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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, September 20, 1978

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Tut s ticket line new yorkers 2,000 of them line up in the rain along Central Park to buy Advance tickets for the treasures of tutankhamen exhibition. The show opens dec. 20 at the metropolitan museum. The line of eager ticket buyers for the egyptian boy King exhibition stretched for five blocks. A beware proposition 73, californian tells states los Angeles up county govern ment officials from across the nation got a warning monday from one of their califor Nia counterparts take a Good look before you leap aboard any proposition 13 band Wagon in your state. Edmund Edelman one of the five Mem Bers of the los Angeles county Board of supervisors addressed a conference on local government tax and finance issues sponsored by the National association of counties. Edelman was bluntly pessimistic about the Long Range effects of the California initiative which Cut property tax revenues by57 percent. We have to live with it Edelman said. We Hope you Don t. Because frankly Weare about to be  local governments were bailed out by the state this year because it had a $7 Bil holocaust Resolution is signed by president Washington up _ president car Ter has signed a joint congressional Resolution declaring next april 28 and 29 As Days of remembrance of the victims of the  the systematic extermination of Mil Lions of human beings by the nazis during world War ii was the most terrible crime in All recorded history Carter said in statement. The dates Mark the anniversary in 1945 when . Troops liberated the Dachau concentration Camp. Carter said the dates aptly symbolize both the horror of genocide and the imperative to fight against  the Resolution was introduced by sen. John Danforth a to. Lion surplus Edelman said. There Are fore casts of another $4 billion state surplus next year. The supervisor said gov. Edmund g. Brownjr. Was eager to hand out the surplus this year because he is running for re election. But what about next year and How about the year after that we Haven t seen the real proposition 13. Will the real proposition 13 please stand up Edelman said the state had a surplus be cause its Economy was booming and Cali fornia income taxes were higher than the should be. But we Are already beginning to see an erosion of our level of local services he said. In the bail out Bill passed by the state we were told we could not raise wages of local employees although we had signed a contract for such raises  rent freeze Edelman said one of the results of proposition 13 had been imposition of a rent freeze in los Angeles and other cities be cause apartment landlords were not Shar ing their proposition 13 windfalls. I must warn you in other states to be Ware of proposition 13," he said. I advise you to get Relief for your individual Home owners in some other fashion before you Are overwhelmed by something like  rep. James Corman d-calif., also cautioned the county officials not to expect the Federal government to make up property tax losses because the Federal deficit this year alone was $35 billion while 20 individual states had surpluses. Corman said that through Revenue Shar ing Grants in Aid and other programs the Federal government in 1977 sent Back $6.8 billion to California compared to $632 Mil lion in 1961. There is no surplus of funds in Washington he said. Stateside Singlaub says Carter pressures joint chiefs St. Louis up members of the joint chiefs of staff Are being threatened with forced retirement if they do not give Public support to foreign policy decisions of the Carter administration retired army maj. Gen. John k. Singlaub charged tues Day. In an copyrighted interview with the St. Louis Globe Democrat Singlaub whose criticism of Carter policy in South Korea and Panama led to his retirement said past policy has allowed the joint chiefs to remain silent about policy decisions with which they disagree. But now Singlaub said they no Longe have the option to remain silent. Officers who do not publicly support administration military policy Are being threatened with forced Early retirement the newspaper said paraphrasing sing Laub and top ranking officers appearing before congressional committees Are also being forced to support the  Tricia Nixon Cox expecting baby c  
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