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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1970
Page
4
Editorial notes how exact fare at city buses and no cash policy at oil stations deter robberies. Washington saw 116 bus robberies in 1967 with none after adopting exact fare two years earlier. Oil stations report only three holdup attempts since no cash was adopted, prompting discussions to extend hours.
Secretary Volpe touts the Interstate and Defense Highways as monumental public works with projected $12 billion in savings and nearly 10 000 lives saved annually. DOT funds slow to release in 1971 raise questions about completing the network and the use of the Highway Trust Fund.
HAL BOYLE lists annoyances and foibles from modern life such as endless calls, noisy motorcycles, empty airports, lipstick on glasses and collars, revolving door marriages, wishful credit terms, Las Vegas trips, late movies, weak diets, rising prices, and grumpy newspaper columns. He lampoons social trends and the fatigue of daily routines with a wry, retrospective tone.
The Navajo Nation struggles with education as language barriers, funding gaps, and cultural clashes hinder progress. Navajo leaders push for tribal control of schooling, ESL programs using Navajo to teach English, and community run schools like Rough Rock to align curricula with native life while aiming to raise literacy and college success.
West Germany faces high inflation amid a global boom and mass expansion by Thyssen in Duisburg and Siemens in Munich. Willy Brandt delays aggressive anti inflation moves until Bundesbank pressure plus industry lobbies force a 10 percent income tax surcharge and six month tax write off suspensions. Unemployment remains low but unions seek higher wages while Germany attracts foreign workers to counter talent shortages. The question remains whether Brandt can curb inflation without stifling growth.
The piece traces evangelical pushback against extreme fundamentalism and liberal social gospel, noting Fuller Seminary's 1947 founding and Hatfield's 1970 Fuller address. It reports conservatives forging a social ethic linking faith to public life, warning against idolatry of political power and signaling wider church and political implications.
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