Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 February 1974 — Page 3
Friday, February 8,1974
Banner-Graphic, Greencastle, Indiana
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Proposed Budget Set For Senate
By DARRELLCHRISTIAN Associated Press Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The proposed supplemental state' budget. SI3 million less than the House version and actually showing an overall reduction for operating expenses, awaited a final Senate vote today. The three money bills included a SIS million loan from the local road and street fund to cut completion time of Indiana interstate expressways from 12 years to four. A vote was expected late this afternoon. The operating and capital expenditures bills were certain to wind up in a joint House-Senate conference committee before going to Gov. Otis R. Bowen next week. Revised State Budget Agency figures released Wednesday night estimated the spending package at $40.1 million after earlier cuts and juggling in the Senate Finance Committee. The program was about S53 million as it left the House on Jan. 24. The operating bill actually showed a 5300,000 reduction in the bienniel budget passed last year. It added 54.4 million from the state general fund through the 1974-75 fiscal year, but cut 54.7 million in dedicated funds appropriated last year. Before advancing the bills to the passage stage, the Republi-can-controlled Senate defeated a series of Democratic amend--ments that would have fattened the spending program by about 515.5 million. It also defeated 43-6 an amendment by Sen. Elden C. Tipton, D-Jasonville, to scrap the accelerated interstate conFCC Sets New Radio
Licenses
W ASHINGTON (AP> — The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday announced the following actions: l.eonardtown. Md. — denied a petition by Key Broadcasting Corp . owner of WPTZ Lexington Park. Md.. for reconsideration of the Nov. 14, 1973 grant of an application by Sound Media Inc. for fulltime operation by daytime-only station WKIK Leonardtown. Bayamon. P.R. — Granted applications by Radio San Juan Inc. for renewal of license for W RSJ and assignment of the license to P.H Broadcasting Corp. for 5950.000. Clarksville. Ark. — granted the application of Roy Forrester for a new Class A FM broadcast station. Centceville. Va. — denial of the application of Centreville Broadcasting Co. for a new standard broadcast station has been proposed in an initial decision by Administrative Law Judge Ernest Nash. Nash concluded that CBC has failed to establish that Centreville is a community within the meaning of the commission's rules. Harlan. Ky. - Grant of the application of Radio Harlan Inc. to renew the license of WHEN and grant of the application of Eastern Broadcasting Co. for a new standard broadcast station have been proposed in an initial decision by Administrative Law Judge Byron E. Harrison.
struction program and use the $15 million loan instead for maintenance on the state’s secondary roads. Only one of 14 proposed amendments was adopted. It would allow the Mate to direct other projects unused portions of 54.36 million earmarked for specific community mental health and retardation. An attempt to restore the full $16 million asked by Gov. Otis R. Bowen for state park development failed 32-17. The park program was slashed nearly $4 million by the finance committee, most of the cut from proposed new projects at Wyandotte Woods in southern Indiana, Potato Creek in St. Joseph County and New Harmony. Also rejected were amendments to increase the distressed school fund to $5 million, restore $940,000 for Comm u n i t y Action Programs, double proposed additional state aid to schools, provide another 51.9 million for the II state mental health hospitals and give universities another 51.9 million to cover soaring fuel and utility bills. Tipton said repairing the “horrible ravages on our highway system of winter wear” should be a higher priority than speeding up interstate construction. “If we're going to have a reduction in speeds,” he said, referring to the federally mandated 55 miles per hour limit, “then what’s the use in the interstates in the first placer He also said a federal proposal that could close 2,500 miles of railroad tracks in Indiana would mean more trucking freight hauled on highway and consequently more wear. Finance Chairman Lawrence M . Borst, R-Indianapolis, noted that State Highway Commission Chairman Richard A. Boehning proposed a beefed up maintenance program at the same time he announced the accelerated interstate plan. The maintenance program was rejected by the State Budget Agency, Borst said, because it would have cost about $46 million and required a two-cent increase in the state gasoline tax. He said the idea might be possible in the 1975 legislature. Borst also said further consideration would be given in conference committee to the 5940.000 for community service programs now funded by the federal government. More information is needed before a decision can be made. Borst said. The Finance Committee increased the 52 million distressed school fund in the
