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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1972
Page
5
Holiday travel nationwide is expected to be heavy with more crowds and longer preflight checks. In this area drivers should allow extra time, consider alternate routes, and prioritize arriving safely over speed.
Editors argue Congress holds more closed door meetings after the Legislative Reorganization Act. Senate committees show 37 percent secret sessions in 1971 and 59 percent for Agriculture. House figures: 44 percent overall and 92 percent for Appropriations. Public business should be open.
The Texas Insurance Advisory Association asked the State Board of Insurance to cut extended coverage and homeowners rates across most regions, with larger hikes in the Seacoast area and a statewide fire insurance reduction. Officials cited projected savings and received mixed agent reactions amid other legal and public notices.
An excerpt notes James Bridger as an intrepid American explorer linked with Yellowstone and the Great Salt Lake discovery. It also credits Noah Webster with pioneering copyright laws 1790 and protecting authors as publishers copied his speller. It mentions Romany origins of gypsy language and ties to Sanskrit.
A collage of short excerpts from poets and writers including Louise Chandler Moulton Mark Twain Clemens Grover Cleveland Swinburne Howells Hardy and Moore. The verses touch on memory love loss time and beauty with brief quoted lines and attributions.
The letter rate battle ends with a proposed 8 cent first class mail option labeled CS for cheapskate. Readers note the public resisted an 11 cent push and now faster service is tied to an extra 3 cents. D E Scott Crossroads USA.
A quirky meditation on being a ghost writer, fame’s illusions, and peculiar habits. It muses on the mythic pull of aroma and the humor of keeping one’s ego in check with a cuckoo clock.
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