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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1967
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription rates and mailing terms. It assigns second class mail status and provides per copy, weekly, and yearly prices for in city, trading area, outside trading area, and international subscriptions. All payments are advance, and the paper has been published since 1857 by News Journal, Inc.
The gospel scene shows crowds pressing to hear Jesus while he stands beside the Lake of Gennesaret, teaching the people gathered along the shore. The setting from Luke 5:1 emphasizes Jesus’ outreach to multitudes by the water.
The article notes a surge of public demand to clean the air and cites a shortage of trained scientists and engineers. It highlights the U S Public Health Service initiative and the University of Cincinnati Center for the Study of the Human Environment as key steps to address the deficit. Dr. John N. Pattison predicts pollution will rise without more trained personnel.
Article surveys early signs that both former Vice President Nixon and Governor Romney plan serious runs for the 1968 Republican nomination. Nixon hints at candidacy while Romney opens research offices. both prepare international travel and national campaign activity, though they deny explicit linkage to the race.
The article criticizes President Johnson for delaying advance copies of the State of the Union message to the press. It notes the one hour before delivery timing hindered papers from printing full text and argues many readers prefer to study the speech in writing. Everett Dirksen suggests a brief outline with separate subject messages later. Congress reaction is not yet clear.
President Johnson faces a flood of public suggestions from foreign and domestic figures on how to end the Vietnam conflict. Proposals range from De Gaulle’s pullout tactics to bombing runs on Hanoi Haiphong Peking and Moscow with many in between. Amidst the ideas the public clamor for more taxes and fiscal action is evident as the wage of war tightens the budget and calls for a new surcharge.
Dave Regan reports Tom Perry and fellow Enterprise crewmen will receive a large influx of paperback books after his parents appealed for reading material. The Perrys have already received over 1,000 books and cash donations to cover mailing costs from readers and groups like Raymond Reg Co and Montgomery Ward. Some duplicates will be sent to Ron Perry in Vietnam, and volunteers urge others to mail books to servicemen, noting affordable post office book rates.
A letter to the editor from Knight Goodman defends the Better Schools Committee as explaining the plan to retroactively raise teachers' salaries starting July 1 if the levy passed. He notes announcements in the Middletown Journal and extensive campaign discussions, clips, and WPFB programs publicizing the plan amid other campaign facts.
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