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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1972
Page
2
Edwin S. Cohen Under Secretary of the Treasury defends tax reform against reformists in a speech to the Federal Tax Institute of New England. He jokes about a simplified program and jokes about biases by height, noting he stands 5 feet 5 inches.
Environmental groups and the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant developers reach an agreement near Rainer Oregon. The pact requires higher radiation and discharge standards and more geological tests. In exchange, groups drop objections to licensing and praise Trojan as potentially the safest US facility.
A local page lists a variety of community items including a mother cat with three kittens up for good homes, four German shepherd pups available, and upcoming theater and music events. Also noted are a June 29 30 folk concert, and a July 1 16 festival productions with Met Opera links and local contributors.
Jack Anderson reports that major banks and insurers including Chase Manhattan Prudential and Metropolitan Life financed questionable ghetto mortgages tied to FHA loans. The Senate subcommittee will hear testimony this week as scandal details unfold with foreclosure evictions and taxpayer losses rising.
Jim Bishop recalls his mother Jenny Tier Bishop born 1884 in Jersey City. He sketches her life from humble work in a cotton mill to marriage with a policemen, her devotion to right and church, and her gradual decline from diabetes to blindness. He notes her pride, frugality, sewing crafts, love of family, and closeness to her golden wedding. The piece ends with a fleeting obituary mention and a line about Dallas fire department figures from 1971.
Arizona Governor Jack Williams signed a law banning harvest-time strikes and secondary boycotts as unfair labor practices, creating 10 day injunction relief for farmers facing losses. The measure, praised by state leaders, contrasts with federal inaction and signals a model for libertarian critics of union monopolies nationwide.
BOB LAMBERT argues in The Public Pulse that the Garden City urban renewal plan serves downtown merchants and federal funds capture, not fair competition. He condemns the letter by A. E. Rudd as revealing special interest influence and predicts suburban Dilton Shopping Center lure.
Mrs Gerald Sperry of Imperial Ré voices concern over twenty years of drainage stagnation along North 83 threatening homes businesses and health. She urges swift action before more flooding or illness occurs and laments the risk to Garden City’s reputation as a garden spot.
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