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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1973
Page
2
A letter argues to remove Arizona on food from sales tax citing hardship on low and middle income families amid inflation. It proposes shifting revenue with mine severance tax higher utility taxes or income tax increases and urges relief on essential nonprescription health products like toothpaste aspirin soap.
The narrative recalls vacations across California, Cape Cod, Oregon, Northern Arizona, Colorado, northeastern Pennsylvania, Martha’s Vineyard, and the Berkshire and Adirondack mountains. It praises meeting kind locals, charming villages, and scenery that inspires, ending with a local child’s poem about love for America.
Washington reports a surge of 1972 campaign books with Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail ’72 standing out. The Rolling Stone correspondent portrays a chaotic year covering politicians while recalling McGovern Eagleton tensions and alleged FBI files on Eagleton.
A new independent Justice Department led by Atty. Gen. Ellen Richardson defies White House direction by reopening the Kent State killings. Richardson, backed by civil rights chief J. Stanley Pottinger, pushes their own aggressive reforms, prompting GOP critics to fear drift from Nixon aims.
In a playful column, Dick West relays John Love's warning of worsening fuel shortages and visits to The Future is Yesterday Foundation. Sam Harkenback envisions manned kites as a future aviation path with jumbo boxes and string limits replaced by rubber bands for long flights.
A letter urges removing farm restraints, letting operators grow any produce, ending subsidies, and banning strikes for three years. It calls for no excessive profits, extra employee bonuses from profits, welfare bans for able-bodied individuals, and a balanced budget with debt reduction. The author questions U.S. leadership and national prosperity.
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