Vernon Board Seeks To Trim Budget In Wisconsin County
Vernon County board, amid a formal budget review, finds the proposed 1977 budget exceeds the levy limit with $135,000 overage after shared tax figures. Expenditures total 3,344,551 excluding highway, with 342,262 shared taxes and 1,146,000 to be raised by property tax. Additional actions include tax deeds for delinquent properties, library planning committee referral, transfer of 1,000 to the nutrition account, bids for county employee health insurance, and repeal of $25 chance license ordinance. Today is the final day of the fall session.
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Via
Wis
Vernon County
Land Bills Committee
Alvin Hauge
la Farge Dam
General Fund
Maddox Promises 25 Percent Income Tax Cut Tour
MILWAUKEE AP Lester Maddox a presidential candidate for the American Independent Party campaigned in Milwaukee and Brookfield promising immediate income tax relief of 25 percent and a policy to phase out old government jobs before creating new ones. He touted anti communism and attacked Ford and Carter calling Carter socialist and Ford weak on Americanism while pressing campaign literature on workers and shoppers. He noted Green Bay remarks about media coverage potential to beat Ford and Carter.
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Milwaukee
Lester Maddox
American Independent Party
South Side
Brookfield
Georgia
Maddox
Allen-Bradley Co
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Gus Hall
California
Ronald Reagan
Green Bay
Ferry captain rated almost legally drunk in 1976 New Orleans crash
New Orleans coroner said captain Egidio Auletta of the Mississippi River ferry George Prince was almost legally drunk with a blood alcohol content near 0.09 after the Oct 20 collision with the tanker Frosta that killed about 78 people. He noted fatigue and end of shift impaired judgment as key factors. Survivors described the incident as a death by own action mission as the ferry cut engines and back up efforts followed by the disaster.
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New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Frank Minyard
Egidio Auletta
Minyard
Louisiana
George Prince
Frosta
Destrehan
Luling
Coast Guard
Kenneth Beenel
Arthur Benneche
Ben
Exxon Profits Fall In Third Quarter 1976
Exxon Corp reports a 3.8 percent drop in third quarter profits from 1975 levels, hit by foreign currency losses. Revenue rose slightly to 12.9 billion, with nine month earnings at 4.38 per share on 38.475 billion in revenue. Exxon earned 635 million in Q3 compared to 660 million year ago.
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New York
Exxon Corp
Exxon
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John Parkyn
la Crosse Tribune
Iana Highway Department
George Fischer
Fischer
John
la Crosse
Nedy
Assembly
Shelby
Democrat
Medinger
95Th Assembly
Tom Weise
Treas
Wettstein’s
Corning's
Sally Emmerson
McCormick/ Schilling
Wettstein and Sons
Sherwin-Williams
Sherwin-Williams Company
Bank Americard
Master
S. 19Th St
Jackson Plaza
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