School Audits Reveal Tax Savings and Funds Misuse
Four years into the audits by Auditor General Thomas Minehart, the program surveys every district in Pennsylvania. The effort shows savings from subsidies but uncovers cases of misuse, overpayments, and related irregularities in 2,704 districts, with 133 staff covering year-round checks on about a half billion dollars in subsidies. Some districts still use banks as depositories and conduct nonessential business with the district.
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Minehart
Thomas Z
Minchart
Department of
Jess Garber
Waynesboro Record Herald
Waynesboro
Charles C. Smith
Com
Collingdale
Pennsylvan
Audi
Franklin County
Guilford
Iship
Quincy
Department of Public Instruction
Pennsylvania State Education Association
Pennsylvania School Directors’ Association
Moderation Grows Among Southern Governors
At the Southern Governors Conference in West Virginia, governors including Mississippi's Ross Barnett and Alabama's George Wallace urged action on civil rights, but most peers avoided a clash. The gathering closed with a cautious tone as moderates rose and labeled debate as unproductive, while discussions shifted to mutual interests like education, industry, and nuclear plants.
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White Sulphur Springs
W.va
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
Barnett
Dixie
George C. Wallace
Alabama
West Virginia
W. W. Barron
Wallace
Deep South
Barray
Faubus
Philadelphia woman and sons charged in unemployment fraud
A 61 year old Philadelphia woman Kate Wolfe and her two adult sons Stanley 38 and Nathan 34 were charged with swindling four states out of 10500 in fraudulent unemployment compensation claims. The family allegedly ran phony firms to claim wages in New York New Jersey and Delaware and were held on bail totaling 7000 with hearings set.
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Philadelphia
Kate Wolfe
Stanley
Nathan
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Murdock
Wolfes
New York
Delaware
Thomas Marotta
Wolfe
Michael Marc la
Jack Brown
Bureau of Employment Security
Brown
State Exceeds Debt Limit Through Authority
Harrisburg AP report notes Pennsylvania surpassed its $1 million constitutional debt cap via the General State Authority, a semi official body created in lean years to fund state buildings. By 1983 the authority’s borrowing power rose by 213.5 million to nearly 1.993 billion with new projects, sparking legal and political push to end the entity.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
General State Authority
George H. Earle
Economy Measure Planned Faces Kennedy Opposition
Republican leaders prepare a fresh bid to append a second phase of the tax cut to a tax bill. President Kennedy opposes linking the plan to budget deficit limits and urged no conditions on the program’s effectiveness in a letter to Rep. Wilbur Mills. Byrnes and Baker signaled renewed effort after a slim committee loss.
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Washington
Kennedy
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Te House
Ways and Means Committee
John W. Byrnes
Wisconsin
Howard H. Baker
Tennessee
Baker
Yale
Titan 2 Test Flight Raises Space Hopes
Cape Canaveral observers welcomed a flawless 5800 mile Titan 2 test flight amid Gemini program concerns. Virgil Grissom watched the 103 foot rocket perform as officials noted low vibrations and 12th success in 21 tests, amid worries about stage thrust.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
Virgil I. Grissom
Manned Spacecraft Center
Chris Kraft
Gemini
Kraft
Children Register for Private Desegregated Schools in Prince Edward
In Farmville Virginia Negro children continued signing for private desegregated schools that will give many their first formal education since 1919. Officials of the Prince Edward Free School Association expect up to 1600 pupils to enroll, taught by a biracial board of Virginia educators. By Wednesday 858 pupils had registered.
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Farmville
Prince Edward County
Prince Edward Free School Association
Board of Virginia
Scientists Seek 40-Foot Sea Mystery Off New Jersey
A 40 foot long creature sighting near Sandy Hook prompts an AP report. Dr. Lionel Walford leads a research team with frogmen in cameras and cages while divers note no visible head or tail. Scientists remain cautious and consider possibilities from sea serpents to giant eels as they observe the strange, fluid like object.
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New Jersey
Atlantic Swaters
Times Square
New York
Challenger
Lionel A. Walford
Walford
Sandy Hook
Robert Wicklund
Highland
N.J
Wicklund
Meredith Jones
American Museum of Natural History
Australia
Jones
Two Killed in Ocean City Air Crash
An instructor pilot William Walter Mobray 38 of Salisbury and student Herman Hill 33 of Baltimore died when their Piper Cub crashed on Assateague Island after taking off from Ocean City Airport. Mobray had two years as instructor at the airport and lived in Berlin Md. Hill was a Negro band leader at an Ocean City nightclub.
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Ocean City
Assateague Island
William Walter Mobray
Salisbury
Herman Hill
Baltimore
Mobray
Berlin
Hill
Assateague
Sinepuxent l Bay
Connecticut Firm Wins Keystone Station Steam Generator Order
A Connecticut firm, Combustion Engineering Inc of Windsor, wins an order for two massive steam generators for the Keystone Generating Station near Indiana, Pennsylvania. The project involves three utilities Jersey Central Power and Light Philadelphia Electric and Pennsylvania Power and Light.
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Johnstown, Pa
Connecticut
Keystone
Indiana
Jersey Central Power and Light Co
Philadelphia Electric Co
Pennsylvania Power & Light Co
Combustion Engineering, Inc
Windsor
Dictatorship and Communism Clash Over South Viet Nam
James Marlow analyzes U.S. policy in South Viet Nam as Diem’s regime battles Buddhist protests and guerrilla threats. He argues U S pressure could have steered reform, reduced war deaths, and reshaped peasant support amid long running aid and military commitments.
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James Marlow
Associated Press
Washington
United States
Viet Nam
United
Ctates
Schweiker backs ratification of nuclear test ban
Rep. Richard Schweiker says he favors ratification of the recently negotiated nuclear test ban. He calls the treaty a calculated risk and argues that signing does not alter Communist goals of world conquest. He described ratification as at most a small step forward.
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Washington (Ap
Richard
Schweiker
R-Pa
Towatt Penn Nye
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