Danville Weighs City Bus Move Amid Transit Study
Danville faces a mass transit question as city and school officials discuss subsidizing pupil transport and exploring municipal operation. Council votes to fund a $40,000 mass transit study and hearings on amending the city charter, while the DP&TC faces potential changes within 90 days. The piece notes wider trends of declining ridership and rising municipal costs.
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Danville Traction & Power Company
City
Danville School Board
Dp&tc
General Assembly
Danville
Winston-Salem
Women headed households rise as one in seven American children grow up with mothers
Census data show 9.6 percent of white families and 35 percent of black families are led by women. In 1973 about 6.6 million families were female headed, up one million since 1970. Half of black children under six did not live with both parents, down from 70 percent in 1960. Delinquency and welfare issues linked to absent fathers noted.
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Census Bureau
Why Get Ourselves A Commissar
Washington discusses a proposed bill to create a Consumer Protection Agency. The speaker warns the plan is extraordinary and profoundly un-American, urging careful thought about H.R.
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Washington
Consumer Protection Agency
Inaugural Portrait and the Unreality of Politics
Holmes Alexander reflects on the 1973 inaugural moment with Nixon and Agnew posing together, the unfolding cabinet notes, and a looming question of resignation and power. He warns that a proposed Consumer Protection Agency would grant unchecked authority, likening it to a commissar and questioning the American checks and balances.
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Agnew
Nixon
America
Department of Transportation
Federal Register
Congress
Consumer Protection Agency
Prostitution Debate Splits ABA Over Women's Liberation
The ABA section on individual rights proposes repealing criminal prostitution laws, arguing for personal choice. Critics warn such reforms would promote prostitution, empower pimps, invite rampant solicitation, and erode morals, urging retention of restraints and caution at the upcoming House of Delegates meeting.
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American Bar Assn
ABA
Women's Liberation
Carole Bellows
Bar Assn
House of Delegates
Oxygen's Bicentennial Sparks Quirky Reflections
A Valley column recalls Priestley discovering oxygen and notes its 200th anniversary celebrated at Penn State near Priestley’s exile home. The piece jokes about oxygen as luxury, cites New York City air sensibilities, and riffs on modern sports economics with tongue in cheek observations.
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Manhattan
Deep South
Joseph Priestley
Priestley
Penn State University
Jefferson
Franklin
Victor McElheny
New York City
California wine saved by hardy ladybugs in pest battle
A National Geographic overview details how ladybugs helped California vineyards by eating grape leafhoppers, mirroring past citrus grove rescues. It recounts Sebastion Vineyards releasing 5,000 beetles in 1974 and notes later cottony cushion scale outbreaks, biocontrol trials from Australia, and the ongoing commercial farming of ladybugs for pest control.
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Washington
California
National Geographic Society
Sebastian Vineyards
Sonoma Valley
Department of Agriculture
Australia
Rodolia
Danville Register Subscription Rates Notice
The Danville Register announces subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions. Rates by mail: one year twenty dollars, six months ten fifty, three months five twenty five, one month one seventy five. Renewal notices advise prompt renewal and a ten day failed notice before expiration.
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