Word: rosselini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond Taxation. Last week, watching the formal presentation of the city charter by Governor Albert Rosselini, Richlanders recognized that there was many a problem ahead. G.E. paid its city employees wages 30% to 40% higher than scales in neighboring communities; Richland must meet the rate or possibly lose them. Although the city is bond-free and takes title to debt-free city hall, sewage plant and waterworks, its tax yield at the start will be too small to meet expenses. The Hanford atomic plant is beyond city limits and untaxable; property, liquor and gasoline taxes will be $250,000 less...
...Memphis' famed 88-year-old Movie Censor Lloyd T. Binford announced that his 27-year reign will end when his term expires on Jan. 1. Binford banned Ingrid Bergman films after she married Roberto Rosselini, all Chaplin movies, any picture he thought had too much sex in it, almost any film portraying Negroes in other than servile roles, any movie depicting a railroad robber (he was once on a train that was robbed). "The way it looks, there may not be any censor boards soon," he said morosely. "We try to do what the public demands, and the public...