City budget study opens with tax hike forecast in High Point
City Council began a detailed review of the 1974-75 spending plan after the mayor signaled limited room for trimming the city manager’s budget. The projected property tax rate rises from 73 to 83 cents, with total valuations up and a 6.5 million tax take vs 5.3 million last year.
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City Council
Harold Cheek
High Point
Finance Department
Public Safety
Public Works
Parks and
Qum
North Carolina
Paul Clapp
Raleigh Tracks Remedial Classes Spark Federal Aid Threat
In North Carolina Raleigh seventh graders are split by scholastic ability to tailor instruction. Remedial groups show more black students while higher ability classes skew white. The HEW threatens to cut about a half million dollars in federal aid. The Salisbury Post questions if this is bungling bureaucracy or misapplied idealism.
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Raleigh
Federal
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
The
Salisbury Post
Hail To The Chief Nixon Visits Middle East
President Nixon travels to Cairo amid a cooler U.S. stance toward Israel. Egyptians praise Kissinger and the Nixon administration for recognizing Arab concerns and easing Soviet influence. Ambassadors say the Cairo-Sadat rapport signals a Copernican shift, though money aid and media fears linger.
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Cairo
Nixon
George Gallup
Louis Harris
Henry A. Kissinger
Israel
America
Middle East
United States
Anwar Sadat
F. Hermann Hilts Jr
U.S
Egypt
Washington
Moscow
Ultra-Strange Iran Connection Rumors Linked to Nixon
A six month inquiry traces alleged Iranian money to Nixon campaign via Mexico. Sources note Swiss and Mexican banking movements, CIA involvement, and a reshuffle of diplomats as officials deny the charges. Investigators caution the tale remains unproven and murky.
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Washington
Nixon
Iran
Mexico
Tehran
Geneva
Bonn
Mexico City
White House
Bill Rogers
Shah
Schweizerische Bank Gesellschaft
Banco de Londres Y Mexico
FBI
Vernon Walters
CIA
Helms
Joseph Farland
Farland
State Department
Watergate
Senate
North Carolina base shift for Willy Korf empire
In a move expanding Kort International, Willy Korf shifts North American operations to Charlotte aboard a growing empire that includes Georgetown Steel and Nachman ties. The change positions Wolfgang Jansen as president of Kort International, with National Springs and Nachman broadened through the deal, while Korf maintains a cattle farm nearby. Minnie Rawley, longtime community figure, dies after a life of service to The Enterprise and local history.
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Willy Korf
Baden-Baden
West Germany
National Springs Corporation
Europe
Kort International
Luther N. Hodges
High Point
Earl N. Phillips
Phillips
James E. Fosciie
A. B. “Shucks
Henley
J. Howard Blair
Willy Korfin
Georgetown Steel
Georgetown
D.C
Beaumont
Texas
Midrex
Midland-Ross
National Springs
Tupelo
Miss
NCNB
Charlotte
Wolfgang Jansen
Korf
Korf International
Russia
Soviet Union
North Carolina
Nachman Corporation
Nachman
Kort
National
Edwardsburg
Mich
Earl Phillips
Karl Ockershauser
Indiana
Richard Reddick
Minnie
J. P.) Rawley
Milk Deal and Nixon Presidency Stain Debate
The milk price support decision of 1972 sparked a Senate Watergate committee report accusing Nixon aides of ignoring experts and propping up a campaign with a $2 million milk producer contribution. It questions whether the move harmed consumers and government finances and casts Connally in an implicated light while noting mixed defenses and ethical gray areas.
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Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Senate Watergate Committee
Richard Nixon
White House
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Sadat
Sen
J. Bennett Johnston Jr
D-La
Congress
William Rogers
United Feature Syndicate
H. R. Haldeman
John Ehrlichman
Central Intelligence Agency
Richard Helms
Holt McPherson Enterprise
Tain
Kiel
Hodges
Rawwley
Andrew Jackson
John Connally
Secretary of the Treasury
Capitol Hill
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