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The Assault on Public Services
WTO, CAFTA and the Assault on Public Services
by Deborah James
Trade agreements have historically dealt with the movement of goods across nations. But corporate interests are attempting to expand their control of the world's resources and labor for profit by redefining 'trade' to include a host of other activities. The most recent generation of trade rules have grown exponentially to attempt to cover services, both across borders as well as within nations. The U.S.-Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), are two such agreements that could greatly impact crucial aspects of our lives. The accessibility of education, the quality of our water, the cost of and quality of our healthcare, and the development of our communities are being threatened by a massive corporate takeover.
What is a Service?
Today, services constitute a bigger share of the global economy than ever before. A service is anything you can't drop on your foot: the work of lawyers, accountants, doctors, nurses, teachers, child care and elder care employees, librarians, architects, and other professionals are services. Services also include water collection and distribution, mail delivery, electricity generation and distribution, tourism, shipping, construction, transportation, oil drilling, waste incineration, and sewage treatment. Services constitute between 70 percent and 80 percent of the United States' economy, and make up more than 60 percent of the global economy. Some services are essential for human survival, like healthcare, water distribution, and education, but the category also includes retail services, entertainment, financial services, electricity, transportation, and many, many other sectors.
Resistance to Privatization: A Lightening Rod
On October 22, 2002, over 150,000 Salvadorans protested against the privatization of health care and electricity that would be required under CAFTA. On January 27, 2003, over 125,000 came out again against the privatization of health care and CAFTA. On March 13 it was over 250,000. On January 12 of 2003, Nicaraguan activists protested CAFTA outside their National Assembly, calling on legislators to reject the privatization of water that would be the first step in the CAFTA process. In Costa Rica, thousands of people have mobilized against CAFTA's forced privatization of telecommunications. On April 2, tens of thousands of Central Americans held a rally outside the official CAFTA negotiating sessions in San Salvador. These protests have continued across the region throughout the negotiating period. Now that CAFTA has been negotiated, citizens in Central America have been mobilizing to prevent their Congress from ratifying it. Wonder what all the fuss is about?
Services and the WTO
In 1994, WTO negotiators established the GATS agreement, and built in successive rounds of negotiations to achieve greater "market access" to service sectors for foreign corporations. The corporations driving the WTO are aiming to restrict the ability of governments to regulate services, while forcing governments to open up public services for sale to private, foreign, unaccountable corporations. In 2000, a new round of WTO services negotiations was launched.
In the negotiations, countries make what are called "requests" and "offers" of other countries regarding which services should be covered by the agreement's rules. The U.S. has already made commitments (offers to restrict regulation and allow other countries' corporations to buy our services) in the sectors of energy, healthcare, environmental services, education, temporary workers, professional services, and media. The U.S.'s top agenda in terms of requests (of other countries to restrict regulation and allow private U.S. corporations to purchase their services) focus on financial services, energy services, telecommunications, distribution, and express delivery.
Services and CAFTA
Under the GATS/WTO, in order for a service to be included in the agreement, it must have explicitly been included in the negotiations – on a list of services called a country's "schedule of commitments." If a country decides not to commit a service, that sector will not be affected by the agreement. CAFTA, however, takes a much more aggressive approach. Under CAFTA's services rules, all services are included unless they have specifically been exempted – for Central America. The poor countries of Central American were in a much weaker negotiating position vis-à-vis the United States, and have left their service sectors wide open for U.S. corporate pillaging. Shockingly, however, U.S. trade negotiators only committed what they had already agreed to under the GATS/WTO. This means that while U.S. negotiators maintained protections for U.S. service corporations, they forced Central Americans to expose theirs – a clear example of the hypocritical, unfair disparities that occur in negotiations between very poor and very rich countries.
De-Regulation: Abolishing Public Oversight of Corporate Behavior
Many services that are important to the functioning of society, like telecommunications and transportation, are operated through a mix of public and private enterprise. Others, like banking, electricity, and accounting, are generally controlled by the private sector. In both cases, the public exerts oversight over corporate behavior through regulations to ensure transparency and accountability, protect the environment, enforce labor laws, guard against monopolies, ensure payment of taxes, etc. For years, corporations have fought battles for "de-regulation" – to abolish or reduce the enforcement of laws intended to protect consumers, workers, and the environment.
