Supreme Court refuses to hear Times padlocking case
The Supreme Court declined to review the Justice Department padlocking of the New York Times and hundreds of other papers. A second ruling denied bail for Edward Bennett Williams and other publishers and editors jailed over the past year. A White House spokesman praised the Court’s decision as a landmark moment.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today
Justice Department
New York Times
High Court
Edward Bennett Williams
Burger
White House
John Wayne
Fanny
Wacky world stirs thoughts on bills tricks and media
A columnist riffs on Patrick Fisher who paid a gas bill with a kitchen-stove door check and ponders protest by taxpayers toward the IRS. The piece mocks revenue sharing chatter, media ethics, and a New Hampshire editor’s whacky take on wire services and global news quirks.
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Patrick Fisher
London
Gas Board
Fisher
IRS
Uncle Sam
Call for Competition in Intelligence Community Reform
The piece argues for broader change in the intelligence community after resignations at the CIA. It cites Richard Helms and James Schlesinger, notes DIA influence, critiques CIA worst case planning, and urges direct competition of assessments to the President to improve objectivity. It references Maj. Gen. Daniel Graham and past Vietnam-era material.
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Washington
Richard Helms
Central Intelligence Agency
Helms
Iran
James Schlesinger
Atomic Energy Commission
Schlesinger
Chester Bowles
Graham
DIA
CIA
Earle Wheeler
Westmoreland
Saigon
Joint Chiefs
Westy
JCS
Wheeler
Ellsberg
Johnson
Vietnam
Executive Committee
National Security Council
Daniel Graham
Interagency Committee
Pentagon
Defense Intelligence Agency
Middletown diary notes key local industries in 1912
The April 30 1912 Middletown diary outlines a city dominated by tobacco iron and paper. It details major plants along the Hydraulic Canal Curtis Avenue and the Miami Erie Canal including American Rolling Mill Co Central Works W. B. Oglesby and Sorg Paper interests and numerous tobacco warehouses and paper mills. It also lists other industries greenhouses slaughterhouses brick yards sawmills and lumber firms shaping Middletown’s industrial profile.
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Middletown
American Rolling Mill Co
The
Central Works
Curtis Avenue
Miami- Erie Canal
East
Ohio Corrugated Culvert Co
Armco Steel
Gordon Manufacturing Co
Tobacco Trust
American’ Tobacco’ Co
P. J. Are Een
Sorg Tobacco
Charles Street
Luhrman & Wilbern
P. Lorillard
E. Third Street
Elmo Street
East End
Creme Avenue
Miami-Erie Canal
Park Street
Canal
Cullman Brothers’ Leaf Tobacco Co
Hydraulic
Columbia Avenue
W. B. Oglesby Paper Co
Paul A. Sorg Paper Co
National Box Board Co
Third Street
Grant Fairbanks & Co
Colin Gardner
Wrenn Paper Co
Wardlow-Thomas
Gardner-Harvey
Advance Bag Co
N. Broad
Raymond Bag
Canal and Basin Streets
American Writing Paper Co
Harding Paper Division
Excello
Crystal Paper Co
Miami-Erie
Amanda
O. K. Paper Pail Co
Middletown Cemetery
Sabin Robbins Paper
Maryetta Street
W. Sebald Brewing Co
Barkelew Electric Manufacturing Co
Miami Cycle & Manufacturing Co
Steckrath
Wm. Smith
Shartley Brothers
Middletown Artificial Ice Co
Pollock & Kolgore
Mitchell Printing Co
Middletown Buggy Co
Middletown Machine Co
Middletown Milling Co
Letter to the Editor on Stolen Motorcycle Inquiry
A reader laments a year without police results in recovering a stolen 1968 Monza 160 red and black motorcycle. The editor notes Middletown police still list the missing cycle as active theft. detectives recall contact with the owner but cite no recovery or affidavit.
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Middletown
Ptl
Carl Amburgey
Leach
Roosevelt Avenue
Wilford Palmer
Jack Barnes
Miamisburg
Barnes
Palmer
Middletown Ohio Journal Subscription Rates
Local publication lists pricing for daily and Sunday editions, home delivery, motor route and mail options, and annual rates. Rates include per copy costs, 12 installment and four week plans, and international pricing.
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The
News Journal, Inc
S. Broad
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
U.S.A
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Hsinhua
Henry Kissinger
Sun Yat-sen
China
Chile
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Zsluiesche King Features Syndicate
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J. R. Goldman
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Henry Bohne
City Meat Market
Reiner
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Larry Leach
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