New School Aid Formula Proposed to Legislature
A Virginia study panel proposes a new education aid formula to the General Assembly. It would shift funding, raise state costs in 1970 71, and base local payments on property values and a 1 sales tax share. The plan includes 10 per pupil capital outlay and 7 per pupil transportation, with guarantees to maintain uniform standards.
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Del
George N. McMath
Acgomack County
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McMath
William and Mary Receives $300000 Endowment Gift
Jay W. Johns of Charlottesville donates 300000 in stocks to the College of William and Mary for colonial history materials. President Dr. Davis Y Paschall says the fund aims to build a premier collection complementing the Colonial Williamsburg restoration. Johns, 81, is blind and an honorary doctor of laws recipient.
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College of William and Mary
Davis Y Paschall
Jay W. Johns
Charlottesville
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Johns
Paschall
College
William and Mary
Lettie Pate Evans
Sweden sex education facts debunked by Dear Abby
Abigail Van Buren counters anti sex education claims with United Nations World Health Organization data on Sweden. She compares rates of personal crisis, alcoholism, divorce, abortion access, rape, and venereal disease to the United States to challenge the rumor that Sweden’s schools caused moral decline.
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Chicago Trikene-M. Y. Mews Symp., Inc
Sweden
Stockholm
United Nations World Health Organization
Geneva
Switzerland
Austria
Hungary
Denmark
Czechoslovakia
Finland
California
France
United States
Royal Medical Board
Maryland
Abigail van Boren
This Day In History January Twelfth Highlights
This date marks the birth of John Hancock in 1737 in Braintree Massachusetts and notable events through 1965 including Lincoln Davis peace talks, Caraway’s Senate election in 1938, Churchill meeting de Gaulle in 1944, and modern and colonial era political upheavals.
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Associated Press
John Hancock
Braintree
Mass
Warwick
R.I
Samuel Gorton
Massachusetts
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Richmond
Hattie Caraway
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Marrakesh
Morocco
Belgium
Soviet Union
Arctic Circle
Mediterranean
Sukarno
Funeral services for Pulitzer biographer Lenoir Chambers
Funeral services are planned in Norfolk for Lenoir Chambers 78 Pulitzer Prize winning biographer and former editor of the Norfolk Virginian Pilot who died Saturday after a stroke. Chambers won a Pulitzer for a Stonewall Jackson biography and spent 41 years in journalism. He opposed Virginia’s massive resistance to desegregation editorially. Burial follows at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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Norfolk
Lenoir Chambers
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
Chambers
Norfolk General Hospital
Stonewall Jackson
Norfolk Ledger-Star
Ledger-Star
Virginian-Pilot
Virginia
Oliver Funeral Apartments
Forest Lawn Cemetery
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