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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1969
Page
4
October guidance by Selective Service Chief Hershey to reclassify student protesters drew protests over using the draft to curb dissent. He later signaled he would intercede for anyone wrongly reclassified for protest, prompting questions about who defines legal dissent and stressing government of laws, not of men.
Alaska's native communities face high poverty and unemployment with life expectancy around 35 years. A Rural Electrification project will bring electric service to over 20,000 people in 9 bush villages, potentially boosting local industry, schools and income year round. A Eskimo youth notes power could keep people home and grow opportunity.
A 1969 column mocks doomsayers and astrologers whose predictions allegedly influenced U S foreign policy and the Vietnam War. It cites Caltech and U S Geological Survey skeptics, notes South Vietnam leaders consulting fortunetellers, and warns against government reliance on prophecies.
A Vietnam era piece notes that Soot Ravasers forecasts and various esoteric practices including astrology palmistry and geomancy shape private life and public sentiment, intertwining with official views and wartime governance in Saigon and beyond.
The Journal publishes subscription details with rates for daily and Sunday editions. Rates include 10 cents per weekday copy, 20 cents for Sunday, 70 cents weekly by carrier, 1.00 weekly in-city, 30.00 yearly out-of-town, and 38.00 yearly outside the USA, all advance payments. Founded in 1687.
The essay discusses Walt and Eugene Rostow, their academic careers, and the backlash they faced amid Vietnam. It notes MIT and Yale hostility toward Rostow’s anti or pro Vietnam stances, student reactions at Yale including a Rostow Brothers Film Festival and campus caricatures, and contrasts with Harvard.
Las Vegas thrives as a convention and tourism hub with 15 million visitors in Clark County. 1968 gaming revenue reached 27.6 million, while airline passengers rose 3.5 million as flights increased over 60 percent. new hotels and expansions drive up to 25 000 rooms. iconic projects include Kerkorian’s International with 11 500 rooms at 80 million dollars and a 1 500 room addition.
A reader denounces restricted peddling as a attack on free enterprise and speech. The letter laments city governments acting like conspiratorial power structures and laments bureaucratic overreach. It attacks Republicans for tax and policy moves while mocking a political show by Buzz and Barry and ends with a P T Barnum quote.
In Middletown Ohio during 1968 Republicans pleads with voters about tax policy. The letter to the editor notes the party promised taxation reform but later shifted stance. Details focus on political critique and local reaction in Butler County and surrounding area.
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