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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1965
Page
4
The Middletown Journal is published daily by News-Journal Inc. It notes postal designation as second class mail matter in Middletown Ohio and lists subscription rates per week and year along with the company motto remembrance of creator from Ecclesiastes.
The article notes emerging momentum in programs to fight poverty with Job Corps and VISTA. It explains Job Corps aims to train unemployed youths 16 to 21 for work, while VISTA offers diverse volunteers with many skills. The pieces describe challenges in changing attitudes and the potential impact of these spearhead efforts.
Maryland engineers patent an optical steering system for vehicles to follow highways autonomously. A scanner and electronic memory guide wheel corrections. if an obstacle is spotted the system alarms and brakes. It aims for superhighways and could use roadside symbols for guidance, though still primitive and not suited to city streets.
At 81 John M. Bishop receives a gold badge as Hallandale Police honor chief in a policemen s ball. Detective Aparicio and Chief Mitchell witness the moment as the crowd cheers a lifetime of service and old political roadblocks.
Washington reporters say the Johnson administration bets on Russia and China avoiding all out war if bombing North Vietnam continues. The piece argues Stalin and postwar leaders treated time as an advantage, and warns any expansion of the war could provoke a dangerous nuclear standoff.
A columnist argues the president need not answer every question promptly yet stresses the press role in informing citizens. He compares US practice with Britain's advance questioning and urges Congress to interrogate the executive to ensure accountability. The piece weighs publicity versus timely policy disclosure.
Dave Regan recalls growing up in south Columbus near a park with lakes and a German tun verein. Birth records were kept by churches, not city offices. The narrator reflects on carefree childhood days and a neighborhood that has changed, with old friends gone.
Dorothy Kilgallen notes Sammy Davis Jr with Tammy Grimes act and Noel Coward writing it, Tammy’s struggling with High Spirits, Yogi Berra and Phil Rizzuto sell their New Jersey bowling alley, Javits eyed for mayor, Linda Christian in Rome with a prince, Arthur Godfrey to sing Reconstruc tion Time, Michael Rennie dating Phyllis Kirk, Mitzi Gaynor wardrobe guarded at Harrah’s Tahoe, Sound of Music opens with huge street serenade plan, Long Island orgy rumors, Lawrence Harvey at Sherry-Netherland, Joan Cohn and Tuesday Weld California duet, Van Johnson to see Doris Duke in Hawaii, and Basin Street East attendance record.
Factograph notes Barney Oldfield became the first auto racer to drive a mile in nine minutes in 1910. The record marks a milestone in early motor racing as the sport expands beyond its beginnings.
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