City Weighs Fiscal Controls After City Audit
CPA P Roger Hickey issued recommendations to tighten city finances incl a perpetual fixed asset inventory across departments a prenumbered purchase order system and stronger controls in the collector and Park and Library boards He urged improved payroll time cards daily cash reconciliations and better investment practices with formal general ledgers and insurance adjustments.
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P. Roger Hickey
CPA
Hickey
Rome
General Revenue Fund
Park Board
Lability Insurance
Library Board
Library Fund
Treasury
Search for killer haunts rugged Locust Grove Oklahoma
State police and volunteers expanded a 10 square mile search near Locust Grove Oklahoma for Gene Leroy Hart a 33 year old fugitive charged with three counts of murder in the slayings of three Girl Scouts. Officers said a running man seen Thursday and new clothing found today could be linked to the case as dogs and aircraft aided the effort.
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Locust Grove
Okla
Gene Leroy Hart
Skunk Mountain
Seely
Mayes County
Glen “Pete” Weaver
Weaver
Tulsa
Pryor
Hart
Granite-Mangum
Oklahoma
Senators authorize telecopters for up to 34 lawmakers
The Missouri Senate authorized telecopter purchases at about 1500 dollars each, potentially costing the state over 50000. Only three senators asked for the devices Joe Frappier and George Murray joined Paul Bradshaw, with a fourth ordered for central administration.
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Missouri Senate
Ron Kirchoff
Senate
Senate Accounts Committee
Paul Bradshaw
Springfield
Kirchoff
Joe Frappier
St. Charles
George Murray
Creve Coeur
Ichord blasts Maryland in tax fight over income tax
Missouri congressman Richard Ichord accuses Maryland of corrupt government while refusing Maryland income taxes on his DC salary. He says he hasn’t filed Maryland returns for 1972–75 and challenges tax authority as he rents real estate in Prince Georges County and faces burglaries. Maryland officials stand by current law.
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Washington
Missouri
Maryland
Richard Ichord
District of Columbia
Ichord
Missouri Democrat
University of Missouri
Prince Georges County
Spiro T
Agnew
Marvin) Mandel
Mandel
Sehord
White House
House
Senate
Virginia
George F. Smith
Comptroller’s Office
Congress
Court widens state aid to parochial students
The Supreme Court allowed states to spend tax dollars on textbooks and certain services for private school students while rejecting funding for field trips and lending equipment. The ruling, split among justices, preserves limited aid such as diagnostic services and therapy off parochial campuses, but bars direct equipment loans and on-site field trips.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Broa
Ohio
William J. Brennan
Thurgood Marshall
John Paul Stevens
Brennan
Marshall
Warren E. Burger
Byron R. White
William H. Rehnquist
Powell
William J. Brown
Pennsylvania
Soviet backs Weather Computer Sale Rejected by US
The Soviet Union sought a $13 million Cyber 76 computer from Control Data Corp for weather forecasting, but after a two year study the Commerce Department denied the export license citing serious concern over possible military use. Opponents urged Carter to block the sale, labeling the machine a Pentagon brain center.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Carter Administration
Commerce Department
Control Data Corp
United States
Duane Andrews
Carter
Pentagon
Air Force
National Security Council
Office of Export Administration
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Lonnie Hartman
Robert Petershagen
West Elementary
W. R. Ridenhour Construction Co
News Tribune
Robert L. Hyder
Margaret Christian
Edward L. Cole
First Ward
Kenneth V. Wildhaber
Fourth Ward
Vincent Borgmeyer
Wildhaber
Doug Littlefield
State Bureau of Investigation
Kenneth van Hoy
State Police
Fate
National Cancer Institute
Ann Landers
Weenie
Daily Record
Church News
Richard Chord
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