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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1969
Page
4
Editorial lauds the Anderson Free Fair as a top summer highlight with dramatic harness racing. Improvements on the midway and gambling booth controls boosted safety, while rides, pie throwing, and dunk booths revived joy for all ages. Attendees commend organizers for a top historic edition.
The piece praises the Bring Em Back Alive BEBA campaign by the Osier Motor Club and American Automobile Association for July Fourth travel safety. It urges planning, early starts, courtesy, and shared pedestrian responsibility to reduce holiday fatalities while promoting safe, enjoyable travel.
The National Academy of Sciences panel urged the Army to re examine plans to dispose of 12 000 GB nerve gas rockets. The Army considered sinking them but may destroy at storage depots via acid or alkaline hydrolysis. Pentagon ordered careful weighing of the scientists plan as debates over war materials grow.
A collection of anecdotes shows how children describe objects and events in surreal ways. A boy requests a horn made to blow out meaning a balloon with a horn inside. Other tales include a clown face with a candle and a catechism debate about original sin.
John Keasler reports on the Moon Lifers movement and its splinter group First Evangelical and Reformed Moon Lifers who insist life exists inside the moon. They mock science, cite craters as dwellings, and push Apollo 11 cargo for moon natives trade.
Holmes Alexander argues that the phrase pursuit of happiness in the Declaration was a broader ideal later misused. He critiques gaps in the Constitution regarding slavery and taxation, warns against welfare state drift, and cautions Nixon against extending guarantees that undermine equality and civic duty. He cites Mason, Hazlitt, and Theobald to urge strict adherence to orig inal intent and tax responsibility.
A satirical column critiques liberal church attitudes as it recounts the Southeast Iowa Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church excommunicating Professor Joseph Baker and his wife of Iowa City for opposing the demolition of an 113 year old Presbyterian church near the University of Iowa. The piece contrasts earnest religious zeal with modern permissiveness and mocks the trial by ecclesiastical committee. It references James Pike, James Forman, and Knox era cruelties while urging old time religious resolve.
A man recalls a dispute with his daughter over a missing stereo bought for 39.95. She accuses him of old-fashioned tastes while the stereo appears to “defect” to her side, balking at his era’s music and preferring Diana Ross Aretha Franklin and The Fifth Dimension.
The column argues railroads may rally long term due to piggyback and unit-train growth, rate hikes, mergers, and potential subsidies. Norfolk & Western is favored over Western Pacific for its 6.4 percent dividend, pending Chesapeake and Ohio merger, and Dereco gains. Telex Corp is suggested as a speculative $2,500 buy for IBM system related drives, with 14 percent backlog rise to $18.3 million and 17 institutions holding about one-fifth of shares.
Short Thoughts from New York note that U.S. population growth has slowed each year in the 1960s, with 1968 likely rising by just over 1 percent. The piece adds that new rules bar federal judges from accepting outside fees without approval, and some critics wonder if similar reform might extend to Congress.
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