Taxpayer revolt grows as bond issues meet resistance
Across the nation taxpayers show increasing reluctance to approve bond issues and school budgets raising taxes. Grosse Pointe Mich rejected three tax increases in 2.1 votes, New Jersey saw a record 145 school budgets rejected, while Oregon and California districts report higher defeat rates and cutbacks. Local support hinges on taxation fears and state aid gaps, with broad regional variation in outcomes.
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Associated Press
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Kansas Tax. Payers Federation
Kansas City, Mo
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Office of Education
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
George Eddington
Grosse Pointe, Mich
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Asa A. Gordon
Maine
Gordon
Los Angeles
California Teachers Association
Missouri
South Carolina
Carlos Gibbons
South Carolina Education Association
Lloyd Markell
Montana Education Association
Alaska
Don Berry
Alaska Municipal League
Arizona
Scottsdale
Phoenix
Yuma
Bank Robbery Follows Idle Movie Warning
In Nashville Tennessee two masked gunmen robbed a bank branch taking $12979 after staff followed a film’s suggested conduct during a holdup. Bank employees and customers laid on the floor as thieves emptied cash drawers.
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Nashville
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Long Television Programs Expand On NBC Schedule
NBC plans longer show formats across the 1968 69 season with three movie nights and a new two hour news program First Tuesday premiering January 1969 The shift follows a trend from short half hour formats to ninety minute and two hour formats driven by audience preference and backlogged film libraries.
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NBC
Don Durgin
NBC Television Network
Hollywood Radio and Television Society
Durgin
Universal
United Artists
New Virginia Chamber Elects Daniel as President
Daniel from Danville elected president of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce at the 4th annual meeting in Roanoke. Delegates debated political endorsements by local chambers while addressing education hiring of the hard core unemployed and urban problems. The session featured GE executive Louis T. Rader and Republic Steel’s L. C. Michelon. The Suez Canal opened November 17, 1869.
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Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
Del
Daniel
Danville
Virginia
Chambers of Commerce
Jack C. Smith
Roanoke Valley Chamber
General Electric Cos
Louis T. Rader
Chamber
L. C. Michelon
Republic Steel Corp
R. C. Richardson
Arlington
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