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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1976
Page
5
The piece argues Americans lack national conservation attitudes and waste 50 percent of energy annually. It links past abundance to a wasteful economy, cites built in obsolescence and Ford's Model T mindset, and questions how to redefine progress and life to match dwindling energy supplies amid the 1975 Energy Conservation Act’s effects.
A Gastonia Gazette report outlines a union survey asking congressional candidates if they favor repealing the 14B right to work law. It notes 19 states, including NC, have such laws and have attracted about six in ten new jobs while comprising 30 percent of the population. The piece cites unemployment trends from 1963 to 1973 and contrasting job gains in right to work versus compulsory union states, urging candidates to address the issue.
In Maine a cloud looms over a 55000 contract with Nerox Corp as E B White protests corporate sponsorship of journalism. He argues writers should be paid by publishers to preserve independence, prompting Xerox to cancel two other arts sponsorships after exchange of letters.
The Asheboro Courier-Tribune notes the US Postal Service plans to restrict envelope size and shape from April 15 1978. Odd shapes may be banned or incur higher postage as machines sort by uniform specifications. The piece playfully questions whether quirky mail items like baby chicks and pink dogwood trees could face restrictions too.
The New York Times reports President Ford chose three year limits on specialty steel imports despite State and Treasury advice. Critics call it a political move harming trade, jobs, and the broader economic rebound while steel prices rise and capacity nears.
JACK ANDERSON surveys U S and allied views on looming war threats across the Middle East Africa and Asia asserting Lebanon as the flashpoint while noting Soviet Cuban moves in Angola and fears of a broader conflict. He also probes Social Security computer expansion plans amid GAO findings and congressional pressure.
A joint Commerce HUD report shows owner occupied home values rose 41 percent from 1970 to 1973 while owner incomes grew about 19 percent. In 1973 many homes were mortgage free, yet values far exceeded incomes, with regional income shifts and rising shelter shares of personal income noted alongside a broader discussion of savings, interest rates, and Bicentennial commercialism.
A column denounces hypocrisy in Congress citing Rep Wayne Hays judging Rep Adam Clayton Powell amid scandal while Hays travelled with a delegation aided by a secretary. It links Gulf Oil receipts to Nixon fundraisers and names several senators, arguing virtue and vice in power. The piece ends with a quip on hypocrisy and a reference to nutritionists and worms.
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