Tax rebellions push Missouri schools to rethink building plans
Editorial notes rising tax resistance nationwide as Missouri districts face large funding needs. Citizens oppose higher taxes for public improvements, including a proposed $10 million school expansion over 10 years. voters rejected Constitutional Amendment No 1, prompting calls for wiser use of existing buildings and consideration of split-schedule systems to curb costs ahead of the General Assembly session.
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Jefferson City
Upward Bound program criticized by Congress
Rep Edith Green reveals that the Upward Bound program funded to aid disadvantaged students operated broadly overseas summers in Canada Chile Costa Rica Mexico Panama Peru and Brazil. She cites dubious contractor qualifications and a Portland staff incident distributing instructions for Molotov cocktails and sabotage. Congress moves Upward Bound to the Office of Education for consolidation.
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Upward Bound
Congress
Rep
Edith Green
Canada
Chile
Costa Rica
Mexico
Panama
Peru
Brazil
Oregon Democrat
Rep. Green
Office of Economic Opportunity
Portland
Ore
OEO
Office of Education
Johnson and Nixon clash over Vietnam policy guidance
The piece argues President-elect Nixon will be constrained by Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam policy and foreign policy advisers. It critiques Clifford and Rostow for shaping Hanoi expectations, warns Nixon must chart a new course before Jan. 20, and calls for a decisive initiative to end the war and lift global morale.
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Johmson
Nixon
Johnson
Hanoi
Paris
South Vietnam
Free World
Lyndon Johnson
United States
Upping requirements of nations prisons by Maddox plan
Art Buchwald argues Gov. Lester Maddox’s prison reform idea would raise standards for inmates. Proposes high school recruiting, higher wages, IQ tests, interviews, references, and congressional selection to weed out unfit candidates, with FBI checks and reapplication after crime. The piece mocks current system and supports selective admissions.
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Washington
Lester Maddox
Georgia
West Point
Annapolis
Kremlin probes weaknesses of France by Henry Taylor
Henry J. Taylor argues that the French Communist Party and CGT harness Moscow backing to destabilize France. He notes the CGT’s strength, Deserter Maurice Thorez as a French leader, and claims Vietnam and the franc crisis reveal France’s vulnerability to Soviet influence. The piece critiques De Gaulle’s strategy and warns of ongoing French fragility.
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Charles de Gaulle
Maurice Couve de Murville
Force Ourriere
Catholic General Confederation of Democratic Labor
CGT
France
Mervership
Kremlin
Moscow
Maurice Thorez
Morocco
Tunisia
Algeria
Vietnam
Far East
Geneva
Communist Party
Soviet Union
George Bidault
Pierre Mendes - France
Paris
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Hammer
Mendes-France
Molotov
Bidault
de Gaulle
Reds
Lenin
Write Your Congressmen And Senators Your Letters Matter
Citizens are urged to contact their congressmen and senators to share needs and opinions. Addresses for Sen Stuart Symington and Sen Edward Long are listed, along with Rep Richard Ichord and Rep William Hungate, with district counties named for each.
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Congress
Sen
Stuart Symington
Senate
Washington, D.C
Edward V. Long
Washington
D.C
Richard Ichord
House
Ichord
Cole, Boone, Cooper, Moniteau
Morgan, Miller
Camden
Maries
Pulaski
Phelps
William L. Hungate
Hungate
Audrain
Callaway
Franklin, Gasconade
Osage
Randolph Counties
Jefferson City Armory opening marks Auto Show start
Gov James T Blair attended the ribbon cutting for Jefferson City Armory in a ceremony highlighting the Jefferson City Automobile Show opening at 1 pm Friday. Mayor Arthur W Ellis joined in the event as Fire Chief John Sullivan said local schools are in good shape to avert a fire disaster.
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James T. Blair
New
National Guard
Jefferson City
Arthur W. Ellis
John Sullivan
Sullivan
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