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School board puts stamp on budget Calling the financial picture brighter than anticipated. Kem Keithly, superintendent of schools, presented a tentative budget for 1977-78 to the Board of Education Tuesday. The budget was approved unanimously. Receipts anticipated for the coming fiscal year amount to $6,771,283, The difference between receipts and expenditures will be made up with money from the reserve fund. At present, this fund totals $1,699,641.

this said Keithly, that we will cut into our reserves about $50,000. This is quite acceptable. We like to keep around $1 million in the reserve If the budget follows projections, the reserve fund should total $1,649,397, or $50,244 less than the present total. Keithly said the budget could have been balanced this year if a building program had not been necessary. The greatest increase in expenditures will be in the capital outlays, or construction and furnishing costs.

That figure ieaped from $136,842 last year to $593,475 for 1977-78. Most of the capital outlays fund will go toward construction of 15 classrooms to be added to the junior high school. Keithly said the cost of the addition will run in excess of $568,000 However, some of that cost may be offset by federal funds. According to Dr. Elmer Myers, director of the Title I program, the state has about $3 million in funds from the Economic Development Administration to distribute.

He said an application for $350,000 to help construct the classrooms at the junior high was presented to Gov. Joseph office Tuesday. Myers said he expects about 10 applications to be granted funds. He estimated 50 to 75 applications have been made to the governor. A 6,6 per cent salary increase for the 260 teachers accounts for an increase of about $300,000 in the instructional account.

Administrative cost increases also reflected salary boosts. Keithly said the base pay for administrators was raised from $11,838 last year to $12,100 for the coming year. Administrative costs are expected to rise from $132,141 last year to $159,075 for 1977-78. Keithly noted that the elimination of one post with the closing of Mark Twain School saved the district about $1,607 per month. In an executive session that proceeded the regular meeting, the board voted to make Dr.

Lee Schluckebier principal of Heber Hunt. Schluckebier had been Mark Twain principal David Logan recently resigned as Heber Hunt principal to take a position at Blue Springs. Utility costs are expected to rise about 30 per cent in the coming year, according to Keithly. That increase will inflate the budget about $50,000 over last fuel and electricity costs. The school transportation contract is scheduled to jump $31,000 next year.

However, the middle school conversion and redistricting due to the abandonment of Mark Twain will not increase transportation expenses, according to Keithly. He said eventually the middle school should save the school district from $30,000 to $40,000 annually. Keithly said the district had projected dipping intoUhe reserve fund for about $81,000. However, he said a of about $150,000 prevented such a move. He attributed this to cutbacks in expenses and a slight increase in receipts.

He said he does not anticipate major changes in the (Please see SCHOOL. Page 4) THE SEDALIA DEMOCRAT Volume 109, Number 128 Sedalia, Missouri, Wednesday, June 29,1977 44 Pages Fifteen Cents Florida Girl Scout abducted SARASOTA, Fla. AP) A 15-year-old Girl Scout wearing a Mickey Mouse T- shirt was dragged struggling from her tent in a state park by a heavily built man today as her sister and another scout screamed in terror, authorities said. The girl was identified by deputies as Charlotte Grosse of Venice, Fla. The man ripped open the back of the three-person tent in 460-acre Oscar Scherer State Park about 6 a.m.

EDT, grabbed the girl by her long brown hair and dragged her into sharp-pointed palmetto scrub, Sarasota County Sheriif deputies said The man was described as heavily built with dark hair and a deep voice He was wearing dark clothes, officers said Earlier this month three Girl Scouts were sexually assaulted and then murdered at a camp in Locust Grove, Okla. Authorities have charged 33-year- old prison escapee Gene Leroy Hart in the June 13 slayings and are still searching for him. The abduction here touched off an immediate manhunt in Sarasota County. About 100 law enforcement officers, volunteers, a mounted posse and even Florida Power Light Co. service trucks joined the search that was set up under the specialized weapons and tactics unit known as SW.AT Death out for rape, says court Decisions, decisions Randy Summers, left, Route 4, and Donald Foote, 1010 Eost 20th, liked almost everything they sow when they mode 0 trip Wednesday to "Big fireworks stand on South Highway 65.

