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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1971
Page
2
Lord Snow and his son Philip spent a year traveling the United States and offer a measured, optimistic appraisal. They praise American resilience and unity on environmental effort, while warning against complacency and generational gaps.
A group of eleven officials including city councilmen, county commissioners, and sanitation experts will fly to Alabama, Texas, and New Mexico for a two day multi stop junket. The trip aims to observe garbage disposal operations and raise questions about expense vouchers and oversight. The piece questions the necessity and predicts potential eye on each other.
The article argues pollution is a national issue demanding sacrifice and vast spending. It surveys consumer resistance, the role of technology, and the high price tag for clean air and water, with estimates from Nixon’s proposal to economists like Marshall Goldman, who foresees 130 to 180 billion dollars for facilities and 12 to 17 billion annually for operation.
The Labor Department's suit against the United Mine Workers details 1967 to 1969 expenditures totaling 7.6 million with no receipts. Medical bills for union officers, 7,000 unverified expense accounts totaling 2.3 million, and 913 unsupported organizing costs amount to nearly 750 thousand. Polls in Illinois and Pennsylvania showed irregularities. votes were marred by limited hours and non-notification. A smear campaign and 9,000 pens bearing officer names were funded by members’ dues. The union defends some practices as longstanding policy and asserts current records are improving. Meanwhile Ribicoff probes GM after Nader’s Corvair claims, with scientists supporting rollover dangers and recall cost estimates. GM denies misrepresentation and calls it a vendetta.
The piece discusses 1971 holiday calendar changes extending weekends for ten occasions, prompting talk of a coming four day work week. It notes federal changes in 1968, state followings, and mentions observers angry at moving Washington's Birthday while listing other holidays with altered observance dates. Also woven in are anecdotes on incentives like trading stamps, wartime memories in France, and a Nixon Kosygin dream anecdote.
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