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Supporters of the bill that tied up the Senate for 13 days said that the legislation, which will raise the federal gasoline tax from 4? to 9? starting April 1, would create 320,000 new jobs, extend unemployment benefits, help repair the nation's decaying highway and transit systems and cost the average motorist only $30 annually. It would also increase the maximum user fee for heavy trucks from $210 to $1,900 a year and permit the use of long double-trailer trucks on many state roads...
...their 1983 legislative sessions, 26 states will consider proposals to cut off 18-, 19-and 20-year-old imbibers. Congress has warned that states failing to raise the drinking age may find their federal highway aid in jeopardy. Says James Burnett, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board: "We've got to handle drunken driving at every age, but if we can't do it for our children, there is not much hope...
...Spokeswoman Kathleen Maurer. A Governor's task force in Texas has recommended that the 1983 state legislature raise the drinking age from 19 to 21. Said Department of Public Safety Director Jim Adams: "It's almost a Texas heritage to be able to drive down the highway with a beer in your hand. But we have an intolerable death toll...
...fine. Murray was flagged down for driving 68 miles an hour in a 55-m.p.h. zone on Sept. 3, 1980, and ordered to pay a $5 fine. The incensed motorist not only refused to pay up, he filed a lawsuit asking damages of $1,050,007. It charged Montana Highway Patrol Sergeant Ron Johnson with using unauthorized police powers and other infractions. Murray, an unemployed salesman who likes to do all his own legal work, also filed a series of 100-year liens against the property and financial assets of Johnson and his wife. In retaliation, the Johnsons not only...
Even safer were the lawmakers who pushed last week for both a 5? increase in the gasoline tax to fund a highway and mass-transit rebuilding program, which had bipartisan backing, and a larger public works bill proposed by Democrats. The poll shows that 30% of Americans want only the highway-transit program, while 40% want both the road repairs and a larger jobs-creation program. One-fourth of the respondents rejected both of the proposals, while 5% cannot decide...