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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1977
Page
4
The Columbus Telegram frames a civic ethos urging readers to pursue freedom, moral action, and self-control inspired by the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence. It emphasizes equal endowments from a Creator and rejects government overreach in preserving life and property.
Robert E. Brown of the Tax Foundation spoke at the Western States Taxpayers Conference in Jackson Wyoming about how the founding definition of liberty contrasts with today’s welfare state. He warned that unchecked public initiative risks replacing private effort and urged a two year moratorium on new government undertakings and debt retirement of at least five percent of yearly operating budgets.
The National Coffee Association notes a 218 percent rise in wholesale green coffee since mid-1975 after a Brazil frost. Increases averaging 20 cents per pound will reach consumers as per-capita coffee intake falls from 11.1 to about nine pounds yearly, with tea use stable at 0.8 pounds.
A Ford appointee, William T. Coleman Jr., is praised for restrained and practical leadership. In his short tenure as Secretary he has set a high standard for public service with inspired common sense across controversial and emotional matters.
Jeffrey Hart reflects on the Concorde discourse where supporters warned of eardrum damage and cancer risk while opponents decried technology run amok. The piece frames the jet as a symbol of public anxiety about progress and modernity.
The piece rails at help wanted ads amid unemployment, targets media propaganda, and praises Secretary Coleman for measured decisions on the Concorde SST trial air bag policy and the Westway project. It notes his restraint against coercive mandates and his status as the cabinet's only black member.
Washington reports detail Henry Kissinger raising a visa case with the Soviet hosts for an American professor and his wife Irina McClellan. The McClellans, apart for over two years, face repeated visa denial and KGB harassment, with prospects of reunion fading into 1978 and beyond.
In Marysville and Yuba City unions press for crisis steps toward a possible March 1 district-wide strike. The bereavement pay dispute highlights broader critique of collective bargaining as wasteful and dehumanizing, with trustees defending public accountability.
The column blends seasonal nostalgia with wry humor on swallows returning to Capistrano and buzzards in Hinkley Ohio. It ends with a quip about the body parts inventory growing slimmer as humor replaces excess parts.
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