Tax policy letter urges restraint and fair funding
A public letter from Governor McNair and associates criticizes new tax proposals, warns of mid-year cuts to avert a 16 million dollar deficit, and argues against state tax increases. It calls for uniform tax assessments, end to county kickbacks, reapportionment, and a possible decade without new general taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert F. McNair
House
General Assembly
Peter
Paul
McNair
John C. West
Senate
South Carolina
American Diplomats Finest Hour
A satirical piece by Arthur Hopp imagines the State Department snubbing the Soviet Union on its birthday and the resulting mock escalation. The tale tracks escalating gibes, a Nixon kitchen shower, and absurd Soviet concessions ending with Moscows nose statue in Red Square.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Hopp
Russia
State Department
Moscow
Soviet Union
White House
America
Shashlik
Elmer Grod
Duluth
Iowa
U.S
Julia Child
Washington
Bolshoi Ballet
New York
Dick & Pat Nixon
Red
U.S. State Department
Peace Talks Without Progress By Holmes Alexander
Will Rogers is cited as saying the U S never wins a peace conference. The UN Paris talks and Helsinki arms talks are failing to advance U S aims as Russia grows stronger. The piece argues that only field action and budget revolt can change outcomes, predicting continued U S losses at three conferences and in Vietnam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Rogers
United States
United Nations
Korea
China
America
Paris
Theodore W. Kheel
Interplay
Wilson
Partici
South Vietnam
Woodrow Wilson
Nixon
Vietnam
Thieu
Helsinki
Russia
Red China
Athen Standard Names Cothran President and Editor Oyler
Samuel Cothran is named president and Samuel Oyler named executive editor of the Athen Standard, a long running newspaper established in 1867, with the new leadership announced by the publishing office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel
Cothran
NYU families win partial tuition refund amid 19 day class cancellations
A court awards a partial tuition refund to NYU parents after 19 days of canceled classes last spring. The ruling, subject to appeal, signals potential legal recourse for others seeking refunds when colleges fail to meet contractual obligations and may influence administrators facing disruptive student actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York University
Senators rule out 1972 runs in new and past statements
Hubert Humphrey and John Lind declare they will not seek the 1972 presidency. A reprinted Kennedy statement from 1969 adds a related note on political plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
John Lindsay
New York
Aiken Hook and Ladder Company First Anniversary Parade
The Aiken Hook and Ladder Company celebrated its first anniversary with a 4 pm parade from Town Hall to the truck house beneath the hall. Firemen in red shirts tested apparatus with a 150 yard run and 3 minute 12 second extinguishment, then held officers election and an oyster supper at Salt's saloon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy K. Macdowell
Laurens Street
Park Avenue
John Staubes, Jr
Gaines Ashley
R. C. Rogers
Henry Busch
Treas
James Aldrich
A. Coffin
R. C. Edgerton
James L. Heriot
Salt’s
Aiken
Noahs Ark Mystery on Mt Ararat Sparks Skepticism
In 1955 Fernando Navarra and son Raphael claimed 50 tons of wooden debris beneath Ararat ice with a ship shaped ark 450 feet long. Paris Madrid labs dated wood at 5000 years, while others doubted the find and other expeditions followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fernando Navarra
Raphael
Mt. Ararat
Navarra
Paris
Madrid
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Kosygin
Alexei
Lenin
Leonid
Marx
Trish Nixon
By Holmes Alexander
MR. Kheel
Admin
Roman Kolkorwicz
Middle East
North Africa
Aiken, S.C
Eugene J. Oyler
Sen
Edward Kennedy
Hook and Ladder Company
Billy Graham
Turkey
W. D
Citizen Smith
The
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