No Tax Hike Proposed in City Budget for 1973-74
Winchester City Council Finance Committee recommends a record $8,293,677 budget for fiscal 1973-74 with no tax increase. The plan relies on $551,000 in federal Revenue Sharing to fund capital projects. The total budget is 6.7 percent above this year’s $7,775,901. Councilman James H. presented details in a transmittal letter at a special meeting.
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Pat Robinson
Winchester
Council
James H
Virginia
Five U S Soldiers Marines Charged With Aiding The Enemy
The Army says five U S soldiers held as POWs and three enlisted Marines are accused of aiding the enemy at Hanoi The Plantation camp in two cases they allegedly helped North Vietnamese by constructing model aircraft for target practice at the POW site The eight captives had been linked to antiwar statements and messages and faces possible court martial prompt action remains uncertain pending Army and Marine decisions
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Army
Air Force
Theodore W. Guy
Tucson
Ariz
Hanoi
Marine Corps
Guy
U.S
Chenoweth
Young
Michael P. Branch
Highland Heights
James A. Daly Jr
Brooklyn
N.Y
King D. Rayford
Chicago
Alfonso Riate
Santa Rosa
Calif
Abel L. Kavanaugh
Denver
Colo
Frederick L. Elbert Jr
Brentwood
NBC
Daly
Col
Skylab astronauts begin first orbital earth observations mission
Orbital Survey Starts in space center Houston as Charles Conrad Jr and Paul J Weitz plan to activate photosensors and study crops weather mineral deposits and volcanoes across Oregon to Brazil. Kerwin draws blood samples and eight telescopes show solar views described as completely satisfactory.
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Earth
Charles Conrad Jr
Paul J. Weitz
Conrad
Weitz
Joseph P. Kerwin
Kerwin
GOP Considers Food Drug Tax Repeal
Roanoke report says Virginia Republican platform staff draft calls for repealing the sales tax on food and nonprescription drugs if a reasonable alternative tax can win General Assembly approval. Del. Vincent Callahan Jr. notes 1974 Food and Drug tax revenue would be 101.6 million, with food 76.2 and drugs 25.4. Former Gov. Mills Godwin Jr. opposes businhg and seeks offsetting revenue.
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Roanoke
del. Vincent F. Callahan Jr
McLean
The
World News
Callahan
General Assembly
State Department of Taxation
State Treasury
Department of Transportation
Mills E. Godwin Jr
Godwin
Secret White House plan on spying exposed in Watergate era
Sources describe a covert domestic intelligence plan involving multiple federal agencies to spy on radicals. It allegedly included mail interception, phone tapping, income tax audits, and informers, but Hoover opposed it in 1970 and Nixon later withdrew the plan.
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Washington
White House
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
John W. Dean III
CIA
Nixon
Watergate
Robert E. Cushman
E. Howard Hunt
Hunt
Daniel Ellsberg
Ronald L. Ziegler
Senate
Hoover
Winchester Public Schools First Grade Registration Tomorrow
Winchester Public schools will hold registration tomorrow for all children entering first grade in the fall. Registration is at the elementary school serving each attendance zone. Children must reach their sixth birthday by September 30 to enter first grade.
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Winchester Public Schools
Jacob L. Johnson
Hungary Not Neutral, Ambassador Tells Lions
Dr. Karoly Szebo, ambassador from Hungary, tells Winchester Lions Club Hungary is not neutral and supports relations with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. He stresses end of the Cold War and European security through talks in Vienna and Helsinki aimed at peace and equal security.
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Karoly Szebo
Winchester Lions Club
George Washington Hotel
Lions Club
David B. Grim
P. E. Morris Jr
Hungarian People’s Republic
Amxador
Ministry of Foreign Service
Japan
Tanzania
Zaire
Zambia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Szebo
Europe
Helsinki
Vienna
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Hungary
Seccussador Sais
Bradley Defeats Yorty for Los Angeles Mayor
Thomas Bradley, a Black former police lieutenant, unseats Mayor Sam Yorty with 56.3 percent of the vote to become Los Angeles first Negro mayor. Bradley vows progress and vigour while Yorty concedes after a long campaign marked by racial tensions.
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Los Angeles
Thomas Bradley
Sam Yorty
Bradley
U.S
Yorty
California
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Bernard L. Barker
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John D. Ehrlichman
Ellsberg
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John G. Tower
R-Tex
Hugh Scott
Mike Mansfield
Thomas F. Eagleton
People’s Republic of China
Huang Chen
China
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George Pompidou
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