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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1964
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription rates including 6c per weekday copy and 15c Sunday copy, 50c weekly carrier, six year mail within trading area, $20 yearly outside trading area, and $35 yearly outside USA. Published daily by News-Journal Inc. Founded 1857. Religious verse from Philippians 4:3 included.
The piece argues that ethics in political campaigning rests on Judeo Christian values and urges leaders to avoid personal attacks. It notes Republicans and Democrats trade ammunition about rivals, with Johnson, Goldwater, and Miller targets, while warnings about degrading democracy. It ends with a metaphor about a quiet rocket engine, seeking a politician with restraint.
The FAA uses Oklahoma City's six month sonic boom study to gauge public acceptance of supersonic travel. Officials warn louder booms may push redesign, higher engines, and cost. The report notes mixed public reaction and a surprising Birch Society presence at the Republican convention.
Ralph Ginzburg, convicted smut publisher of Fact, conducts a nation wide poll of psychiatrists to question Goldwater's fitness for office. Twelve thousand psychiatrists receive a one page questionnaire about aggression temper and nervous breakdowns while Ginzburg plans to reveal results at the University of California Los Angeles and publish them in Fact.
A New York florist develops a plant yielding 20 four leaf clovers yearly after seven years of intensive cross breeding. In Accrington a 23 inch waistline cat sparks mock wonder and a photo request. Santa Fe County touts 33 ghost towns and 29 ghost post offices to lure tourists while geese soar at 35000 feet above the Himalayas.
The piece analyzes how prosperity and peace themes have aided Lyndon Johnson and how foreign policy shifts, Chilean politics, Viet Nam, and civil rights unrest could alter his electoral prospects. It contrasts past campaigns with current risks, including Allende’s rise and the potential for a punitive voter mood.
The Department of Health Education and Welfare grant of 6624 dollars to a University of South Dakota postgrad, Stanley L. Wenck, funds basic research on humor as a personality indicator. The project aims to test if humor preference distinguishes conformist from nonconformists, with a Sept. 15 deadline and unclear penalties.
On this date several historical milestones are noted including the 1829 Stourbridge Lion in Honesdale Pennsylvania, Napoleon’s exile, the Wilmot Proviso, German bombing of England in 1940, Dag Hammarskjold UN appeal, Formosa floods, and a 1959 train robbery in Britain.
George Crout reports Mayor J Dow Doty announces Middletown will adopt a road district and levy road taxes to fund extensive street work. An ordinance requires upgraded sidewalks on Third Street within 15 months, with later phases on Main Street toward May 1864, plus strict curb and gutter standards and potential private contracts.
Cliff's journey from labeled uneducable to public speaker hinges on Martha Marean, the Jackson teacher who coached his speech after school. Her persistence reshaped his confidence and education, culminating in a Wyoming talk honoring her memory after a fatal car accident near Cheyenne. Governor Hansen later saluted her impact.
Factographs mention North America’s only native domesticated fowl called the American bird in Turkey. Global radio sets in use exceed 395 million. Bamboo is not botanically classified as a tree.
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