The energy crisis in California is a good example of what can go wrong when a public utility like electricity is de-regulated based on corporate interests. Public oversight was restricted, while mergers were allowed that consolidated power in just a few corporations. Those corporations then manipulated the markets to create an artificial scarcity that caused dramatic price increases. Consumers were subjected to rolling blackouts, and in the end overcharged $6.2 billion in 2000. Deregulation was a bonanza for the electricity corporations, but consumers paid through the nose for diminished service.
The services rules in CAFTA and GATS/WTO would open the door to a wholesale assault on health, safety, labor, and environmental laws worldwide. Since services do not face trade barriers in the form of border tariffs or taxes, access to foreign markets is restricted through national regulations. Thus the liberalization of the trade in services implies modifications of national laws and regulations.
The way the services rules are written in CAFTA and GATS, governments—national, and in many instances, state and local—are prevented from having regulations that are deemed "more burdensome than necessary" to business. That frighteningly vague definition unfortunately includes many important environmental, health, and labor laws. For instance, laws regarding how a service is provided, such as anti-sweatshop laws, or laws requiring the use of environmentally sound processes are construed as "more burdensome than necessary" in that they deal with how a service is provided, rather than the quality of the service itself. Regulations regarding where services can be provided, such as laws restricting the location of big-box stores, or development in sensitive ecological areas would similarly be subject to challenge.
The Corporate Agenda of Privatization: Forcing Governments to Sell Essential Services
CAFTA and GATS don't only threaten government regulations. They also raise the specter of a sweeping privatization of the public services on which ordinary people — especially poor and working class people — depend. In negotiations of services rules, multinational corporations have lobbied negotiators to gain access to local postal services, health care services, educational services, and utility services in an effort to expand their businesses.
Many services are essential for the survival and dignified development of human beings, as codified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including the right to education (Article 26), health care (Article 25), and social security (Article 22). Generally, these services are provided for the public good by state and local governments, rather than for profit by corporations.
But corporations know that transferring control of these "public goods" to themselves – a process called privatization - represents a major source of potential wealth. Under CAFTA and the GATS expansion, trade in services would be "liberalized". These new rules would speed up the process of deregulation and privatization already underway in many countries, a process that is eliminating public oversight of essential services – and violating citizens' human rights to health care, water, and education.
The problem is that when important public goods such as health and education are managed by for-profit companies, the bottom line comes first while health standards and education suffer. Local control is lost as crucial services come under the management of giant, unaccountable corporations headquartered thousands of miles away. And as money for public services is diverted to private companies, the poor are left to rely on an under-funded and inadequate public sector or else to fend for themselves.
Health Care in El Salvador Under Attack
Since it first became clear that El Salvador's health care system was on the chopping block under CAFTA, Salvadorans have taken to the streets in droves. They are demanding that the public maintain control over the health care system. Allowing private foreign investors to control health care, they argued, would mean that quality care would be provided only for those who could afford it. The vast majority of the population wouldn't be able to pay for private clinics, and would be left to be sick and die. The best doctors and nurses would leave the poorly-funded public sector and move into the more lucrative private sector. Instead, Salvadorans have been fighting for a more effective, preventative and community-based health care system with an investment in medical education.
Anti-Privatization mural in El Salvador.
Nicaraguans Struggle for Access to Water
Lack of access to clean drinking water is one of the leading causes of death for poor people globally. Carlos Pacheco, Executive Director of the Center for International Studies, explains that "more than half of all Nicaraguans lack potable water in their homes. This vital service must be expanded and administered solely by the public sector in our country in the interests of the people…and not as a commodity to be sold for profit. [Nicaraguans] are fighting against the privatization of water which is being pushed by…CAFTA. We see access to water as a human right."
Privatization: a Corporate Wish List
Major multinational service corporations are eager to expand their opportunities for profit, and in fact companies such as American Express and Enron have aggressively lobbied trade negotiators to speed up the "liberalization" of services. Financial corporations like Citicorp are eager to take over local banks in the region, while energy and water companies see a bonanza in the privatization of public utilities. For-profit education and health care companies, meanwhile, see a chance to increase their profits by marketing their services to the more affluent segments of the population. The pro-CAFTA business lobby includes giant multinationals like Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, and industry trade groups like the Coalition of Services Industries and the Telecommunications Industry Association, all of whom have lobbied heavily for CAFTA.
