Word: assessor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Five years ago, the city was listed as a depressed area. Then it boosted the tax on land and cut the tax on buildings by reassessing them. In the resulting building spurt, Southfield has been constructing office space faster than neighboring Detroit, a city 30 times its size. Said Assessor G. Ted Gwartney: "All we had to do was throw off the shackles...
...fact, Humphrey bought the land in 1955 for $200 from a longtime friend, Ray Ewald, a dairy owner who happens to be a Republican. What that land was really worth remains debatable. Ewald's brother contends it could scarcely have commanded $100; the county assessor put the value appreciably higher. Three years before the deal, Ewald's dairy had been involved in an antitrust case along with several other dairies and a union. Their plea was nolo contenders and they were each fined $3,000, more than half of the $5,000 maximum in a case of this...
...candidates--a 65-year-old tax assessor and a Creole pipefitter who lives in Pennsylvania--have no campaign organization and will not affect the election. Of the remaining five, two are not contenders but will take considerable votes from the others. One of the two is Waller, who has attacked both civil rights "rabble-rousers" and the "hooded cowards" of the Ku Klux Klan. Waller has twice tried in vain to convict Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evans. His votes will be Winter's in the likely runoff three weeks from today...
...City Manager was expected to announce the new tax rate yesterday, but a late estimate from the City Assessor's Office has delayed any statement...
...stake are myriad local offices ranging from county sheriff to township assessor, more than 6,800 state legislative posts, 35 governorships, 35 U.S. Senate seats and all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. According to the polls, many Americans-up to 30% in certain races-have lodged themselves squarely in the "undecided" column, which could reflect a simmering, silent dissatisfaction within the electorate or merely a reluctance to size up the issues and candidates...