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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1969
Page
15
Vegas Bill recalls buying a refrigerator with a cracked line and a costly service policy. He laments the warranty runout and endless service visits, noting a federal law against appliances lasting too long as irony in a satire on consumerism and Betty Furness.
Dr. James E. Allen Jr., U S Commissioner of Education, waits as the Nixon administration focuses on welfare programs. He aims for long term reforms while using the hiatus to reorganize the U S Office of Education. The office previously had a 4.1 billion dollar budget with proposed cuts totaling about 25 percent.
The article details Richard Allen advocating a federal role to stabilize education funding into the 1970s. It notes plans for revenue sharing, general aid formulas, bloc grants, and targeted programs, with a projected $18.5 billion elementary and secondary spend by 1980 and about 25 percent federal share. It also recounts Richard Langham Riedel, the youngest Senate page in 1918, who later wrote Halls of the Mighty about the Senate family and its pivotal role in governance.
Dear reader asks about the appropriate age for a first pelvic exam and causes of vulvar irritation. The reply notes no fixed age, exam can be comforting and undetectable to the hymen, and can identify infections or irritation from organisms, diabetes or scented tissue.
A fierce backstage battle over Republican patronage flares as a compromise aims to quiet it temporarily. The dispute rattles the Republican National Committee with members feeling shortchanged by the White House, centering on rewarding party faithful and the roles of President Nixon and RNC Chairman Rep. Rogers Morton.
Dent promises 7000 largely honorary posts to be filled by the National Committee but Flanigan and Fleming resist centralized control. The plan sparks clashes between the White House and the Republican National Committee as they devise a new system to supervise appointments.
The piece surveys steep land price rises near Houston Phoenix and Vermont since the 1940s and 1950s, notes investing in land for housing resorts and industry, and cites rising raw land values, a booming Studley index, inflation hedge trends, and growing demand from young married couples.
United Press International notes this Wednesday as the 225th day of 1969. Highlights include the 1923 hit Yes We Have No Bananas topping charts, Frank Hawkes’ LA to NYC flight in 12 hours 25 minutes, the USSR’s 640000 man armed forces reduction announced in 1955, and the Berlin Wall construction beginning in 1961. John Galsworthy quote on planning for the future closes the feature.
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