Percy tours New York housing sites with Lindsay
Sen. Charles H. Percy of Illinois joined New York Mayor John V. Lindsay on a whirlwind urban renewal tour through Harlem Lower East Side and Brooklyn Brownsville East New York. Percy touted a private nonprofit home ownership foundation to fund low income housing. The visit included a Harlem rehabilitation project and a helicopter ride over Bedford Stuyvesant.
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New York Times
New York
John V. Lindsay
Charles H. Percy
New York City
Harlem
Lower East Side
Brownsville
East New York
Brooklyn
Percy
Senate
National Home-Ownership Foundation
114Th Street
Frederick W. Richmond
Carol W. Haussamen
Lindsay
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Chicago
Daley
Gasoline tax survives as lone highway bill in Illinois House
The Illinois House tabled 27 of 28 Highway Study Commission bills, leaving only a one-cent gasoline tax increase to six cents per gallon. Republicans chose the reduced levy after a secret caucus, while other measures on auto-truck license fees and highway administration were killed.
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John Zakarian Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois Highway Study Commission
House
Highway Study Commission
Commission
Illinois
John Touhy
Senate
John Lewis
Marshall
General Assembly
C. L. McCormick
Vienna
Otto Kerner
Study Commission
Tax diversion keeps highway funds under scrutiny
A box score of diversions from highway user tax funds shows a total of 62 million dollars, up 19 percent from the prior biennium. The growing list raises concerns about matching federal aid for primary road construction and possible limits on county and city contributions as 1968 funding questions loom.
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O. T. Banton
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
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Er’s Inc
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Bourbon
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