Free Enterprise Day Celebrated by Distributors Across Canada
Telegram opinion notes on May 15 marking Free Enterprise Day with about 140,000 home distributors in 40 states and six Canadian provinces. The piece touts private ownership, low startup costs from $25, cash and carry sales, and the chance to be one’s own boss within a US Canada based company. It urges turning Free Enterprise Days into a year round celebration in Columbus.
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Canada
United States
Raillion
Haisband
Tim
Columbus
New Army training sparks torture debate and luxuries
A wartime commentary questions reforms in the Army under the new look, noting comforts like rugs and private quarters for soldiers while raised concerns about coercive interrogation training. The piece argues war ethics complicate whether harsh methods constitute torture and emphasizes the harsh reality of combat and captivity.
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Reser
Uourness
Congressional Critique of Cancer Crusade Sparks Debate
A Chicago Tribune Service report criticizes government driven cancer campaigns as political theater. It notes delays in funding and planning at the National Cancer Institute, duplications by agencies, and urges removing public agencies from such fields to reduce bureaucracy and hinder private research.
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U.S
Willard Edwards
Chicago Tribone Service
Congress
Mr. Edwards
National Cancer Institute
OSS Origins and Oddball OSS Tricks in Wartime Lore
A colorful recounting of OSS founder Wild Bill Donovan and quirky wartime feats. Anecdotes cover the OSS’s secrecy, grabbing an admiral’s files, planting dummy dynamite, and deploying improvised devices with surprising effects. It notes Lovell’s pursuit of counterintelligence mischief and a spoofed cleanliness chemical used in occupied areas.
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CIA
Lere
OSS
Lincoln
Pinkertons
Bill” Donavan
Office of Strategic Services
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Horace Schmahl
Donovan
Schmahl
Navy
Adolf Hitler
Stanley Lovell
Lovell
Testimony on OSS recruits and a dangerous deception test
An editor recalls OSS training and a ruse using anonymous truths to expose saboteurs. A fake identity scheme led to the FBI arrest of a group posing as operatives, with Donovan intervening to resolve the incident.
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Ele
OSS
Gestapo
Philadelphia
FBI
Philadelpha
Donovan
Noisy head sounds from blood flow explained
Reader asks about periodic ear or head noises with normal blood pressure. Dr Lamb explains that turbulence in brain arteries can create vibrations heard as sounds, especially when lying on the side. Stroke causes and prevention focus on arterial deposits, age, and lifestyle changes.
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Lawrence Lamb
M.D. Bear
Lamb
Tam
Fragmented crossword style list from 1960s puzzle page
A garbled OCR style compilation of clues and word fragments across animals plants numbers and letters. It reads like a puzzle page with stray entries such as antelope deer zebra snake beetle and various unrelated terms plus foreign language hints. The text lacks coherent events and presents as a dense lexicon of partial phrases and misread items.
Telegram-a Your Freedom Newspaper Motto and Aim
The Telegram asserts freedom as a divine gift and purpose of self-control guiding readers to promote and protect personal capabilities. It emphasizes moral rules and independence from government grants, aligning with the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence. Peace Begin With Me, Columbus Nebraska, Friday April 16 1971.
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Your Freedom
Columbus
Nebraska
Lockheed explores converting Liberty ships into portable sewage plants
Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co proposes retrofitting surplus World War II Liberty ships into portable floating sewage disposal plants. The plan aims at two thirds the cost of land based systems, with 100 excess Liberty ships on the East Coast and 40 on the Pacific. Each ship could serve about 50,000 people, aiding lake and river communities and offering regional economic stability amid unemployment concerns.
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William Proxmire
Mtillery-Industrial
Wisconsin
St. Lawrence
Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company
Lockheed
Siveralt Corporation
Proxmire
Lockheed Engineers
Industria
U.S. Maritime Administration
United States
Pacific
Floating sewage unit promises clean Puget Sound waterways
The article describes a prototype floating sewage plant that can be returned to a shipyard for updates and could be built from an excess Liberty ship with anti corrosion protection. It notes rapid intake connections, potential Japanese use via Lockheed shiphorse units, and compares lifecycle to land plants. It also cites Major Alexander P. de Seversky advocating electrostatic precipitation for a smokeless future and mentions New York City air pollution hopes.
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Puget Sound
Lockheed
Proxmire
Alexander P. de Seversky
New York Cis
Manhattan
New Left Underground
The Question Box on Unions Power and Rights
The writer argues unions do not run companies but gain power via employer acquiescence and laws. Employees may quit, but not force others from jobs. Dues can be collected from members only, and union shops stem from laws. politics also boosts unions. The remedy is voluntary unionism, not forced dues, and eliminating laws backing union shops.
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Walat
Wunion
Balter
Question prompts owners versus workers profit split
A reader prompt questions the share of company profits between owners and workers after all expenses. It cites a patronwite poll claiming 75 percent goes to owners and 25 percent to employees, challenging readers about labor issues and economic understanding.
Fact figures on corporate profits and dividends in 1970
Data shows employees of U S corporations received 90.2 percent of post‑cost funds, owners 9.8 percent, with about half of that in dividends and the rest reinvested by firms to fund improvements. Dividends amounted to 2.4 percent of gross national product.
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U.S
Warner and Swasey Company
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