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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1975
Page
2
The editorial weighs Milton Shapp as a potential presidential candidate noting limited recognition outside Pennsylvania and critiquing his record on rural roads budgeting lottery reform patronage and payroll growth. It concludes voters may tolerate the flaws but questions the suitability for national office.
Lawmakers debated and passed a medical malpractice bill designed to curb rising physician insurance rates while the Senate stalled. The House approved a migrant worker wage and bargaining bill, a voting by absentee ballot measure, and a teenager work bill with liquor limits. Other actions included hospital purchases for veterans homes, welfare controls, PUC probe measures, funding for private colleges, and a $41 million special education appropriation.
Jack Anderson and Les Whitten report networks including Public Broadcasting Service refused to air a Bicentennial conversation with President Ford. Edward Piszek offered to fund prime time airtime. networks declined, citing lack of hard news and preference for their own anchors. Public TV also refused, sparking critique of media control over presidential discourse.
A provocative critique argues that liberation and a new permissiveness erode virtue, blaming women for reversing traditional male dominance. It cites court actions, infidelity stories, pills, and therapy as evidence, warning the family unit and respect as the culture’s core casualties.
A Corry letter-writer praises the city for printing both sides of the cigarette issue and backing a mayor who is a doctor. The writer argues for clean air over street paving, urging the Silent Majority to oppose fear and support efforts to protect youth from lung cancer.
Snidely promotes a new TV museum featuring a Nattering Nabob of Negativism life like machine donated by Mr. 5.Z. Agnew and dozens of TV relics from The Electric Company to Gunsmoke. Highlights include Gomer Pyle’s liberty card and a destroyed battleship from Victory at Sea. Admission is 3 dollars with a 4 dollar exit fee.
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