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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1970
Page
4
Arizona Senator Paul Fannin promotes a constitutional amendment claimed to impose fiscal restraint on the federal government. Critics say the plan would trap policy with rigid limits, allowing exceptions only for declared war or a national emergency, and misreads budget realities of a growing society.
Washington data show youth joblessness 16 to 21 at 16 percent, with Negro youths at 30.2 percent the highest in seven years. White youths stand at 13.6 percent, while overall declines in youth employment near 60,000. Experts warn idle urban youths risk lasting harm, stressing need for meaningful work amid limited summer options.
A reader appeals to Middletonians to consider integration or segregation amid housing plans. The writer cites long rumored zoning biases and urges public recognition of history, warns that segregated housing would echo past humiliations, and calls for preventing brutality in commitment procedures. Mrs. John D. Rockwood, 3917 Riverview Ave, signs.
A resident describes police and sheriff deputies forcibly restraining a mentally ill neighbor to take her to a mental hospital after a door was forced open. The incident, witnessed by the author and children, included shouted commands and a perceived excessive use of force. The account questions police treatment and city response to mental health cases.
Amanda Back of Lafayette Street voices concern that law targets a boy jailed for making pants from an American flag while no law bans burning a Bible or challenging Ten Commandments. She laments government over Bible and flag, urging devotion to state and police over faith leaders.
John Chamberlain reports on campus authority tightening amid student activism at Stanford and Rockford College. He notes McGuire's conviction for malicious mischief over ROTC vandalism, Stanford witnesses for the prosecution, and conservative student groups aligning with law and order. He critiques the Scranton Committee’s hearings and praises Sidney Hook’s proposals for university governance to curb campus violence.
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Lebanon's Warren C Nelson Ohio highway safety director recounts a bicycle crash with his wife Eleanor on a hillside road. He cites no belt can prevent such falls and notes serious injuries to both, planning to ride again. Both recovered while Bud quips a belt might have kept him rolling.
At the Osage Beach meeting, Govs. Richard Ogilvie of Illinois and Raymond Shafer of Pennsylvania failed to push Congress denouncements over the Federal State revenue sharing plan. The clash highlighted the broader White House tactic of blaming Congress while vetoing education and urban aid bills, with supporters arguing voters will decide in the fall elections between the President and Congress.
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