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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1975
Page
3
The editorial notes student fear of failure affects grades and learning. It argues reading ability underpinning academics, critiques look-say methods, and endorses phonics for early, proper instruction to maximize potential and opportunity for all children.
Arizona Senator Paul Fannin voted against a Gravel amendment to boost solar energy research funds from 96.2 million to 158.8 million. Senator Barry Goldwater was absent. The article notes Arizona aims to be a solar energy hub while criticizing the voting record amid broader energy funding disparities.
A reader denounces an Aug. 13 Bill of Rights editorial claiming bans on small handguns would not curb crime. The letter argues criminals will still obtain better guns and urges a ban on handgun misuse, not just cheap models.
Letters react to a previous August Progress letter. Marilyn Leffler of Scottsdale defends a son guarding a city building from a perch, contrasting a dirt bike incident with a horse rider's safety concerns. She criticizes O’Leary and rails at parents who neglect rider courtesy.
Arthur Hoppe mocks corporate growth through International Peanuts & Popcorn, Inc. and related firms. The parable lampoons conglomerates chasing growth, subsidies, and government rescue while treating stockholders and the public as afterthoughts, ending with the punchline about "What’s a people."
Washington opinion by John D. Lofton Jr. argues that presentism in U S schools erodes historical understanding. He cites Organization of American Historians findings and quotes Durant Butterfield Weaver and Plutarch to warn that ignoring the past risks societal decline and future danger.
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