Georgia Tobacco Prices Spark Political Fury and Market Doubts
A survey notes early Georgia flue cured tobacco offerings averaged 86.17 per pound amid politically charged calls for action by Senator Herman Talmadge Rep. Dawson Mathis and others. While Georgia growers seek relief, Carolinas show calmer market moves as inflation and higher costs press buyers and sellers, with calls for cooling rhetoric and cautious optimism for a steadier 1974 crop market.
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Georgia
Earl Butz
Tifton
Washington
Herman Talmadge
Dawson Mathis
Georgia Agriculture
Tommy Irvin
Butz
Nixon
Buzz
USDA
Georgia-Florida
North Carolina
South Carolina
Carolinas
Charles Waddell
Danville Tobacco Association
Stabilization Corporation
Parting Shots on Pesticide Bans and Outdoor Theatre
A witty take notes that pesticide bans reopen outdoor seasons allowing romantic or Mosquito filled scenes. It jokes about a traveling dignitary relying on hosts for reception while others depend on relatives for support.
Greatest Civil Righter Faces Off in Right to Work Fight
Washington chronicle profiles Joseph L. Rauh Jr. a Harvard-educated lawyer and longtime civil rights advocate now leading the Right to Work Legal Foundation. Rauh battles major unions over disclosure of private fund contributors, arguing the foundation aids workers against compulsory unionism.
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Rauh
Harvard Law
Cardozo
Frankfurter
United Auto Workers
Ohio
National ‘Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Old Joe
Legal Aid Foundation
Naacp S. Legal Defense Fund
United States
NAACP
Right To Work Fund
Joe Rauh
Right To Work Legal Foundation
Charles R. Richey
U. S. District Court
Washington
Foundation
Richey
Fon
Goliaths
Meditations On Cities Of The Dead In New Orleans
Russell Kirk reflects on cemeteries in New Orleans and abroad, praising the new Pelican Publishing volume The Cemeteries. He links graveyard care to ancestry, cites above ground tombs and styles, notes Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 on the National Register, laments vandals, praises cemetery tidying days, and imagines a modest monument for his daughters.
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Edmund Burke
New Orleans
Pelican Publishing Co
Gretna
Louisiana
Oid
Michigan
City of the Dead
News Orleans
Mississippi Delta
Luxor
Lafayette Cemetery No
South Carolina
Pula
Yugoslavia
Hadrian
Rome
Theodoricn
Ravenna
Homeward Bound Across Babylon and Faith
The speaker argues that each generation faces a gulf of alienation and must learn to bridge it without rejecting its roots. Using Jeremiah and Hebrews as guides, they urge balancing past ties with present growth, and pursuing a mature faith that moves beyond childhood beliefs.
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Gulf
Thomas Wolfe
Asheville
Jeremiah
Babylon
Jerusalem
Tran
Israel
Great Liberal Comeback in Canada Election
The piece argues Pierre Trudeau’s victory stems from inflation fears and Conservative wage-price controls. It criticizes Robert Stanfield for shifting the Tory stance, noting voters preferred Trudeau’s stance and that the Tories failed by adopting unpopular controls rather than a clear conviction.
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Pierre Trudeau
Canada
London Economist
Robert Stanfield
Conservatio
United States
Trudeau
Barry Goldwater Book Critiques Campaign Finance Reform
Douglas Caddy, Watergate attorney, sharpens charge that labor unions fund Democratic campaigns via COPE and violate the Federal Election Campaign Act. He argues Republicans also engage in improper financing but Labor influence is far larger. He urges explicit outlawing of partisan use of union funds and manpower. An excerpt defends reform as a full clearing of the air, not cosmetic.
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Arlington House
Douglas Caddy
Watergate Seven
Congress
Caddy
Afl-Cio
Committee On Political Education
COPE
Cad
America
Danville Register subscription rates and notices
The Danville Register lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions in city and suburbs: 50 cents weekly by carrier, single copies 10 cents, Sunday 20 cents. Mail rates are one year 20 dollars, six months 10.50, three months 5.25, one month 1.75. Notice mailed 10 days before expiration. Renewals urged.
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Martha Mitchell
John W. Deanard
H. R. Haldeman
Watergate
Chicago
James J. Kilpatrick
The
National Right To Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation
Joseph L. Rauh Jr
Russell Kirk
Charleston
Peta
Format University
Wall Street Journal
Barry Goldwater
Senator Soaper
Danville
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