Brakes and Gas Confusion Prompts Detroit Design Debate
A columnist cites a Los Angeles accident sparked by a driver hitting the gas instead of the brake, urging redesign to prevent pedal mix ups. The piece argues the change would reduce store-front crashes and warns against press surveillance abuses in FBI inquiries.
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Jack Anderson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bureau of Indian Affairs
FBI
Federal District Court
Los Angeles
Detroit
Farm surplus debate as Palmer warns on prices and overproduction
Farm Journal editor Lane Palmer told a Senate Banking Subcommittee hearing that farmers fear price declines next year and overreaction to current prices. He argued surpluses loom due to global competition, weather, and policy, urging realism about export potential and the US farm sector’s role in the economy.
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Lane Palmer
Farm Journal
Senate Banking Subcommittee On Production and Stabilization
Palmer
U.S
Department of Agriculture
India
Russia
China
Eisenhower
Sony
Olivetti
Volkswagen
Toyota
Boeing
Lufthansa
Onassis
Olympic Airways
China Watchers
Hong Kong
Chou En-lai
Peking
Hopei
South
Europe
Japan
Editor Letters Explore Rights and Local Business Needs
A Middletown reader defends civilian rights for soldiers and criticizes military control while urging zoning changes to allow a ceramics shop. The piece cites a friend’s ceramics venture in Trenton as a model and warns against pushing all commerce into the mall.
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Middletown
Robert C. Hall
Barker
Hall
Jackson Lane
B&b Ceramics
Huffmans
Middletonians
Trenton
Larynx to run dry after 4000 hours of speech
The author shares a thought from Tom Saxer envisioning a world where the larynx limits speech to 4000 hours. People would speak only when necessary, reducing nagging, lowering phone bills, and reviving letter writing while improving rhetoric and listening. Edgewood High School students and teachers earn praise for a polished performance of Once Upon A Mattress.
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Edgewood High School
Weathered Confusion Over Watergate Talks
A lighthearted quip laments excessive Watergate chatter in Washington, joking that if conversations ceased perhaps rain would lessen and the watergate would be closed.
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Washington
India’s Gandhi and Nixon clash over bombing and aid policy
In New Delhi Indira Gandhi challenges U.S. bombing of North Vietnam as racially tinged. Moynihan arrives as ambassador amid India Pakistan tensions, while Washington emphasizes aid and influence in a complex web of loans, diplomacy, and regional power plays.
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New Delhi
Nixon
North Vietnam
India
Indira Gandhi
Nehru
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Gandhi
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates
The Middletown Journal lists subscription options including daily, Sunday, and motor route plans with prices. Home delivery by newspaper boy is 80 cents for seven days, motor route at 3.47 monthly in installments, and mail subscriptions at 30 dollars per year within the trading area. Founded in 1857.
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News Journal, Inc
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
Sf Ice
U.S.A
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