Tax Cut Triggers City Budgets Slash Across California
California voters approved a 7 billion property tax cut lowering rates to 1 percent, prompting immediate layoffs and program cuts statewide. Oakland, Los Angeles, and Marin County announced library, police, and hospital cutbacks while Berkeley and San Francisco canceled summer classes and shuttered health facilities.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
Brown
Howard Jarvis
Los Angeles
Berkeley
San Francisco
Wilson Riles
Wampler Nominated Again In Ninth District Run
U S Representative William C Wampler was chosen by acclamation to be the Republican nominee for Virginia Ninth District congressman at a Wytheville convention. The main contest centered on Ninth District party chair due to Billy Frazier defeating Gate City attorney Ray Dotson in a bid to reorganize the party and focus on local elections.
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U. S
William C. Wampler
Virginia
Wampler
Wytheville
Billy Frazier
Ninth District
Republican Party
Gate City
Ray Dotson
Dotson
Frazier
John Dalton
U. S. Senate
Richard Obenshain
Senate
Swedish Fire Kills 20 At Boras Hotel Party
A nightclub party marking the school year end in Boras, 35 miles east of Goteborg, ended in disaster as flames engulfed the 71-year-old Boras City Hotel. About 150 revelers fled the smoke as 20 youths died and 59 were injured. Eyewitnesses described burning youths leaping from windows while investigators assess a possible bomb or faulty wiring. Police and witnesses noted an explosive spread but offered no conclusive cause pending inquiry.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Boras City
Bill Hansson
Boras
Goteborg
Peter Bendzowski
Olov Nordgren
Man of the Mountain and Education Note Mercer County Repairs
Kenneth Barber of Bland County enjoys poison ivy meals while James Hale of Caretta shoots his food with a bow and arrow. Andy Clark reviews West Virginia higher education in his first year on the Board of Regents. Repairs to Mercer County schools aim for $52 million to meet state fire marshal requirements.
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Kenneth Barber
Bland County
James Hale
Caretta
Andy Clark
West Virginia
The
Board of Regents
Mercer County
Seven rivals quit as Miller wins Democratic Senate nomination
In Williamsburg Andrew Miller was nominated by acclamation after his seven rivals withdrew on the third ballot. Miller, 45, led in eight of ten districts and needed 1,397 votes to clinch, with 1,360 on the third ballot. He will face Republican Richard Obenshain in November to succeed retiring Senator William L. Scott.
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Williamsburg
Andrew Miller
U. S. Senate
Hunter Andrews
Hampton
Miller
Andy
Clive DuVal
DuVal
Norfolk City
Conoly Phillips
Richard Obenshain
U. S
William L. Scott
Virginia
Condly Phillips
Sock of $2050 Down Payment Vanishes in Lockhart
Lockhart Texas cabdriver Tommy Green says a sock containing 20 hundred dollar bills and a fifty vanished from his front pocket during a grocery run. He believes a five inch Tuesday rain washed the sock into a curb drain and Plum Creek, threatening a planned car down payment and vacation for the Green family.
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Green
Lockhart
Texas
Tommy Green
Plum Creek
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