City Income Tax Spreads Across Lorain County
The article traces the rise of income taxes from Britain to the United States and details how Lorain County towns including Lorain, Oberlin, Avon, Avon Lake, Sheffield, Sheffield Lake, Amherst, Vermilion, North Ridgeville and Elyria adopted a one percent local income tax for workers.
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Lorain County
Lorain
Oberlin
Avon
Avon Lake
Sheffield
Sheffield Lake
Amherst
Vermilion
North Ridgeville
Elyria
Amherst North Hidgeville
Vermulion
Ten Lorain County towns use one percent income tax to fund services
The 1969 one percent income tax in ten Lorain County towns yielded about 45 million across the county, with Lorain at over 3 million and Elyria expanding its taxing program. Cities allocate funds to general and specific accounts to pay police and fire protection, street work, parks, and utilities, avoiding cuts in services without the tax revenue.
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Treasuries Lorain
Elyria
Lorain
Day long rail talks end in stalemate in Washington
In a day long session federal mediators and officials from the National Railway Labor Conference failed to reach a settlement between management and unions. Union leaders warned of possible strikes at one or two railroads if negotiations collapse, with wage demands and a cost of living escalator on the table.
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Washington
Up. Railroad and Union
William Jeserv Jr
George S. Ives
National Mediation Board
National Railway
William W. Winpisinger
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Nixon
Congress
New murder charge against Calley Lt William L Calley Jr.
Army Lt Calley faces a fresh murder count for the death of an adult male in Quang Ngai Province during the My Lai case investigations. The charge stems from an unidentified man killed about six weeks earlier. Maj. Gen. Talbott named Lt Col Hopper as investigative officer. Witness accounts of helicopter killings and prisoner drops surface from Vietnam veterans and press reports.
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Army
William L Calles Jr
My Lar
Calley
Quang Ngai
John Gause
Ft Benning
Ga Gause
My Lai
Lt Calley
Beating the madness in Elyria stores
An early start to the Christmas shopping season floods Elyria shops with weary shoppers and packed aisles. Mrs James Grice and her son David 3 of 514 Furnace St head home after a Broad Street trip. See c-1 for more photo evidence by John Fazio.
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Elyria
Broad Street
James Grice
David
Furnace St
John Fazio
Vietnamese spies sentenced in Saigon treason trial
In Saigon 43 defendants faced espionage charges with four men receiving life terms by a military tribunal. Huynh Van Trong Le Huy Thuy Vu Ngoc Nha and Nguyen Van Kinh led the spy ring and faced life prison. The others got 20 years to one year suspended and 13 women were among the lesser offenders.
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Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Huynh van Trong
Thieu
le Huy Thuy
Open Arms Ministry
Vu Ngoc Nha
Nguyen van Kinh
Communist Party
Heavily Manpower casualties after North Vietnamese attack near Saigon
North Vietnamese forces fired on U S helicopters northeast of Saigon triggering a major American air and artillery response that military officials say inflicted heavy enemy losses. The tally reported 73 enemy killed in three incidents about 75 miles northeast of Saigon near the Cambodian border. No American casualties were reported.
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Saigon
U.S
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Scout helicopters kill four enemy near treeline near Song Be
About an hour later scout helicopters killed four enemy soldiers attempting to ride in a treeline seven miles northwest of Song Be. A reconnaissance patrol from the Air Cavalry Division killed five North Vietnamese troops in a brief 15 minute firefight. Two Americans were wounded. North of Bu Prang camp artillerymen bombarded with 100 shells in one of the heaviest bombardments since pressure increased.
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Song
Air Cavalry Division
Bu Prang
Masked Bandits Rob Congregation at Maryland Church
Two masked men robbed a Seventh Day Adventist church in Adelphi Maryland at gunpoint during a service. They ordered members to sing hymns as they took an undetermined amount of money and cut the telephone line before fleeing in a small foreign car with an 11 year old boy escorted to the office.
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Sedahl
Sun-Times
Star
Nuya de Trac
da Nang
Hendersonville
N.C
U.S
Thomas F. Loflin
88Th
Pleiku
Adelphi. Md
Seventh Day Adventist
Harold M Lindsay
Lindsay
Oberlin coed stabbed as police seek suspect
A 20 year old Oberlin College coed was stabbed repeatedly on a wooded path between Johnson House and the arboretum. She was hospitalized and her condition was not released. Authorities described a gold colored knife and issued an APB as they link the case to a similar Athens incident.
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Bob Eisenbarth
Oberlin
Oberlin College
Wisconsin
Johnson House
College Arboretum
Lorain County Sherif
James Mertz
Coudle
Ohio Univers
Senate urged to delay tax cuts to curb inflation risk
A Joint Congressional Economic Committee subpanel warned that 9 billion dollars in tax cuts could slash revenues by up to 12 billion yearly, risking a grossly inflationary deficit. The group urged delaying or trimming tax cuts, reducing military spending, and reinstating wage price guidelines to curb inflation and avert recession.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Joint Congressional Economic Committee
House
Colder Weather With Snow Flurries On Lake Erie
Colder, cloudy conditions expected tonight with readings from the mid 30s to mid 40s. A chance of snow tonight with a transition to even colder, cloudy conditions tomorrow and ongoing snow flurries. Southerly winds at 15 to 20 mph on Lake Erie.
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Lake Erie
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