Medical Center Hospital raised its room rates a week later to finance the pay increases. Among other things, the bonds would have funded construction of a planned vocational-technical school. That issue was defeated resoundingly. On March 25, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that poll taxes were unconstitutional because they posed an economic barrier to voting. He killed 13 and wounded 31 before police killed him.
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