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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1968
Page
6
The era after Apollo 8 should focus on practical space goals. Unmanned exploration offers strong value, and a four-planet gravity assist mission in 1978 could maximize yield. International collaboration could share costs and advance peaceful planetary exploration beyond the moon.
The piece contrasts Ohio and Iowa school funding. Ohio districts close schools after Thanksgiving due to funding gaps, requiring public votes for tax increases, while Iowa holds public budget hearings and votes for board members who decide budgets, allowing citizen input without shutting schools. It praises Iowa’s system.
Stampless review notes a dispute over a senator’s alleged free political mail. The post office asks Congress to regulate franked mail, criticizes past oversight, and suggests an opposition party watch as a deterrent. The Kappel Commission proposal for a semi public corporation could enable new rules without politician influence.
A reader voices shock at the National Council of Churches and United Farm Workers promoting a California grape boycott. The letter argues aims include destroying crops and stores, ruining grape growers, and forcing unionization, while questioning wage fairness and the broader democratic Christian duty.
A letter condemns the Powell congressional ethics case arguing the grand jury’s decision not to indict reveals a double standard for lawmakers and raises questions about integrity. The author attacks perceived leniency toward a prominent representative and compares taxpayer expectations of honesty.
A column reflecting on the Apollo era pioneers Borman Lovell and Anders and their impact on space travel. It traces space exploration from ancient thinkers to modern astronauts, notes space law aims to denationalize and demilitarize orbit, and considers future governance and the division of space responsibilities between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Editorial by Richard Spong analyzes how federal and state funds are distributed and shared across agencies. It discusses transparency, accountability, and potential inefficiencies in current grant allocation and revenue transfer mechanisms.
Governors hint at higher taxes as states and cities struggle with debt post World War II. The Tax Foundation reports sharp gains in federal, state, and local tax revenues, with several governors proposing sales, income, and gasoline tax increases to boost fiscal 1969. Mayors urge federal direct aid rather than funds routed through state governments.
Luci Nugent, daughter of President Lyndon B Johnson, admires her father for his work ethic and race relations impact. She hopes to study government under him and plans to teach after returning to Texas. The piece notes her Texan roots, time in Austin, and the White House as a historic setting with loyal staff.
A pithy reflection on wealth and priorities suggesting value lies beyond money the speaker frames a modest moral about possessions and perspective in brief quotable phrasing.
Harvard University unveils the Harvard Community Health Plan an experimental prepaid medical care program intended to cover 30 000 Boston residents with almost total medical expense protection. The plan emphasizes preventive medicine and will operate with Blue Cross and other insurers as agents. It targets early diagnosis, home and office visits, hospital and lab services, and aims to expand nationwide by 1971.
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