Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation, insurance for auto, fire, and especially burglary, is becoming much costlier and, in many areas, hard to buy at any price. Burglary insurance is no longer generally available in the larger cities of at least a dozen states-California, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Missouri, Maryland, Connecticut and Delaware-plus Washington...
...largest of the troubled Missouri districts is Hazelwood, a working-class suburb of spreading subdivisions and apartment projects. In 15 years, Hazelwood's school enrollment has grown from 1,000 to nearly 25,000. At the same time, tax revenue from industrial and commercial property has fallen from one-fourth of the school budget to 7%. When Hazelwood voters began protesting higher property taxes in earnest last year, it took four elections to pass a school-tax levy. After four more elections in 1970, the voters have still not approved a levy...
Cities like Sacramento, Calif., and Columbus have followed the example of towns and suburbs by rejecting school-funding proposals. The revolt is most dramatic in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Oregon and California, but few states have been spared. Six years ago, bond issues for new schools enjoyed a 73% success rate at the polls across the nation. In 1969, the figure fell...
...words of one of its leading members, Missouri Democrat Richard Boiling, the House of Representatives is "ineffective . . . negative ... Its procedures, time-consuming and unwieldy, mask anonymous centers of irresponsible power. Its legislation is often a travesty of what the national welfare requires." Last week, facing an opportunity to alter that image, the House left it largely intact...
Dying Waters. Because most feed lots are situated near lakes, rivers or streams so that livestock can be watered, rain can cause heavy manure runoffs that in turn pollute the water supply. Waste materials equivalent to those produced by 100 million people, for example, have been measured in the Missouri River between Omaha and Kansas City. Such enormous manure runoffs produce disease-carrying bacteria and have so increased the nitrate and phosphate levels in some waterways that algae proliferate, choking off other forms of life. Toxic elements in manure are believed responsible for killing 1,500,000 game fish...