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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1972
Page
2
An editorial warning that U S land use has degraded wetlands and city life. It urges regional planning, greenspace preservation, and a federal lead via Senator Jackson's land use bill to finance and enforce comprehensive planning nationwide.
Washington column details Sen Strom Thurmond and Rep John McMillan fixing traffic tickets for cronies and friends. It recounts McMillan using the District of Columbia Committee chair role to intervene and have warnings and tickets lifted, amid later payoff concerns and a Price Commission extravagance note.
Molly F Crane promotes Classics Illustrated as a tool to foster reading among her five grammar school grandchildren. She argues printed pages curb ear mindedness and prevent mob mentality, citing Hitler's use of press control and urging more eye minded reading for independent thinking.
By George W. Crane argues that moral stories and classics educate both children and adults and prevent economic illusions. He promotes Classics Illustrated digests as affordable colored editions of novels like Ivanhoe and Tale of Two Cities, urging readers to order from Frawley Enterprises and consider gifting 100 to schools while sending payment and self addressed envelopes to his newspaper office.
A Texas A M University study shows fertilizers and pesticides are vital for both farmers and consumers. It estimates that banning these chemicals in Texas in 1971 would have cut crop yields by 36 to 47 percent and raised consumer food costs by about 300 percent.
The National Cotton Council reports over 40 countries purchased about 65 million square yards of U.S. cotton denim last year, about 100000 bales. Japan bought 18 million square yards, 27000 bales, with jeans production rising 35 percent annually and another 30 percent expected in 1972. Over 25000 bales went into U.S. jeans for overseas shipment in 1971.
The December 7 almanac highlights Pearl Harbor Day with historical events from 1878 to 1941 and 1971. It recalls Willa Cather born December 7 1876 and a Roosevelt quote about wartime pace. The piece lists planets and zodiac signs for the date and a thought for the day.
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