Dublin Core
Title
Young Republicans, 1968-1969, p. 6b.
Subject
The Activities of the Mary Washington College Young Republicans Club
Creator
MWC Young Republicans (1968-1969)
Source
Special Collections, Simpson Library, The University of Mary Washington
Publisher
History 428: Adventures in Digital History, 2014
Date
1968-09-14
Format
JPEG
Language
English
Type
Scrapbook
Identifier
MWC Young Republicans 1967-1968
Coverage
1968-1969
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Transcription
Item 1: Community Service – help registration at Mental Health / Association meeting
Item 1: To The Citizens Of Virginia from your State Colleges and Universities / September 14, 1968 / Virginia faces an emergency. / Within two years present State educational and hospital facilities—already over-burdened—will be absolutely inadequate to meet the needs of our growing population. / The people of the Commonwealth of Virginia will vote, on November 5, 1968, to meet this emergency without changing present tax rates or the State Constitution. / In 1928 Governor Harry F. Byrd urged Virginia’s legislature and voters to enact a Constitutional amendment which would enable the State to meet such an emergency. Virginians wisely adopted the amendment, which carefully limited the amount and the purpose for which State construction bonds may be issued. / Now, forty years later, Governor Mills E. Godwin, Jr. has strongly recommended, and the 1968 General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly, that the Constitution’s emergency provision be used. / If on November 5, Virginia citizens for FOR issuing the $81 million in bonds, then urgently-needed classrooms, laboratories, libraries and hospital facilities will be constructed in all parts of the State by 1970 or soon thereafter. / The $81 million represents only 2 ½% of the present State budget. With Virginia’s rising productivity and population, tax revenues will rise at present tax rates. The $81 million bond issues are the most prudent and inexpensive means of providing the construction that is urgently needed now. / The projects to be financed have already been selected by the people, through their elected General Assembly, from among more than $200 million in construction programs that were requested in 1967 by the State-operated colleges, universities, and hospitals, but for which current State tax revenues are inadequate. / There is no other solution. We cannot meet the emergency by limiting students from out-of-state; their number is relatively small now, and the number of Virginia students who in one year left our State for higher education has exceeded by 10,000 the number of out-of-state students enrolled in our own State-operated institutions. Further overcrowding of classroom, laboratory and library space will seriously impair the quality of education. The State Council of Higher Education estimates that our present college and university enrollment of 75,000 should more than double in ten years. / If the November 5 bond issues are not approved, then in the 1970’s qualified Virginia students will be denied places in Virginia colleges and universities; Virginia adults / (Continued on back page)
Item 1: To The Citizens Of Virginia from your State Colleges and Universities / September 14, 1968 / Virginia faces an emergency. / Within two years present State educational and hospital facilities—already over-burdened—will be absolutely inadequate to meet the needs of our growing population. / The people of the Commonwealth of Virginia will vote, on November 5, 1968, to meet this emergency without changing present tax rates or the State Constitution. / In 1928 Governor Harry F. Byrd urged Virginia’s legislature and voters to enact a Constitutional amendment which would enable the State to meet such an emergency. Virginians wisely adopted the amendment, which carefully limited the amount and the purpose for which State construction bonds may be issued. / Now, forty years later, Governor Mills E. Godwin, Jr. has strongly recommended, and the 1968 General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly, that the Constitution’s emergency provision be used. / If on November 5, Virginia citizens for FOR issuing the $81 million in bonds, then urgently-needed classrooms, laboratories, libraries and hospital facilities will be constructed in all parts of the State by 1970 or soon thereafter. / The $81 million represents only 2 ½% of the present State budget. With Virginia’s rising productivity and population, tax revenues will rise at present tax rates. The $81 million bond issues are the most prudent and inexpensive means of providing the construction that is urgently needed now. / The projects to be financed have already been selected by the people, through their elected General Assembly, from among more than $200 million in construction programs that were requested in 1967 by the State-operated colleges, universities, and hospitals, but for which current State tax revenues are inadequate. / There is no other solution. We cannot meet the emergency by limiting students from out-of-state; their number is relatively small now, and the number of Virginia students who in one year left our State for higher education has exceeded by 10,000 the number of out-of-state students enrolled in our own State-operated institutions. Further overcrowding of classroom, laboratory and library space will seriously impair the quality of education. The State Council of Higher Education estimates that our present college and university enrollment of 75,000 should more than double in ten years. / If the November 5 bond issues are not approved, then in the 1970’s qualified Virginia students will be denied places in Virginia colleges and universities; Virginia adults / (Continued on back page)