Paper Costs Rise Prompt Local Industry Concern
In a discussion on costs, The Jour nal laments paper price increases to 200 a ton and foresees 250, noting rising expenses for printing, equipment, staff, mail, taxes, and utilities. Advertisers sustain the paper, tying readers and local business together in a cooperative regional press. The piece then shifts to 1973’s sobering view of national optimism, inflation, oil embargo, and political upheaval under Nixon and Agnew, signaling a shift toward nostalgia and uncertainty about a golden era ending.
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Uncle Sam faces middle age as 1973 shapes resilience
The piece surveys 1973 as a year of tempered optimism. It notes strong employment, shifting social tensions toward live-and-let-live, and renewed civic engagement. It argues Americans seek truth and reform, see government as fallible yet capable, and posit Uncle Sam’s best years lie ahead despite aging ideals.
Kiss of death ends old year 1973 political farce
A chaotic satirical scene depicts an elderly man with a scythe at a wall as a brash young candidate boasts reform plans and energy ideas. The party crowd reacts with dancing and sudden violence ending with the head of the old man severed by Republicans. The piece mocks 1974 politics and media oddities with garbled, conflicted prose.
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Jean Dixon
Five Minute Friend by Jim Bishop and Yamada
Exquisitely written Christmas date book note recalls a brief five minute friendship with Yamada from a New York studio encounter. The writer reflects on hospitality, geopolitics, and two decades of distance, ending with an invitation to dinner when the Yamadas visit New York.
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Jim Bishop
Tadayoshi Yamada
Japan
Carry cagers edge Union City Bears 54 to 48 in windy clash
Corry High basketball beat Union City 54 48 on the sub high boards as Ted Elchynski Jim Coates and Larry Cassett sparked a second half rally. The win leaves Corry at 3 3 for the season amid winter winds and four inch snow. In local notes, city council kept pinball license raises at 75 despite a Magliarditi appeal. The 40 year old item recalls December 31 1933.
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Carry Area High Cagers
Union City Bears
Fred Schwab
Ted Elchynski
Jim Coates
Larry Cassett
Corry
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