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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1968
Page
4
In Washington the attorney general denounced calls to shoot looters and urged lawful policing. He warned excessive force could trigger more violence and urged well trained forces and strong police community relations while stressing due process for criminals.
The federal government establishes a Center for Population Research under the Department of Health Education and Welfare. It will study health hazards to mothers and children and consider psychological aspects of birth control and sterility, reflecting growing acceptance of government involvement.
Nancy Jacquier the California stewardess who photographed a Soviet interception of a Seaboard DC 8 over the Kurile Islands spoke of the incident in New York. She described hiding a $10 Kodak Instamatic in an oxygen mask to snap pictures and recalled 56 hours of captivity and a plane hit by 20 bullets near Cam Ranh Bay. She has resigned from Seaboard after 17 Orient flights and seeks modeling or photography work.
The author recalls a bygone Columbus era with unsupervised street games and simple joys. Parks and rivers offered little supervision while kids found forms of play from baseball on empty lots to bee catching and skittish street games. Adults were fewer worries, and at sixteen youths faced adult responsibility and jobs.
The Middletown Journal announces daily publication from S Broad and First Ave. Rates include 10 cents per weekday copy, 5 cents for Sundays, 60 cents weekly by carrier, 15.90 yearly by mail in trading areas, 24.00 outside, and 38.00 for outside USA. All subscriptions payable in advance. Founded 1857.
Justice Abe Fortas, nominated as chief justice, argues in a May 1968 booklet that civil disobedience does not excuse law violation and that rioters must be arrested and punished. He contends public order laws apply regardless of moral motive, aligning liberal and conservative critiques of protest tactics.
Joseph Alsop analyzes the 1960 Fifth Ave compact between Nixon and Rockefeller and its impact on defense policy and the 1960 election. The piece foreshadows a new Nixon Rockefeller meeting and the strategic clash over the Southern strategy and Wallace voters.
The Great Wall of China served as defense against nomads. The 1867 Boston patent covered a railroad crossing gate. U S currency uses blue black and green printing colors. Over 72 percent of Norway’s land is unproductive. Herman Hollerith of New York City is credited with inventing the tabulating machine.
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