Benson Mule Day Sees Nostalgia Amid Mule Decline
The Benson NC town notes Mule Day traditions in a park near Route 50 and the Seaboard Line. century old Coates family ties to UNC and Wofford highlighted while market prices show mules fading from farms. The annual festival, planned for September 20, faces scarcity as mules fetch low prices and census data reveals a vanished category for horses and mules.
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Ambulance Networks Highlight Public Service Need
A National Academy of Sciences report urges coordinated ambulance systems to raise EMS. Jacksonville, Florida cites a strong local model where fire departments run EMS, delivering 85 percent of accident victims in viable condition and cutting deaths by 38 percent. John W. Waters leads public safety.
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Blair L. Sadler
Yale University Medical School
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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New Jersey
Jacksonville
Florida
Fire Department
John W. Waters
Public Safety
Welfare spending and AFDC results criticized by GAO
The GAO surveyed the AFDC program and found that its core goal of helping recipients become self sufficient and leave welfare has not been achieved. Lawmakers and local officials expect progress, yet most areas show the opposite, with growing costs up to two billion dollars annually.
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General Accounting Office
AFDC
GAO
Lesson From A Potter's Wheel at Furman University
A Furman University address reflects on pride and repentance. Jeremiah's potter parable shows God shaping a pliable people, with patience, reshaping flawed clay until a useful vessel emerges. The piece urges humility and hope for national and personal reform.
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Barry Goldwater on America’s Focus and the Stock Market
Senator Barry Goldwater argues Americans have been diverted from domestic problems by Vietnam and Watergate. He cites high prices, welfare spending, energy shortages, and a weakening dollar, quoting Gerald Loeb on the stock market reflecting national decline.
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Senate
Indochina
North Vietnam
Europe
Southeast Asia
Vietnam
Gerald Loeb
Soaper Encourages Voice in Bar Grill Banter
Senator Soaper urges public engagement in a humorous barroom policy rant. A child lists vegetables stores should stock sparse, while unemployment dips mildly. A bettor plans World Series travel. weather control by vote is suggested, and a back-packing hobby is oddly described.
The Washington Shakespeare Theater Opens With Political Plays
Stratford on the Housatonic River previews a Washington season featuring American Shakespeare Theater with Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, and Macbeth as political and moral commentary. The piece compares Nixon era politics to Shakespearean tyranny and ends with a warning about unrestrained executive power and the fragility of republics.
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Nixon
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Caesar
Republic
Macbeth
Washington
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King Duncan
Lady Bird Johnson
John Kennedy
Texas
Scotland
Shakespeare
William Buckley notes English views on American crisis voice
William F Buckley Jr writes from London on how English observers react to the American crisis. He cites Michael Foot on parliamentary supremacy and divided government, recalls wartime governance, and mocks press opinions, while touching Muggeridge, Prince Andrew, Bernard Levin, and Phyllis Cornell's Times letter on welfare cuts and Nixon. He ends with a quip about Syngman Rhee.
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Michael Foot
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Richard Nixon
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