Dirty Dozen drive a dud as voters ignore enviro list
Editorial notes the Environmental Action coalition's Dirty Dozen failed to oust most targets. Only Reps. Ted Risenhoover and Garry Brown were defeated, while Samuel Devine of Ohio won reelection, despite four straight appearances on the list. Inflation, taxes, anti-regulatory mood, and incumbency cited for poor impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Angle
Robert Walters
Washington
NEA
Dirty Dozen
Congress
Environmental Action Coalition
House
Senate
Ted Risenhoover
D-Okla
Garry Brown
R-Mass
Environmental Action
Samuel Devine
Ohio
Initiative Driven Turnout Higher In States With Ballot Proposals
Initiative America reports turnout averaged 44 percent in 16 states with citizen initiated measures versus 36.5 percent in states with no such propositions. The group notes cautions about concurrent races but asserts voters respond to direct ballot questions.
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Initiative America
Roger Telschow
US Steel chief rails against imports at year-end briefing
AP analysis notes David Roderick of U S Steel warns that imports remain a serious drag on the U S steel industry. He cites dumping by Europe and Japan, questions trigger price mechanisms, and says a potential 1979 downturn could force dumping charges as the sector weighs a viable future.
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John Cunniff
NEW York
U.S. Steel
David Roderick
Roderick
Rainbow
RCA
China
U.S
Washington
Japan
United States
World Almanac Q&A reference quiz items
A compact quiz segment lists three questions from The World Almanac Q&A: identifying the largest AFL-CIO union as of 1978, naming the second largest passenger ship after Queen Elizabeth II, and choosing the vitamin important for bone development with options A through K.
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Afl-Cio
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
United Steelworkers of America
Laborers’ International Union of North America
Canada
United States
France
Lost Farmland and Soil Erosion Thresholds Warned
A holiday message warns that three million acres of U.S. farmland vanish yearly to urban growth and flood ponds, while four billion tons of topsoil erode annually on productive lands. Only half the nation's cropland is adequately protected from soil loss, risking reliance on foreign supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Open administration questions miss the mark in Hofmann letters
Jimmy Carter promised openness but White House replies to Chatham resident Hofmann were curt and vague. Hofmann rewrote questions in quiz form, then pressed for Lipshutz’s private counsel and Amy Carter’s glasses, receiving only a dated press release.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Jimmy Carter
Peter W. Hofmann
Chatham
N.J
White House
Hofmann
Carter
Amy Carter
West
Landon Kite
London
Cool Hand
Luke
Robert Lipshutz
Lipshutz
Amy
Treasury Department
Joseph Minish
D-N.j
Minish
Pentagon
Treasury
Michael Blumenthal
Gus Bequai
Bequai
Union Corse
Corsica
Turin
Milan
Genoa
United States
West Germany
Japan
Just Musin By Alton Hughes Ranching Folds After War
After World War I, the cattle business collapsed and many ranchers failed. Finley, managing two ranches, sold the good one to pay debts and kept the old as a modest payoff. The family moved to Pecos around 1925, buying a house at Fifth and Hackberry later moved. Virginia Lea Finley and Milford Howard wed March 13, 1929. Finley served as Reeves county commissioner and remained active in Masonry and the Presbyterian Church. Their son Edwin died in 1929 after a gasoline torch accident. C.O. Finley went blind by 1941, and Virginia Lea became his chauffeur. C.O. died June 28, 1946, survived by Minnie and four daughters. two grandsons died in World War II. Minnie died January 11, 1971 at 97.
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Finley
Finleys
Pecos
Virginia Lea
Fifth and Hackberry
Jack Clark
F.W. Johnson
Bob Dean
Virginia Lea Finley
Milford Howard
W.D. Johnson
Reeves County
Masonic Lodge
Presbyterian Church
Edwin
John Wendt
Frank Jowell
Roy Kendall
Frank
Jowell
Kendall and
Wendt
C.O
C.O. Finley
Fairview Cemetery
First Presbyterian Church
F Browne
Minnie
Zora
Nat Gunter
Doreen
Jimmy McCutcheon
Florence
T.M. Powell
Jack Gunter
Bruce Powell
Cleveland approves home smoke detector ordinance for all houses
City Council votes 32 to 1 to require every home in Cleveland to install smoke detectors by March 1, sending the measure to Mayor Dennis J. Kucinich. Basil M. Russo says Cleveland would be the first major U S city with such a requirement and cites fires in 1977 causing 369 injuries or deaths and $11.7 million in damage. Fines for violators range from 25 to 100 dollars. A companion plan to let the fire chief sell detectors to the public was defeated.
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Cleveland
Dennis J. Kucinich
Basil M. Russo
United States
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