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...most U.S. cities, Duval school budgets are determined by real-estate taxes. But two-thirds of the county's householders duck out of taxes by virtue of low appraisals of the market value of their properties. When these appraisals are figured at the official assessment rate of 42% , they mostly fall below $5,000, which is then forgiven under Florida's ancient "homestead exemption." Every attempt by worried parents to elect an assessor who would raise appraisals has met defeat. Turning from the polls to the courtroom, a band of determined Jacksonville citizens this week begins testifying...
Ruddy turnstones were seen passing through Plymouth yesterday and at the Ipswitch River Sanctuary in Topsfield there were two pileated woodpeckers. Purple finches were in Bedford, and at Fresh Pond there were two canvasbacks, a Canada Goose, and a ring-necked duck...
...that Marlin Perkins, 59, director of the St. Louis Zoo, gets into the act in each weekly episode of NBC's Wild King dom. Last Sunday's "Cattail Country" also had Perkins skimming around the lake in an airboat helping Government conservationists on a duck-banding roundup; on the same show Assistant Jim Fowler was in the Grand Tetons watching a beaver repair a broken dam and following a wet mink on a muskrat hunt...
...ancient riche, Copeland works at underplaying his wealth in public. He leaves his Cadillac at home and each morning drives himself eight miles to work in a Corvair. But his private pleasures are elegantly expensive: salmon fishing in Scotland, cattle breeding on his 3,000-acre farm in Maryland, duck-shooting parties on the Chesapeake (he keeps his eye sharp on a pistol range in his basement). Copeland is also a gourmet and oenological expert who belongs to Le Tastevin, an exclusive society devoted to fine wines, and he employs a French chef who came to him from Lord Astor...
...Moon-Spinners. The mere notion of a juvenile suspense thriller by Walt Disney is apt to give moviegoers the heebie-jeebies. It calls up unnerving images. Seven stray cats finding their way home to a haunted castle. Donald Duck meeting Frankenstein. Hordes of psychotic chipmunks slaughtering each other for nuts. But The Moon-Spinners, filmed in picture-book color on the island of Crete, turns out to be daft and breezy escapism assigned to a cast of flesh-and-blood actors headed by Hayley Mills. Given a plot that might fit snugly into the Nancy Drew mystery series, Hayley plays...