Truman remembered as a wartime leader and civil rights advocate
An editorial honors Harry S. Truman praising his wartime decisions including the atomic bomb, the Marshall Plan, airlift to Berlin, and Korea action. It notes his civil rights push, peacetime economy shift, and lasting legacy as a bold and courageous president beloved by peers such as Churchill.
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Harry Truman
White House
Truman
Missouri
United States Senate
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Japan
United States
Europe
Berlin
Russia
Korea
United Nations
Winston Churchill
Motorola challenges hospital rate hikes at Samaritan Health
Motorola criticizes rising medical costs as Valley hospitals seek rate increases from the Comprehensive Health Planning Council. Good Sam argues higher charges fund new facilities, while Motorola contends the private institution could cut costs instead.
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Motorola
Valley Hospitals
Samaritan Health Services
Good Sam
Comprehensive Health Planning Council
Motorola proposals spark cost cuts at Good Samaritan hospitals
The text argues for staff reductions by 15 percent and merging operations to trim waste and lower patient rates by $6 a day. It notes a push for tighter controls, acknowledges some proposals are extreme, and claims waste exists in many hospitals as administrators chase showy programs.
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Good Sam
Motorola
Nixon forms radical supercabinet amid stealth reorganization
The article reports President Nixon quietly creating a small supercabinet linked to the White House to run domestic policy. White House domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman and Treasury Secretary George Shultz head the effort, with Caspar Weinberger Earl Butz James Lynn and others assigned to specific policy areas in a move bypassing Congress.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
Congress
John Ehrlichman
Nixon's White House tightens control via new supercabinet plan
The article details a shift to White House dominance over domestic policy with four new supercabinet members shaping agenda while several top aides move into cabinet posts. It notes Lynn and Weinberger as watchdog roles to curb programs, Morton as a weakened Interior figure, and Whitaker and Krogh installed as under secretaries to keep limousine power in check.
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Mr. Nixon
Congress
Interior
Labor
Commerce
Transportation
White House
Ehrlichman
Butz
Weinberger
Lynn
Shultz
Cleveland
Jim Lynn
HEW
Elliot Richardson
Secretary of the Interior
Rogers Morton
Nixon
Buzz
Interior Department
Morton
John Whitaker
Whitaker
Bud Krogh
Clarence Brinegar
Congressional Interior Committees
Airlines debated on segregated smoking sections
The Milwaukee Journal reports that the U S surgeon general warns of carbon monoxide in smoke filled cabins and the Civil Aeronautics Board weighs rules for separate smoking sections on flights. Airlines already offer some divisions but making them mandatory faces debate.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
Wassail Origins and Rowena’s Quest for a King
A humorous chronicling of wassail’s origins in early Kent during King Vortigern’s era. It recounts Rowena’s scheme to win the king, a feast with spiced ale, and her role in sparking a royal union that began the Anglo-Saxon line, with a wink at the fate of the Picts.
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Vortigern
Henry Kissinger
Europe
Britain
Hengest
Horsa
Rowena
Black & White
Mailbag a Telephone praises public response to rate hike
Enid readers commend a recent article on telephone company price increases including directory assistance. The letter laments slow operator access and rising indifference, noting long dial tone waits and snappy service, with praise for KGWA for sharing the piece.
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Inside Report
By Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
Evans
Novak
Milwaukee, Wis
Marshall
NATO
By Bob Considine
KGWA
George R.mayfield
Enid
Okahoma
Scottsdale
Jonathan Marshall
Jerry McElfresh
W. B
Doc” Wright
Scottsdale Daily Progress
Scottsdale Publishing ‘Inc
Arizona
Ariz
the Progress
Audit’ Bureau of Circulation
Mal.Ariz
HBS
Asizsra Newspapers Association
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