Opinion on price controls and economic policy debate
A Telegram opinion piece attacks Nixon era economic policy, labeling it interventionist and inflationary. It cites Burns of the Federal Reserve, Galbraith, and Renfret arguing for wage and price controls while criticizing government overreach and distorted markets. The authors argue the solution is less government meddling, not more controls, and mock the claimed expertise of Keynesian supporters.
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de Nixor
Arthur ¥. Burns
Nixon
Federal Reserve System
Los Angeles
Fabian
John Maynard Keynes
John Kenneth Galbraith
Galbraith
Pierre Andre Ribiret
Sante Ana
Calit
Renfret
Socialist Mutual Admiration Society
The People Speak on Rail Commission Candidate Elimination
A reader criticizes the State Election Board for partisan interference in a nonpartisan race. The letter notes errors in ballot reporting after Fred Peterson's death and questions which candidate received the highest votes in the Third District Railway Commissioner race.
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State Election Board
Fred Peterson
Golf ball man by the water reveals the old world
Jim Bishop sketches a quirky scene at a park lake where a fat, unknown man sells used golf balls from a windy bottom. The storyteller debates politics with him as a slow foursome grinds on, noting the man’s poverty and faded marriage while reflecting on national political awakening and generational views.
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Jake
Hebot
Walter
Ufo
Unclear dialogue on politics and life amid golf course scene
A narrator exchanges with characters about politics and education while a golf game unfolds. The discussion touches on corruption, the presidency, and interest in learning, as a man recounts his failed path to college and a life of odd jobs. The piece blends social commentary with vivid, fragmented imagery.
Roosevelt kinship and canal history questions
The questions cover F D R and Theodore Roosevelt kinship noting a distant cousin link and a wife as Theodore’s niece. They ask if cockfighting is legal in states and when the first Suez Canal was dug. Answers state cockfighting is illegal in the United States and that the canal was started about 4000 years ago near the Nile Delta, with periods of abandonment and revival.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Ray
Nile
Ned Sea
Suez
Is communism a continuous war question
The Question Box Answer argues communists seek to control others and their decisions. War makers pursue power over lives, so communists aim to deprive others of life portions. Therefore, communism is described as a form of continuous war, based on Ortega y Gasset’s idea that life is about making decisions.
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Ortega Y Gasset
Freedom and moral duty in The Telegram June 15 1970
The Telegram argues freedom is God given and not government granted, defining it as self control and linking it to the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence. The piece promotes truthfulness and moral guidance as essential to guarding liberty.
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Telegram Your Freedom
The Well Child and Vitamin C Allergy Question
A physician discusses Father’s Day responsibilities and the first three years of a child’s growth, stressing bonding and decency. The column then answers a reader’s question about vitamin C causing an itching rash, explaining no evidence that vitamin C prevents colds and describing patch testing to confirm hypersensitivity while noting vitamin C allergy is rare.
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Wayne G. Brandstadt
Walt Tertil
Across the June Calendar Clues and Hidden Phrases
Compact word puzzle list with scattered clues across months and days, featuring names, trades, and nautical terms. The items mix calendar hints with cryptic-style definitions, including anatomy, objects, and places.
Aviator training resumes as Siems builds new hangar
John Siems and family repair hangar after a twister and bring a new Piper Cub to Columbus with pilot Ludwic Cahn from Prague. The 60 horsepower plane follows two earlier models, as Siems expands flight training amid high Piper demand and rough Allegheny crossings.
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John Siems
Siems
Ludwic Cahn
Piper Cub
Piper Company
Nebraska
Navy
Omaha
Walter M. Burgess
Liogd Lausten
Charles J. Schroeder
Columbus
Albion
Osceola
Clarks
Stromsburg
York Country Line
College leaders hail dissension as vigor in postwar speeches
Yale President Brewster lauds new breed of due process radicals and unity after May demonstrations while Lowell Tech graduates hear Elliot Richardson warn that U S strategic fear of Communism remains valid. He cautions against inward looking students and cites Middle East shifts as proof.
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Kingman Brewster
Yale
U.S
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Elliot Lee Richardson
Lowell Technological’ Institute
Free World
Southeast Asia
United States
Soviet tilt toward Middle East deepens with Al Fatah ties
A February Moscow invitation for Al Fatah led by Yasser Arafat signals a shift in Soviet policy toward the Middle East. Rumyantsky outlines goals of stirring regional turmoil to gain Arab oil influence, backing a Palestinian state and progressive regimes in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, while treating Al Fatah as the spearhead of Arab nationalism.
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Middle East
State Department
Radio Liberty
Richardson
Jowell
al Fateh
Fly Jeader Yasser Arafat
Moscow
Yasser - Arafat
Communist Parties
Syria
Iraq
Lebanon
Jordan
Palestine Liberation Organizations
Pravad
Paul Wohl
Middle West
V. Rumyantsky
Cairo
Damascus
Beirut
Israel
Kremlin
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
VY. Rumyantssy
al Fatah
Thesheli
al Fatal
Alexander Shelepin
Alexander Sheleon
Western Europe
Elliot Lee Richardson
Lowell Institute
King Features Syndicate
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Jim Bishop
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Vanil
America
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King Features Syndicate, Inc
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Berry World
NEA
Julius
THE
Tove
Oregon
Compass Point Capital
Rebo
News of
Yesteryear
Sweat, Loomis
August Wagner
Wagner Qait
Dr. Abts
University of Nebraska
Wagner
Post
Justice of the Peace
Columbus High School
Platte County
County Board of Supervisor
Mueller Construction Company of
Thomas White
Reed, Wordeman and Associates
LeRoy Schumacher
Justice of Peace
C. C. Gray
Siitle
Piatte County
Isle of Platte
Shell Creek
John. Chamberlain
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