Food for thought on global hunger and arms spending
The piece notes one third of the world’s population faces hunger while nations spend about 200 billion on armaments. It cites Dr Norman Borlaug’s warning and urges a shift in priorities toward agricultural research and population control, referencing the Rome Food Conference and Nobel concerns.
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Norman Borlaug
Dr. Borlaug
Rome
Nobel Committee
Borlaug
Administrative Procedures Act expands public input on rules
The ACT creates broader notification and hearing rights for state rulemaking. Agencies must provide free copies of proposed rules, offer impartial hearings, and notify the Secretary of State 30 days before a statewide rule hearing. Individuals may register to receive notices, and materials are collected for the examiner’s report with a ten day review period before final action.
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Minnesota
Secretary of State
Minnesota billboards shrink amid new road sign program
The Minnesota Highway Department has bought over 6100 billboards in three years and plans to remove 7700 more in three years with mostly federal funding. Officials say the effort reduced billboard alleys, improved scenery, and kept nonconforming signs out of rural areas while allowing new signs in zoned commercial districts.
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Associated Press
ST. Paul, Minn
Minnesota Highway Department
Minnesota
Stanley Paulson
Highway Department
Jay Dybdahl
Dybdahl
Maple Grove
Minneapolis
Rock Creek
Pine City
Lofton columns on oil profits and industry cash needs
John Lofton Jr cites a Chase Manhattan Petroleum Situation report showing a 38 percent drop in first quarter profits for major oil firms. Gulf Texaco and Standard of Indiana profits fell sharply, with total group earnings at 2.7 billion, 1.6 billion below last year, underscoring capital needs after depletion allowances cut.
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Washington
Henry Jackson
Milton Shapp
White House
Jackson
Chase Manhattan’ Bank
Gulf
Standard of
Indiana
Texaco
Chase Bank
Chase
Scoop
Richard Tremaine
Amoco
New Orleans
Readers urge Hub Center support amid youth issues
A reader letter argues parents should back the Hub Center to aid teenagers and seniors, noting its financial trouble and community value. The writer urges public action, calls for honesty in energy policy, and critiques profit-driven oil industry approaches while advocating for local responsibility.
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Hub
Hub Center
Willie Rundell
Leo C. Rundell
Conservation groups win appeals in North Central strip mining case
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals rules agencies must consider an environmental impact study for the Northern Great Plains Resources Program amid NEPA challenges by the National Wildlife Federation and the Sierra Club. The decision keeps a injunction on coal and power development and sends the suit back to district court for review.
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North Central Plains
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
U. S. District Court
National Wildlife Federation
The
Northern Great Plains
U. S. District Court For
North Central States
J. Skelly Wright
Sierra Club
NEPA
NWF
Sierra
David L. Bazelon
Wright
George E. MacKinnon
Lessons learned as Americans adjust to economic shrinkage
The piece notes Americans trimmed spending after the 1960s peak, boosting the savings rate to about 9 percent, reducing installment loans, and embracing a practical lifestyle. It cites nutrition focus, fuel economy, and cost consciousness in business and government as responses to the downturn, with some good emerging from distress.
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New York
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