Liberty Lobby proposes flat 50 percent tax on high incomes
The Liberty Lobby advocates taxing all income over 50 000 at 50 percent while exempting eight thousand for individuals and fifteen thousand for a seven member family. The plan would remove about 56 million people from the tax rolls and is advanced by Martin A. Larson who also promotes fewer credits and deductions.
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Liberty Lobby
Martin A. Larson
Larson
Russell B. Long
Senate Finance Committee
Mortimer - Caplin
Earth as a spaceship tackles waste with new studies
Universities receive grants to convert wastewood and paper into animal feed at North Carolina State University, while Oregon State studies turning wood waste into medicines and briquettes. Notre Dame engineers assess fly ash to purify lakes but note limits. Collectively, these efforts aim to cut pollution and save resources on Earth.
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North Carolina State University
Raleigh
U.S. Public Health Service
Oregon State University
Samus
Compost Science
Pontiac
Mich
University of Notre Dame
Federal
Aged Receipt Found in 128 Year Old Jail Record
The item reports a 1790 jail board bill receipt found by Frank Norwood in a book. It notes the Westminster area and mentions a prior Maryland seaman with Spanish influenza at Sparrow's Point during the 1918 outbreak. It also references the Frederick County Sunday School Convention at Walkersville and drought tied harvest shortages.
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Maryland Health Department
Sparrow’s Point
LTH
Frederick County Sunday School Association
Methodist Episcopal Church
Walkersville
Frank 2
Norwood
John Wilson, Jr
Hood College Juniors Welcome Freshmen for Orientation Week
Hood College junior class members arrived to greet freshmen starting five days of orientation. They will register tomorrow after preliminary meetings. Residents from Middletown Valley plan a dinner meeting in Middletown to discuss a new junior-senior high school and invite the County Commissioners and Board of Education. County officials favor jail renovations after a lengthy meeting with a state official. Frederick Community Chest mails letters to 60 local groups to boost this year’s fund raising beyond 1947 levels to cover rising service costs.
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Hood College
Orientaton
Middletown Valley
Middletown
Board of County Commissioners
Board of Education
Ree Kart Hee
Daatb
Community Chest OF
Frederick
Urban Development and Plans for City Financing
The piece compares Nixon and Humphrey on urban policy. Nixon favors private financed ghettos with government risk sharing. Humphrey backs a Marshall Plan for cities via a large Urban Development Bank. Estimates suggest up to 300 billion dollars in ten years from taxes or a peace dividend, though outcomes depend on management and implementation.
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Richard M. Nixon
Hubert H. Humphrey
Vietnam
Hay Fever Forecast From Ragweed Pollen Surge
Allergists report a severe hay fever season due to heavy rains and a warm spell that boosted ragweed. Pollen peaks in September with 5 to 10 percent of people affected. sufferers seek mountains or sea air while using antihistamines and staying in air conditioned spaces. Pray for frost to end allergies.
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Tom
Bridges and tunnels in campaign rhetoric
A humorous critique of political promises to build bridges to various groups and nations. The author quips about tunnels as an alternative and reflects on how campaign speeches blur logic, with satirical definitions of political terms and the idea that lines of communication are a political construct.
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New York
NEA
Wits
Hte
Paris
Hanoi
Pierre Salinger
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Washington Law and Order in the 1968 Conventions Debate
Washington lawmakers urge federal action against out-of-state rioters tied to Chicago protests. Rep Puсinski pushes grand jury probes for cross-state instigators while Judge Campbell orders a broad inquiry into disorders at the Democratic convention. Republicans press for enforcement and Democrats pledge justice and a vigorous crackdown on violence.
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Washington
Cass
Roman C. Pucinski
Iainois
Chicago
Clark
Wiliam J. Campbell
US. District Court of Northern
Cramer
Justice Department
Edward W. Brooke
Massachusetts
Justice
Aw and Order
Campbell
Department of Justice
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