Pipedreaming lower taxes and a costly budget shift
The piece analyzes how a constitutional change aimed at balancing the federal budget could trigger higher local taxes to replace lost federal aid. It highlights major grant programs such as general revenue sharing, community development, and CETA, and notes warnings from Washington figures about cuts and shifts in state aid. The forecast stresses that any path to budget balance will eventually raise taxes on residents as local governments compensate for reduced federal funds.
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House
Thomas O’neill
Jim Wright
Lloyd Bentsen
Texas
Senate Budget Committee
Edmund Muskie
Cedar Rapids
CETA
Nixon praised for international communications by Bates College paper
The Bates College student newspaper awarded Nixon a prize for excellence in international communications after he helped open relations with Communist China and Soviet Russia. Editor Robert Cohen defended the accolade despite Nixon’s constitutional violations and wariness about his honesty, prompting critique from Hayden, Kentucky.
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Bates College
Lewiston
Maine
Robert Cohen
Bates
San Clemente
Nixon
Soviet Russia
Republic of China
Cohen
Shah denies depositing 21 billion in Swiss bank
The shah dismisses reports he moved 21 billion to a Swiss bank and jokes about inflation while facing questions about 4 million toasters in his mansion. He warns that Iran could bounce if Khomeini writes a check and hints at potential involvement in Vietnam.
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Shah
Khomeini
Iran
Women’s movement gains support across the nation
An ABC News Harris survey shows 65 percent support efforts to strengthen women’s status, highest since 1970. Support varies by region and group with East leading at 62 percent in favor and South showing mixed views. Leaders are seen as in step with most women by 43 percent, while 72 percent criticize their stance as embattled.
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ABC News-Harris
East
South
Repub
Licans
Reader complains of price gouging by electric company
A Cedar Rapids area letter writer recounts buying a Mallory capacitor for 4.20 in a nearby town after paying 18.75 from Iowa Electric Light and Power. The item differed only by plastic wrapping. the writer accuses the utility of gouging the public and blames labor costs.
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Your Power Company
Editors urged longer school days and driver education
A reader argues for extended school hours with extra teachers to preserve activities and reintroduce drivers education for rural students. The letter links gasoline savings to fewer trips, criticizes race balance programs, warns of highway deaths, and claims alcohol in fuel harms lives, signing Martin Luke from Tower Terrace.
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Martin Luke Tower Terrace
Gas saving ideas for school activities
Proposed measures to cut gasoline use in schools include limiting varsity basketball to once weekly, suspending activities after school twice weekly, and encouraging walking or running to stay fit. Longer school days for daytime practices, expanded playtime for younger students, and additional space for Scouts are suggested.
Yield Signs Cut Fuel Waste, Wartime Motive for Change
A reader criticizes government policy on gasoline use, arguing stop signs waste energy and favor replacing many with yield signs. The letter contends unnecessary bus and school transport miles also waste fuel, urging practical traffic and transit reforms.
Gasohol debate and alcohol effects on drivers
A column discusses gasohol as a mix of 90 percent gasoline and 10 percent alcohol amid oil price rise and corn surplus. It cautions on alcohol's dangers while noting widespread use and potential harm to brain function, vision, and motor skills, ending in coma or death if misused.
Chicken out on guns editorial sparks reader response
In a March 5 editorial the writer questions the ATF central gun registry proposal. They argue firearms already have serial numbers and dealer registration, claim little gain from tracing original owners, cite costs, and defend lawmakers who voted against new federal gun controls.
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ATF
Capital gains tax carry-over criticized in letter
Carl Riblet Jr urges readers to oppose the capital gains tax carry-over as unfair and discriminatory. He asks constituents to write to senators and representatives and to copy Chairman Al Ullman at the Ways and Means Committee in Washington. He contrasts current news with lingering frustration and fear for new ideas.
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al Ullman
House
Ways and Means Committee
Longworth Bldg
Washington, D.C
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J. F. Hladky, Jr
Art Heusinkveld
John Donnelly
John Robertson
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Richard Nixon
White House
Teng Hsiao-ping
China
Admiral Perry
Japan
Hayden
Congress
Leon Jaworski
Mark Russell
Vietnam
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Wom
Carter
Bella Abzug
National Advisory Commission For Women
New York
Chicago Tribune
New York News Syndicate
Fair City
Iowa Electric Light and Power Service Department
American Institute of Public Opinion
Carl Riblet Jr
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