Predecessors to CAFTA and the WTO: The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
Even before CAFTA and the WTO, the privatization of public services has already been well underway in Latin America, thanks to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. As part of the structural adjustment conditions attached to the loans they give, the IMF and the World Bank have directed poor countries to sell off many of their publicly controlled services. In Mexico, the phone system has been privatized. Under pressure from the IMF, Guatemala, the second poorest country in the hemisphere, has sold off its telephone and electric companies, its rail service, and its postal system. Nicaragua has privatized its health and education systems. CAFTA and the GATS/WTO would exacerbate this wave of privatization and make it irreversible.
The experience of Cochabamba, Bolivia provides a glimpse into what can happen when a resource essential to human survival like water is privatized. Bolivia, the poorest country in South America, has been mired in debt owed to the International Monetary Fund for decades. In 1999, Cochabamba, Bolivia's third largest city, sold its municipal water utility to a multinational consortium led by Bechtel as part of a World Bank-mandated privatization program. When Bechtel took control of the water system, rate hikes were quickly instituted. Some bills tripled, and many ordinary workers were facing water bills that amounted to a quarter of their monthly income. The rate increases soon led to a public backlash, and the city was convulsed by street protests and demonstrations. During the protests, security forces opened fire on the crowd. A 17-year-old student was shot in the face and killed. Bechtel soon withdrew from Cochabamba, but is suing the country of Bolivia for $25 million in future lost profits.
Promoting Privatization: No Support for Local Services
CAFTA and GATS/WTO rules promote privatization in two main ways. First, a "national treatment" rule states that foreign service providers must receive equal or better treatment than domestic service providers. In effect what this means, is that public or local service providers covered under the agreement cannot be given tax breaks, subsidies, government purchasing preferences, or other "discriminatory" treatment. For example, a municipality would not be able to attempt to bolster the local economy by promoting local businesses because that would be "unfair" to the multinational corporations. In effect, this would bankrupt public services. If a government tries to support a public hospital or a public school with local tax monies, multinational corporations will be able to challenge those subsidies by arguing that they violate the rules mandating that all service providers be treated the same.
This type of challenge is already happening under NAFTA. United Postal Service has used a provision within the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to file a lawsuit against the Canadian government. In the suit, UPS claims that Canada's support of its postal service, Canada Post, represents a barrier to trade. UPS is seeking $160 million in damages from Canada, claiming that the government subsidy has prevented UPS from effectively competing for the express mail market. According to The New York Times, the "complaint contend[s] that the very existence of the publicly financed Canadian postal system represents unfair competition that conflicts with Canada's obligations under NAFTA. Critics worry that if the tribunal upholds the UPS claim, government participation in any service that competes with the private sector will be threatened."
Promoting Privatization: Prohibiting Public Ownership
Another way in which CAFTA and GATS/WTO would promote privatization is by prohibiting governments from being the sole provider of a service sector. Under these services rules, governments are prohibited from limiting the number of service providers in any covered sector. Limiting the number of service providers is a crucial way that governments insure the viability of certain essential services.
Imagine if the postal service, health clinic, or telephone company were forced to compete with ten other companies who could choose whom to provide service to and how. People in rural, remote, or economically depressed areas would be cut off from services as companies "cherry picked" the most profitable markets. Rates would skyrocket and the poor, elderly, sick and most vulnerable in society would be left on the curb.
Costa Ricans Defend Their Right to Communicate
Costa Ricans have been particularly alarmed at CAFTA's privatization of the telecommunications industry. The current publicly-owned company uses extra revenues from the profitable internet and cellular operations to subsidize fixed phone access for the poor, a practice that would be impossible under CAFTA as the profitable sectors would be sold to private corporations. According to the telephone workers' union, "the discrimination is of such magnitude that [if CAFTA were ratified] telecommunications would not be accessible to the majority of the population, but only to a privileged minority."
Privatization: Almost Irreversible
And once the door is opened for multinational corporations to enter a certain market, there is no way of closing it if elected officials feel that the presence of the multinationals is damaging to communities or violates citizens' rights to a service. According to "market access" rules for services, once a country agrees to let a foreign company into a certain service sector, multinational corporations must be granted virtually unrestricted entry. If government officials later determine that the presence of multinational corporations is harming the environment or eroding social protections, there is nothing they can do. To reverse a privatization, a government would have to compensate all private service providers for future profits, a task that is financially impossible. Under CAFTA and GATS/WTO, once there is a private school or private hospital in a community, the floodgates are open.
