Kansas Tax and Industry Reform Letter Urges Statewide Action
A Kansas author urges Governor and lawmakers to attract national research labs, promote industry, and reduce taxes. The piece argues for eliminating personal property tax, reforming intangibles tax, boosting promotional funds, and financing new industries while improving highway and licensing policies to keep scientists in state. It cites MIT and Harvard as benchmarks and contrasts Kansas with Texas and Ohio in tax and industry incentives. It concludes urging broad cooperation to industrialize Kansas and balance regional development.
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California
Boston
MIT
Harvard
Kansas
Robert Kerr
Oklahoma
NASA
Manned Space Laboratory
Texas
Wall Street Journal
Florida
Birmingham
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Kansas City
Missouri River
Bowling Clinic by Billy Sixty
Teenagers and children join a bowling program with youth instructors leagues and tournaments. The piece promotes under 13 players using a 12 pound ball with a safe grip and teaches footwork etiquette and lane rules. It advertises Billy Sixty pamphlet The Keys to Better Bowling for 10 cents plus return envelope.
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Billy Sixty
Sixty
Kansas on a path to attract industry through assets
The text argues Kansas can attract new industry by leveraging its warehouses for groceries and commodities, division offices for national firms, large natural gas fields, and strong universities. It calls for correcting liabilities and a total, intelligent statewide effort to seize opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Perfect Timing Deaths Drive Record Bank Loan Milestone
Flint resident George L. Bott borrowed 1500 for home improvements after his son was killed in a car crash. The Genesee Merchants Bank and Trust Co marked the $1500 loan Paid in Full, helping push the bank’s installment-loan total over 100 million in four years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flint, Mich
George L. Bott
Genesee Merchants Bank and Trust Co
Bott
Crippled plane lands short of power line in tomato field
A C123 troop cargo plane with 16 men aboard landed safely in a tomato field near Homestead Florida after one engine failed nine miles from Homestead Air Force Base. An Air Force fire chief warned that hitting the high voltage line with full fuel and oxygen aboard would have caused a catastrophe. No injuries were reported. The incident followed the West German plan to build another thousand miles of autobahns by decade's end.
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Miami
Fla
Air Force
Plattsburg
N.Y
Air Force Base
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Noland Insurance
Thomas Edison
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Health and
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Brownie Kerns
Homestead Air Force Base
Crane & Go., Inc
VIA
BRICK
T. D. Roff, Mer
Colorado
Gerber
Vista-Pak
Culligan Pure
Jar
Dillon
Almi
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