Symbol of Good Will Needed From Congress
After rioting in Newark and Detroit Congress shows numbness and no consensus on broad action. A symbolic measure like a rat control bill could reassure slum dwellers that the nation cares and will help, with only a few million dollars involved. The House should reconsider the rejected bill and the Senate could act to start the process.
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Detroit
Congress
House of Representatives
House
Senate
Meat Inspection Reform Urged by Rep Neal Smith
A 1906 meat packing reform shows it needs updating to close loopholes. Rep Neal Smith of Iowa proposes amendments extending federal oversight to intra state packing and processing firms affecting interstate commerce. The plan targets unscrupulous practices and boosts inspection coverage nationwide.
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Upton Sinclair
Neal Smith
Iowa
Department of Agriculture
Mother of the Year honors Castro prisoner’s daughter writes
Carmen Fernandez, a 15 year old refugee student at East Side High School in Newark, honors her mother in a dramatic letter about fear, separation, and perseverance under Castro. The piece notes U S participation in Cuban refugee care and references Rep Dante Fascell’s push to have the FBI investigate race riots as possibly conspiratorial.
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New York
Castro
Josefina Fernandez
Fidel
East Side High School
Newark
N.J
Carmen
Cuba
Sapin
China
Czechoslovakia
America
Havana
Dante B. Fascell
D- Fla
FBI
Dedication Day at Cincinnati Convention Hall
The writer recalls the dedication of Cincinnati's new convention hall with Governor Rhodes among the speakers. The arrangements committee kept speeches brief, while architecture students protested the design. Governors and officials were noted as part of a lengthy list, and a remark questions the cost of attending the event.
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Cincinnati
Rhodes
Committee On Arrangements
Change Federal Priorities to Cure the Ghetto Cancer
Joseph Alsop argues that federal spending favors middle class education housing and roads over poor inner city needs. He urges a sustained program to create jobs improve schools and rebuild ghettos while warning against a slide toward apartheid and white repression. He casts urban renewal as harming low income housing and calls for bold action to desegregate through justice and opportunity.
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Washington
Prescient Johnson
Butter and Guns Clash in Johnsons Economic View
Washington observers warn that wartime policy mixing butter and guns risks inflation and a spiraling deficit. President Johnson proposes a 10 percent surcharge plus budget cuts, yet critics doubt substantial relief and foresee rising prices, debts, and ongoing domestic spending into 1968.
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Washington
Johnson
America
Congress
Notable historic ships and early institutions list
Factographs recount Henry Hudson’s Half Moon voyage for the Dutch East India Company in 1609, the Dreadnought as a revolutionary British battleship, Fulton naming The Claremont after Robert Livingston’s estate, the Bank of North America as America’s first bank in Philadelphia 1781, Breckinridge as a 1860 presidential candidate, Victoria the first global circumnavigator, and the French origin of frappe meaning knocked.
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Henry Hudson
Hudson River
Dutch East India Company
The
Bank of North America
Bank
America
Philadelphia
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates
The Journal Published daily by the News Journal Inc in Middletown Ohio lists mail and street delivery rates. Subscriptions include daily weekday papers, Sunday editions, and annual mail options both in and out of the trading area with prices in cents and dollars.
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News Journal, Inc
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U.S.A
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