New Tax Study Committee Eyes Revision and Equalization
An 18 member Senate and House group plus eight non legislators will study tax revision to create a fair, equalized tax burden without raising taxes. The committee, formed five days after a failed special session, aims to propose new tax structures and may consider increasing the sales tax and local option levies.
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Tax Study Committee
Atlanta, Ga
George T. Smith
House
George L. Smith
The
Smiths
Smith
Senate
Oliver’ Bateman
Macon
Sam W Doss Jr
Rome
R. Eugene Holley
Augusta
Georgia League of Women
Atlanta
M. E. Richards
Florida Organized Crime Bill Aims at State Agencies
Florida lawmakers pass a broadened organized crime bill giving the Attorney General power to seek injunctions and dissolve corporations tied to underworld figures. The measure targets persistent violent or unlawful activity aimed at overthrowing government and promoting homosexuality or crimes against nature.
Camilla Reaches Compromise Over Police Chief Suspension
City of Camilla and former police chief Charles Kearns settle suit over his suspension last fall. Agreement reinstates Kearns as of the suspension date and requires his resignation effective that date.
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Camilla
Charles Kearns
Kearns
City of
Sandford denies SDS ties after deportation claim
Sidney Australia exchange student Philip Sandford says he was deported on trumped up charges and denies being a Florida State University campus wash feed member. He spoke at a news conference on arrival with his wife also arrested as reporters questioned them in Tallahassee. Bill Emmerton, 49, leaves Houston Space Center for a 1046 mile run to Cape Kennedy honoring the Apollo 11 crew, projected 26 days at 40 miles per day, claiming 100000 lifetime miles.
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Sidney
Australia
Philip Sandford
Florida State University
Sandford
Sandard
Tallahassee
Space Center
Houston
Bill Emmerton
House
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Emmerton
Labor A Problem For Yap Island
The tourist commission on Yap Island says the island will not be ready for tourists for about ten years. After a year of study it found little local interest in the menial hotel jobs a tourist boom would demand and warned that labor would have to be imported.
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Yap
Teens Charged With Drugs In Bainbridge
Police chief identifies two teens in Bainbridge case Arnold Jones 18 of Gadsden County Florida and a 16 year old from Hapeville Georgia both charged with possession of dangerous drugs. Officers found pills hypodermic needles and other dope equipment at the scene. The case goes to the November term of Decatur County Superior Court.
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Bainbridge
Ennis Pittman
Arnold Jones
Gadsden County
Fla
Hapeville, Ga
Jones
Pittman
Decatur County Superior Court
Sirhan Doing Well at Prison
The mother of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan says he is not happy but is coping, gaining more freedom and better relations with San Quentin officials. She and his brother Munir visited him for the second straight day as he awaits execution for the Kennedy assassination.
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San Quentin, Calif
Sirhan Bishara
Sirhan
San Quentin Prison
Los Angeles
Mary Sirhan
Munir
Robert F. Kennedy
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Georgia State Chamber of Commerce
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County Commissioners’ Association
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Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph
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Georgia School Boards Association
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