State Official Laments Unproven Theories in Road Program
Virginia official B. Fugate told the West Richmond Rotary Club that new and untested theories in federal rules threaten delays in highway funding and project completion. He cited emphasis on design, employment, and regulatory hurdles, urging reliance on common sense and state-federal cooperation. The 1968 Virginia Highway Commission awarded 235 contracts totaling $130.5 million for road construction.
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Richmond
Virginia
Ment
Fugate
Douglas
B. Fugate
West Richmond
State Highway Commission
Steps urged to bolster North Carolina growth in report
Raleigh AP reports a 21 page study by the Governor's Council for Economic Development recommends expanding local planning and creating a state Division of State and Regional Planning. It calls for multi county planning districts, a new community services division, and councils on preparation and development, human resources, and natural resources to sustain growth and create about 46,000 nonfarm jobs yearly through 1975. Gov. Dan Moore welcomed the emphasis on planning as essential to economic development, noting rapid government growth and limited revenues require coordinated planning to avoid duplication and ensure job creation. The report notes past gains in the 1960s and rising incomes, but warns the income gap between low and high income counties and the state versus the nation will not close without decisive action.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Governor’s Council For ‘Economic Development
Dan Moore
Moore
Ugher
Song
New French Student Crisis Dampens After Day of Action Flop
AP reports a muted response to a new French student crisis with government gestures of conciliation and warnings that agitators could be drafted. Campus protests waned with few incidents. riot squads removed from Nanterre. boycotters may lose scholarships and deferments. reforms delay fuels leftist tension.
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University of Nanterre
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Education Ministry
Paris
Regine Martinez
Nanterre
France
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Panne Manthe
Camnitene
Virginia News In Brief From Richmond and Nearby
AP dispatches note a proposed two site setup for a new Northern and Middle Peninsula community college serving 13 counties, with Warsaw and Gloucester County locations under consideration and no guarantee of construction in 1968 70. Rhodes Scholarships finalists Richard Menaker and Michael Sorkin were named from Virginia for Southern District competition in Atlanta. Virginia localities oppose railroads tax reassessments with SCC filings seeking overvaluation corrections and potential recovery of excess taxes. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond directors for two branches are announced with Tilton Dobbin elected to the Baltimore branch.
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Waynesboro
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England
State Corporation Commission
SCC
Virginia Municipal League
Virginia Association of Counties
Norfolk & Western
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Potomac
Southern
Seaboard
Federal Reserve Bank of
Wilson HH. Elkins
Tilton
Czech Assembly Approves Higher Budget in 1969 Fight Inflation
The Czech oslovak National Assembly approved a higher 1969 state budget and prepared to establish a federal government with a two month timeline for a separate Czech and Slovak cabinet. Premier Oldrich Cernik will head the government. 1969 expenditures rise to about 156.2 billion, with 20 percent higher income, amid planned economic reforms and social programs. The session noted a pending withdrawal pace for Soviet occupation forces but provided for the temporary stay of forces per a Soviet treaty.
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Czechoslovak National Assembly
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Earl Klang
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