Oil Prices and Politics Burnish Candidates Image
The Winston-Salem Sentinel critiques oil price hikes timed for the July travel season, accusing Big Oil of manipulating refinery output. It notes Sen. Henry Jackson and Sen. Adlai Stevenson III plan investigations, with others eyeing energy probes, casting the hearings as a Watergate era morality play and a campaign fuel source for presidential contenders.
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Big Oil
Vanderbilt
Sen
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Russell Senate
Jackson
Adlai Stevenson III
D-Il
Atlantic
Sen. Jackson
Nationwide peace group critiques budget priorities
A national peace group SANE A compares the Defense Department budget with Baltimore city spending. Baltimore’s overall operating budget is just over 800 million, education 232.8 million, Urban Services Agency 13.2 million, and the B 1 bomber, F 15 fighter, and Navy fleet oilers exceed many city costs. The group argues national priorities favor defense over human needs and calls for change.
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National Peace Organization
Defense Department
Baltimore City
Baltimore
Urban Services Agency
SANE
Citizens’ Organization
Phi Beta Kappa Key Dulled by Academic Inflation
Raleigh Times notes Wall Street Journal reporting rising A and B grades swell Phi Beta Kappa ranks. UNC chapter initiates 222 members, five times 1961, raising questions on the key’s value and effort to keep it an emblem of merit amid inflation.
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Wall Street Journal
Phi Beta Kappa
William and Mary College
North Carolina
UNC
Claude George Jr
Chapel Hill
Suob
Poverty thresholds rise with inflation for families
The Corpis Christi Caller notes higher poverty lines raise eligibility for aid. A urban family of four now qualifies at less than 5050 dollars yearly, rural poverty at 4300, up from 3870. Authors say inflation makes the poor bear a heavier burden.
Limit Expensive Sessions by State Legislature
The Laurinburg Exchange notes the legislature will be limited to 30 days next year to curb costs amid unsettled economic conditions. The 1975 term cost about $22,000 per day, totaling roughly $600,000 monthly, making it the most expensive in history and prompting calls to adjourn in June and shorten the next session.
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Assembly
Raleigh
Presbyterian Home
Medical and civic shifts ripple through High Point scene
Dr R E Bass plans a new Ray and Elm dental clinic with Dr Fred Ridge while Dr John Farrington and Dr Carl Hoffman move into the Medical Group building at Westwood and Lindsay with partners from the Medical Group. The piece also notes reappointments to university boards, corporate changes at Jarrett Stationery, and Old Dominion Freight Line’s expansion plus a Republican era reflection by pollster Louis Harris.
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R. E. Bass
Ray and
Elm Streets
Fred Ridge
U.S. Navy
John Farrington
Carl Hoffman
Medical Group
Farrington
Medical Arts
High Point
John D
Bridger
East Carolina University Board of Trustees
Henry A. Foscue
UNC Chapel Hill
Robert J. Brown
N.C. State University
Otis Tillman
Jarrett Stationery Company
Jim
N.C. Jaycees
Jack Burris
Shriners
Earl Congdon
Richmond
Old Dominion Freight Line
I-85
Earl
Jack
Louise Crowder
Boston
Florida
CIA Read Mail Secretly to Aid Bay of Pigs
William Colby testifies before a House subcommittee stamped Secret on every page revealing the CIA monitored mail without opening it using a deciphering chemical overseas. He cited openings in Miami tied to the Bay of Pigs, and described a New York East Coast Project with a postal clerk paid to transport mail.
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Washington
CIA
William Colby
Rockefeller
House
Charles Wilson
D.calif
Colby
United States
Honolulu
New Orleans
New York City
San Francisco
Soviet Union
China
North Vietnam
Cuba
New York
Peter F. McAuley
Jack Cloherty
Postal Service
John) Mitchell
Capitol Hill
White House
Ford
Israel
Egypt
Ford Prepares 77 Shake-Up In Washington
Capital Viewpoint analyzes President Ford aims for a January transition with a standoff against Congress. He plans minimal immediate changes, targeting overregulation and bureaucratic waste. A 25 member team will push reforms, streamline agencies, and seek more practical enforcement.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
White House
U.S
Roderick Hills
Jonathan Rose
Anti-Trust
The
Justice Rnment
George Eads
Council On Wage and
Paul MacAvoy
Council of Economic Advisers
Paul
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Winston-Salem Sentinel
Birch Bayh
Baltimore Sun
Raleigh Times
Phi Beta Key
Corpus Christi
Laurinburg
Charlotte
Karl Ljung
Life of Carolina
Jefferson Standard
Piedmont Lung Association
Norfolk
Congdons
Westchester Drive
Old Dominion Truck Leasing, Inc
Virginia
Louis Harris
Vietnam
Jerry
Cort
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