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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1968
Page
4
An oil company publication notes 1967 saw about 70 million Americans using credit cards to charge over a billion and a half dollars in goods and services. Cards enable vast purchases yet end with a bill. cash on the barrelhead remains a simple alternative.
Nineteen year old Melanie Hope from Pretoria stayed two weeks with South Orange NJ based James Browns as part of the AFS program. She described the experience as wonderful and said she would miss the Browns. The piece notes South Africa’s racial policies and contrasts them with American society.
A Middletown reader calls for stricter enforcement of the littering ordinance and publicizing offenders. They cite a $500 fine, trash along a creek behind Grand Avenue, and trash dumped from vehicles in Jackson Lane. The writer urges all citizens to keep the city clean and hold violators accountable.
A civic message urging the youth to love over hate, unite families, and develop talents under God. It calls for respect, sincerity, and obedience to God’s commandments to strengthen the nation during conflict, with Wesley Babe Calhoun listed as the author.
The Middletown Journal reports mailing class details and annual prices. It lists per copy costs for weekdays and Sunday, in city, suburban, and trading areas, with 7 day mail rates, including international and U.S. options, all payable in advance. It notes foundation in 1857.
The Twin Club of Middletown seeks donated double strollers and regular strollers with an extra seat to assist mothers of twins and one family with triplets. Mrs Clyde Green will arrange pickup. The group started with 17 members to address multiple birth challenges.
Washington discussion notes two contrasting polls, Gallup and Harris, showing Nixon Humphrey McCarthy Rockefeller and Wallace with divergent support. The piece analyzes how small shifts in undecided and third-party votes could alter Electoral College outcomes and calls into question reliance on polls for nominating decisions.
The piece profiles Harold Stassen Dick Nixon and Barry Goldwater as enduring Republican contenders. It recalls Stassen’s 1948 near win and Nixon’s 1960 and 1964 near-misses while noting Goldwater’s lasting convention presence and enduring support from former backers.
Report says Richard Nixon, confident of GOP nomination, arranged a late August visit to the Soviet Union to showcase foreign policy experience. The trip would follow his nomination and precede the Chicago convention, highlighting his stiff stance on communism and potential campaign impact.
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