Slaton Commission Approves Tax Reappraisal Plan
Slaton lowers the tax rate from 2 to 1.75 dollars per hundred while raising the assessment percentage from 40 to 50 percent under a tax reappraisal program. The 1968 taxes will be payable in the last three months. City valuation is 21.502 million, up from 20.8 million last year, with revenue projected at 188,143 versus 161,500 previously. Taxpayers with increased value will receive notices in about two months, including an equalization board hearing date.
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Slaton
Slaton City
Board of Equalization
Johnson host meals with Australian PM during visit
President Johnson served a light lunch to Australian Prime Minister and Mrs Groton and ranch guests on Thursday in Johnson City. The menu included enchiladas tacos beans tamales chile con queso guacamole salad strawberries with whipped cream and cookies.
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Johnson City
Johnson
Australia
John G. Groton
Penn doctor weighs birth control pills for teens
Dr. Harold Lief says data are lacking but experience suggests most girls seeking contraceptives are not virgins and will have sex with or without pills. He warns physicians must balance patient welfare with personal values amid youth sexual pressures during rapid social change.
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Pen Adee
University’ of Pennsylvania
Harold I. Lief
Penn
Division of Family Study
Lief
Temple University
Health Sciences Center
Black Congress Praised After King Assassination
Los Angeles observers note the Black Congress united diverse leaders from ministers, urban league, SNCC, NAACP, CORE and legal groups during April to keep the city calm after Dr Martin Luther King Jr was killed. Mayor Yorty credits the umbrella group with helping prevent post murder violence while praising broader white and black community efforts.
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Jack V. Fox
Los Angeles
UPI
Second Baptist Church
Urban League
SNCC
Stokeley Carmichael
H. Rap Brown
United Ae Council
Charles Drew Medical Society
Langston Law Club
Los Angeles Naacp
CORE
Martin Luther ‘King Jr
Memphis
Tenn
Newark
Harlem
Chicago
Baltimore
Omaha
Kansas City
White House
Washington
King
Watts
Grees
Fdds
Dr. King
Black Congress
Sam Yorty
Congress
Interim Chamber Manager Named in Levelland
Levelland chamber of commerce names Claud D. Kizer as interim manager to fill the vacancy created by Gene Yeager who resigned May 20 to pursue a photo studio. Kizer had been secretary and now acts as bus agent while Donna Barnes is hired as secretary. Board says no further action likely before the June meeting.
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Levelland
Chamber of Commerce
Claud D. Kizer
Gene Yeager
Yeager
Kizer
Chamber
Vietnam Hero Tubbs Recovering After Da Nang Wound
Cpl. Tommy W. Tubbs age 21 son of Mr and Mrs Fenner Tubbs of 3222 23rd St listed progressing satisfactorily after being wounded in Vietnam May 18. Tubbs was shot in the shoulder near Da Nang and evacuated to 106th General Army Hospital in Yokohama Japan. He has served two years in the Marines and went to Vietnam in February.
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Tommy W. Tubbs
Fenner Tubbs
23Rd St
Vietnam
Tubbs
da Nang
106Th General Army Hospital
Yokohama
Japan
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Pioneer Park
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Sparen
Sumner
Boston Harbor
Connally
Permachrome Picture Tube
Evert Carmon
MGR
Larbour-Avalanche-Journal Beret Matin
Tabbeck
POSE
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TTA
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