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Columbus Telegram

Location

Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Oct 29, 1971

Page

2

Nixon urged to curb population control push in family planning plan

Telegram opinion warns that the Nixon administration pushes a five year UPI backed family planning blueprint doubling costs and subsidizing birth control for millions of low income women while proposing state inspection of unmarried sexual activity. The author argues there is no population problem but a congestion issue and urges restraint and privacy protections.

Nixon Congress UPI United States Aly R. Buckminister Fuller Manhattan Island Fuller

One-way school contracts fuel busing protest in San Francisco

San Francisco parents protest busing by withholding children from class. Officials call it defiance, arguing the state controls schooling and can compel attendance. The writer supports lawful opposition, urging reform through public challenge rather than defiance.

San Francisco Howard Clay Ater

Unorganized union fights TV group suit

Fulton Lewis 11 joins William Buckley Jr and Alanson Evans in legal action to stay unorganized. Buckley leads suit against the Federation of Television and Radio Artists as he seeks regular TV appearances without joining a union. Additional supporters expected as a broader coalition appears to form against unorganized status.

Fulton Lewis Federation of Telvision and Radio Artists APTA Buckley

Passing of a salesman and the rise of a swindler

A gruff portrait of Sally the Salesman, a serial con man in a Better Business Bureau world, who drains customers with inflated deals. Tales recount his first police-paten sale, carpet tricks, fake siding, inflated alarms, and a nationwide chain racket. The piece traces his marketable lies, bold pitches, and eventual unraveling as victims seek redress.

Better Business Bureau Sally Sally Tonge Flo

Telegram Your Freedom Newspar

This newspaper urges readers to promote and preserve personal freedom and self control as a divine and moral duty. It asserts freedom requires discipline, contrasts it with anarchy, and cites the Golden Rule and Independence Declaration as guiding truths.

Iian Willy

Iron in foods dangers raise questions on supplements

Dear reader, headaches are not a sure sign of excess iron. Experts urge complete exams to find the real cause. Dr Crosby notes that excess iron intake risks liver damage, diabetes-like symptoms, and bronze diabetes in susceptible individuals, with bloodletting as a possible treatment.

Lawrence Lamb M.D Lamy Ofe Ferlec Iran Ito William Crosby Tufts-New England Medical Center Boston Food and Drug Administration FDA Crosby Grosby

Fragmented Clues From An Uneven Puzzle Page

A garbled OCR page shows scattered crossword style clues and partial fills ranging across many topics. Entries mention places, authors, gods, languages, and objects with unclear numbering, making coherent sense of the puzzle difficult.

Democrats Face 1972 Convention Planning Amid Street Turmoil

The passage describes Democratic anxieties after 1963 Chicago and notes how Miami Beach is being prepared for the 1972 convention. It highlights security plans, geographic defensibility, and mentions key figures and factions within the party while describing youth and New Left dynamics.

Chicago Michigan Avenue Deley Florida Miami Beach Dade County Abbie Hoffman Derry Rubin Senator McGovern Upton Sinclairs William Jennings Bryans Ted Kennedy General Motors Oklahoma Fred Harris McGovern Wvith Ed Muskie Hubert Humphrey Heny Jackson

Young Voters May Shape 1972 Election Outcomes

In a 1971 forecast, John Chamberlain argues a 25 million potential youth vote could be whittled to about 10 million at the polls. He suggests registered youth could swing California or Texas, affecting Nixon’s states from 1968. He warns about uncertain issues in 1972 and labels Democratic candidates as boring, predicting a dull election year in Miami Beach.

Gallup Nixon California I Ilingis Young Texas Isle Vietnam McGovern Congress U.S Sam. Jackson Miami Beach Jackson Muskie

How its done in welfare state

A critical look at how milk price supports and marketing orders allegedly channel campaign money to the GOP. The piece contrasts government farm policy with free markets, arguing that officials use power to manipulate prices and profits, while producers and consumers are drawn into political favors and subsidies. It cites Secretary Hardin, milk price shifts, and donor patterns to illustrate broader critiques of state intervention. It concludes that political power corrupts markets and that economic exchange should be voluntary without coercion.

Wall Street Journal Jerry Landauer Landauer Clifford Hardin Fiat Nixon Associated Milk Producers,nc Canada Gulf Coast Hardin Welfare State New Tammany Hall New York City Economic House Park Ceonomig House

Answers and trivia from a historical Q and A page

A reader quiz covers George Washington birth date and calendar change, the cable car inventor Hallidie in 1873, Thanksgiving in 1619 at Berkeley Plantation, Andrew Johnson’s burial with the Constitution, the Sullivan Memorial Trophy for sportsmanship, and fern symbolism.

Andrew 8 Hallidie San Francisco America Berkeley Plantation James River Charles City

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