Pleasant Garbage Hills Spark Eco Recreation Trend
A Virginia Beach hill 72 feet by 100 feet by 15 percent dirt and 85 percent garbage is nearing completion as an environmentally minded disposal project. Officials report it stores more waste than expected and will become a park with a Soap Box Derby ramp, amphitheater, tennis courts, and baseball diamonds, with Chicago planning a similar 1000-foot garbage hill for ski and recreation use.
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Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach Hill
Chicago
Bomb hoax echoes Doomsday Flight in 747 scare
Rod Serling notes he regrets writing the Doomsday Flight script about a bomb on a plane that explodes under a certain altitude. A 747 with 379 people faced a telephone threat below 5,000 feet in Denver, but no bomb was found. Authorities urge serious handling of such threats. Psalm 18 28 is cited.
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Rod Serling
Denver
Not Just Rock Gathering
A nostalgic column recalls Apollo astronauts and missions from Armstrong and Aldrin to Apollo 16 commander John Young. It references Dick Gordon and Jack Swigert, Stu Roosa, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and others while noting postflight roles and ongoing space history.
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New York
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Pete Conrad
Allan Bean
Dick Gordon
Jack Swigert
Jack
Tom Mattingly
Tom
Space Agency
Moon
Jim Lovell
Fred Haise
Jim
Fred
Lunar
Grumman
Earth
Scotty
Agena
Pacific
Atlantic
Johan Young
John Young
John
Gene Cernan
Tom Stafford
Armstrong
Time Of Great Retreat As Moon Mission Caps Decade Of Doubt
The piece laments a retreating United States after lunar exploration by David Scott James Irwin and Alfred Worden. It recalls Truman era containment, Viet Nam policy, and critiques isolationism, military industrial complex support, and Nixon era shifts while warning of fading global influence and a decaying national resolve.
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America
David Scott
James Irwin
Alfred Worden
Southeast Asia
Harry Truman
Stalin
Greece
Mediterranean
Korea
South Vietnam
Congress
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Senate
Lockheed
Nixon
Japan
Taiwan
South Korea
Philippines
Soviet aid and influence expand worldwide in tense U S debate
The piece argues that Soviet financing and military assistance to countries across Africa Asia and Latin America have increased Moscow's influence. It cites explicit sums and projects in Egypt Syria India and Iran plus ties with Cuba and other nations, urging a factual congressional look at foreign aid and its implications for U S security.
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Congress
United States
Senate
America
House
Soviet Union
Moscow
Iraq
Algeria
Libya
Iran
Russia
Turkey
Sudan
Somalia
Indian Ocean
India
Pakistan
China
North Vietnam
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Cuba
Chile
Bolivia
Peru
Central
South America
Mainland China
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates and Details
The Middletown Journal lists subscription options for daily and Sunday delivery by various methods. Rates include 1c weekday newsstand copies, 2c Sunday, 80c weekly, motor route $3.47 in 12 installments or $3.20 quarterly, and a 15¢ monthly service charge, with mail options at $30 per year in-area and $38 outside the area. Established 1857.
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