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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1968
Page
14
The West Virginia Legislature could improve efficiency by reducing its size and boosting pay. A proposal suggests cutting delegates or combining districts to lower costs, with an alternative plan of one senator per district and two delegates per district.
A Metropolitan Life study of 852 home fatalities in 1964 65 links drinking to many accidents. Of 537 male and 310 female deaths 15 percent and 20 percent respectively were connected with drinking. The report notes alcohol involvement in poisonings fires drownings and accidents related to stairs smoking and car exhausts.
A columnist urges heated but absurd ideas to punish France over de Gaulle. The piece mocks war debt retaliation, tourism shutdown, tipping refusals, and mocking French culture while urging loud French language use to provoke a response. It satirically critiques punitive measures and urges calmer analysis.
The United States indicts Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr and Dr. Benjamin Spock for urging draft evasion, raising a clash between personal conscience and public law. The government defends lawfulness while Coffin Spock argue higher moral law opposes the war. The legal issue centers on whether opposing the war can be lawful moral protest or an offense against the United States.
A UPI column criticizes Pennsylvania traffic safety efforts as largely verbal with little legislative teeth. It cites 1967 inaction, lobby influence, and partial measures while praising the point system and noting that visible state police enforcement remains most persuasive.
The quote argues that geography lacks soul and development serves to enrich lives, but humans are the essential economic resource enabling natural and capital resources to become active. High quality human resources are necessary, though not alone sufficient for economic growth.
A HUD official states that for every dollar of federal urban renewal funds about five dollars of private funds are expended, illustrating the leverage in urban redevelopment programs.
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