Privatization of Energy Services: a Key to US Global Hegemony
One of the key results of the war in Iraq has been that the U.S. now exerts tremendous control over Iraqi oil supplies. The U.S. has achieved that, not through "owning" the oil itself, but through forced privatization of energy services. Billions of dollars in contracts for giant multinational corporations like Halliburton and Bechtel for the service of getting the oil from the earth to the market (exploration, drilling, refining, transportation, distribution, etc) have become far more valuable than the oil itself.
The U.S. is clear in its written proposals that it wants GATS/WTO rules to govern all sources of energy, concentrating corporate control over oil in the hands of giant energy services companies like Halliburton. Over 70% of the world's oil resources are currently managed by state-owned corporations, in countries like Venezuela, Mexico, Iran, and Norway. The result would be the Iraqi-fication of the entire globe's oil supplies through the WTO, and the further consolidation of U.S. global corporate hegemony through the control of the world's most strategic natural resource.
Our Future: Public Services Under Public Control, or Private Services for Profit?
This new services agenda represents a massive increase in corporate power at the expense of the ability of ordinary people and governments to determine their future. CAFTA and the GATS/WTO expansion would severely restrict the ability of the public to control the provision of services necessary for the survival and development of human life. Many people in Central America's poorer countries fear that the quick introduction of giant foreign firms will lead to private corporations swallowing up essential public services, and leaving the poorest citizens without access to water, education, health care, or even communications and transportation. We have a choice of the kind of world we want to leave in the future for our children. We can allow CAFTA and the GATS/WTO to make the rules, where the services necessary to sustain and develop life are controlled by a small number of multinational corporations for profit. Or we can work to stop CAFTA, stop the expansion of GATS/WTO, and roll back the IMF and World Bank's privatization, and create a world where the public can exert oversight over services to ensure that people's fundamental human rights are guaranteed.
For more information on Free Trade and Services:
Citizens Trade Campaign www.citizenstrade.org
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch www.citizen.org/trade/
Polaris Institute www.polarisinstitute.org
Public Services International www.world-psi.org/globalisation
GATS Watch www.gatswatch.org


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This page is under development and is NOT a complete listing of all Warrick County family history resources available in the Genealogy Division at the Indiana State Library at this time. As new Warrick County family history resources are added, this page will be updated.
Birth Records
Delayed Birth Records
Records Issued 1941-1968
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Microfilm, Second Floor
WPA, Index to birth records, 1882-1920.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295u
WPA, Index to birth records, 1882-1920. 1980 4 vols.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295i
DAR, Birth Records…1913-1929 c.2009
Genealogy Division Geneal. 977.201 W295br
Death Records
WPA, Index to death records, 1882-1920.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295u
WPA, Index to death records, 1882-1920. 1980 199pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295wa
Marriage Records
Marriage Records
Vol. 1-18 (12 not found)
Jan. 1813-1922
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Marriage Returns
Microfilm, Second Floor
Marriage Returns
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Microfilm, Second Floor
Dillingham, Thomas J., ....Marriages...[1813-1860]. 1943-44. 2 vols.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 W295 no. 2
DAR, Early marriage records, 1813-1818....1955. 5pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295w
DAR., ...Marriages, 1813-1854. [1972?]. 165pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295dm
Lant, Kay., ....Marriages, 1813-1859, 1986. 249pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295La
Patmore, Sharon., ...Marriages, 1860-1940.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295pwm
Patmore, Sharon….Marriages 1902-1919. c. 2009
Genealogy Division Geneal. 977.201 W295pwma
WPA, Index to marriage records, 1900-1920.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295u
WPA, Index to supplemental record, marriage transcript, 1880-1920.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295u
Deed Records
Administrators and Commissioners Deed Records
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Deed Index Grantee
Vol. 1-9
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Deed Index Grantor
Vol. 1-9
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Deed Records
Vol. A1-60
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Microfilm, Second Floor
Probate Records
Complete Probate Books
Vol. 2-4, 1844-1852
Vol. 1, 1852-1861
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Index of Partitions
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Partition Records
Vol. 1-2
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Probate Order Book
Microfilm, Second Floor
Probate Order Books
Vol. 1-22, 1831-1920
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Probate Records
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Will Records
Index of Estates and Guardianships
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Will Records
Vol. 1-5
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Microfilm, Second Floor
Dillingham, Thomas J., ...Wills made and probated, 1814-1859. 29pp.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 W295 no. 3 pt. 2
Abstracts...Will Book 1, 1831-1859, Will Book 2, Feb. 1860-June 1885.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295ab
DAR, Will book 1, 1831-1859....[1972]. 207pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295dw
Wills, 1814-1839 (abstracts in IMH, vol. 44, 1948).
