Word: payments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scheme is to collect enough S. & H. Green Stamps to make a hefty down payment on a private plane for Jones. Heading the stamp drive is Jones's wife, Syble, high priestess of the Klan's women's auxiliary in nearby Salisbury. At Klan klatsches, Syble reminds the white-robed sisters that hub by and his Klan kohorts could do much more for the cause if they had wings-and then asks the ladies to hand over their stamp books...
Annoyed at the service charges and deferred payment of national card plans, restaurants in some cities have banded together to form their own credit plans; in Seattle, 15 restaurants have thus managed to reduce costs and arrange for immediate payments from cooperating banks, have even got 94 other merchants to join them. The major transatlantic steamship lines are thinking of issuing a card, something like the air-travel card, that would cover passage and shipboard purchases. Oil companies, which have offered oil and gas on credit for years, are now offering a whole new line of credit possibilities. Mobil cards...
Richard E. McLaughlin, Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles, has written the City Council that "a very large proportion of the payment markings...have been created without the knowledge or approval of the Department of Public Works and, in consequence, are without legal standing before the courts of the Commonwealth...
...this sort of personal control of city operations by men not responsible to the people whose lives they influence that backers of an automatic payment hoped to eliminate. But the opposition was too strong on this point and home rule strategists were forced to compromise. Byrd and Natcher will retain their power. The Capitol, and not the District Building, will continue to be Washington's city hall--and Congress will inevitably continue to spend valuable time on local matters...
...granted the citizens of the District, racial prejudice may serve as stickum for a series of future coalitions and ungentlemanly agreements to frustrate what will be a largely Negro city administration. Those in Congress who fought for home rule will have to continue to fight. Without the automatic payment the District is only half free...