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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1970
Page
4
A New York City case illustrates how addiction drives crime as a drug addict allegedly robs over 200 taxi drivers while spending large sums on heroin. Experts note drug use may fuel billions in stolen property yearly and discuss prescription-based supply with rehab as a potential step forward.
Columbia University has acquired a 1918 letter from Britain's poet laureate John Masefield describing a steamer trip to a Navy Yard speaking engagement in which he expected to be sick both ways. The note adds a punch line about poet license and references Shakespearean tropes.
William F Buckley Jr argues the US failed to prevent Biafra’s famine, noting two million dead, and contrasts moral debates over Vietnam with a call to action. He questions whether cost dictates value of life and recalls Jewish tragedy to urge decisive aid.
A West Coast brewery led a large scale cleanup of 80 miles of scenic highway removing tons of trash. Months later the area shows the same litter problem as city workers strike halts garbage collection. Rural residents fear disease spread and wind dispersal of debris. A church in Amanda seeks a ping pong table via call.
Joseph Alsop argues against the missile gap mindset that guided early U S ICBM estimates and policy. He recalls Khrushchev and Kennedy, notes U 2 limits and MRBM deployment, and warns that betting national security on uncertain forecasts is dangerous and wrong.
The Middletown News Journal outlines subscription prices for various delivery options. Rates include daily, Sunday, weekly motor routes, city and suburban mail, and nationwide foreign subscriptions, with prepayment required.
Readers praise a January editorial and stress teamwork among five officials to advance Middletown schools. They commend local doctors and residents for health and civic efforts, note fluoridation laws, and urge petition drives for a June 23 referendum with local volunteers and funding needs. A garbage problem on Thomas Road worries neighbors and costs Madison Township residents.
A letter from Mrs. Ollie Crouch argues against fluoridation citing health risks and personal rights. She advocates diet changes over water fluoridation and condemns mandated fluoridation as akin to communism.
Factographs cover Zouaves in French light infantry and Civil War unions. Notes note Oporto port wine, Artemus Ward as humorist, Herbert Hoover in WWI relief work, and regicide meaning a killer of a king. Also explains roundhouses and ancient cities buried by various causes.
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