Ray Cromley High price of clean environment
Washington column warns that anti pollution efforts raise costs across industry. Federal rules could cost 200 billion over ten years, with 20 billion annual operation costs by 1984 and 10 billion in new capital spending. Plant closings and job losses unfold as costs ripple through metals, paper, food, and chemicals, delaying expansion and nuclear power plans while pushing consumers to pay higher prices.
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Washington
Nea
Environmental Protection Agency
Ford
World Petroleum Cartel
Editorials Jumping the senority gun
The piece questions the seniority gains from sudden resignations and gubernatorial appointments that put Glenn and Laxalt ahead of other freshmen. It notes this as an extralegal tactic, urging restraint and warning it may set a troubling precedent for future elections and party maneuvering.
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Ohio
Howard M. Metzenbaum
John J. Gilligan
John Glenn
Glenn
Paul Laxalt
Nevada
Alan Bible
Metzenbaum
Gilligan
William B. Saxbe
Laxalt
Whch
Washington
Congress
Senate
Overheard Remark Sparks Debate on Automation and Gender
An overheard remark claiming automation is a male chauvinist plot to ease work and empower women to do it all has circulated, prompting discussion on workplace equality and the impact of technology on labor roles. The comment drew responses from coworkers and experts alike.
Social Security sound and the council’s wage base plan
AP Business Analyst John Cunniff reports J Henry Smith defends Social Security as sound and well run while noting a potential plan to raise the maximum taxable wage base to 24 400 from 14 100. He cites a 93 percent coverage impact but opposes it as diverging from the program’s three tier aim.
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John Cunniff
NEW York
J. Henry Smith
Advisory Council On Social Security
Smith
Congress
Advisory Council
Legacy search a Fort Worth cousin through editor note
A reader asks to reach a missing Fort Worth relative Jessie Gaston now possibly Anderson. James F. Humphries of Houston writes requesting a personal column mention with his address to help Jessie see it. He notes Jessie’s parents are deceased and cites a long gap since 1918.
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Pecos
Jessie Gaston
Anderson
Fort Worth
John Gaston
Jessie
John F. Humphries
Singleton St. Houston
Tex
Today in history highlights span millennia of events
On January 7 through history, Truman announced the hydrogen bomb in 1953, the Holy Roman Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1854, the first U S presidential election occurred in 1789, Millard Fillmore was born in 1800, and radio telephone links connected New York and London in 1927. Birthdays include former Florida governor Claude Kirk. Thought by Henry Adams notes learning.
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Associated Press
Harry Truman
State of the Union
United States
Holy Roman Empire
U.S
Millard Fillmore
Cayuga County
New York
London
Lebanon
Beirut
Vietnam
Indonesia
United Nations
Cairo
Japan
Florida
Claude Kirk
Henry Adams
Blindworms Revealed as Legless Lizards Not Worms
A note clarifies that blindworms are not blind and not worms but legless lizards, redefining a common confusion about the reptile. It emphasizes their classification and physical traits.
Archdeacon John Sprat and the Jack Sprat Tale
London church figure Archdeacon John Sprat of St David's 1607 was famed for dainty eating while his wife enjoyed hearty meals. Parishioners often invited the archdeacon to dine but not the wife. Their unlikely pair inspired the nursery rhyme Jack Sprat could eat no fat.
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John Sprat
St David's Church
London
Jack Sprat
Pecos Prepares for New Year in 1935 Outlook
Pecos charts optimistic headlines on the eve of 1935 with plans for waterworks and a federal building to begin soon after January. The Red Bluff Bruiser will hit peak employment within six days as the town anticipates a prosperous year.
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Pecos
Federal
Red Bluff
Recovery of confidence frames Bentsen speech on national repair
Sen Lloyd Bentsen argues the United States must recover confidence to address severe current problems. He cites past postwar successes, challenges from oil producers, urban decay, and crime, then calls for action to restore economic health, energy self sufficiency, education, health care, and transportation, urging a practical, positive path forward.
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U.S
Europe
Pacific
Japan
America
Mark Twain
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Cecil Cot
Sen
Lloyd Bentsen
By Neg Cochran
Terry
John Tower
Austin
W.E
Pete’’ Snelson
Capital Building
Texas
Dick Slack
5Th & Cypress
State Board of Education
M.C. Brockette
Texas Education Agency
E. 11Th St
Ben R. Howell
el Paso
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