Genealogy Division, 977.2 I39
Cemetery and Church Records
Indiana Historical Society., [Cemetery Records in Warrick County]. (From Indiana State Library).
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Foster, Hallie, Brackenridge cemetery, west of Boonville. 1pp. (missing 1982).
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 Wuncat. no. 2
Indiana Historical Society., [Cemetery records...]. (Anderson township, 12pts.; Boon township, 46 pts.; Campbell township, 16pts.; Greer township, 10 pts.; Hart township, 11pts.; Lane township, 3pts.; Ohio township, 19pts.; Owen township, 10pts.; Pigeon township, 9pts.; Skelton township, 17 pts.)
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 W295 no. 1
Miller, Norma S., Those believed to be buried on the Small farm....[3pp.].
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 Wuncat. no. 3
DAR., ...Cemeteries. [1] Boon township. 1970. 147pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295dc
DAR., Maple Grove cemetery, Boonville....1969. 304pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.202 B724d
German Evangelical United Immanuel Church., Parish records of German Evangelical United Imanuel Church (Susott Church). 1980. 160pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295ge
Hart Township cemeteries [1966]? 126 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295h
Manley, Kris., Warrick County, Indiana, cemetery inscriptions. 1990.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295ma
Phillips, Opal B., They came to Warrick Co., In.: The Revolutionary War soldiers and patriots buried in Warrick count...and some of their descendants. [1976?]. 3 vols.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295p
Phillips, J. Oscar., Anderson Twp. cemeteries. c. 1966. 61 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295pa
Phillips, J. Oscar., Cemeteries of Boone Twp., c1967. 200 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295pc
Phillips, J. Oscar., Campbell Twp. cemeteries. c. 1966. 65 leaves
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295pca
Phillips, J. Oscar., Greer Twp. cemeteries. c 1966. 90 leaves
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295pg
Phillips, J. Oscar., ...Cemeteries. 1980. Vol. 1, Greer and Campbell townships. 90, 65pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295ph
Phillips, J. Oscar., Maple Grove cemeteries, Boston Twp.... 2v.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295pm
Phillips, J. Oscar., Ohio Twp. cemeteries. c. 1966. 192 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295po
Phillips, J. Oscar., Owen Twp. cemeteries. c. 1966. 81 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295pow
Phillips, J. Oscar., Pigeon Twp. cemeteries. c. 1966. 72 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295pp
Phillips, J. Oscar., Skelton Twp. cemeteries. c. 1966. 81 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295ps
Phillips, Opal B., Index to Boone Twp. cemetery. [s.n.] 50 leaves
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295pi
Census Records
Lynn, Mrs. Gene, The 1830 census....[1969]. 12pp.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 W295 no. 4
Phillips, J. Oscar, ... 1850 census. 1980. 219pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295phc
Smith, Barbara., ...1850 census. c. 1980. 191pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295s
U.S. Census Office, 1870 census....1 vol.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295us
U.S. Census Office, 1880 federal census....1971. 3 vols.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295un
Court Records
Commissioners record
Microfilm, Second Floor
Common Pleas and Circuit Court Records
Microfilm, Second Floor
Court Records Index
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Dillingham, Thomas J., [...Records]. 4pts. (pt. 1 Stock marks, 1819-1887; pt. 2 wills...1814-1859; pt. 3, estate inventories or sale bills of personal properties made or held, 1813-1832; pt. 4, Dr. Alva Pasco).
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 W295 no. 3
Miller, Mrs. Mabel H., [Index to]...estates, record book no. 2, 1844-1848. 2pp.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 Wuncat. no. 1
DAR, Circuit court records...1813-1823....1955. [43pp.] [Includes circuit court records, 1813-1823; order book, August 1818; index of wills, 1931-1859].
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295c
Warrick County, Indiana file boxes in office of County Clerk. 159 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295war
Family Records
DAR., ...Bible and family records. 1964-75. 6 vols. (published 1980)
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295d
Hamilton, Mildred., ...Index of names of persons and firms. 1979. 89 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295ha
Jamison, Phyllis., Early families of Hart township...
