Hart decries campaign stunts and urges substantive voter focus
Gary Hart criticizes 1960s and 1972 campaign tactics such as large rallies motorcades and endorsements as wastes. He argues candidates should emphasize real issues like poverty education and crime in authentic settings while acknowledging voters decide based on substance rather than spectacle. Regulars note the product matters more than staged events.
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George McGovern
Gary Hart
Hart
Dullsville
Theron I. Cartwright 70 Dies After Lifelong Community Service
Theron I. Cartwright died at 70 this week after a lifetime of union leadership and civic work. He aided the Community Chest Council on Alcoholism apprenticeship program vocational school fraternal lodges and in retirement served the Santa Claus Club.
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Theron I. Cartwright
Community Chest
Council On Alcoholism
Santa Claus Club
Zero Hour Payless Payday for Toledo Worker
The Chicago Tribune notes R E Wagner of Toledo faced a $0.00 paycheck after deductions for health welfare and fringe benefits left 3.04 due. The piece mocks the growing pay gap and suggests the era of payless paydays is approaching for workers.
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Chicago Tribune
R.E. Wagner
Toledo
Wagner
Twenty Years Ago in 1952 Soviet Union campaign wanes U.N. session
Tribune notes the U N General Assembly waning in a pre holiday moment as Soviet anti America propaganda loses traction. John P Roop announces reelection bid for city treasurer in April. Traffic officers push for automobile seat belts to reduce deaths, an idea borrowed from aviation. Eisenhower praised as grasping the problem by a president elect during discussions with business leaders on international trade programs.
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Soviet Union
U.N
John P. Roop
Dwight Eisenhower
Dead end assembly lines spark worker rebellion at Ford plant
At Ford Dearborn Assembly in Michigan 30,000 workers produce 55 cars per hour as boredom fuels discontent. The piece notes chronic fatigue, routine tasks such as left or right tire work, and rising absenteeism while managers experiment with worker involvement to ease monotony.
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Tom Tiede
Dearborn
Mich
Charlie Chaplin
Ford Motor Company
Rouge River
Clearthur Jones
Ford
Henry Ford
Don Scriven
General Motors
Lordstown
Ohio
Vietnam
Pentagon
Shoutin
R. Sargent Shriver
America
Chrysler-Plymouth
American Motors
Chrysler
Local choir earns praise after Madison TV taping
In a letter Mrs. Mary Vauk commends 78 Logan’s ninth grade junior choir members for patient behavior during a long bus ride and studio wait while taping at WKOW. She urges La Crosse area residents to attend their December TV appearances and celebrate their hard work.
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Logan
Madison
WKOW
Milwaukee
Watson
Theresa Myers
William Fregin
Weinberger seen as asset in reshaping HEW budgets
Excerpts from a Washington conversation quote caspar Weinberger tightening HEW budgets and demanding zero based reviews. Observers say the Nixon appointee will cut fat in Health Education and Welfare, push state and local control, and shift to cash distribution with local decision making.
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Wisconsin Humane’ Society
The
Humane Society
Milwaukee County
Wisconsin Humane Society
Wisconsin
Wisconsin-Michigan
UPI News Wire
UPI
Milwaukee
Milwaukee County Humane Society
Frank Parsons
Press
Animal Welfare League, Inc
Neenah
Ray Cromley
Washington
FTC
Federal Trade Commission
Caspar Weinberger
Nixon
HEW
Ofense
White House
Profit Motive May End War
An essay argues capitalism through multinational corporations could abolish war not for morality but for economic efficiency. It contends war becomes obsolete as markets expand globally without land conquest, citing Japan’s postwar rise and the international reach of modern firms as proof of capitalism’s rising, suprapolitical power.
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Sydney J. Harris
Japan
Pearl Harbor
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la Crosse Red Cross
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