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Israeli tourists Yarn Fhux, left, and Jacob Bargad pass time in their Haines jail cell.

Sept. 27, 1967

The Haines-Port Chilkoot school board has lost access to all Haines city tax money collected for the school district as the result of a motion passed by the Haines Common Council Monday, Sept. 18.

The motion read, “That the 9 mills of tax money collected not be paid…