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295j
Lant, Kay F., ...Genealogical records. 1963. 104pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295L
Lant, Kay F., DAR... Bible Records c. 1968. 28 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295Lan
Taylor, Phillip., Pioneer families of Pike and Warrick counties...with ancestors and related families of Philip Taylor. 1981. 116, [59pp.]
Genealogy Division, 977.201 P636t
Raleigh, Eldora M., History of Newburgh and Warrick county...[1965?]. 39pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295r
Military Records
Revolutionary War pensions. n.d.
Microfilm, Second Floor
Mortuary and Obituary Records
Miller, Mabel H., Keyhole to the past, Boonville Standard. 1968. 47pp. [obituaries].
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295m
Phillips, J. Oscar., Records of Shafer Brothers Funeral home, Boonville, Indiana, 1885-1919....1980. 127pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.202 B724phi
Naturalization Records
Citizenship Applications
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Declarations of Intentions
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Declarations of Intentions
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
DAR, Gleanings from the Boonville Standard, 1878-1897. 1977. 275pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295da
Miscellaneous Records
Articles of Apprenticeship
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Alfultis, Nettie., Yankeetown happenings.
Genealogy Division, F977.201 W295a
Patmore, Sharon., ...Miscellaneous, Vol. 1, 204pp. 1997.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295pw
Stock Mark Record Book... 80 leaves.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 W295st
Many of the records identified on this page were initially selected by Carolynne L. Wendel Miller in her book, Indiana Sources for Genealogical Research in the Indiana State Library, published in 1984 by the Indiana Historical Society.


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By Davis Sliver, Ron Dietel, and Marisa Saunders
A student drops out of school in the U.S. every 60 seconds. In large urban cities such as Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Las Vegas, more than 50 percent of students fail to graduate with their peers, according to a 2008 study by Editorial Projects in Education.
High schools often take much of the blame for failing to graduate more than 700,000 students each year, but the warning signs are readily apparent by middle school. Our study of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), for example, showed that middle school course failures, absences, and being over-age for a grade level substantially contributed to the district's 52-percent high school dropout rate.
Here are some of the key middle school risk factors, followed by suggestions for what you can do to reduce the number of dropouts in your own district or school.
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Felton is one nerdy looking dude..lol Not nerdy, but goofy looking.. He has a real goofy face..
Felton is one nerdy looking dude..lol Not nerdy, but goofy looking.. He has a real goofy face..
Felton is making a clown of himself at the end of this game getting unnecesarry Tech and shooting terribly and missing 3straight FT's and pretty much embaressing himself..
Make it 4in a row for felton..lol Jesus!
Come on Knicks! Missing FT's, and missing layups and dumb fouls to end this one.. Letting Dallas stick around.. Kinda annoying...
They just missed like 6of7 FT's and have stopped the clock fouling Dallas as well.. Lucky dallas isn't hurting us with all the missed FT's adn what not..
By the way, saying a dude has a dorky face dosen't mean anything.. I still love felton! I'm no brad pitt myself!!!lol
How much time is left guys and are the Knicks winning?
Clyde just said the knciks are making this a bittersweet victory with there follies down the stretch.. We are super lucky Dallas isn't converting off our mistakes.. I'm talking turnovers, missing rim on shots,' missing tons and tons of FTs, stopping clock with stupid fouls, missing open shots...etc
I just want this one to end and start a new game and take the ugly win and that will be that!!! There was some good moments, but a team like Ok City or the Bulls would of beat us the way we played down the stretch..
But u gotta win ugly ones as well as crisp ones, and were surely doing that tonight..
101-92 Knicks.... good I hate the Mavs. Can't wait till the Knicks play the Rockets and make Lin look like the clown he is.


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Apartment for 6 with garden terrace
Size70 m²
Floor No.
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Pets allowed
- Air conditioning
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
- Internet/WiFi
Accommodation summary
|Korčulanska, 20 000 Dubrovnik, Croatia
|Property type
|Property ID
The apartment disposes of 3 double rooms; 2 double rooms with one bathroom (shower, WC) and one bedroom with its own bathroom (bathtub, WC).The beds can be arranged as double or twin beds. It disposes of a dining room with fully equipped kitchen with a convertible sofa bed. The kitchen is equipped with fridge/ freezer, gas and electric oven. There is a nice garden terrace equipped with table and garden chairs. All rooms and terrace have a garden view.
