What is a tax in Pennsylvania today
Harrisburg asks whether a student asks if a fee is a tax as Governor Shapp pushes a no tax increase plan for 1973. Lawmakers debate bond funding versus higher gas and license fees, claiming fees are not taxes though critics call them tax-like charges to fund road work.
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Harrisburg
Shapp
Legislative Branch
Pennsylvania
Keystone State
House of Representatives
House
Senate
Democrats
Department of Transportation
Bentley
Brother Webster
Liberal View The Summer Of '73 By Art Buchwald
Washington columnist Art Buchwald riffs on the 1973 summer plans of American teens. He lists outlandish, humorous itineraries from cross country VW trips to hitchhiking Europe and sailing Bermuda to England, noting parental worry and the era's pop culture influences. The piece ends with a fictional plan to lease an oil rig off Louisiana to keep kids occupied, satirizing parental overreach and the era's carefree excess.
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Art Buchwald
Washington
United States
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Carl
Fred
Harriet
Lizabeth
Pat
George
Henry
Canada
Henrietta
Europe
Ziggy
Mexico
Norman
Michael
Washington, D.C
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Eunice
Bermuda
Southampton
England
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R.F.K. Stadium
Josh
Maine
Mary Margaret
Suzy
Nantucket
Mass
North Carolina
Stu
IBM
Peter
Louisiana
Gulf of Mexico
North Sea
Boone's Farm
Exxon Oil Co
Indiana Indies win third straight league game 7 2
June 26 1948 Bill Ace Barry six hit pitching and Ernest error prone fielding powered the Indiana Indies to a 7 2 victory on the Fair Ground diamond. The report also notes 1958 teenage girls from Indiana County traveling to Connecticut for tobacco field work and ZIP Code rollout beginning July 1.
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Indiana Indies
Bill
Ace
Indiana
Saltsburg
Dee Bechtel
W. Michael Bechtel
Reading Center
Bowling Green University
Bowling Green
Ohio
Washington hearing on airlines led by irate lawmakers
Congressmen from New York and elsewhere demand hearings over airline service after Rep. Murphy reports being barred from a flight. Protests cite deplorable Eastern and American service, pricing, and scheduling, with calls for oversight by Rep. Harley Staggers.
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John Murphy
D-Ny
American Airlines
New York City
Edward Koch
D-N.y
John Wydler
R-N
Frank Brasco
Dn.y
Shirley Chisholm
Brooklyn
John Hunt
R-N.y
Eastern Airlines
Syracuse
South
William Wash
Georgia
California
Murphy
Harley Staggers
D-W.va
House Commerce
House
Rep
Speaking Freely Blacks Must Help To Lessen Crime
Georgia legislator Julian Bond compares black reformers to Ralph Nader and urges blacks to help reduce crime. Speaking at Cuyahoga Community College he described conditions as improving yet many remain worse, likening progress to climbing a molasses mountain on snowshoes while others ride an easy ski lift.
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Don Oakley
Georgia
Julian Bond
Ralph Nader
Cuyahoga Community College
Cleveland
Bond
America
Georgia House of Representatives
Bradley Wins Los Angeles Mayoral Race Amid Racial Tension
In a landslide victory, Los Angeles councilman Tom Bradley, a Black candidate, defeats white incumbent Sam Yorty in a predominantly white city. Oakland also sees Black candidates contesting the mayoralty, with White incumbent John H. Reading defeating Black Panther Bobby Seal by nearly two to one in a near half-Black city. In Camden, New Jersey, five Black candidates and one Puerto Rican lose to a white Democrat. The piece notes whites’ easy ascent and Black voters’ influence, while addressing crime and race in St. Louis with board president Theodore D. McNeal urging Black community involvement in crime reduction efforts.
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Los Angeles
Tom Bradley
Sam Yorty
Bradley
Yorty
California
Oakland
Bobby Seal
John H. Reading
Camden
N.J
St. Louis
Labor Unions and a Killing Run in St Louis
Victor Riesel examines the Local 562 steamfitters union in St Louis, tied to a multidecade political fund and a series of bombings and killings. The Callanan family, mafia links, and a federal probe loom as authorities pursue civil rights and racketeering charges amid organized crime dynamics.
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Victor Riesel
Washington
Tommy Callanan
St. Louis
Young Callanan
Larry Callanan
Steamfitters
Plumbers International
Lyndon Johnson
Robert Kennedy
Callanan
Callanan Sr
Johnson
Ed Steska
Steska
562
Tommy
Virgil Walsh
Louis Shoulders
Local 562
Davis
Louis
Shoulders
Local 462
Jack Yablonski
Detroit
Auto City
Mississippi River
Federals
Plumbers Union
California Motto and Holiday Law Noted in Fact Compilation
It states Eu reka as California’s Greek motto meaning I have found it tied to gold discovery. The holiday law shifted dates for Washington's Birthday Memorial Day and Veterans Day and granted Columbus Day national holiday status. Labor Day joins for five three day weekends yearly. The GOP first met February 22 1856 in Pittsburgh to plan a national convention.
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Union
Washington
Pittsburgh
Applauding reader calls for sensitive coverage on tragedy
A reader thanks B. J. Granata for a June 20 Gazette Our Readers Write piece and urges media restraint after her son’s auto accident. She notes that details of injuries should remain private for families and that officials spared them from sensational specifics, while the Indiana Evening Gazette was not involved though the incident occurred 150 miles away.
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the Gazette
Indiana Evening Gazette
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