Thank You Gentlemen: County Says No to Building Authority
Madison County residents and Anderson in particular receive thanks as the Board of County Commissioners votes against creating a county building authority. The move blocks a plan to bond for a new fire station, avoiding potential tax costs and high interest debt. Opponents noted cash payment could save thousands, while revenue sharing funds were cited by critics of the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison County
Anderson
Board of County Commissioners
Robert L. Rock
Building Authority
Senate Approves Gold Ownership as Ambiguous Omen
Alice Widener reports that the U.S. Senate voted 68 to 23 on April 4 to permit Americans to buy sell or own gold as a rider to a dollar devaluation bill. The House must act, and the Met Museum faces criticism for selling ancient Greek coins in Zurich, raising debate on gold’s role as real money.
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New York City
Senate
U.S
House
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Zurich
Switzerland
Sotheby & Co
London
The
Met
Nixon
B. C
Wp Museum
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Remembered Amidst Holocaust Terror
An historical reflection on the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising where about 60 000 Jews faced a four week Nazi assault. Despite limited arms the fighters resisted with boldness marking the first armed Jewish resistance in the Third Reich era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Ghetto
John Hersey
Leon Uris
Warsaw Ghetto
Hitler
Czeslaw Z. Banasiewicz
William L. Shirer
Third Reich
Kremlin
Cable TV poised to shape politics and porn access
Washington debates whether Federal funds should steer radical groups and porn into cable TV. Scenarios show channels for Deep Throat style content, Black Panther influence, and city surveillance, with funds aiding community groups and a new Cable Communications Resource Center backed by the Commerce Department.
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Washington
KFS
Syracuse
New York
Sterling-Manhattan
D.C
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Dick Cavett
Johnny Carson
Linda
Lovelace
Cox
American Television
California
Huey P. Newton
Black Panthers
United Church of Christ
Newton
American
San Francisco
Public Advocates, Inc
Cable
Community Action Broadcasting System
Tucson
Ariz
Media Project of Urban Planning Aid, Inc
Cambridge, Mass
U.S. Commerce Department
Booker T. Washington Foundation
Charles Tate
The
Urban Institute
Nixon era military policy and the All-Volunteer Service
Holmes Alexander discusses President Nixon’s approach to ending the draft era, the shift toward an All-Volunteer Service, and the implications for military professionalism and morale. He notes court challenges to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the potential risk of mercenary forces, and the need for strong national character to support noncompulsory service.
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Selective Service
U. S. Court of Appeals
Vietnam
The Christophers Awards Honor High Values in Arts
The Christophers in Manhattan awarded 1973 honors to films, television specials, and children's books that affirm high human values. Notable film winners include Sounder The Emigrants 1776 and The Green Wall. Television genres and several authors received prizes though few titles topped bestseller lists.
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The
Christophers
Manhattan
Twentieth Century-Fox
Warner Brothers
Columbia
Altura Films
NBC
CBS
PBS
Howard G. Smith
Abingdon Press
Brinton Turkle
Obadiah
David Harrison
Mary Rodgers
Griffing Bancroft
Sylvia Engdahl
Wiliam Steig
Dominic
Beginning Against Crime in New York Mayoral Debate
The piece argues for hard line crime policy and judicial reform in New York City. It calls for appointive style judges, a Missouri Plan jury selection, and critique of the exclusionary rule as tools to strengthen law and order under mayoral leadership. It references Governor Rockefeller and figures like Nixon and Rockefeller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John Lindsay
Lindsay
Police of
Anthony Lewis
The
New York Times
Nelson Rockefeller
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Rockefeller
Lewis
New York State
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Warren Court
Supreme Court
Justice Harlan
Opposition to U S aid to North Vietnam voiced by editors and lawmakers
Washington Star News editor Smith Hempstone denounces a 2.5 billion aid plan for Hanoi as morally offensive and imprudent. Critics argue aid would fund a cruel totalitarian regime, echoing Rep James Broyhill that supporting North Vietnam contradicts U S aims and national restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith Hempstone
Washington Star-News
Navy
Everett Alvarez Jr
U.S
North Vietnam
al Crawford
Educational News Service
Soviet Union
South
Hanoi
U. S
White House
Virginia
James Broyhill
R-Va
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Board of Commissioners
Alice Widener
Douglas Dillon
Museum Board of Trustees
Treasury
Kennedy
Dillon
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
Walter Heller
Seymour Haris
Schlesinger
Eisenhower
U.S.A. Syndicate
Phillips Survey
By Kevin P. Phillips
Anderson Herald
Anderson Newspapers, Inc
Jackson Street
Indiana
George D. Crittenberger
Harriet W. Toner
Robert W. Jackson
Jane Toner Scott
Charles W Laughlin
Mondey
Andersen
Meil
Herald
Associated Press
AP News
Holmes Alexander
Washington, D.C
Jackson
Lincoln
Russia
China
North America
Ussr
Red China
van Buren
Harrison
Tyler
Polk
Taylor
Fillmore
Pierce
Buchanan
United States
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Alexander
By Russell Kirk
Vasa
Ishopher 5
Random House
William Edgett Smith
Julius Nyerere
Tanzania
Hot
Ernest van den Haag
Harper Torchbooks
Dorothy Day
Curtis
Frances FitzGerald
Lake
Atlantic Little Brown
Trina Paulus
Paulist-Newman Press
Peter Reddaway
McGraw-Hill
Dennis Smith
Saturday Review Press
Barbara Ward
Rene Dubos
Norton
Richard Wheeler
T. Y. Crowell
Thomas Carlyle
Gen. Fea. Corp
Congress
Southeast Asia
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