package recommended by the Finance Committee and worked instead on the budget to prevent Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield to
adBe The Mansfield compromise contained most of the Finance Committee's provisions but adds a special $100 one-time payment from general tax revenues to every American who receives Social Security, special supplemental income or railroad retirement benefits. This would cost an estimated $3 billion.
speed up work. The oil provisions were added to the Mansfield bill.
Mansfield wrote this into his substitute after Republicans blocked an effort to vote an 8.7-per cent hike in Social Security benefits, retroactive to Jan. 1.
The other major change advocated by Mansfield would delete a $1 billion tax advantage for financially distressed companies.
Mansfield proposes to raise the $3.1 billion intended for 1974 tax rebates to $10 billion, with the maximum climbing from $200 to $240
Key provisions included in both the Mansfield and Finance Committee bills are:
- $8 billion worth of permanent
reimbursements in individual income taxes,
efficiency costs and other expenses.
A $7 billion package of benefits for business mainly by raising the credit for business.
A reduction on the income tax bills of those who purchase new homes between March 13 and Dec. 31 this year. This reduction would be 5 per cent of the home purchase price, up to a maximum of $2,000. Cost to the Treasury, $1 billion.
- 31.7 billion for a special tax refund for
working families under the $8,000 income level.
Under the oil tax compromise, the 22 percent depletion allowance will be available on the first 2,000 barrels of oil or the first 12 cubic feet of natural gas pumped per day.
The same amendment provisions repealing the lucrative foreign tax credit for the oil companies and the provision that requires taxation to defer taxation of such foreign income.
Senate approves revision of state's school funding
The result of the package will mean a $3.3 billion increase in the tax liability of U.S. firms, with the heaviest burden will fall on the major oil companies.
TOPEKA (AP) — The Kansas Senate approved Thursday a revision of the state's school finance law which will cost state funds a million to fund in the 1975-76 school year.
The bill now goes to the House.
The plan adopted by the Senate would not increase taxes by $2.5 million this year and by about $100 million next year.
If expected amendments materialize in the House, the bill will almost certainly wind up in a conference committee for final compromise.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett has called the plan approved by the Senate too costly. His own school finance proposal would cost the $31.7 million new money next fiscal year.
The Senate approved the bill, 31-7. It had been favorably reported out of the Senate Education Committee Monday and is known as the modified plan because it is Sen.
Joseph Harder's modification of the governor's proposal.
During nearly two hours of debate Thursday, the Senate adopted only one of six amendments offered on the floor. The amendment approved adding $1.96 million to the local school districts about a fifth of the local school districts more state aid than they now are getting.
Rep. Don Crumbaker, R-Brewster, chairman of the House Education Committee, said the amendment would help the bill's prospects for passage in the House.
Doctors end 4-day hospital strike
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The strikers claimed they worked up to 110 hours a week, as many as 56 of them
NEW YORK (AP)—An agreement was reached Thursday to end a four-day strike against 22 hospitals by 3,000 doctors-in-training. The doctors, the first of their profession to strike in the nation's history, had demanded shorter hours.
worked long stretches but got a chance to nap or sleep during that time. The league also said that about half of those who struck held additional jobs.
Agreement was announced by the League of Voluntary Hospitals and the Committee of Hospitals.
consecutively. They asked for an 80-hour work week, with no more than 15 consecutive hours on duty.
Older members of hospital staff were
provided a full-service service to fill in for
staffing colleagues
The league said the interns sometimes
The league said the offer that was accepted provides that interns, medical school students and graduate students receive training, get a contract with a $1,000-a-year raise in their annual average pay of $13,500. Residents those in advanced training, now 28 and under, are eligible to contract they will earn up to $20,000 a year.
A union spokesman said the terms of the settlement limited hours on duty for interns and residents, which was the chief issue in the case. The new law requires grievance machinery within the hospitals.
The hospitals involved in the strike administrator to as many as 24,000 patients a day. There had been no reports of emergencies care or care curtailment resulting from the strike.
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