But with limited funds, the boys faced a tough decision. They finally decided on firecrackers but it is highly likely the noisemakers won't be around by the Fourth of July. (Democrat-Capital Photo) WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court ruled today that states may not impose the death penalty for the crime of rape. The court said the death penalty a disproportionate punishment for is difficult to accept the notion, and we do not, that the rape, with or without aggravating circumstances, should be punished more heavily than the deliberate killer as long as the rapist does not himself take the life of his the court said in an opinion by Justice Byron R. White.

The action, decided by a 7-2 vote, struck down the death sentence a Georgia court imposed on Ehrlich Anthony Coker, convicted for the 1974 rape of a 16-year-old Waycross, housewife who three weeks before had given birth to her first child. Although law concerned the rape of adult women, the court wording indicated that states may not impose the death penalty even for the rape of children Joining opinion were Justices Potter Stewart. Harry A Blackmun and John Paul Stevens, justices William J. Brennan Jr. and Thurgood who oppose the death penalty under any circumstance for any crime, filed concurring opinions Justice Lewis Powell Jr.

voted to strike down sentence but said he did not think the death penalty for rape was cruel and unusual punishment in all circumstances rape invariably is a reprehensible crime, there is no indication that offense was committed with excessive brutality or that House rejects move to roll back $12,900 pay hike WASHINGTON (AP) The House refused today to roll back a $12,900 pay raise members of Congress received this year and corresponding pay raises received by more than 20,000 other officials and employes. The House defeated an amendment to the legislative appropriation bill that would have cut out funds for the raise. Thus it reaffirmed with a recorded vote the increase that went into effect in March without such a vote. Opponents of the pay raise argued that the method by which it was put into effect was shabby, and that Congress should not protect itself agdinst an inflation it helped cause But supporters said the Increase, only the second in eight years, did not even keep pace with the rising cost of living or the level of business salaries. House Speaker Thomas P.

was applauded when he argued that the House had adopted, to accompany the pay raise, an ethics code whose and soul was full financial disclosure and a limitation of 15 per cent on outside earned The March pay raise went into effect automatically without the need for a Teasdale to move on prison deadlock JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Gov. Joseph Teasdale said today he plans have contact made this with the two leaders of the House and Senate to begin work on a resolution of the deadlock on construction of a new state prison. have to start work right away to see if we can resurrect a prison TeasJale told newsmen. have to look to the leaders of the General Assembly to work something out The comments came after Sen.

Donald Manford, D-Kansas City, the man who led the Senate forces in setting up the deadlock, said he felt it was up to the governor and the leaders of the two houses to work out a compromise. The 1977 session of the legislature adjourned without reaching agreement op the the controversial prison site issue. The House, along with Teasdale and state corrections officials, supported the proposal for a medium security facility In Kansas City and St. Louis, while the Senate held out for a new maximum security prison in mid-Missouri. The failure of the lawmkaers to reach agreement on the prison site blocked passage of the $125 million capital construction bill, which contained money for the renair and construction of other buildings around the state.

Although a special session to resolve the problem has been suggested, Manford said Teasdale would have to get together with House Speaker Kenneth Rothman, D-Clayton, and Sen. Norman Merrell, D-Monticello, the president pro tern of the Senate, to try work out toward a compromise Although Manford led the forces opposed to the medium security plan he dow'nplayed his role in any special session discussions. think up to Gov. Teasdale and Mr. Rothman and Sen Merrell to get together on said in an interview.

vote. It raised the salaries of congressmen and senators from $44,600 to $57,500 and Included pay Increases for the vice president. Cabinet members, other high officials and top civil servants and federal judges The House Democratic leadership, fighting to preserve the pay raise, sought appioval of procedures that would make any amendment to roll back the increase apply to all recipients except the judges. The Constitution protects judges against having their pay reduced during their terms. Many congressmen indicated that if weather Slight chance of Uiunderstorms tonight with the low in the 60s.

Winds southerly 10 mph. Good chance of thunderstorms Thursday with the in upper 80s or low 90s. Probability of rain 20 per cent tonight and'50 per cent Thursday. The temperature today was 63 at 7 a.m. and 79 at noon; was 77, low was 58.

