Where's The Academic Lobby? Tucson District Reinstates Some Cuts
Tucson School District 1 trustees restored most planned high school budget cuts for next year including interscholastic golf swimming and driving education while maintaining a five subject limit for freshmen. They kept the academic cutback citing a $230,000 need for more teachers and warned limits could return if finances worsen. The piece argues for an academic lobby to preserve core studies like geography and history amid political pressure on funding.
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Tucson
Robert D. Morrow
Morrow
Licensing Drivers Across Ages Questioned After Collision
An 87-year-old woman drove west in an east bound lane with lights off on East Broadway, prompting renewed debate on driver licensing. The piece argues for a complete physical test for all drivers, especially the elderly, beyond current written and vision exams.
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East Broadway
Arizona
Two Prophets Of Protest: Abernathy And Wallace
A 1968 column casts Ralph Abernathy and George Wallace as symbolic leaders of discontent. It warns that their revolutionary and counter revolutionary paths threaten democracy, comparing them to fascist and communist extremes and urging voters to seek a healer for the nation.
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Ralph Abernathy
George Wallace
Abernathy
Wallace
Agriculture Department
Treasury
Justice Department
Federal help maze needs drastic decentralization
Roscoe Drummond argues federal aid programs are sprawling and inefficient. He cites Roths survey showing 1050 programs dispensing over 20 billion dollars yearly and multiple departments duplicating aims. He urges a single catalogue and a Hoover Commission style study to push decentralization to state and local levels.
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Rep. Roth
Congress
White House
Impeach Earl Warren industry riles critics over resignation
In a satirical chatter, Weldon Welcher laments lost Warren era outdoor ads while plotting mass impeachment of the Supreme Court. The dialogue jokes about Johnson appointing a new chief justice and the impracticality of stamping nine names on bumper stickers.
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Earl Warren
Supreme Court
Johnson
Warren
Justice Warren
Welcher
Retired Tucson Stereotyper Remembers a Life in Newsroom
Randolph Sellars, longtime head stereotyper for the Tucson Daily Citizen, retired after 48 years. He recalls 1920s beginnings, a 50 year union pin, and a retirement party at the Tucson Press Club with gifts of UA football season tickets and red Aerian blankets. He credits family and the paper as his entire life.
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Resurrection City
America
Randolph Sellars
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Tucson Daily Citizen
Sellars
International Stereotypers and Electrotypers Union
Union
Tucson Press Club
N.P. Wienald
Citizen
Tucson Newspapers Inc
University of Arizona
Girl Watching Milwaukee Journal Editorial
A West German insurance firm requires male workers to keep a photo of a wife or current partner on their desks. The aim to curb wandering eyes and office romance is noted as perhaps noble but this form of supervision seems unlikely to spread.
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