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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1973
Page
2
President Nixon imposed a retail price freeze as a Taft Hartley style 60 day pause to push negotiators toward new inflation control ideas. A Family Weekly poll shows 80 percent doubt Phase 3 alone can curb inflation, with half favoring Phase 1 like measures. Wages excluded from the order, reflecting phased controls since 1971.
The United States pays Turkey 35 million to stop growing opium poppies, aiming to cut illegal flows via France to morphine and heroin. With Turkey and India limited, supplies of morphine and codeine could tighten, triggering a fall in pain relief for patients and possible suffering for heroin addicts and others with medical needs.
The column imagines Senator Mondale from Minnesota as a potential Democratic nominee and President. It notes the Watergate style weekly senate quizzing by cabinet members and federal agency heads, and suggests Mondale might object to officials spending much time preparing for such inquiries if he were in the White House.
Reform critic Russell Kirk profiles three cases in New York Washington and Chicago where residents small business owners and a university tenant challenge urban renewal schemes. He notes courts show restraint in protecting property rights and warns that federal and state judges must defend due process and constitutional guarantees amid ongoing renewal pressures.
The White House braces for pressure to show progress in U S Soviet relations as Leonid Brezhnev arrives for talks amid Watergate headlines. Pravda and Radio Moscow focus on broader systemic issues while avoiding Watergate and White House corruption.
A Washington column argues Soviet strategy centers on Iraq and Bulgaria as key oil clients and control points. It notes Iraq's 1972 export surge to 4.0 million tons, Libyan and other COMECON relations, and Moscow's aim to be West Germany’s crude supplier amid Western politics. It warns of Nixon, Brezhnev, and global energy power plays shaping the era.
The Wall Street Journal notes EPA and Congress require a warning device for catalytic emission control in 1975 cars. The piece imagines future alerts for exhaust problems and even the driver, as beeping and flashing signals become common in vehicles.
A fragmentary note describes an odd setting and phrases, including a reference to baseball indoors and a cryptic line about history in the making, followed by an aside about a perfect human being needing professional help. The text also mentions a senator and a large marijuana burn by Mexican police, but details are unclear.
The Ervin Select Committee hearings are called a circus by Washington reporters as members seek TV time. The piece criticizes the panel for partisan stunts, delays, and focusing on minutiae rather than uncovering Nixon's possible complicity. It predicts the inquiry will drag on until public boredom prompts real action around June 1984.
The Danville Register lists subscription options and prices for daily and Sunday delivery by carrier or mail. In city and suburbs, carrier 50 cents weekly. Sunday 20 cents single copies. Mail rates are one year twenty dollars, six months ten fifty, three months five twenty five, one month one seventy five. Notices urge timely renewal.
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