Editorials Unhappy birthday to HEW bureaucrats
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare marks its twenty fifth year, growing from 5.4 billion to 181.3 billion in federal spending while claiming to coordinate social programs. The piece notes HEW's origins from the Federal Security Agency and praises founding secretary Oveta Culp Hobby, then criticizes HEW as a millstone around the necks of average citizens and wishes it an unhappy birthday this week.
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Eisenhower
Oveta Culp Hobby
Women's Army Corps
Federal Security Agency
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Roosevelt
Louis Brownlow
Department of Social Welfare
Brownlow
John Nance Garner
Social Security Board
Toy Safety Campaign Yields Lead Button Recall
The Consumer Product Safety Commission planned a kids safety campaign featuring 30,000 yellow buttons showing a teddy bear. Sharp button edges and lead paint were found, prompting the disposal of 80,000 buttons and a taxpayer money concern.
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Consumer Product Safety Commission
Enous
Insurance for Parents of Teenage Tenants
A humorous 1978 Field Enterprises piece envisions a future policy for parents whose teenagers move out. It laments two years of adjusting as a daughter gains independence and jokes about furnishing costs, added storage of keepsakes, and the chaos of an emptying home, ending with the family’s own apartment becoming a perpetual welcome center.
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Ekma Dumber
Comeback for GOP Signals Life Amid Turbulent Times
The piece argues the Republican Party shows signs of revival as 1978 races loom. It weighs Carter's presidency, inflation, recession risks, and party strategies led by Crane Kemp and Simon, noting Reagan's critique and Kristol's observations while predicting a tough path to the White House.
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WiLliam Fr. Dull
Republican Party
Carter
Richard Reeves
Jimmy Carter
White House
Philip Crane
Youngstown
Ohio
Jack Kemp
New York
Henry George
William Simon
Morever
the Treasury
Friedrich Hayek
Milton Friedman
Will Rogers on preparedness and war timing
Will Rogers warns that nations view war as a business and that wars arrive with soldiers trained in peacetime. He argues the U.S. has been lucky to delay drafts and emphasizes the risk of an enemy that does not wait. He chides senators for doubting the point.
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Ronald Reagan
Roosevelt
Academy
Youngstown
Ohio
Friedman
Congress
Nixon
Ford
Con
Irving Kristol
Republican Party
Local Savings Ad Covers Rates and Subscriptions
An Anderson Herald classified item lists subscription options with yearly and monthly rates. It mentions a $1 per issue rate, a $26 yearly plan, and a $52 annual option, along with savings figures and a promotional tone typical of newspaper ads.
Carter's unilateral disarmament policy sparks fierce debate
The piece blasts President Carter and adviser Warnke for promoting unilateral restraint in SALT talks. It argues such appeasement invites Soviet dominance, cites canceled B 1 bomber and navy cuts, warns of global instability, cites Voigt on pacifism, and labels disarmament a dangerous bargaining chip.
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Heave
New York City
Paul Warnke
Carter
Soviet Union
U.S
Warnke
United States
Carter, Warnke & Core
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Kremlin
Latvia
Lithuania
Finland
Poland
East Germany
Romania
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Albania
Europe
America
Phony controversy over a school speaker sparks debate
Copley News Service reports a heated national discussion triggered by a film about a school inviting an academic with disputed genetic views. The student board defends open debate, while critics demand limits, arguing First Amendment scope and academic freedom. The piece notes double standards in campus censorship debates and contrasts reactions to similar provocations.
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Copley News Service
Washington
CBS
American Library Association
ALA
National Lampoon
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Im aPaisne
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