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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1974
Page
2
Arcadia area residents warn that water shortages threaten property values in one of the Valley’s priciest zones. They urge action to find new water sources and fund pipe repairs, criticizing past inaction and urging a new board if the current directors refuse to act.
The article urges parents and coaches to keep focus on the kids. It notes past incidents of unsportsmanlike conduct and vandalism toward umpires. It calls for adults to model good sportsmanship and allow children to enjoy learning baseball.
The piece notes small weekly mercies in New York and beyond, including avoiding a transit strike, fairer transit costs, and Kissinger’s marriage. It praises Gerald Ford for breaking from Nixon and expecting a Senate impeachment trial, predicting he could become a steadier, conservative president with a hopeful impact on the nation.
A satirical exchange imagines Dick and Pat Whittier facing poverty under the IRS and food stamps. They discuss a garage sale on the South Lawn to raise funds, compare their plight to figures like Wilbur Mills, and eye a future on easy street via quirky misadventures with debt, loans, and a transplant of political theater.
An analysis by Bob Considine discusses the long term dangers of nuclear waste, noting isotopes with half lives of 30 to 60 years and plutonium 239 with 250 000 year containment needs. It covers disposal ideas from salt mines to Greenland burial, space disposal costs, and the ethical shift from war to peaceful uses of atomic energy.
Newsweek and the New York Times spotlight Arnold A. Hutschnecker who urges a four panel to certify presidential candidates as mentally fit. The idea, branded ridiculous, prompts the question of who would select the panel and what voters already know about candidates.
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