City sales tax law may be changed in Missouri
Joplin leaders expect revision moves to alter the city one cent sales tax adopted last December. State Sen. Richard Webster will seek a legislative research committee review with testimony from Joplin chamber executives and business groups after changes are proposed for the next legislative session. Some merchants say the current law, modeled on California, is unfair and lawmakers may model after Oklahoma to exempt goods delivered outside a taxed city.
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Joplin
Anda McGuire
California
Freedom Heritage essay contest opens for area students
The Ladies Auxiliary of VFW Post 3772 in Mexico invites high school students in grades 10 through 12 to enter the Freedom Our Heritage theme Voice of Democracy essay contest. Co chairs are Mrs. Daniel Henneberry and Mrs. Clyde Kotsenburg. Scripts must run 3 to 5 minutes. National prizes total 22500 with top awards 10000, 5000, 3500, 2500, and 1500. Fifty finalists win all expense paid trips to Washington, D C. Local winners receive first to third place prizes in the community. Mrs. Marlin Cahall is auxiliary president.
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Voice of Democracy
Ladies Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Mexico
Daniel Henneberry
Clyde Kotsenburg
Washington, D
Marlin Cahall
Jehovah's Witnesses Convene in Jefferson City Oct 9 11
Jehovah's Witnesses in Mexico invited to a circuit convention in Jefferson City October 9 11, Sam Dysart announces. The Watchtower Society sponsors the gathering with facilities for 16 congregations and about 900 delegates from east central areas including Mexico. All sessions will be open to the public without charge and welcome is extended to all attendees.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Mexico
Jefferson City
Sammy D. Dysart
Watchtower Bible Society
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Owls Wings May Help Quiet Planes
Scientists at the University of Tennessee Space Institute study owl wing structures to reduce aircraft noise under a 20 905 Air Force project. Dr. Richard Kroeger notes bionics could yield a quiet, efficient aircraft wing inspired by owls.
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Tullahoma, Tenn
University of Tennessee Space Institute
Air Force
Bionics
Richard Kroeger
Institute
Federal Home Loan Board Moves to Boost Mortgages
The Federal Home Loan Bank Board announced a plan to stabilize the mortgage market and spur construction. It will start Monday offering purchase commitments of 12 and 18 months on mortgage futures totaling up to 200 million dollars in FHA and VA loans. Chairman Preston Martin said the nation cannot afford lost housing starts due to financing uncertainties.
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Home Loan Board
Washington
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Preston Martin
GIs Have Good Thing At Columbia
In Columbia Missouri the servicemen center offers a welcoming weekend stay from September to May with a $1.25 nightly charge. Free coffee doughnuts sandwiches movie passes soap and toiletries. Center director Don Cassidy says the relaxed atmosphere minimizes rules. Funding comes from local United Fund and Ft Leonard Wood drives. Coeds from area colleges volunteer as hostesses for weekends.
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Columbia
Don Cassidy
USO
United Fund Agency
Ft. Leonard Wood
Army Base
Rolla Professor To Federal Post
James J. Scott, seven year professor and chairman of mining and petroleum engineering at Missouri-Rolla, was named assistant director for mining in the U.S. Bureau of Mines. He will oversee mining research and development, health and safety, and environmental work. The appointment was made by Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel.
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Washington
James J. Scott
Department of Mining and Petroleum Engineering
University of Missouri-Rolla
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Scott
Interior
Walter J. Hickel
Nixon
John J. O'Leary
Interior Department
Grim Report In On State Revenue
Jefferson City AP John C Vaughn state budget director and comptroller issued a grim report on state revenue for the first two months of the fiscal year. Revenue collections lag last year by 23.3 million or 21.4 percent. July and August sales tax totaled 44.7 million versus 68.9 million in 1969. Normally the two months provide 19 percent of annual revenue, this year only 14 percent. Lapse of unexpended appropriations is expected to be far below the 15 million earlier estimate. Construction strike in Kansas City and western Missouri plus other downturns weighed on the economy.
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Jefferson City
John C. Vaughn
Vaughn
Kansas City
Missouri
Edgar Nelson Dies Former Publisher and State Official
Funeral services will be held Saturday for Edgar C. Nelson a former Missouri newspaper publisher and secretary of state from 1947 to 1949 He died at 87 in a Wisconsin nursing home where a daughter lived Nelson published or owned newspapers in Boonville Bunton Marshall Lebanon and Brookfield He was named chairman of the State Workman Compensation Commission in 1933 and in 1949 Gov Phil Donnelly appointed him to fill an unexpired term as secretary of state He was named state purchasing agent in 1953 Services will be at Thatcher Funeral Home Boonville St Louis attendance at the Municipal Opera totaled 653115 for 66 performances this summer compared with 719200 for 89 performances in 1969.
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Boonville
Edgar C. Nelson
Missouri
Nelson
Wausau
Wis
Bunceton
Marshall
Lebanon
Brookfield
State Workman’s Compensation Commission
Phil Donnelly
Thatcher
National Association of Pro Bureaucrats mocks clarity
A spoof piece lampoons NATAPROBA the National Association of Professional Bureaucrats touting mumble as guidance. It parodies jargon and buzzword projections, touting an executive pencil and a motto of diluting meaning, credited to founder James H. Boren with an origin on April 1, 1968.
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Washington
National Association of Professional Bureaucrats
Nataproba How
Gether
Nataproba
James H. Boren
Association
Boren
Sen
Nimble satire and bureaucratic spoof in NATAPROBU tale
A long spoof article traces NATAPROBU founder Boren and his witty critique of bureaucracy dynamic inactivism. It notes a blue ribbon committee, a Future Bureaucrats youth division, and plans for a fall awards banquet where The Order of the Bird may honor selected figures.
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Nataprobu
Boren
Organiza
Stanley Resorution
Order of the Bird
Crop Program Kickoff in Monroe County
Paris Monroe County joins nine other counties for a Tele Kickoff meeting to launch the CROP program. The Sept 14 event at 7 45 p m will be at First Baptist Church Paris with a telephone linked presentation by Ricardo Frohmater a young Church World Service representative who led quake relief after the May 31 disaster in Pert.
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Paris
Monroe
First Baptist Church
Ricardo Frohmater
Young Church World Service
Pert
Frohmater
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