Editorial on Small Businesses and Economic Struggle
Editorial notes small businesses employ over 100 million Americans and provide major GDP shares while facing inflation, heavy regulation, unions, and costly taxes. It criticizes Carter proposals for aiding big firms more than small ones, cites NFIB data, and urges National Small Business Week actions and tax relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
National Federation of Independent Business
NFIB
U.S
Wilson S. Johnson
Inherited disease of teaching runs in the family
Janet from Glendale recalls growing up amid a teaching household and chronicles how the calling spreads. She notes a lifelong imprint of school life through her marriage to a teacher and three children, each shaped by grading, schedules, and scholastic culture. The piece frames teaching as a contagious inheritance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ama le
Janet
Glendale, Ariz
Field Enterprises, Inc
Anderson Indians Earn Pride After Semi State Run
Reader letter praises the Anderson Indians basketball team for a season ending with two strong Semi State games, noting self discipline and states they were among eight top teams. It recalls the Elkhart Central loss in regulation and mentions overtime defeats totaling 11 points. Jan Woschitz.
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Anderson Indians
Anderson
Elkhart
Indians
Jan Woschitz
Democracy Lost in the Philippines by Marcos and Imelda
Washington columnist Stanley Karnow argues the Marcos regime has erased the Philippines hard won democratic legacy by declaring martial law six years ago. He criticizes staged elections, arrests of dissenters, and the crackdown on civil liberties while noting U S aid and base terms hinge on human rights. Karnow compares Marcos to a hollow democracy and warns of escalating insurgency and opposition figures like Benigno Aquino Jr. and Lorenzo Tanada, urging U S restraint until democratic norms return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Karnow
Washington
United States
Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos
Imelda
Carter Administrtion
Marcos
Fan
Carter
Congress
Manila
China
Mao ‘Tse-tung
Lorenzo Tanada
Benigno Aquino, Jr
Aquino
Marco
Libya
America
Anderson Herald Notice Seeks Bid for Local Fund Drive
The Anderson Herald reports a community fund drive with a $52 target and calls for donations or bids from residents and local organizations. Officials urge participation to support ongoing city projects and programs.
Public mixed views on nuclear power despite broad support
A Battelle Center analysis of 100+ polls in 1975 76 shows 60 percent support for nuclear energy versus 23 percent opposition with ranges from 45 80 percent and 6 30 percent respectively. Carter pollster Caddell notes growing support for more plants to 55 percent by 1977 while Brown opposes nuclear policy in California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keven P. Phillips
Battelle Human Affairs Research Center
Irom
Carter
Patrick Caddell
Cambridge Reports
California
Jerry Brown
Brown
Public Response Associates
San Francisco
Phillips
Harris
Canada
National Conference of State Legislatures
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Capital Fare War Betw
Andrew Tully argues that the Eastern Establishment mocks Carter's Georgia staff, railing against Southern culture as degenerate. The piece laments elitist snobbery and suggests Dixie deserves respect, framing it as a regional civil war over class and background.
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Andrew Tully Washington
Good Ole Boys
Jimmy Carter
White House
Jody Powells
Hamilton Jordans & Co
Picasso
Politically Charged Remarks on Powell Jordan and Establishment Critics
The passage criticizes Democrats for posing as plain people while dreaming of Camelot and older leaders. It argues Powell and Jordan serve the president, earning Carter’s trust despite establishment critics. The writer mocks critics’ origins and likens them to Savannah gas station attendants.
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John Kennedy
Camelot
Harry Truman
Missouri
Dean Acheson
Bob McNamara
Jody Powell
Hamilton Jordan
Jack Kennedy
Cuba
South Korea
Powell
Jordan
Carter
Savannah
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Will Rogers
Columbia University
Matawan
THE
Anderson Herald
IAL
Louis Harris
Environmental Development Association
Capital
Georgia
Dixie
East
Illinois
Minnesota
Powells
Jordans
Princeton
Wall Street
Enstates
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