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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1968
Page
3
Editorial argues welfare reform must target training for low income men to restore breadwinner roles, reduce poverty cycles, and support working mothers with county day care centers. It condemns fostering and calls for treating the poor as potentially productive, urging a new approach over the old system.
The piece argues that Senate filibusters threaten passage of reform and raises the need to replace the Electoral College with a majority popular vote winner. It urges Congress to set ground rules if no candidate gains a clear electoral majority and considers the impact on national chaos.
In Warren Michigan the Wallace movement grows among UAW workers in a lily white industrial town. Voters previously loyal to Democrats show strong Wallace support with 20 of 50 favoring him, signaling a political revolution beyond party lines and raising concerns for Humphrey’s Michigan prospects.
The Mailbag writer calls for a traffic light or crosswalk on Indian School Road near Scottsdale High School to aid schoolchildren crossing. She notes drivers sometimes stop for pedestrians but urges a dedicated crossing for safety and smoother access to the parking lot.
Bob Considine recalls the 1934 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers. Star players Dizzy Dean and Daffy Dean led the Cardinals, while Hank Greenberg and Mickey Cochrane starred for Detroit. Legendary writers Grantland Rice and Henry McLemore covered the clash, with Goodyear blimp imagery marking the drama.
In Washingtons Pan Sen Ed Muskie used a ten minute uninterrupted dialogue with a student spokesman to reveal the lack of constructive ideas among the New Left hecklers. The exchange underscored that the presidential contest is not a popularity contest and urged voters to approach November with objectivity.
Ralph McGill cites The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as a masterful 580 page Russian novel about prison life and the meaning of freedom. He notes the work portrays oppression and the human spirit, with a hard, sharp prose and a stark depiction of Soviet camps and Stalin era brutality.
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