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...slowness brought him into sharp conflict with the Emergency Fiscal Control Board. He was supposed to deliver details of how and when the city was going to chop the rest of the deficit, year by year. Instead, Beame presented a nine-page outline. Among other things, he proposed to trim thousands of more employees through attrition, continue the wage freeze for two more years, and try to save on equipment purchases, building rentals and capital construction. But to the dismay of the board members, many of them top businessmen, the document was maddeningly vague...
...details? What about the next two years?" Beame quietly asked whether the telephone company can plan ahead for three years. Snapped Ellinghaus: "We can do it for six." After the meeting. Beame told his agency heads to produce firm proposals for cuts by Oct. 22. He hopes to trim police and fire department budgets by an additional 3% and other departments...
...year, the city still has had to postpone about $30 million in capital expenditures-including street improvements-to avoid layoffs or cuts in public services this year. City Administrative Officer C. Erwin Piper predicts that to balance its budget next year Los Angeles will either have to trim some services or raise property taxes again; they went up nearly 10% in August...
...keep in the black, the city council recently raised property taxes by 3.3%. In addition, Dallas will trim 255 city workers from its payroll this year, and City Manager George Schraeder plans to cut an additional $2 million in nonessential services. They include reduced city support for museums, book mobiles and the police department's public relations activities...
Given a slim, trim young body, that is. In tight-fitting overalls, large-beamed ladies often ludicrously resemble Al Capp's pearish Shmoo-or Winston Churchill in his wartime siren suit. But retailers are working with manufacturers to bring out jumps for the well-upholstered...