Spirit of 76 versus 1961 taxes and school finances
A long reader letter contrasts Bicentennial ideals with 1961 federal handouts. It denounces school finance secrecy, criticizes education blocs, warns of embezzlement risks, and argues for limited government to avoid bankruptcy and dictatorship amid tax burdens. It includes tax policy anecdotes and a New Mexico taxpayers bulletin excerpt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Associated Taxpayers Bulletin
Taxpayers Association of New Mexico
New Mexico
Small Business Administration
Sto
Postmaster General finances blamed over 40 years of rate hikes
Uncle Cal from Caribou vents at the country store about the Post Office finances and rising rates. He cites 40 years of fiscal drift and quixotic parcel post limits, jokes about sending problems via parcel post, and riffs on foreign aid spending to justify pinching postal deficits. He invites readers to mail in issues for the next meeting, weight not to exceed 40 pounds.
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Post Ofice
Ole Pa Sedgefield
Congress
Ed Doolittle
Zeke Grubb
Congo
Vietnam
What Other Editors Are Saying About School Finances
North Side News cites Twin Falls Lincoln school hot lunch fund shortfall of 6440 dollars and notes a three year probe ordered by the Lincoln district board. A federal investigator hints embezzlement as a possible cause amid prior Idaho school fund irregularities and calls for clearer expenditure reporting.
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Twin Falls
North Side News
Jerome
Idaho
Idaho Education Association
Refrigerator song at party
A mother asks what was done at the party and her child, Little Carol, says they sang the "refrigerator song" with the punchline Freeze a Jolly good fellow.
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Carol
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Soda Springs, Idaho
Scotman
Ara Ead
Ribou County
Odell Perkins
Caribou County
Soda Springs
U.S. A
County of
Caribou
City of
Village of
Idaho Press Association
Cal
Dear Mister Error
Bank
Bancroft Pioneer Day
Pete Mabey
Ty Sal
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