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Last week the most thorough set of proposals so far emerged from a commission appointed by New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and chaired by Lawyer Manly Fleischmann, a registered Independent. Hammered out after two years and nearly $1,000,000 worth of research, the Fleischmann report argues strongly that poor schools must be brought up to the level of rich ones. If property taxes are to be stabilized, then other taxes will have to go up substantially...
...even the tax burdens, the Fleischmann commission proposed that New York become the first state in the nation to take over all the financial powers of its many local school boards. Property taxes would be kept, but the state would freeze them at a flat rate of $20.40 per $1,000-which would yield the same overall amount as property taxes...
Once the state acquired these local tax revenues, according to the Fleischmann plan, it would redistribute the money so that the lower 65% of the state's school districts would rise to the spending levels of those that are now in the upper 35%. The rich districts would not have to "level down," but could keep spending at their current rates while the poor districts catch up. After that, however, the rich towns would be forbidden to raise more money by imposing additional taxes on themselves. Allowing such variations, the commission said, would only re-create the present inequitable...
...most suburbs, which are already paying heavily for education, the Fleischmann recommendations would slightly lower property tax rates. But property taxes would go up in most cities, which must spend far more of their tax revenues on welfare, firemen and police than the suburbs do. Even though cities would get increased aid for their disadvantaged children, New York City Budget Director David Grossman observed: "Any commission that imposes extra burdens on the city of New York for the benefit of well-off suburbs cannot be serious." The suburbs, on the other hand, had a complaint of their own about...
...recent months, scented advertisements for such products as Fleischmann's Gin, Gillette's Foamy Surf-Spray Shaving Cream, and Carven Parfums' Ma Griffe have been published in half a dozen magazines. The first newspaper ads using the process will appear this month. Because of extra production costs, a micro-fragrance ad often doubles the ordinary price for advertising. Still, Reach McClinton's Robert Jaffe, an account executive for Ma Griffe perfume, which ran a micro-fragrance ad in four women's magazines, maintains that the impact makes the high cost worthwhile. "You are putting before...