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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1966
Page
4
Senator McClellan leads a permanent investigations inquiry into the Small Business Administration SBIC program amid accusations of misused funds and self serving deals. He cites 18 million dollars lost from 700 SBICs and warns that one third face serious financial trouble.
Senator Magnuson leads a push for a new law requiring cigarette makers to display nicotine and tar content on every pack to give consumers clear comparative data. The piece contrasts this with past warning labels and highlights a novelty patent for a multifaceted vehicle and a fez hatbox as examples of technology meeting specific needs.
The article outlines Thomas Edison’s rough schooling, early self education, and ascent from a homeless, debt ridden youth to a pioneering inventor. It notes his three months formal schooling, early typing and printing ventures, a life changing library residency, and an 1869 move to New York where he began intensive invention work and earned significant pay.
The passage recounts Thomas Edison’s inventive career from four hours of sleep to founding an invention factory at Menlo Park New Jersey and developing the phonograph the incandescent lamp and the central power transformer. It notes his early recognition as a wizard, his storage battery and motion picture projector work, and touches on his influence on radio via the Edison effect. It also covers Ivan Tors and Pavlov inspired animal training, praising reward-based methods and contrasting onstage rewards with offstage realities, while reflecting on human effort and motivation.
David Lawrence argues Congress stalls on the airline strike and broader interstate commerce safeguards. He notes union leaders signed a tentative pact later repudiated by members, claims collective bargaining may be misused, and urges arbitration to resolve deep labor-management conflict affecting the public. He calls for binding arbitration laws to curb future disruptions.
Ohio Highway Safety data show 1,112 deaths in the first six months, up 266 from 1964, with 588 at night and 498 by day. Butler County toll rose to 37, highest among 50,000? population areas, while weekends proved deadliest and Tuesday best. Sam the cat is found, reuniting with a retired owner near N Sutphin Street.
New York commentary on Senator Dodd blasting gun rights amid Whitman Oswald and campus Austin tragedies. Points to mass shootings, gun culture, and a psychiatrist link between Chicago nurses raid and campus violence. Notes Dallas gun dumping near Long Island Sound. Mentions JFK era context.
An Italian tailor, Angelo Litrico, claims Nikita Khrushchev is ailing in a humorous line about the Soviet leader. The piece also riffes on rubber bands for postal bundles and a South African hen dieting on broken crockery, with Wit and whimsy from Prof Jack Steronach about working-class humor.
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