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Controller Joseph discusses new sales tax, citing vendors liability on sales of 16c or less; sales tax collection schedule; yield estimated
rehearsal; dummy bomb dropped
Service tie-up threatened, SI, when SI Coach Co franchise expires June 30 since Isle Transportation Co has failed to apply for ctf under franchise; Bor Pres Hall comments
quake, Ore and Washington Pacific coastal areas; homes rocked; some damage; Ore Univ seismologists comment
1946David Collenette, Canadian civil servant and politician, 32nd Canadian Minister of National Defence[†]
David Michael Collenette, PC OOnt is a former Canadian politician. From 1974, until his retirement from politics in 2004, he was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. A graduate from York University's Glendon College in 1969, he subsequently received his MA, in 2004 and LL.D for education in 2015 from the same university. He was first elected in the York East riding of Toronto to the House of Commons on 8 July 1974, in the Pierre Trudeau government and returned to Parliament in 1993 representing Don Valley East.
1946Ellison Onizuka, American engineer, and astronaut (died 1986)[†]
Ellison Shoji Onizuka was an American astronaut, engineer, and U.S. Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C. He died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, on which he was serving as Mission Specialist for mission STS-51-L. Onizuka was the first Asian American and the first person of Japanese ancestry to reach space.
1946Robert Reich, American economist and politician, 22nd United States Secretary of Labor[†]
Robert Bernard Reich is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked in the administrations of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and he served as secretary of labor in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. He was also a member of President Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board. In 2008, Time magazine named him one of the Ten Best Cabinet Members of the century; in the same year The Wall Street Journal placed him sixth on its list of Most Influential Business Thinkers.
1946Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (born 1857)[†]
Louise Whitfield Carnegie was an American philanthropist. She was the wife of Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.