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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1966
Page
8
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Congress reconvenes amid debate on what federal spending to trim to fund the Vietnam war. Proposals target programs like the war on poverty and Appalachia while the moon effort is debated. Unemployment dips, yet labor shortages loom with a growing draft. Currency in circulation rises to about $180 per person, puzzling authorities.
Fulton Lewis Jr reports that patience wears thin as lawmakers demand a return to bombing North Vietnam. Russell and Rivers oppose the lull, urging strikes on Haiphong power and key targets. Nixon warns appeasement risks a diplomatic defeat and calls for three minimum conditions for any talks.
Washington reports that three networks offered Republicans far less time than President Johnson for rebuttals to the State of the Union. Dirksen and Ford spoke in short, late hour slots, prompting critiques that time constraints weakened opposition arguments and failed to highlight alleged deficits, waste, and campaign abuses.
The Foreign Minister argues against globalism rhetoric and defends U S restraint in Asia. He uses a whale and elephant analogy to stress that America should defend peninsulas and seas, not intrude on continental affairs, noting historic examples from World War I to World War II and urging unity among whale nations to curb Red China’s influence.
This piece discusses coryza or the common cold, noting its high prevalence in cold and hot conditions, lack of a cure, economic impact, and widespread susceptibility including preschool children. It cites President William Henry Harrison’s illness and offers practical tips to reduce spread and ease symptoms.
President Johnson praises Washington's remarkable women who volunteer to advance the Great Society. First Lady Lady Bird Johnson leads beautification drives and mobilizes aides wives of cabinet members support labor and poverty programs through crafts centers and cultural exhibitions the article highlights several spouses including Jane Wirtz Ermalee Udall Margaret McNamara Jane Freeman and Virginia Rusk as active contributors to federal initiatives.
Fourteen Michigan high school players reportedly competed in a marathon basketball game lasting 25 hours and ending with exhausted bounce. A London woman phoned her family doctor to visit her home to cut her toenails due to lack of scissors. Midwest farmers experiment with fully indoors pig raising, replacing the old hen house with a hog house.
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