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<br />COLORADO INFORl;ATION Newltter - TPursdav. _DEr-1J_1..J.9.5j.;. ~~gEL..:h
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<br />Old age pensj.ons will continue at a ma:'imum po1;;;;16;1'(. oi' $[;5 for this month.
<br />Avera::,e payment to the 5!j.,20J eligible personsw:'_ll b e ~:72o'!.5o
<br />Revenues for the pc:msloll <11.J'".ng the n.l'st four lilOlOt.hs of 19)4 were six por-
<br />cent less tl1an in 1953t .?c.:cnrd:~.r.g to actin:; v1clf3.re di:"ect.or J'ohn A. Du.."1n,,~(/~')1
<br />.revenuo for pensions in tpril uas $1,892,1!}3,2C, and for the first four reon;.;,s
<br />$9,870,842.85. Since tLe first uf the :re<.ir thei'c has been an increase of 4Cl
<br />pensioners......
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<br />The state boarc.: of edilcat.i~n rr,oved to give full-sl'lal" hGarj.'1(;s to five
<br />Colorado teachers--..LI-r','e iE t"" Denver area--...r~nlo'!ed from their positions because
<br />of information ebout ~:heir 2.JJq,edly subve;'si';e uacl:erounds prov'.;.deC: by Gov.
<br />Thornton to their s(~\''l') 1 I..:l.;:;"",'~ i,-. ::uc,
<br />Reason for stef':':'!'1.'; ~.c..w:.s "llat t'.1e tc:?chers are licensed and certified by
<br />the state board. 16 v~-?:-tSfj~. a~KJ -;::er :ifice:tion \tl.ll be at issue; hiring ar:.d
<br />firing and ,1ersonnel poLic:;.es are l()cal schoJl proble,011'; up tr) lr)cal school boards,
<br />it VIas said.
<br />Sources of the infoI",lation about alleGedly subversiv\3 activities were not
<br />divulged.
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<br />Eont.rose County ap!')rO'1ed an $'380,000 bond :l.ssue, int.ended to meet the needs
<br />oi an expandint; pupulation in t.he Ul'cr.l1.nr.~ric!'l area:,: Over half a cillion dollars
<br />of the bond issue is to go to build a neVI l:1g11 school, work to begin this sununer.
<br />and to be completed by mid-l95~. . . . . . . .
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<br />A full-scale drive to curb srceed- aIYl. reckless-drivers was launched by Gov.
<br />Thornton wl th the use of radar speed c:lec:: davices, llilJlIarked stat;) pat.rol and
<br />police car', ar;d ~oadblocks.
<br />Death rate to date lias 25% higher than a yer.r ago.
<br />Radar devices ,.lill b3 set up in all five 11i::.;lm<lY patl'ol districts of Colorado.
<br />They arc to be put in ser1l'ice ir,nedE.tely OIl arrival, even if warni.n(; signs are
<br />not finished. The pa trol also ',Jill use airplanes to spot speaders and radio
<br />to wai tlng patrol cars on the groun<;l.
<br />Greeter cooperation ill the traffic safety drive from all law enlftorcement
<br />officers and traffio courts, wi tll heavier fines and penalties, including jail
<br />sentences, was askedc.oeo.....
<br />Earlier, the "sellin,;" of safoty to high school and college students uas
<br />cited at a joint adult-teena[;e traffic safet;r confcre:lce by GO'le:rnor Thornton.
<br />Increased traffic safety infOl'lllation W1:S <:c.vocated to be supplied to the
<br />public......... .
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<br />The advantages of n s~te in northorn Colorado as a pntential location for
<br />an Air Force Acatlemy uere po.2.nted up in a canpai.gn launched to get the Academy
<br />into Colorado.........
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<br />An editorial ,.;ri tten bj the l:e,.rton NE~:S and r',pro,:uoed in TEE IO,:A COUi,TY
<br />OFFICER seemed pertinent in viell of the current drive to place the four-:rear
<br />term on the >lovenber ballot by :)et:'-tion, and Colo:-ac.o Informatj.Qll here prints an
<br />excerpt:"....Certainly two years hardly Gives a :.>e].'s~n time enough to 0 ecorne settled
<br />in his job and to becor"e acquainted Tn. th "'.11 of its r:unifioations. And to have
<br />to <lorry about the seouri ty of your poci tion every t,.1O ;rears according to hO~1 the
<br />politic81.,linds bloll, Hould be trytng on one's abilit;Y' alJd ;>eace of mind, to say
<br />the lea,st.
<br />Four j"ears Hould give a person time not mly to really knm'l his office, but
<br />also to :;1\-e t,1e public better service and j:mre for its money......."
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