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NEA comm proposes US return portion of personal income tax revenue to states for operating schools
OAKLAND, Calif., July 5-- The Congress of Racial Equality took a major step last night toward becoming an organization for Negroes only. It had already severed most of its ties with the civil rights movement.
Educ Bd authorizes creation of 3 experimental school dists to be run by elected bds consisting of parents, community residents and members of local school staffs with power to choose admrs, participate in setting educ policy and control funds; 3 dists are E Harlem (including IS 201), Ocean Hills-Brownsville sec of Bklyn and Two Bridges area of Manhattan's Lower E Side; 4th pilot project set for PS 129 in Bedford-Stuyvesant sec; plans being developed by parents, community reprs and UFT; bd pres Giardino says projects are in line with bd plans to test various forms of decentralization and spur community involvement in local school affairs
FCC rules AT&T is entitled to 7-7 1/2% return on interstate and internatl services; orders long-distance and internatl rates cut by avg 3%, about $120-million a yr, cutting co earnings in those fields to about 7 1/4%; opens way for states to act to cut local rates about 1%; repts co's '66 earnings exceeded 8.5%; details; co statement
France abandons $800-million project to develop swing-wing strike and reconnaissance craft that GB planned to make 'core' of RAF after '75; Min Healey says France abandoned project because of costs, s, Commons; blames France; says GB met all French requests on financing and design; says some other Brit-French projects will continue; effects of move on Brit mil planning and some alternatives discussed
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 5, 1967, covering July 6, 1967.
The Beatles
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Aretha Franklin
Jefferson Airplane
1967Heather Nova, Bermudian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Heather Nova is a Bermudian singer-songwriter and poet. As of 2022, she has released eleven full-length albums, six EPs and twelve singles.
1967Hilda Taba, Estonian architect and educator (born 1902)[†]
Hilda Taba was an architect, a curriculum theorist, a curriculum reformer, and a teacher educator. Taba was born in the small village of Kooraste, Estonia. Her mother's name was Liisa Leht, and her father was a schoolmaster whose name was Robert Taba. Hilda Taba began her education at the Kanepi Parish School. She then attended the Võru’s Girls’ Grammar School and earned her undergraduate degree in English and Philosophy at the University of Tartu. When Taba was given the opportunity to attend Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, she earned her master's degree. Following the completion of her degree at Bryn Mawr College, she attended Teachers College at Columbia University. She applied for a job at the University of Tartu but was turned down because she was female, so she became curriculum director at the Dalton School in New York City. In 1951, Taba accepted an invitation to become a professor at San Francisco State College, now known as San Francisco State University.
1967Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.[†]
The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, Nigeria-Biafra War, or Biafra War, was fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state which had declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967. Nigeria was led by General Yakubu Gowon, and Biafra by Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu Ojukwu. The conflict resulted from political, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions which preceded the United Kingdom's formal decolonisation of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963. Immediate causes of the war in 1966 included a military coup, a counter-coup, and anti-Igbo pogroms in the Northern Region. The pogroms and the exodus of surviving Igbos from the Northern Region to the Igbo homelands in the Eastern Region led the leadership of the Eastern Region to conclude that the Nigerian federal government would not protect them and that they must protect themselves in an independent Biafra.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]