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Weekend rain
chance slight
Mostly cloudy skies and an outside
chance of rain or thunderstorms are
on tap through the weekend, ac-
cording lo long-range forecasts issued
Thursday by the National Weather
Service.
Slightly cooler temperatures also
are expected Saturday through
Monday after the weather ob-
servation station in Sulphur Springs
logged yet another all-time record low
temperature Thursday morning.
Shortly before dawn Thursday, the
mercury dipped to 48 degrees - two
degrees below the previous low for a
May 21, established in 1960, according
to records maintained by The News-
Telegram.
Thursday’s low was the second
straight record minimum reading for
the city, and the third for the month of
May. The morning chill followed a
Wednesday high of 75 degrees at the
weatherstation.
Slightly warmer temperatures and
h'lmtd conditions are expected for
Friday, the weather service says. The
mercury is expected to reach the
near-dO mark Friday and Saturday
before slipping back a few degrees on
Monday.
The new minimum temperature
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Shouts of “Hold
your cards" echoed through the House of
Representatives when Rep. Ron Wilson
said he had found a problem in the bingo
bill. And sure enough, bingo was on hold
today because House members had
violated one of their own rules by bringing
the measure up for debate.
Before Wilson ended Wednesday’s
debate by pointing out the technicality his
colleagues had violated, some legislators
contended bingo Is more sinister than
merely a church money-raiser and a
pastime of the elderly.
Rep. Randy Pennington, R-Houston,
said bingo would be a $500 million-a-year
business, with gross receipts “so great
that they will allow operators to buy off
local law enforcement officers."
“It will open the door to drugs and
prostitution and all the other things that
come with this kind of game," Pennington
said.
Wilson, D-Houston, said debating the bill
violated a House rule against passing
expenditure measures ahead of the
general state budget bill. The tango
measure allocates money to the state
comptroller for licensing and regulating
bingo games.
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and sent the bill back to committee for
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Secretary faces hostile House committee
Social Security plan defended
WASHINGTON (AP) - Health and
Human Services Secretary Richard S.
Schweiker today defended the Reagan
administration’s embattled Social
Security plans, saying the financially
shaky system needs more than “stop-gap
and Band-Aid approaches ’’
Schweiker, chief architect of the Reagan
package, told a hostile House Select
Committee on Aging that the proposed
cuts “are aimed at resolving the most
serious crisis in the 46-year history of the
Social Security system."
But in a sharp rebuke to the proposals
announced nine days ago, the Senate voted
96-0 Wednesday to assure older Americans
that their Social Security benefits would
not be reduced if they retire before age 65.
Schweiker said, however, that prompt
action to restore Social Security’s finan-
cial health is imperative.
“It has become clear that stop-gap and
Band-Aid approaches will not work,” he
said, and cited the urgent need to correct
"excessive incentives built into the system
to claim benefits early, penalties for
continued work effort, and overemphasis
on the social adequacy or welfare
aspects."
He said the only alternatives to benefit
cuts would be to raise the payroll tax,
which he said would be unfair to workers
“and a serious drag on the economy,” or to
inject general revenues into the system,
which he said would require increasing
other taxes.
Schweiker said the proposal to give 62-
year-old retirees only 55 percent of full
benefits - instead of the current 80 per-
cent — would not go into effect until Jan. 1,
1982, and would affect “no one who will be
62 or over before next January.” He also
said that workers who wait until they were
63 and eight months old to retire would still
get 80 percent of benefits under the plan.
The administration is encountering a
virtual congressional insurrection over its
Social Security plan. Wednesday's rebukes
by the Republican-controlled Senate and
by House Democrats came even before the
administration could make its first official
pitch to Congress in defense of the cuts
The House committee’s chairman, Rep.
Claude Pepper, D-Fla., opened the first
congressional hearing on the plan today by
blasting the Reagan proposals, saying,
“The magnitude of these cuts is
staggering."
Pepper noted that a White House
spokesman had called the package “bold
and courageous.”
“I think it’s cold and outrageous,”
declared the 80-year-old dean of the
Congress. “Their Social Security amen-
dments are a defeatist, negative response
to a serious but solvable problem."
Pepper added that he hopes the package
is merely a “trial balloon (that) gets shot
down before it reaches 100 feet.” Before
formally opening the hearing, Pepper
heard three workers on the verge of
retirement at age 62 testify about how the
Reagan cuts would impinge on their
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retirement plans.
Reagan did win one round Wednesday
Senate Republicans defeated a
Democratic-sponsored resolution to
condemn the proposed cutbacks as “a
breach of faith” with older Americans
The margin on that one. though, was a
single vote, 4SM8, and it was to be
Reagan’s only Social Security victory of
the day.
The Senate followed by voting
unanimously to assure older workers "that
Congress shall not precipitously and un-
fairly penalize early retirees” or reduce
benefits more than “necessary to achieve
a financially sound system and the well-
being of all retired Americans.”
