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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1972
Page
4
Community urged to enter Collingsworth County Fair parade on Friday September 8. Businesses and groups of all ages are invited to participate and possibly park floats downtown for added viewing. Officials seek arrangements to showcase entries beyond a single lap, as fair week nears.
The World Health Organization reports American male life expectancy fell from 66.7 to 66.6 years in 1958-68. Sweden leads at about 80 years while developing nations show greater gains. Chile rises from 53.8 to 58.7 years. U S officials offered no comment. Local editor notes increased tensions and softer living may impact decline.
A 1972 ABA piece notes cities may regulate risky trades while private flower vendors face limits when laws fail in court. Courts upheld some controls on telephone answering services and private detectives due to potential harm, while stressing that police power must balance public safety with individual freedom. Written by Will Bernard for the American Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas.
A page of quotations from diverse figures including James Wolfe, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Samuel Egerton Brydges, Miss-Wrother, Scrope Davies, Stephen Decatur, Martyn Parker, Horace Porter, Thomas Dekker, Baroness Von Suttner, John Webster, Madison Julius Cawain, Charles Fletcher Dole, and George Barlow. The excerpts cover themes of defense, virtue, education, republicanism, and the human condition, reflecting a 18th to 19th century sensibility.
The oldest known Bible manuscript was discovered in a convent on Mt Sinai in the Arabian Peninsula. Dated to the 4th century, it ranks behind only parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls in age. Good Friday origins are linked to a tradition of sinless observance on that day.
Dear Editor, a high professor says aerospace and defense layoff cuts are making scientists unhappy while mass higher education creates more unemployed whiz brains. The writer argues supply and demand will yield more jobs for skilled trades like auto mechanics and cooks than for PhD space scientists and computer custodians.
A compact collection of wry maxims on style, productivity, and economy. It mocks elevator shoes, vacation desk hiding, and inflated money, contrasting optimism with pessimism and noting quirks of industriousness and punctuality. The piece reads as witty observational humor from a midcentury style.
Digest of curiosities and notes: geography timekeeping and the date line. spelling shifts from charta to carta. otter speed and submerged duration. Krakatau eruption scale. Calamity Jane’s frontier life. vicuna near extinction and legal protections. earliest coin use and Swedish daler weights. centipede leg counts. early Christian origins at Antioch. Jerusalem church origins. Bethesda Medical Library as U S National Library of Medicine with over a million volumes.
Public notice outlines a 1972 Texas constitutional amendment to create a constitutional revision commission in January 1973 and convene the 63rd Legislature as a constitutional convention in January 1974 with compensation, procedures, and potential new or revised constitutions to be voted on in November 1972. The document details roles, funding, rules, dissolution, and retention of the Bill of Rights.
Public notice notes General Election November 7 1972 for Constitutional Amendment Number 13 HJR 82 adding Section 65 to Article III of the Texas Constitution. It authorizes bonds to bear interest not to exceed a weighted average annual rate of 6 percent and repeals conflicting provisions. Voter approval required.
Voter information describes the constitutional amendment to Section 2 of Article VII of the Texas Constitution. The proposal would allow exemption from property taxation for disabled veterans and their surviving spouses and children, with scales by disability rating up to defined property values, and related provisions for public charity and school properties.
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