Pittsburgh Potholes Spark National Debate on Highway Decay
A national spread of potholes mirrors Pittsburgh’s notorious conditions. Popular Mechanics surveyed 22 states over 8,000 miles, likening interstates to a moonlike surface. The piece links potholes to aging roads, heavy truck traffic, water, salt, and stalled maintenance, with politics and budgets shaping resurfacing plans and studded tire bans.
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Pittsburgh
United States
Popular Mechanics
Milton J. Shapp
Pennsylvania
General Assembly
Jobless Youth Time Bomb on a Short Fuse
Youth unemployment hits the young hardest with minority groups most affected. In New York City only one in five job seekers aged 16 to 19 were employed in 1977, and black teens fared worse at one in ten. The Carter administration backed YEDPA to fund 300,000 new slots and a $1 billion for 1978.
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Foundation News
New York City
Jobs For Youth
Carter
YEDPA
New Castle News offers varied columns and reader input
The New Castle News presents syndicated and local columns with reader comment encouraged on the editorial page. Executive Editor Leonard T. Kolasinski and Jack W. Bartholie oversee content while advertising and credit manager details are shown. Subscriptions list local and mail rates with options for Lawrence County and broader regions.
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Richard E. Rentz
Jessie Treadwell
Ander
Fred Rentz
The
New Castle News
Leonard T. Kolasinski
Jack W. Bartholie
Bell Telephone
Pivate Exchange
Lawrence County
U.S.A
Icebergs shape Arctic geography and historic hat price
About 20,000 icebergs form yearly in the northern hemisphere with 90 percent from Greenland west coast glaciers. Some icebergs exceed half a mile in length and rise up to 100 feet, with a record height of 550 feet. A Napoleon hat fetched $29,471 at a 1970 French auction.
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Greenland
Arctic
Washington Monument
National Geographic Society
United Press International
France
Napoleon Bonaparte
Demanded openness in Democratic Kampuchea debate drawing fire
A Cambodian leader urged openness to democratic reforms while opposing Western narratives of genocide. The piece cites Daniel Burstein and Leng Sary defending the regime as the U.S. bear responsibility for wartime deaths, contrasting with Chilean and Latin American political repression.
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Democratic Kampuchea
Cambodia
Daniel Burstei
Communist Party
Marxist-Leninist
Times
Burstein
Leng Sary
Teng
United States
Evolution of Mental Illness Concepts Through the 20th Century
The piece traces how mental illness was once seen as lunacy tied to physical disease and later reframed by Freud as purposeful behavior on a continuum with normality. It notes shifts from germ explanations to developmental origins and an expanding definition as the century progressed.
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Freud
Mind and illness widen the definition of mental health
The essay traces Freud’s shift from symptom to character neurosis and argues that modern psychiatry often treats the whole personality as ill. It notes psychosomatic links like peptic ulcers and asthma, the rise of psychiatric referrals, and cultural changes in perceiving illness while warning against overexpansion that could render everyone mentally ill. It then pivots to critique Burstein’s Khmer Rouge stance and questions an open door policy for Cambodia.
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Freid
Burstein
Khmer Rouge
Democratic
Kampuchea
New Jerusalem
Moscow
Hanoi
Cambodia
Eng Sary
Bits and Pieces From Various Research Notes
A compact roundup notes several social and historical observations. It cites New York income rules affecting Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Medicaid, a rise in mortality among retirees, Arizona's high school proficiency standard, the rise of displaced homemakers, and Milton's coinage of pandemonium with a note on Paradise Lost earnings.
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New York
Arizona
U.S
Strictly Personal Facts From History And Law Trivia
A collection of historical claims: building energy loss through windows equates to over 1 percent of daily oil, prison beard bans lack compelling justification, Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams sold out slowly, Mayflower passengers perished in winter, Andrew Jackson profited by land taken from Indians, The Channel is La Manche, and NYC lawsuits may cost 700 million to 1 billion.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Freud
Plymouth
England
Andrew Jackson
la Manche
New York City
Faith Through Acceptance of Christ as Answer
A reader asks for prayer to accept Christ. The answer urges personal choice, stating Christ stands at the door and will come in once belief and faith are shown. Emphasizes that faith, not feelings, is the evidence of acceptance, with Christ entering when the seeker truly believes.
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P. T
Christ
Billy Graham
Fee Opposes Lower Drinking Age in Pennsylvania
The reader letter by State Representative Thomas J. Fee argues against lowering the legal drinking age from 21 to 18 or 19. He notes lobbyists push bills each session and urges stiff penalties for sales to teenagers, citing teenage alcoholism data and comparing with other states raising the age to 21.
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the News
Pennsylvania
House
Thomas J. Fee
Mohawk Lanes 300 Game Draws Reader Ire
Eloise Slater of Bessemer protests the late writeup of Ken Rogers 300 at Mohawk Lanes on November 7. She notes lack of photo and score reference while other local feats get fuller treatment, urging equal coverage for Mohawk area achievements.
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Ken Rogers
Mohawk Lanes
Mohawk
New Castle
Reader’s Contact in New Castle News
Reader seeks accuracy in New Castle News reports and asks readers to contact Executive Editor Len Kolasinski, the Readers Contact, by phone or mail for complaints about stories.
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New Castle
Len Kolasinski
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