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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1967
Page
4
The Federal Highway Administration will enforce new safety rules for all passenger car tires starting next January. Tires must carry labels with ply card details, sidewall tread ply counts, and maximum load and pressure. New cars require tires suited to loaded weight. rims must tolerate a flat tire at 60 mph. After July 1, tread wear indicators are required.
The article argues that De Gaulle’s Canada visit reveals monomaniacal zeal for glory. It cites his Montreal crowd chants for Quebec independence and Trois Rivieres appeal to masters of destiny as diminishing France’s prestige. Pearson calls it incitement to riot-like sentiment.
Readers urge humane control of stray cats through neutering to curb population surges and euthanizations in Butler County shelters. A second letter complains about a Clark Street Body Shop junkyard polluting an alley and requests enforcement of city junkyard laws.
Middletown residents applauded local historians in a ceremony honoring authors who documented the city’s development. The event highlighted efforts to preserve archival materials and stories shaping Middletown’s civic memory.
The weatherman’s timing brings a downpour the night before circus day, turning grounds to mud and denying a show for local children this year. The circus remains on a strict schedule, making a 24 hour field dry out impossible.
A reader criticizes Mr Johnson over Vietnam policy urging immediate peace and safe return of soldiers. The writer questions parental sacrifice and asks if the president would feel differently if he had a son in Vietnam, urging him to end the war.
The speaker notes in later years they bring a few kids for shared pleasure, but this year there will be no clowns horses or wild animals to amuse youngsters. They miss the smells of sawdust peanuts cotton candy and the joy of childhood. Until next year.
Washington calls for a civilian peace corps to reduce riots through direct government public outreach. Education, mixed race outreach, and clergy involvement are urged to counteract rumor and violence, with Kennedy era Peace Corps as a model for internal and external progress.
The Middletown Journal lists subscription rates for daily, Sunday, and mail delivery. Rates include 60 cents weekly for city delivery, 15 cents Sunday, and yearly mail options of 15 dollars within trading areas and 2400 dollars outside trading areas.
William F Buckley Jr argues Americans should defend themselves if violent leftist agitation continues in Washington and Cambridge. He cites H Rap Brown speech urging gun use and burning towns, praising violence and challenging clear and present danger doctrine.
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