Critics Question Call for Nine Full-Time County Supervisors
A 1966 County Grand Jury recommendation to expand the Board of Supervisors to nine full-time members, with higher salaries and a joint county municipal service role, is challenged as unnecessary. The proposal risks urban sprawl, funding strains, and intergovernmental conflict, favoring regional solutions over enlarging county government.
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Paul Harvey 87 Housework Becomes Auto Office Vision
A 1987 forecast describes auto home services and a composite communications system. A press button TV shopping model links to a distant boutique and grocery orders charged to bank accounts, while a home library of films for tele viewing emerges. Farmers gain early disease detection via airborne sensors two weeks ahead of ground experts and tractors become air conditioned.
Forecast for Congress and 1987 forecast from Don MacLean
Don MacLean offers a satirical look at the upcoming Congress and broader future trends. He humorously predicts political gimmicks, debates over welfare and income, and bizarre technological and social changes envisioned for 1987 and beyond, including time-saving transport, media shifts, and radical reproductive ideas.
Election winners meet jobless kin and family costs
A quirky Barbs item notes election winners encountering relatives they never knew, and hints at a costly, tense family dynamic. It plays on family pride, work ethic, and social friction with a tongue in cheek tone.
Romney Must Break Vietnam Silence To Stay Front Runner
Washington reports a growing bloc of Republican leaders worry Gov. Georges Romney of Michigan may lose front-runner status if he fails to articulate a clear Vietnam stance. With Rockefeller and others seen as rising threats, Romney faces pressure from party elites, Nixon supporters, and new Senate hopefuls to declare a firm policy soon or risk undermining his candidacy for 1968.
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This Day In History United Press International Highlights
In 1788 Connecticut ratified the Constitution and joined the Union as the fifth state. In 1793 Blanchard made the first successful balloon flight in the United States over Philadelphia. In 1945 American troops invaded Luzon fulfilling MacArthur’s “I shall return.” In 1984 rioting between Panamanians and Americans in the Canal Zone caused six deaths and 91 injuries. A thought for the day quotes FDR and religious sentiments.
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Brain War aims to mobilize business against communism
An analysis of Edward Scannell Buller and the Information Council of the Americas proposes a nationwide brain war to counter communism. It argues for professional, strategic public outreach, involving universities, publishers, and anti communist corporate funding, to reach illiterates and workers alike.
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