Misplaced Emphasis Auditor Under Fire Over Utility Rates
Iowa lawmakers criticized auditor Laverne Heithoff for saying some utility firms overcharge customers and earn excess profits. Rep Fischer called him anti business and said the comments undermine public confidence. The commission must balance public interests with utilities costs and reasonable profits amid hearings and rate requests.
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Iowa Commerce Commission
Laverne Heithoff
Special Legislative Committee
Fischer
Wellsburg
Heithoff
Commission
Legislative Committee
Commerce Commission
Ecologists Roast Polluters in Riverside Verse
Columnist Jack Anderson and readers send ecology rhymes critiquing pollution. Verses praise clean air and rivers, mock meat plants and plastic waste, and caution that established rules fail if factories break them. The piece rejects publishing the poems in the People's Forum.
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Jack Anderson
Burma
Anderson
Riverside Park
Nixon's Supreme Court Casting Faces Illness and Change
An 85 year old Justice Hugo Black resigns amid illness, reshaping the court as President Nixon pursues replacements. Speculation centers on Rep. Richard H. Poff and Harry Blackmun, with timing and party balance shaping future confirmations and the court's liberal conservative balance.
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Ashington
Hugo Lafayette Black
Supreme Court
John Marshall
Stephen J. Field
White House
Nixon
Senate
Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr
G. Harrold Carswell
High Court
Harry A. Blackmun
Circuit Court of Appeals
Eighth Circuit
Abe Fortas
Richard H. Poff
Virginia
John M. Harlan
Warren Burger
Fair Share plan eyed as welfare reform alternative
White Plains scientist Leonard M. Greene proposes a universal initial cash grant followed by tax reshaping to reduce welfare reliance. Kilpatrick notes the idea would dismantle broad welfare machinery while preserving basic mailout of checks. The column cites President Nixon on work and questions whether work incentives would improve under such a scheme.
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Leonard M. Greene
Mr. Greene
Safe Flight Instrument Corp
White Plains
New York State
Greene
Congress
Nixon
America
Senate Finance Committee
Nelson Rockefeller
Senate
Finance Committee
Russell Long
D-La
Long
Washington Star Syndicate
Ex Post Facto Powers Debate in Public Forum
A letter to the editor questions the president’s authority to void contracts after they are made and asks about limits on ex post facto powers. The writer warns against near dictatorial action as a tool against inflation and ponders the constitution's protections and potential future reach.
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United States
Stop Pollution A plea to clean air and water worldwide
A compact call to action against air and water pollution urges everyone to pick up litter and avoid burning trash. It warns breathing polluted air endangers life and stresses reusing containers and filtering exhausts as steps to protect people, fish, and the planet.
Twain Phrase Misattributed Reignites Debate on Weather Quote
Ashington columnist notes a New York Times correction showing Mark Twain never said Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it The correction, drawn from a 1897 Hartford Courant editorial by Charles Dudley Warner, sparks reflection on literary allusions and public gullibility about attributions.
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Mark Twain
Walter
Hartford Courant
Charles Dudley Warner
Twain
the Courant
Litera ture dumbness and weather talk in The Times
A humorous critique notes how people in print and speech excessively invoke weather talk and Shakespeare Everbody talks about the weather and The play's the thing while critiquing the shallow use of quotes. It cites Mark Twain and Hamlet and reflects on self and moral advice in everyday chatter.
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Hamlet
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Emanuel Celler
Robert Kastenmeier
Virginian
Kastenmeier
Wisconsin
United Feature Syndicate
By James J. Kilpatrick
N.Y
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Julia
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