House rules
|Check-in after
|On arrangement
|Check-in before
|On arrangement
|Check-out before
|On arrangement
|Cancellation Policy
Reviews of this property
Upon arrival Najka gave us plenty of tips for fun and exciting things to do during our stay. Which was great. And she recommended a nice nearby restaurant (which we ended up eating at a lot) and gave us directions to; beaches, stores and of course old town. Everything was within walking distance. The house was nice and had a beautiful terrace with a table, chairs and lemon trees (perfect for a nice breakfast in the morning). All in all Najka was a great hostess and so was everything else!
Najka was very warmly to waiting us and give good advises. Polished she or her mother visited to us to see if everything was ok. Place was nice and we can recommend Najka to others.
Very helpful and kind host, give us a lot of informations about Dubrovnik. Great flat, close to the beach and old city. Magnificent views :] I will always recommended this place. Big thank you Najka from all of us :)
Reviews for this host's other properties
Najka was really helpful - she gave us many tips of things to visit. The apartment was very nice and comfortable. The apartment is fully equipped. The neighbourhood is really peaceful and quiet, and the nearest market is just 150m away. I can recommend Najka to everyone, who wants to have a good time in Croatia.
This apartment was very comfortable and quiet. It was a little chilly, but we weren't there very much, and if the weather is warm, it wouldn't be a problem. It's a walk to Old Town Dubrovnik, but the location is really great, since it's out of the busy part of town.
We are all very satisfied with our staying in Dubrovnik. The hosts, Najka and her mother were kind to us and gave us useful information about Dubrovnik and the surroundings. The appartment is good for four persons, and we could as well use the garden within the walls.
We can highly recommend this small but perfectly fitting studio. It has got all that you need for a nice stay in Dubrovnik. As a plus Naijka gave us very detailed and useful information where to go and what to do (beaches, shopping, sights etc..). So, thanks again to Naijka: We really felt welcome!
Heiko & Carola
The apartment is small, especially the kitchen area, but it met our needs. It was very clean. The garden is beautiful and there is a table and seating under a vine covered pergola. A twenty minute walk gets you to the walls of the old town.
Najka was very helpful and I would certainly recommend the accommodation.
Very nice hosts, everything was fine and we felt comfortable.
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forum: Food & Drink
#21351 Sat 17 Nov 12 10:04am
Re: Whats For Supper?
Rice paper rolls tonight with some salad.
Fresh peach to follow. Love Summer's fruit.
#21352 Sat 17 Nov 12 10:15am
Re: Whats For Supper?
Got some nice haddock for supper tonight, which I'll do with leeks and creamy mashed potatoes.
#21353 Sun 25 Nov 12 11:27am
Re: Whats For Supper?
Coco, forgot to say that the salad sounds especially delicious and festive. Thanksgiving (almost) on a plate/ in a bowl
Smoky beans withe chorizo, pumpkin and baby spinach tonight with a poached egg on top and toast to mop up the delicious sauce.
#21354 Sun 25 Nov 12 5:29pm
Re: Whats For Supper?
Wiener schnitzel with roasted Brussels sprouts tonight.
#21355 Mon 26 Nov 12 11:14pm
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Re: Whats For Supper?
using my left over turkey and making Turkey Korma.....smells good.
#21356 Wed 28 Nov 12 1:24am
Re: Whats For Supper?
Last night I varied the Thai chicken in coconut milk by substituting firm fish fillets for the chicken. Worked well. Served over jasmine rice with wilted Asian greens on the side.
#21357 Wed 28 Nov 12 9:17am
Re: Whats For Supper?
Last night we had a rich beef, red pepper and paprika stew (loads left over for lunches, too!) with fried onion, cabbage and Brussels sprouts, and tonight I'll be making a moussaka to be served with broccoli.
#21358 Wed 28 Nov 12 9:34am
Re: Whats For Supper?
Leftover smoky beans and chorizo with a poached egg and wilted spinach is on the menu for tonight.
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tnight there will be cassoulet for my darling and my daughter to have for supper.Probably with green beans and saute potatoes.
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#21360 Wed 28 Nov 12 7:12pm
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It was going to be moussaka, but the aubergines had rotted in the fridge (not impressed with that), so now it will have to be a bolognese sauce over some courgette "noodles".


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