Ukiah Beds Tax Sparks Tourism Debate In County Session
Ukiah and Mendocino County officials consider a four percent transient occupancy tax on motels and hotels effective July 1. Motel owners express concern about this bed tax and its impact on tourism while chambers and business groups push to grow tourism and service sector revenue. Local voters may seek repeal via initiative if action is contested.
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Ukiah ‘City
Arthur D. Little
Mendota County
Kinh
Willits
Fort Bragg
Ukiah and
County Chambers of Jenners
Redwood Empire Association
Berea College Model of Labor and Dignity on Campus
A Kentucky Berea College article extols its labor based education for 600 students mostly from mountain counties. Students work at least 10 hours weekly while paying under 500 dollars for room and board. The motto God Hath Made of One Blood All Nations is cited, and the campus is praised for free thought and orderly conduct without violence.
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Kentucky
Berea College
Tee
Mountain
Ciieve
America
Sibové
Southern
Hakills
Boone Tavern
Ellmen
Potholes in Poverty Debate Stir Ypsilanti Controversy
In Ypsilanti Michigan a local group Return Every Penny Leave Ypsi demands the city pull out an $188 10 antipoverty project. Unreadable excerpts show residents unsure of poverty status until University experts intervene. Nearby Cleveland private welfare agencies warn government aid could end private charity.
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Mich
BPS
Great Lakes
Cleveland
Ten Years Ago 4-H Leaders Conference in Santa Barbara
Eighteen northwest California 4-H members and leaders attend the 4-H Club Junior Leaders Conference in Santa Barbara. Delegates include Mrs. Donald Babcock of Fort Bragg and Robert Myers of Redwood Valley. Also noted are local visits by relatives and community figures with party travel and family reunions shaping a quiet but newsworthy capstone to the week.
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Northwest California
Santa Barbara
Donald ‘Babcock
Fort Bragg
Robert Myers
Redgwood Valley
Margaret Pheland
Edna ‘Mae
Dorsett
Leggett
Joan Prather
Harry Allen
San Francisco
Leslie Larson
Ukiah
Assembly Passes 1965 66 Budget and Tax Bill
The Assembly swiftly approved the 1965 66 budget totaling about 4.14 billion, with 58 to 18 votes and 16 Republicans joining 42 Democrats. Compromises trimmed expenditures by roughly 21 million while addressing welfare and university funding reductions that failed to be restored. The omnibus tax bill, aimed at shifting about 500 million from local property taxes to the state, faced stiff opposition and required concessions such as repealing property taxes and certain credits to pass.
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Senate
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Ways and Means
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Golumpis
Treasury
Hank
Anyelyed
Sacramento Travel and State Tax Reform Roundup
Mr and Mrs Claire Bartlett and Mr and Mrs W O White toured Napa Sonoma Counties visiting old home places and resorts. In Sacramento the legislature debated tax reform with Speaker Unruh proposing interim study and possible 1967 drive for tax relief funding local governments, while Eugene V Klein declined a state athletic commission post due to conflicts. Other items include a July 7 bond sale of 120 million for construction and veterans housing, and two liquor measures advancing to law affecting license transfers and proximity rules.
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W. .O. White
Billie
Napa
Sonoma Counties
Bartlett
Bec
Harry Morris
Calistoga
Rebecca Brown
Bert Adams
Cloverdale
John Cooley
Sacramento
ENB
Jesse M
Unruh
Nicholas D. ‘Petris
Oakland
Klein
Eugene V. Klein
State Athletic Commission
Brown
Athletic Commission
Fair Employment Practices‘ Commission
Bert A. Betts
California
Luther E Gibson
Vallejo
Hugh M. Burns
Fresno
High altitude fish planting by California fish and game
Sacramento notes the state fish and game department operates a small air fleet to plant fingerling trout in mountain lakes. The Beechcraft aircraft and two Cessnas deliver up to 3500 fingerlings per release, with regular operations starting July 5 and extending past Labor Day to cover 800 lakes. Senior pilot Al Reese leads a team including Carroll Face Patrick Symons and Leo Singer. They also perform patrols and counts of antelope, deer, and waterfowl from low flight altitudes.
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CNS
State Department of Fish and Game
Air Force
al Reese
Department
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Reese
Carroll Face
Patrick Symons
Leo Singer
Symons
San Bernarding County
Ene
Johnson push to give medical research to drug firms
The Johnson administration presses a controversial plan to hand billions in taxpayer funded medical research to major drug companies. Secretary Connor, formerly Merck president, is cited as a potential beneficiary amid patent giveaways. Hollomon Eaton Beckler Hornig and White House aides back or resist the move as Medicare bill votes approach.
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Johnson
John T. Connor
Merck
Connor
Forane Arere
ASE
Commerce For
Science ‘and Technology
J.herbert Hollomon
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Hollomon
General Electric
Holloman
Eaton
White House
David Z. Beckler
Donald Hornig
Hornig
Princeton
Senate
Repeal Bed Tax Urged by Mendocino County Citizens
Ukiah June 21 1965 letters urge repeal of a bed tax as a threat to local self government and economy. Writer argues state preemption harms liberty and cites Las Vegas influences while promoting ballot placement for public vote. Also comments on Medicare patent issues and gun control measures linked to Senator Dodd and Olin Mathieson case.
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Ukiah
Calif
Daily Journal
League of California
County Supervisors Association
Mendocino County
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Mexico
Mendocino
California
Rejected Appointment of John Rutledge as Chief Justice
Summary of the 1795 Senate action where John Rutledge of South Carolina was rejected by the Senate for the position of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The record notes the historic vote against Washington's nomination and the resulting vacancy in the late eighteenth century Supreme Court.
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Senate
Washington
John Rutledge
South Carolina
Supreme Court
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