Opinion consensus on DDT and science policy needed
An agronomist Nobel laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug defends DDT against environmentalist bans while Dr. Charles Wurster argues the pesticide harms ecology. The piece urges a consensus process to shape policy, urging scientists to consider political and economic impacts and governments to weigh evidence to protect public health and promote the greatest good.
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Norman E. Borlaug
Charles Wurster
Borlaug
Wurster
Cannikin
Aleutians
New Books at Library Spotlight A Diverse Lineup
A library display features Juce Cook’s The Beat Generation and Helen MacInnes’s Message from Malaga. Also listed are Making Wildlife Movies by Christopher Parsons, Nobody Said You Had To Eat off the Floor by Carol G. Eisen, Tregaron's Daughter by Madelaine Brent, The Twelve-Year Reich by Richard Grunberger, Vieru by Bessie Head, The Orange Man and Other Narratives of Medical Detection by Berton Roueche, The Ra Expeditions by Thor Heyerdahl, The Shape of Minds to Come by John C. Taylor, The Terrible Year Paris Commune 1871 by Alistair Horne, and Time and Clocks by Sir Henry Cunynghame.
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Juce Cook
Malaga
Helen MacInnes
Christopher Parsons
Carol G. Eisen
Tregaron
Madelaine Brent
Richard Grunberger
Third Reich
Vieru
Bessie Head
Botswana
Thor Heyerdahl
John C. Taylor
Professor Taylor
Paris
Alistair Horne
Sir Henry Cunynghame
Page One News Ten Years Ago Happenings in Ukiah Area
Ten years ago Page One News tracked local life with family ski trips to Squaw Valley and Heavenly Valley, Mike Clausen testing political waters in Ukiah, and disbursing officer George Vevoda tied to Moffett Field. Also notes on a 25th anniversary boy and bears bagged by county hunters.
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Dick Larber
Gage
Ginger
Squaw Valley
Heavenly Valley
George Lee Vevoda
George Vevoda
Ukiah High School
Moffet Field Air Station
Don H. Clausen
del Norte
Ukiah
Clausen
Congress
Mendocino County
Diana Zimmerman
Rodney Zimmerman
Diana
AM Club
Highway 101
California auto repair law aims to weed out dishonest dealers
Donald Livingston of the California Department of Consumer Affairs says the new auto repair statute, signed by Governor Reagan, will remove dishonest dealers by requiring registration by June 30 1972 and giving regulators powers to curb fraud. The law mandates written estimates, consumer authorization for further work, and return of replaced parts, with registration revocable for fraud or shoddy work. education on examinations may come later.
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Ly Jack Webb
Copley News Service
Sacramento
Donald Livingston
State Department of Consumer Affairs
California
Livingston
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Anthony Beilenson
Beverly Hills
California Highway Patrol
Department of Consumer Affairs
Beilenson
Money tainted by special interests fuels 1960s campaigns
Presidential hopefuls face fundraising from deep ties to industry insiders. Textile and oil magnates funded Nixon and other candidates in 1968 in exchange for policy favors. In 1972, donors from Boeing unions and others back Democrats, while George Wallace and Sam Yorty raise funds through secret chests and paid events. The piece also probes ITT Hartford Fire merger and SEC inquiries into possible insider trading and influence pacts, naming Harold Geneen and others as questioned executives.
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Washington
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
Florida
Boeing Company
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Senate
Boeing
Alabama
George Wallace
Internal Revenue
Wallace
Gerald
Los Angeles
Sam Yorty
California
Citizens For
Treasury
Yorty
Justice Department
Jarvis Tax Initiative letters spark county debate in Mendocino
Letters to the editor from Willits and Redwood Valley urge action on the Jarvis Tax Limit Initiative. They describe proposed 1 percent market value property tax caps, burdens on assessors, and effects on homeowners, tenants, schools, and charities, urging signatures and public support amid concerns over taxes and nuclear power risks.
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Willits
Calif
Ukiah Daily Journal
Mendocino County
Jarvis
Owl Market
Geise Realty
Ukiah
S. State
Laytonville
Geiger's
Barbs by Phil Pastoret
A quirky column by Phil Pastoret riffs on calls and public accounts, noting how a fifths specialist may not be a public accountant and that choosing friends for popularity can backfire in social and professional circles.
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Mendocino Publishing Co
South School Street
Moller
One Weer
Africa
Berton Roueche
Ddt
Hoskins
Page One News
Howard Casteel
George P. Anderson
Walter Sandelin
Charles H. King
Sebastopol
King Solomon's Council
Ted Barker
Mill Court
Hildreth
W.A. Chessall
California Teachers Association
C.N. Luce
Marvin Luce
Big Oaks
M. Luce
Low Gap
Jack Goudge
Ukiah General Hospital
Goudge
Marie Harvey
Heinie
Red Jackets
State Hospital
Porter Smith
Leona Layman
West Perkins Street
J.C. Bailey
Fort Bragg
Dan Grazini
John Galt
Independent
Garage Owners of
America
International Telephone & Telegraph
Hartford Fire Insurance Co
Connecticut Insurance Commissioner
The
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC
Harold Geneen
ITT
Howard Aibel
Herbert Knortz
Harry Williams
Hartford Fire
Geneen
William Cotter
D-Conn
Cotter
Hartford
Joe Fazzano
Fazzano
George Cote
Docino County
Jarvis Committee
Harold M. Lewis
Redwood Valley
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