On the other side of the Capitol,
meanwhile, the House Democratic Caucus
unanimously adopted a resolution bran-
ding the stiffer early retirement penalties
as "an unconscionable breach of faith with
the first generation of workers that has
emtributed to Social Security for their
itiale lives.”
Agreement near on tax cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan
administration, after sending signals that
it was not “locked in concrete” on its
multiyear tax cut, is nearing agreement on
a compromise 25 percent cut in personal
tax rates over three years, congressional
sources say. The first reduction would
come Oct. 1.
There was no immediate comment from
the White House on the latest indication
that it was softening its position on the size
and shape of its proposed 30 percent, three-
year tax cut.
House Democratic Leader Jim Wright,
who has held several strategy sessions
with White House aides, told reporters
today that a compromise seems close at
hand. He predicted that any agreement
would include a multiyear tax cut, to
please Reagan, and more tax relief for
middle-income families than the president
proposed, to gain support of Democrats.
There was no any indication of how the
administration proposal would do in
Congress, where the original tax cut plan
has been called inflationary.
Wright emphasized that any com-
promise submitted by the White House
would have to carry the full endorsement
of Reagan.
Four conservative Democrats who
helped hand President Reagan a budget
victory took their ideas for a tax cut to the
White House, where they met Wednesday
with administration officials.
Some of those familiar with the meeting
said the president’s advisers were
prepared to accept a smaller tax reduction
that would begin three months later than
Reagan proposed. The delay, they said,
was designed to hold down the federal
deficit.
One of the congressman, Rep. Phil
Gramm, D-Texas, termed the meeting "an
effort to understand just what the White
House will negotiate on and what is not
negotiable."
Another participant, Rep. Kent Hance,
D-Texas, said he was surprised at how
little the president’s advisers were willing
to give at Wednesday’s meeting. “If we get
a compromise, they're not going to give
much,” Hance said.
Joining Hance and Gramm at the
meeting, were Reps. G.V. Montgomery, D-
Miss., and Charles Stenholm, D-Texas
After the session, the four met with Rep.
Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., chairman of the
House Ways and Means Committee, who is
expected to play a major role in
development of any compromise.
John Sherman, press secretary for the
Ways and Means Committee, confirmed
that the conservatives met with
Rostenkowski. “They repeated the
position they’ve held all along — that they
want to work with the Ways and Means
Committee on writing a tax bill.”
Sources familiar with the White House
meeting said the four congressmen agreed
among themselves on a package of tax
cuts and that the president's advisers
seemed ready to pursue such a com-
promise. It was not clear whether all the
elements of the package would be included
in the main tax bill or some of them
delayed until a second measure is con-
sidered.
Their proposed compromise would in-
clude:
-A 5 percent cut in personal tax rates on
Oct. 1, and additional cuts of 10 percent on
July 1,19*2, and July 1,1983
—A significant reduction in gift and
estate taxes designed to improve the
economic position of family farms and
small businesses.
—A one-step reduction from 70 percent
to 50 percent in the maximum tax rate on
such investment income as interest and
dividends. The administration had been
proposing a three-step reduction.
-Increased tax incentives for individual
savings.
-A business tax cut based on the faster
deprecitation plan recommended by
Reagan
Earber Wednesday, Murray Weiden-
baum. chairman of Reagan's Council of
Economic Advisers, indicated that any
individual tax cuts might have to wait until
next year, thus delaying the resulting loss
of revenue and easing fears that the tax
reduction woujd be inflationary.
"We are open-minded on the starting
date and exact size of the cut," Wetderv
ba um said.
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were port of the Industrial tour at the Hopkins County Chamber of
Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress is
sending President Reagan strong signals
that although it has endorsed a $695.4
billion compromise budget blueprint, the
rest of his budget measures may face
rough times.
The Senate gave final congressional
approval to the compromise today on a 76-
20 vote.
The plan, which was agreed upon last
week by House and Senate budget writers,
accommodates the deep tax and spending
cuts embraced by Reagan.
There was no debate today on the budget
compromise, as the Senate - which began
work at 7 a.m. EDT to clear away pending
business before quitting for a Kklay recess
- merely interrupted consideration of a
$12.3 billion suppiamental spending
measure for this year for the vote on the
budget blueprint.
With passage of the compromise.
Congress is facing the job of actually
cutting individual programs to fit the non-
binding outline, and there are indications
from both sides of Capitol Hill that the
process won’t be smooth.
House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr.. D-
Mass., said Democrats may not be as
willing to go along with buying cuts as
they were on the preliminary budget
guideline.
One indication of that might have come
Wednesday.
House Democrats who had been unable
to hold ranks against Reagan's budget
outline huddled privately and unanimously
adopted a resolution condemning
Reagan's proposed Social Security cuts,
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Those cuts will be assembled into s
single package next month. But there is
nothing to keep the full House and Senate
from revising that package once it is put
together.
O'Neill told reporters Wednesday that
Democrats will offer amendments on the
House floor to amt some of the cuts
contained in the preliminary outhae TV
idea is that it will be tougher for member?
to vote against specific ctals than « one
budget remiatMn.
Violence flares anew in Ireland
Compromise budget okayed
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