Lake of the Ozarks stage: 59.9; .1 of a foot below full reservoir. Sunset today will be at 8:42 p.m.; sunrise IhursdayatStSOa.m. the congressional salaries could be linked to those of the federal employes who received raises at the same time, the House members would find it easier to justify a refusal to give back their raises. They could say they were simply thinking of all those deserving federal executives Members of the House were also in line for another pay hike, a cost-of-living increase, on Oct. 1 But on a 397-20 vote Tuesday, the House sent to President Carter a bill denying the cost-of-living raise to anyone who received the big March increase The cost-of-living raise has not been computed but is expected to be about 6.3 per cent, which would have amounted to about $3,500 for members of Congress Miss your paper? If you fail to receive vour copv of The Democrat 6 p.m..

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Sustaining the presidency costs about mUlion a year. Page 10. VIENNA, Austria A majority of members in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC have decided to cancel plans for a 5 per cent increase in the price of crude oil July 1, the OPEC secretary general announced today. The 13-member oil cartel has been split over prices since last December when 11 members called for a two-stage 15 per cent price hike for 1977. The other two members, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, opted for a 5 per cent increase for the whole year The 10 per cent increase imposed Jan.

1 by the cartel majority raised the price of their crude oil to $12,70 a barrel The second stage of the increase was to have gone into effect July 1 Ali Jaidah. the secretary-general, said in a brief statement that the decision cancel the increase was made "in the interest of unity and solidarity of OPEC" following countries of the organization Ecuador, Gabon. Indonesia. Iran, Kuwait, Nigeria. Qatar and Venezuela have resolved to forego the application of the additional 5 per cent increase in the price of oil as of July the statement said The other two members are Libya and Iraq Hamid Zaheri, the OPEC information department chief who phoned the statement to news agencies, said have nothing to add to it He specifially declined to say why Libya and the Iraq did not go along with the decision of the other nine, and what action the remaining two OPEC members Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates would take There was speculation that Libya and Iraq would go ahead with the additional 5 percent increase July I Prices charged by Saudi Arabia and the U.AR are still 5 per cent lower than those charged by the other members.

the victim sustained serious or lasting Powell said. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Justice William Rehnquist dissented, saying that the death penalty for rapt can be a justified punishment. In a separate, related action, the justices struck down the death sentences of two other convicted Georgia rapists who had appeals pending before the court. The justices sent the cases of John Wallace Eberheart Jr.

and John Wesley Hooks back to the Georgia Supreme Court for the imposition of new sentences. Presumably. Coker and the two others will be sentenced to life imprisonment. Abortion fund ban is lifted W.ASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today refused to let Congress immediately cut off all federal Medicaid funds for abortions deemed not necessary to save the lives of mothers the same time, the justices ordered a lower court to review the constitutionality of the abortion funding ban. the so-called Hyde amendment The action means the federal government must, for the time being, continue spending Medicaid money for abortions sought by poor women.

The court turned down a request by Rep Henry Hyde, R-IIL, for whom the amendment was named, and others asking It to authorize an immediate end to federal funding for most abortions. The justices, without comment, sent the federal funding for abortions question back to District Judge John Dooling in Brooklyn, for study in light of the high recent ruling that states have no legal obligation to pay for medically unnecessary abortions. Last Monday, the court ruled that states have no legal obligation to pay for the elective abortions of poor women Antiabortion forces have interpreted that ruling to apply to federal funding as well But proabortion attorneys have argued that the 1976 Hyde amendment went beyond the rationale used in the decisions on state funding Congress last October tacked on the Hyde amendment to an appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor and Health. Education and Welfare It prohibited the expenditure of federal money for any abortion, therapeutic or elective, except in those instances in which the life of the mother would be jeopardized by the childbirth. Woman, 22, killed in 1-70 accident MARSHALL JUNCTION A -22-year- old Junction City, Kan woman was killed and her one-year-old daughter injured in a one-car accident on Interstate 70 about 2 miles east of Highw ay 65 shortly before 6pm Tuesday Mary Howard, identified as the driver of the car, was killed and her daughter, Patricia, suffered head injuries The girl was listed in good condition at the University of Missouri- Columbia Medical Center Wednesday According to the Highway Patrol, Mrs Howard apparently lost control of her eastbound Volkswagen The vehicle rolled over three times.