The Montana Standard, 1992-05-29, p.4

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An opinion and comment page (page 4) of The Montana Standard, Butte, dated Friday, May 29, 1992, organised into several distinct editorial zones. The upper half is dominated by a full-width editorial on the EPA office in Butte, a syndicated Doonesbury strip, and a lengthy feature column by Anna Quindlen on gay rights and parenting. Below the fold, the page shifts to a densely packed 'Our readers speak' letters section carrying half a dozen reader submissions on topics ranging from sales tax, environmentalism, abortion, and cattle grazing, to the Murphy genealogy notice. Two 'The Small Society' comic strips by Bill Yates provide visual breaks between the editorial and letters zones. The editorial tone across the page is engaged and civic-minded, mixing national syndicated content with distinctly local Montana concerns.

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• Opinion, comment
• EPA office
• Burns and Baucus are correct: Federal office belongs in Butte
• Gay rights cause unfulfilled
• Parents in support of children
• Our readers speak
• Stan's sales tax a further burden
• Time to stop the environmentalists
• Abortion position central to church
• Tracing Murphys back to Ireland
• Let cows judge grazing questions?
• Good candidate for coroner
• 'Only' a few jobs eliminated

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• Tracing Murphys back to Ireland

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  buriedcol 1 (leftmost) · short letter at the foot of col 1 in the letters section, below Stan's sales tax and Tracing Murphys headers; easily missed among five adjacent letters

Juxtapositions

• The 'Tracing Murphys back to Ireland' genealogy notice sits at the bottom of column 1 in the letters section, immediately beneath a letter about sales tax burdens on large families — an accidental neighbourhood of Irish-American working-class preoccupations.
• The Anna Quindlen column on gay rights and parental silence runs directly beside a Doonesbury strip, giving the page's upper half a strongly syndicated, nationally-oriented flavour that contrasts with the locally-grounded letters below.

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• 4—The Montana Standard, Butte, Friday, May 29, 1992 / Opinion, comment / The Montana Standard

  Running page header and editorial-page masthead across the top: Official newspaper of Butte-Silver Bow, Founded in 1876; Dan J. Killoy, Publisher; Rick Foote, Editor; Jeffrey B. Gibson, Editorial Page Editor.

  • masthead

• EPA office / Burns and Baucus are correct: Federal office belongs in Butte

  Columns 1-2, top: unsigned editorial backing Sens. Conrad Burns and Max Baucus in moving the federal EPA office from Helena to Butte; names John Wardell, EPA director in Helena, and Rep. Fritz Daily.

• Doonesbury

  Columns 3-6, top: Doonesbury comic strip by Garry Trudeau (Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill and Angela Wright testimony).

• Gay rights cause unfulfilled

  Columns 3-6, middle: syndicated Anna Quindlen column (1992 N.Y. Times) with her portrait and the pull-quote Parents in support of children; names Jeanne and Morty Manford, Eric Marcus, Paulette Goodman and Greg Brock.

• the small society

  Columns 1-3, lower top half: the small society cartoon by Bill Yates (HE SAID I WAS FINE / I'M JUST BECOMING OBSOLETE), King Features Syndicate.

• the small society

  Columns 4-6, lower top half: a second small society cartoon by Bill Yates (IT'S WRITTEN ALL OVER HIM / TROUBLEMAKER, with a VOTE FOR ROSS PEROT placard), King Features Syndicate.

• Our readers speak

  Section header across columns 1-6 above the letters to the editor in the lower part of the page.

  • masthead

• Stan's sales tax a further burden

  Column 1, top of the letters: letter against Gov. Stephens's proposed 4 percent sales tax, signed Mark J. Petritz, 3220 State.

• Tracing Murphys back to Ireland

  Catalogued as clipping 1992-05-29_montana-standard_tracing-murphys-clounaglaskin-letter (column 1 bottom to column 2 top: letter from Donald V. Murphy, 3404 Emma Lane, Godfrey, IL, on a Murphy genealogy tracing Michael C. Murphy (1788-1890) of Clounaglaskin, Castletownbere Parish, County Cork, and his son Timothy (Tady) Murphy, whose children Kit, Julia, Michael, Dan, Johney, Pat, Jerry and Cornelius emigrated to Butte).

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• Time to stop the environmentalists

  Columns 2-3: letter defending the Golden Sunlight Mine against environmental groups (National Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club, Gallatin Wildlife Association and others), naming Bill Connor of Whitehall; signed Joe H. Roberts, 3430 Neighborly Lane.

• Abortion position central to church

  Columns 3-4: letter answering Anna Quindlen's May 18 column on the Catholic Church and abortion, signed Steve Dennehy, 620 S. Idaho.

• 'Only' a few jobs eliminated

  Columns 4-5: letter on wilderness and timber jobs answering Jim Richard of White Sulphur Springs as quoted in the May 18 Standard, signed Dennis Jessen, 113 N. Pacific, Dillon.

• Let cows judge grazing questions?

  Columns 5-6: letter on Forest Service grazing fees and the Upper Ruby EIS in Madison County, signed R.A. Prodgers, 2715 Ottawa.

• Good candidate for coroner

  Column 6, bottom: letter supporting Dan Hollis for coroner, quoting Chief Executive Mike Micone, signed William Drew, 1415 C St.