House budget to $2.6 million and added $5.8 million in supplemental flat grants to schools through 1975. mainly to handle soaring energy costs. The flat grants would be increased 52 to $38 in 1974 and upped a total of $3 to $77 next year. Sen. W. Wayne Townsend, DHartford City, proposed a 56 increase this year to 542, climbing to 578 in 1975, costing a total of $11.5 million. He said the increase should be greater this year, when the real impact of the fuel shortage is being felt. The amendment failed 29-21. Sen. William C. Christy, DHammond, lost 28-22 on his attempt to add another $2.4 million for distressed schools, making the total supplemental appropriation $5 million. “Hammond schools are short $3.5 million and Gary schools are even worse this year," Christy said. “It’s possible the state may have to take over the Gary schools before the year is over.” Indidnapolis Republican Morris H. Mills, the Senate's school funding expert, said the new flat grants, distributed on a per-pupil enrollment basis, would provide 58 million to 510 million more in school support —550,000 for coal research because of the energy crisis. — Raise from 516,291 to $300,000 the additional operating appropriation for Indiana University’s northwest campus. — Reduce from 5700.000 to 5415,000 the proposed transfer of funds from the state welfare supplemental income program to other programs. —P r o h i b i t plaques with names of State Fair Board members and other officials at a proposed new Fairgrounds Bicentennial Memorial Gate. — Eliminate a 590,000 appropriation for the Memorial Gate. — Delete line items for the 54 36 million in community mental health construction funds. The budget now provides specific amounts for community mental health centers at Lawrenceburg, Warsaw and Columbus and for mental retardation centers at Monticello. Plymouth. Lafayette and Bloomington. The 51.9 million for universities, proposed by Senate minority Leader Robert J. Fair of Princeton, would have been in addition to a proposed 51 million fuel contingency fund for higher education. The 51.9 million for state mental hospitals, proposed by Sen. Wilfred J. Ullrich. D-Aur-ora. would have restored the amount cut by the 1973 legislature because of declining population in those institutions.
Bitter Debate In Britian
LONDON (APf — The chancelloi of the exchequer asserted this week that the issue in Britain's looming coal miners' strike is whether Britain will stay democratic. The statement, made by Anthony Barber in the House of Commons, provoked a crescendo of protest from his Laborite opponents. The bitter debate in Parlia-
Grenada Gets Independence
*-* By HAROLD J. LIDIS * Associated Press Writer - Sn GEORGE'S. Grenada ~C\P) The strife-torn little island of Grenada got its inde.gepdence from Britain today, iur other Caribbean leaders boycotted Prime Minister Eric Gairy and stayed away from the five-day celebration. ' Only, second-string foreign official* were on hand as the Un'fob Jack came down at midnight Wednesday, and the red. green and gold (lag of the 110.--4M0 Grenadans was raised. There were no representatives at all from Grenada’s two major neighbors. Trinidad and Barbados. And the British government, because of the possibility of trouble, canceled plans ^rr Prince Richard of Gloucester to represent Queen Eli/a“beth II at the ceremonies. (CBS News reported in New _York that a few hours before independence, troops and Gairy’s secret police, known as
the his
Mongoose Squad, arrested chief opponent. Maurice Bishop of the leftist New Jewel
Movement.)
Gain’s opponents have demonstrated for weeks against the prime minister, who they claim plans to set up a police state now that Grenada's 210 years of association with Britain have come to an end. Gain, who is supported by the island's rural peasants, denies the charge, but his armed secret police have already been well in view. Violent anti-Gairy demonstrations were predicted during the independence celebrations, which began Sunday and end today. But Eric Pierre, chief of the seamen’s and waterfront workers' union, said the island’s fuel shortage would keep people at home. Strikes against Gairy by Pierre’s union and other workers have left the island without electricity and telephones since Jan. 20 and without most shipping since Jan. I.
ment came as Britain’s government and labor unions squared off for a trial of strength Sunday. when 280.000 coal miners walk off the job in a closure that threatens to strangle the economy and further divide the nation. A search went on for a late compromise that might stave off the strike, but hopes were dim. There was new talk that Prime Minister Edward Heath might call a national election for Feb. 28 or March 7. about 15 months before his full fiveyear term expires. Political managers of all parties swung into action to prepare for that possibility. Some of Britain's biggest unions rallied to the cause of their coal miner comrades, vowing not to cross picket lines by handling imported coal or other fuel supplies. The government readied po lice forces throughout the king dom for the emergency, equip ing them with special protec live gear in case of violence. Barber’s warning came at the start of a two-day debate on the country’s worsening ecu nomic plight. He underlined of ficial estimates that the min ers’ strike would put four mil lion of Britain's 26 million laboi force out of work inside of a month. He forecast a still greater trade deficit. He spoke of higher taxes. Then amid Labor yells that sometimes drowned his words, he said: “The issue at stake is whether our affairs are to be governed by the rule of reason, the rule of Parliament and the rule of democracy. The vast majority of people in Britain detest the alternative which ultimately can only be chaos and a totalitarian or Communist regime.”
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