Thursday, June 2, 1949

From the day

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The Headlines

RECORD TAX RATE DUE DESPITE RISE IN CITY VALUATIONS; Rolls Total $18,112,231,179, $527,738,966 Above Those for This Fiscal Year NEW BUILDINGS BIG FACTOR 1-Point Increase in Present Levy Would Make Basic Rate $2.90, Highest Ever Set CITY ASSESSMENTS FORECAST TAX RISE

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)

Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra

#1 at the box office

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

You Share a Birthday With

• Pope Pius X (1835)
• Thomas Hardy (1840)
• Marquis de Sade (1740)
• Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857)
• Pope Leo XI (1535)

Slang

Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)