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Remember the “good old days” when you could enroll in a university for $35 to $100 per quarter, buy sirloin steak for 50 cents a pound, and occupy a hospital room for six bucks a day? Salaries, like costs, have risen sharply since then – thank goodness! But tt’s still fun to reminisce about that… Continue reading Those good old doys…

Mankind stepped over the threshold of the space age 15 years ago when on Oct. 4, 1957 the Soviet Union successfully orbited Sputnik I, the first manmade earth satellite. Even as scientists around the world listened to the “beepbeep” radio voice of the Zitinch sphere, America was preparing for its first satellite launch a few… Continue reading Taday’s Space Age Birthday

By N. laVerl Christensen Since President Reagan took office, talk of selling surplus public lands and other real property has been accelerated. lndeed there has been considerable talk of earmarking monies derived from such sales toward reducing the $1 trillion-plus national debt. Earlier this year President Reagan initiated a new property program aimed at improving… Continue reading Surplus Iund
and the budget

Awhile back the General Services Administration discovered it had wasted more than $300,000 by renting 18,000 feet of office space in New York that went unused for nearly two years. 1 i ” It cancelled the lease after investigating a tip from the nationwide, toll-free fraud hotline, set up nearly four years, ago to fight… Continue reading GAO lHotline Saves Millions

When President Reagan announced formation of a presidential commission on drunk driving and a campaign for seat belt use he commented that the nation is “outraged” by the camage on the highways. He had good reasons for both the action and the comment: – Fifty thousand Americans die annually on the streets and highways, about… Continue reading Reagan Fights Drunken Drivers

Headlines telling of destructive fires are all too common – and Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., says nearly one-third of the residential fires are caused by smoldering cigarettes. Weary of what he calls foot-dragging by the tobacco industry, Heinz introduced a bill, prior to the congressional adjournment, to spur development of a self-extinguishing cigarette to improve… Continue reading Many Fires Caused by Cigarettes

lt seems crucial in the effort to head off a major crlsis in Central America that Congress mend party differences and unite on a United States policy in that region in the interest of security and solidarity. It’a tlmeily also that this country’s forts be coordlnated with the multinational peace mediation Lnitlative of the “Contadora… Continue reading Unify Vifdi in Centrdl Am. Crisis

Americans will be able to move toward reinstatement of prayer in the public schools if congressional action on a proposed constitutional amendment reflects the will of the majority as expressed in polls. in fact, a Gallup Poll as recent as June 1982 showed 79 percent of the people favored President Reagan’s proposed amendment of that… Continue reading School Prcsyer Amendment Possible

America’s motorists are very sparing in their use of seat belts but there’s no shortage of rationalized excuses: “I don’t feel free buckled up.” “I’m afraid the car will catch fire.” “I don’t mtend to have an accident.” “It would wrinkle my clothes.” Dr. B. J. Campbell, safety engineer at University of North Carolina, salys… Continue reading Seat Belt Use Makes Sense – Buckle Up

Founders of the American system of governmuit knew tlut the young Republic could not live and prosper without an enlightened citizenry. Statements by Washington, Jefferson, Madison and others attest to this. It followed that freedom of the press was to be decreed in the very first amendment to the Constitution. A press that printed the… Continue reading A Free Press: Dem0cracy’s first defense