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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1970
Page
2
The Telegram adopts an editorial policy allowing pen name signatures on letters to the editor with reluctance. Signatures must be signed, but names can be withheld by request. Anonymous names will only be released with consent and readers are reminded to avoid libel, long letters, personal attacks, and partisan content.
Starting with the new fiscal year July 1 a domestic air travel tax rises from 5 to 8 percent while international travelers face a 4 3 tax. Congress says funds cover airport expenses though critics note advertising bans prevent separating tax from fare. Travel professionals like Inv in Robinson condemn the ban on itemized tax pricing.
Mr. Robison denounces hidden taxes as sleazy. He contrasts officials pushing truth in lending with private sector rules. Congressman Richard Hanna introduced repeal legislation and urges correction of such oversights amid calls for honest taxation and spending.
Jim Bishop recalls his father’s warning about sex and jokes about how books and movies teach about it. He riffs on modern “skin flicks,” youth exposure, and a grandfather’s view as he jokes about society’s sexual education through the decades.
Government actions create depressions and unemployment through inflation from overspending and fiat money, unchecked credit expansion, and special privileges to groups like unions that restrain trade. Minimum wage laws, costly regulations, tariffs, and broad taxation raise costs and cut jobs. Prosecution of businessmen for union actions is urged, while free exchange and price competition are said to reduce downturns. Taxation and Penn Central’s $1.8 billion expenses are cited as illustrating tax burdens and inefficiency.
A sequence of Q and A prompts covers a solar eclipse moon position a bounty for wolves in Alaska and gem origins. A response lists middle moon position, four organic gems pearl coral amber and jet, and notes that planetary mean orbits are ellipses.
A 1970 Columbus Nebraska Telegram editorial urges readers to value freedom as a divine gift not a government grant. It condemns license or anarchy, stressing self-control and alignment with moral truths like the Coveting Commandment and the Declaration of Independence.
A frequent Q and A style column covers psoas abscess causes and treatment, tuberculosis of the kidney, and tuberculosis transmission. It notes surgical and drug therapy, non contagiousness of renal TB, and guidance on safety from radio and color TV, plus thymus role and blood donor volunteering through the Red Cross.
A jumble of terms spans measures tools places people and animals from ancient to modern times. It mentions Indiana European cities a Greek feller and a Tasmanian harem yet also lists beasts like spaniel and various terms related to appetite weather and land parcels.
Sohn Taczek, a former Columbus resident, was robbed of 16 dollars Wednesday morning on Duncan Street by a band posing as healers. Witness Frank Robak said the group approached Taczek, one thief picked his pocket, and the band fled in two cars toward the west. Sheriff Herb Person asked KMMJ to broadcast the alert.
A column recalls 1930s optimism about ladder industries fueling postwar boom. Innovations mentioned include fish farming in tanks, waste-to-soil grinding to reuse bottles and garbage, Bell Telephone picture telephone trials, underwater photography to detect oil leaks, offshore drilling surveys, and new epoxy undersea painting techniques.
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