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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1978
Page
2
The Odessa American states a capstone policy endorsing voluntary personal spending over involuntary distribution, inviting reproduction of its editorials with proper credit and asserting a mission to improve the Permian Basin as a better place to live. It frames a libertarian stance on fiscal matters and editorial reuse.
Former attorney general Waggoner Carr helps lead TEXAS 13, a new statewide group attacking high spending and taxes. The group urges a tax relief session, supports initiative and referendum for citizens, and criticizes a Senate plan to raise state sales tax to compensate lost revenue from a recent tax relief amendment.
A reflective essay on credit culture from debt avoidance to modern card dependence. It traces how cash was once preferred, how discrimination followed when borrowing, and how timely payments paradoxically invite penalties. The piece ends with a provocative twist linking debt norms to theft.
The piece summarizes liberal and conservative positions on a national health insurance program, noting criticism that plans were too limited and would cost hundreds of billions. It cites government expenditure in 1977, doubts about government efficiency, and contrasts private medicine with public intervention plus a Reader’s Digest view affirming progress in American medicine.
Washington opinion upholds Seattle ordinance to regulate adult theaters under zoning rules. Judge Horowitz cites Young v American Mini Theaters and supports time, place, and manner limits to protect residential neighborhoods while allowing adults access in commercial districts. The piece argues for a balanced approach in a free society.
The first public museum in England is the Ashmolean at Oxford, opened in 1683. The first Russian gun factory was founded at Tula by Tsar Boris Godunov in 1595, marking early state armament efforts.
Federal lawmakers listed with titles and contact offices in Washington and Texas. Names include Sen Lloyd Bentsen Jr, Sen John Tower, Rep George Mahon, Rep Richard C White, Sen Pete Snelson, Sen Kent Hance, Rep John Hoestenbach, Rep Richard C Slack. Addresses mainly in Houston Washington, D C and Texas cities.
The Second Circuit ordered a new hearing for two New York civic groups challenging a federal mailbox law that fines anyone who deposits political material in a private mailbox. The piece argues the statute burdens First Amendment rights by favoring mail and postal monopoly over door-to-door canvassing and calls for allowing direct neighborhood political communication.
On this date significant events include Polk announcing California gold discovery sparking the Gold Rush of 1849, Columbus reaching Santo Domingo in 1492, Phi Beta Kappa forming in 1776 at William and Mary, Van Buren born in 1782, and Prohibition ending as Utah ratified the 21st Amendment in 1933.
A historical note imagines Montana's northern boundary along the Atlantic shoreline from Boston to Richmond Virginia. It contrasts with a statistic that the average teenage boy consumes about 5.3 pounds of food daily, totaling nearly a ton per year.
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