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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1969
Page
4
College officials seek a balanced view of higher education amid media focus on campus protests. Michael Radock argues news coverage distorts the era’s student life and urges administrators and alumni to cultivate a truer image of campuses and their people.
A reflective column notes Americans’ diet habits and calorie counting, comparing U S dieting culture to France with a gendarme incident, and ends by urging readers to monitor calories as a beneficial habit. It references health goals and a biblical verse Psalm 92:4.
William F Buckley Jr analyzes Gallup polling on draft abolition versus mandatory service and weighs military staffing needs He questions how many troops are required and whether a professional army would be disproportionately black with white leadership implications.
The column urges observing Washingtons birthday and promoting black history. It questions current teaching, contrasts past memory with real achievements, and argues pride in nationality can drive progress. It calls for whites and blacks to learn more American history to build rather than obstruct.
Joseph Alsop notes Hanoi leaders to watch four North Vietnamese divisions moving from Cambodia toward Saigon as Le Duc Tho returns. B 52 striking power and improved intelligence may stop major ground offensives, suggesting Hanoi’s winter spring campaign has begun.
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices including per copy 10 cents on weekdays and 20 cents on Sundays, weekly motor route 70 cents, and mail options of 321.00 yearly in the trading area and 30.00 outside the area, with 38.00 yearly for outside the U.S. All subscriptions are payable in advance.
The letters criticize funding cuts to Middletown recreation and parks, noting risk to youth programs and safety staffing. They allege misused federal dollars, call for removal of the CEO, and urge civic engagement through the American Independent Party’s educational series on taxes, schools, and legislature.
The piece accuses the War on Poverty of funding Communist groups and terrorists. It cites a 1968 insurgent leader in Cleveland tied to police deaths, a chairperson of a Communist group, and over 115000 dollars for Harlem hate plays, alleging misuse of tax money.
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