Up Up And Away In Anderson Tax Fight Anniversary
Editorial notes one year of protesting a rising property tax rate in Anderson Indiana. It cites 1971 rate 10.10, 1972 proposed 12 096, then cut to 10.19 reflecting continued budget scrutiny. The piece pledges ongoing efforts to curb padding, ghost employees, and excessive expenses affecting elderly taxpayers. It argues officials must cut budgets instead of raising taxes and warns of continued scrutiny of city county and school spending.
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Anderson Herald
Anderson City
Herald
Anderson
Madison County
Robin Hoodwink in Miami Beach Sparks Gop Memoir Debate
The piece portrays Senator George McGovern as Robin Hoodwink leading a chorus at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. It claims he urges Americans to demand more from the country while promising utopia with no war or unemployment, welfare, and tax changes, framing the plan as audacious and risky.
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Sherwood Forest
Robin Hood
Black Hills
South Dakota
George McGovern
Robin Hoodwink
McGovern
Munchkins
Miami Beach
At Wits End cartoon and chicken humor from 1972
A vintage Field Enterprises cartoon features a woman at a meat counter and a butcher dialogue about roast options. A family dinner and jokes about chicken abundance follow, including a quip about children and grits. Copyright 1972 Field Enterprises, Inc.
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Fred
Field Enterprises, Inc
Nixon Landslide Odds in Historical Perspective
The piece argues critics overstate uncertainty in political journalism and surveys past elections to claim a two to one odds of a Nixon landslide. It cites Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Harding, Coolidge, Johnson, Hoover and warns journalists rarely predict landslides, noting Nixon’s likely big win yet doubts persist.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon
History
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
Warren G. Harding
FDR
Calvin Coolidge
Roosevelt
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Herbert Hoover
George McGovern
Nixon
National Journalists Guild
McGovern
Phillips
Warrence
Harding
Coolidge
Cal
U.S
King Features Syndicate
Accelerated Graduation Aims to End School Boredom
A 1972 Gen. Fea. Corp. piece argues for letting gifted and practical students graduate early. It urges reducing high school years to match readiness, suggesting part time college study or work training instead of defaulting to age 18 diploma rules. The author cites discipline and disengagement as harms of prolonging schooling.
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Gen
Fea. Corp
Democracy, elections, and the Lowenstein race in New York
The piece satirizes external monitors of South Vietnam elections and applies the critique to the Brooklyn campaign of Allard Lowenstein. It cites registration chaos, misdirected polling, and alleged irregularities, noting the small margin of defeat and potential federal court review while stressing the need for fair elections and cautious governance.
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American For Democratic Action
Lyndon Johnson
Boston
South Vietnam
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Cognoscenti
Massachusetts
Chicago
Brooklyn
New York
Allard Lowenstein
Americans For Democratic Action
Lowenstein
Congress
Eugene McCarthy
America
Cadman Plaza
Henry Street
Warlike Ways Of Our World Analysis By Holmes Alexander
The column surveys postwar nuclear policy and peace efforts across Korea India Pakistan and beyond. It links Eisenhower Truman and later leaders to nuclear deterrence, UN roles, and the uneasy balance between force and diplomacy amid regional conflicts. It notes reunification hopes, the MacArthur doctrine, and the enduring fragility of peace in a world of vigilant power.
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Eisenhower
Alexander India
Pakistan
Korea
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Truman
Japan
Pacific
Air Force
Thomas Powers
U. S
Pusan
Vietnam
United States
India
Ghandi
Bhutto
Subcontinent
Emerald Isle
South Korea
India- Pakistan
Se Tae O
India-Pakistan
United Nations
UN Command and Armistice Commission
Middle East
Isreal
Bronght
Ber
Wren
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Wrong turns on a night trip spark safety concerns from Pendleton reader
A Pendleton reader recounts a June 2 drive from Muncie to Pendleton on Ind 67 and I 69, urging stricter measures for older drivers. He suggests brighter painted wrong way arrows, notes near misses, and asks why seniors are granted permits. he also recalls road hazards and roadside trash cleanup.
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Muncie
Pendleton
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THE
Anderson Newspapers, Inc
Jackson Street
Indiana
George D. Crittenberger
Harriet W. Toner
Robert E. Jackson
Jane Toner Scott
Charles W. Laughlin
Associated Press
Phillips Survey
Frank
Kirk
Aeac Cnoun
United States of America
Buckley
Holmes Alexander
38Th Street
Otto Lemp
Fellows Elf
Ind
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