Frustration Marks The 91st Congress And 92nd Outlook
Editorial notes a fractured 91st Congress ending in bitterness and predicts a harsher climate for the 92nd. It cites seniority rules, partisan brinkmanship, weak White House guidance, and stalled major bills including welfare reform, desegregation funding, Social Security benefits, and the supersonic transport decision as portents of renewed gridlock into 1972.
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Senate
House
White House
Congress
Nixon
Agnew
Department of Transportation
Washington
Petition to council on 13.35 million bond for electric system
A local petition urges the City Council to halt the 4.2 million segment of the 13.35 million bond issue to fund electric distribution. It calls for a pay as you go review, a potential special power authority, or an outright sale to reduce city debt and protect future service. Voters should defeat the debt if no study is conducted. It also criticizes the water and sewer allocations and urges realistic policy like Greensboro and Winston Salem.
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Jong
Greensboro
Winston- Salem
Creed For The New Year Emphasizes Beliefs In Joy Labor And Law
The piece argues for starting nineteen hundred seventy one with simple creeds: love one another, take joy in life, work with full effort, pursue continual learning, and uphold law. It cites Christ’s joy, Coco the clown, and the value of pride in workmanship amid rising crime and lawlessness.
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Coco
Lord Christ
Jesus
Old Nazareth
Public Purse and the Limits of Government Spending
CAPUS WAYNICK critiques the Nixon administration and lawmakers for rising federal, state, and local debt. He notes proposed pay raises and pension bumps while urging frugality, cites past presidents’ efforts to curb waste, and asks how voters will handle upcoming bonds in High Point and Guilford County.
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Capus Waynick
Nixon
Congress
Franklin’ D. Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House
High Point
Oregon
Guilford County
Costly Conflict Between Highway and Model Cities Programs
A 175 page Urban Law Institute study charges the federal highway system with harming inner city communities while the Model Cities program loses funds. It cites 80 000 displaced nationwide and notes alleged housing miscertifications by state highway departments. In several states harmony exists, but elsewhere homes and transit suffer as highways expand.
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Washington
Urban Law Institute
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Virginia
Charles Sevilla
Austin
Texas
Controversial Interstate Plans Displace Black Neighborhoods
In Indianapolis and Nashville planners faced fierce backlash over freeway routing. The Nashville plan shifted from rail lines to a black district, uprooting 234 Negro owned businesses, 650 homes, and several churches amid procedurally dubious hearings. Concrete Coffins protests in Cambridge and MAD activism in Baltimore highlighted funding gaps and failed compromises, while critiques of the Highway Fund warned funds misuse and job myths for inner city residents.
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Indianapolis
Nashville
Cambridge
Maas
Baltimore
MAD
Movement Against Destruction
Iowa
Labor law firm expands as Lynwood Smith joins
Holt McPherson and Lynwood Smith return to law in a move where the Morgan Byerly Post and Herring firm expands into labor management relations. Smith, retired as Adams Millis general counsel after 25 years, will work part time from a new base for highway matters while remaining tied to the firm. The report details Smith's career from Asheboro in 1935 to Wake Forest Law School, and his 1945 role at Adams Mills. Other notes mention local honors, retirement dinners for Lake Crowe, and upcoming High Point Young Man of the Year nominations.
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Lynwood Smith
Adams-Millis Corporation
Morgan, Byerly, Post and Herring
Perry Keziah
Burnup & Sims Company
West
Palms Beach
Fla
Dan Herring
Asheboro
Wake Forest Law School
Adams-Millis
Highway Commission
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