Ohio Faces Need To Reform Local Taxes
Ohio faces tax reform pressure as experts urge shifting from property to income taxes to fund growing government. Local revenue rose from 340 million to 1.5 billion annually, with 230 plus cities using local income taxes and calls for a state income tax in place of many local levies.
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Ohio
Richard Wheeler
UPI
Statehouse
Columbus
Arthur D. Lynn
Ohio State University
Porterfield
George Thatcher
Miami University
Thatcher
Ashland backs Bible reading astronauts in petition drive
About 2,800 Ashland residents petitioned NASA to support Bible reading by three astronauts who orbited the moon last month. Madalyn Murray O Hair protested the verses, a former Ashland College student.
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Ashland, Ohio
UPI
America
Ohio
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Madalyn Murray O’hair
O’hair
Ashland College
Subpoena Garrison Targets Connally in Dallas Assassination Case
District Attorney Jim Garrison issued subpoenas for former Texas Governor John B. Connally and his wife seeking testimony as pivotal witnesses in the Dallas assassination investigation. Connally sat near Kennedy in Dealey Plaza when Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963.
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New Orleans
UPI
Jim Garrison
Texas
John B. Connally
John F. Kennedy
Dallas
Garrison
Connally
Kennedy
Dealey Plaza
Ohio Five Day Forecast From United Press International
Temperatures in Ohio are expected to average below normal Thursday through Monday. Highs will be in the upper 20s to lower 30s with overnight lows from 15 to 20. Colder air moves in late Thursday and Friday, then a warming trend returns around Sunday.
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United Press International
Ohio
Priests Charged In St John Cathedral Nuisance Incident
Two white Roman Catholic priests were charged with creating a nuisance after reading a critical letter about Bishop Clarence Issenmann inside St John’s Cathedral. They were held in a private home on Wednesday. Eviction from parish housing or voluntary departure unknown.
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Cleveland
UPI
St. John’s Cathedral
Clarence Issenmann
Weather Outlook With Rain Then Snow Likely
Cloudy and mild with intermittent rain today and tonight. Highs near 48, lows around 30. Thursday cooler with occasional rain or drizzle, highs upper 30s. Friday mostly cloudy and colder with snow flurries. Norwalk highs 48 and lows 30. Rainfall 0.58 inch. Births: Mr and Mrs John Pierce Monroeville a daughter and Mr and Mrs James Ackerman Monroeville a son.
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Norwalk
John Pierce
Monroeville
James Ackerman
New Spy Trials Underway In Iraq Amid Protests
A Syrian diplomat was shot in Baghdad by an Iraqi intelligence agent. Spy trials in Iraq continued despite protests and fears of Israeli reprisals and a broader Arab conflict. Leaders including Nasser and Pope Paul VI urged restraint as the Mideast crisis deepened.
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Middle East
Iraq
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egypt
Cairo
Paul VI
Vatican
Mideast
United States
Britain
Jordan
Levi Eshkol
Knesset
Jerusalem
Abdullah Salam
Prices Up 4.2 Percent in 1968 U.S. CPI Rise
The Labor Department reports 1968 average consumer prices rose 4.2 percent from 1967, with December up two tenths of one percent. The December CPI stood at 123.7, meaning $10 in 1957-59 equal to $12.37 now.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
City Expects Aid Soon on New Plant
Federal subsidies totaling about 150000 dollars will fund 30 percent of the Norwalk Sewage Treatment Plant expansion now over half completed. Funds released as milestones are met. application must be filed to start payments.
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Norwalk
Charles Pettis
Toledo
Finkbeiner, Pettis and Strout
Patrol Listed At Steele Home After Wife Killed
Uniformed patrolmen were removed from Municipal Judge Robert L. Steele’s home in Euclid after his wife Marlene, 37, was shot to death in January. Police cited no request for protection and said officers were there to deter sight seers. Steele resigned from the bench effective Jan. 31 and is staying with relatives. Ohio welfare spending reached 163 million dollars in the first half of fiscal 1969 per State Auditor Roger Cloud.
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Euclid
UPS
Robert L. Steele
Cleveland
Steele
Marlene
Frank W. Payne
Columbus
UPI
Roger Cloud
Ohio
Ohio House proposes public watchdog for utilities
A bill in the Ohio House would create a public representative before the PUCO to probe and review utility operations. Appointed by the governor, the six year term official would earn 22 880 dollars annually and have powers to ascertain reasonableness and justified rates for utility services.
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Columbus
UPI
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
PUCO
Ohio House of Representatives
George E. Mastics
Fairview Park
Ohio
Mastics
Admiral Johnson recalls Pueblo loss amid inquiry
In a High Court style inquiry Navy officers including Adm Frank L Johnson testify on why the Pueblo was not aided during the January attack off the North Korean coast. Cmdr Lloyd M Bucher described his radio appeal for help and the promised assistance never arrived. Johnson, a WWII hero, leads the 13th Naval District in Seattle and Cassell, now with NATO, faces open session questions.
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Calif
White House
United States
Johnson
Pueblo
Bucher
Navy
Air Force
Annapolis
Okinawa
Mullaney
13Th Naval District
Seattle
Wash
George L. Cassell
U.S. Pacific
Cassell
NATO
Atlantic
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