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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1972
Page
2
The Arizona Civil Liberties Union opposed public school corporal punishment after an alleged paddling of a 13 year old girl in Phoenix. The piece argues that authority should be respected but beating students breeds resentment and teaches violence, urging abolition and alternatives by good teachers.
Rev. Billy Graham says the top Christmas gift is love and that love means giving not just receiving. He argues the message applies year round and urges concern for others, listening, hope, compromise, and daily acts of love to solve world problems and reduce poverty, fear, and war.
Harriet Van Horne surveys the rise of the Women’s Liberation Movement including a California self service gynecological clinic and the trial of Mrs. Downer who faced charges for practicing medicine without a license. The piece critiques patient self diagnosis, unlicensed care, and the tension with established medicine.
A satirical column discusses reporters facing jail for protecting sources while newsrooms debate the ethics of naming film projects and identifying individuals in confidential discussions. The narrator jokes about refusing to reveal source names and contemplates legal penalties.
The column riffs on poll fiction, naming Kinney's survey in 150000 answers and mocking real polls. It references Kissinger, Liz Taylor, Tricia Nixon Cox, Archie Bunker, Jane Fonda, and air lore around Gen Douglas MacArthur. It notes Jack Benny's 39th birthday in 1973 and his upcoming farewell special.
An Arizona immigrant cab driver argues that immigration and corporate relocation fuel economic vitality and housing development. He counters a critic from a previous article, praising Phoenix Valley progress while noting environmental and population pressures.
The Rongelap incident left villagers contaminated by nuclear fallout from 1954 Bikini Atoll tests. Lekoj Anjain, born in 1954, died at 19 after leukemia and thyroid tumors affected his family. The U S admits a mistake and funds near one million dollars for compensation as winds spread deadly particles.
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