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The Austin Daily Herald opinion page reviews a Leavenworth Kansas shift from city manager to mayor council. It notes criticisms of the manager system including difficulty replacing officials, argues mayor council is cheaper more responsive and better at repairs and policing, and suggests higher pay for Austin officials.
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Austin’s
Leavenworth
Kaw
Taxpayers Association
Austin
Turkish poppy end sights limited immediate impact on drug flow
Experts say ending Turkey's legal poppy farming will barely reduce illicit opium entering the US. The Golden Triangle remains a large illicit producer, while demand and high profits fuel trafficking. Observers note many illicit patches lack strong government control and stress U S consumption as the core driver.
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Turkey
Southeast Asia
Golden Triangle
Burma
Laos
Thailand
United States
Maurice H. Seevers
Department of Pharmacology
University of Michigan Medical School
Seevers
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Mexico
Pedro Ojeda Paullada
U.S
America Burning Volunteers are social clubs in Castanea Fire Company
In Castanea Pennsylvania the Volunteer Fire Company No 1 hosts twice as many meetings as fires. The firehouse serves as a social club with a bar pool table and dance floor where volunteers and sometimes their wives socialize. The article argues this fraternization reflects a national pattern among 25 000 to 35 000 volunteer fire companies and shapes their activities beyond firefighting.
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Tom Tiede
Castanea
Gosen
Cb Geo
Pennsylvania
U.S
America
National Commission On Fire Prevention and Control
Richard Bland
Commission
National Fire Commission
National Fire Academy
Bland
New Jersey
Castanea Brothers
Rockefeller plotted to replace Agnew as vice president
Washington reports a plan by Haldeman Ehrlichman allies to push Agnew to resign and install Nelson Rockefeller as vice president. The strategy hinges on 25th Amendment procedures and congressional approval, with labor backing for Rockefeller and a potential path to a 1976 presidential bid.
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Push
Rockefeller
Victor Riesel
Washington
Haldeman
Ehrlichman
Spiro
Ted) Agnew
Oval Room
White House
Haldeman-Fhrlichman
Agnew
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
Baltimore
Ted Agnew
Congress
John Connally
Ronald Reagan
Howard Baker
Palace
Nelson Rockefeller
Dick Nixon
House
Senate
Afl-Cio Committee On Political Education
Supreme Court
George Meany
Afl-Cio
McGovern
Labor
Nelson
Rocky
Gildner to Be Named Fellow at Hospital Administrators Meeting
Lt. Col. John L. Gildner of Austin will become a Fellow in the American College of Hospital Administrators during convocation in Chicago. He serves with the Office of the Surgeon General, United States Air Force, in Washington, D C. The AHCA will admit about 65 new Nominees and about 550 members at its 39th annual meeting.
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John L. Gildner
Kleo H. Gildner
Austin
American College of Hospital Administrators
Chicago
Conrad Hilton Hotel
Gildner
United States Air Force
Washington
D. C
William N. Wallace
ACHA
United States
Canada
Wallace
United Hospitals
St. Paul
American Health Congress
AHCA
Real estate tax burden varies by region and age
A Census Bureau study finds the average American homeowner pays about five percent of income in real estate taxes yearly, with seniors over 65 paying eight percent. Taxes average $21 per $1000 of home market value, highest in the Northeast at $29 and lowest in the South at $14, with no regional difference in overall impact.
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Census Bureau
South
Big Cypress fires test Nixon plan to make preserve
Editorial argues 30 000 acres of Florida Big Cypress Swamp burn amid drought from canal drainage by housing developers. Foresters link fires to commercial intrusion undermining Nixon's plan to acquire 547 000 acres as a federal preserve. The piece notes ecological importance to Everglades water and wildlife including panther and bald eagle, urging timely acquisition and careful site selection.
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Florida
Big Cypress
Everglades National Park
Nixon
Congress
Miami
Gulf Coast
Courier-Journal
Louisville
Turn Back the Clock 30 Years Ago at Mower County Fair
Andrew Steene and Lyle won grand champion with their pen of barrows in the Poland China division as judging began at the Mower County Fair. Myron Aultfather of Austin took many top ribbons in swine judging. A surprise birthday party for Herald editor John H. Skinner was held at the Fox Hotel yesterday.
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Andrew Steene
Lyle
Mower County Fair
John H. Skinner
Herald
Fox Hotel
Sterling Drugs
J. M. Pierce
Myron Aultfather
Austin
Poland
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Minnesota Historical Society
Fifth United States Infantry
Mississippi River
Josiah Snelling
Owatonna
Steele County
Medford
Duluth
Laredo
Texas
Minneapolis
Missouri
Advisory Commission On Intergovernmental Relations
Wisconsin
ACIR
L. Patric Gray
FBI
William C. Douglas
Mark
Arthur Brisbane
2Nd St. N.E
Edmund E. Smith
Thomas J. Koeck
Minn
P.O
F.P.O
Perro Everarreragreee
Austin Public Library
Mabel Olson
R. N. Miller
Roy Randall
Roger Svejkovsky
A. L. Swenson
Ross Graves
Raymond Winkels
Ann Elizabeth Taylor
Marie Hendrickson
Helen Vance
Wesley Stoike
Glenn Darling
H. G. Galstad
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