Arcadia High traffic debate asks for slower speeds
Parents students and school officials confronted Phoenix traffic engineer Charles Haley over Indian School Road safety near Arcadia High. They urged lowering speed limits to 15 mph to protect pedestrians amid three recent child fatalities near the intersection. Haley dismissed the idea as impractical calling for jaywalking to become socially unacceptable.
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Charles Haley
Phoenix
Arcadia
Haley
Arcadia High School
Indian School Road
Budget cuts and bureaucracy critique in federal spending
Taxpayers hear candidates pledge big cuts but offer few specifics. The piece argues agencies resist cuts to protect jobs and power, citing a $150,000 278 page housing report as an example of waste and unnecessary paper. It questions the value and readers of such studies.
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Congress
Letter to editor urges acceptance of pledge rules in schools
A reader from John Eisenhower supports pledge participation while criticizing the notion of a daily compulsory pledge. The letter argues the school board acts for children, defends symbols, and questions the publisher’s stance on dissent, urging meaningful, not forced, national symbolism.
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John Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Scottsdale student urges pledge time support
Coronado High School student Lori Cox defends classroom time for the Pledge of Allegiance citing signatures from parents and support from public figures. She argues the pledge honors national symbols and criticizes press negativity while urging schools to teach respect and patriotism.
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Lori Cox
Coronado High School
Scottsdale
Americans urged to unite against world hunger
Executive director Gerald E Connolly of the American Freedom from Hunger Foundation calls on Americans to join a global effort to combat famine. He urges 1 million volunteers to press government and private decision makers and asks readers to contact the foundation in Washington, D. C. for information.
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Rome
United States
American Freedom From Hunger Foundation
17Th St
N.W
Washington, D. C
Gerald E. Connolly
American Freedom From Hunger
Falm
Washington, D.C
Liberal Left Fences Jackson and Bentsen in 1976 Nomination Flap
At the Democratic midterm gathering in Kansas City liberal delegates warn they may bolt in 1976 over Jackson and Bentsen. The left rails against Strauss claims of unity while eyeing Carey as a potential unifier. The race remains fluid with no clear frontrunner.
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Robert Strauss
Henry M. Jackson
Washington
Lloyd Bentsen
Texas
Jackson
Strauss
George Wallace
Scoop Jackson
William Dougherty
South Dakota
Dougherty
Eugene McCarthy
Vietnam
Bentsen
Politi
Cal
John Connally
Ralph Yarborough
Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy
Edmund S. Muskie
Muskie
Senate
George McGovern
Arizona
Objectors to pledge rise in Scottsdale spark national debate
A letter from William L. Abrahams argues high school students who refuse daily pledge recitations are not un-American but act from concern for global welfare. He says young objectors challenge nationalism and vow a future world pledge for unity and peace with Scottsdale as a catalyst.
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Cox
Scottsdale
William L
Roy) Abrahams
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