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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1978
Page
4
Donald Kendall’s Pepsico plans five new Pepsi plants in the Soviet Union as part of a barter agreement paying with vodka. The piece critiques high US costs, calls for tax and inflation relief, and notes CB market dominance and tariff debates. It questions national competitiveness and U.S. policy.
The readable fragment lists A Siebenthaler as president, Frank R Myers as editor vice president, and Jim Mills as managing editor, indicating the leadership positions at the publication. Local newspaper hierarchy shown with three named individuals and their roles.
The piece argues inflation stems from government actions rather than a broad rise in demand, blaming fuel, wage hikes, spending, and debt. It warns of rising Social Security costs, questions political trust, and urges an informed citizenry to pressure leaders for fiscal restraint. It ends with a biblical benediction.
HEW Secretary Joseph Califano Jr promises a vigorous government anti smoking campaign with ads and commercials targeting cigarette users. The speaker questions the impact and cost, suggesting funds be spent on research into health effects like tub bath rings and dog teeth, noting widespread awareness of smoke-free air. Readers are urged to consider the broader benefits of air quality.
A reader argues that anti smoking campaigns fail to reduce smoking and worsen government spending. He suggests funding any new campaign entirely from nonsmokers' taxes to deter continued smoking and avoid using smokers' money to promote policy.
John Roche recalls Lyndon B Johnson’s meticulous, secretive 1967 State of the Union prep process. A 30 to 40 item blue card highlighted accomplishments, drafts from Rostow and Califano merged under tight secrecy, and Johnson’s push for dramatic, final surprises amid tense internal lobbying and race to meet word-count limits.
The Journal published daily by News Journal Inc Middletown Ohio lists subscription options for home delivery by carrier and motor route with weekly and monthly rates. Mail subscriptions are available US and outside US, with payments in advance and 1889 founding noted.
Readers lauded Robert P. Duff for shoveling snow and arranging driveway plowing for those in need. Gladys Rawlins and Hilda Cox were thanked by Women of the Moose for hospital donations and visits. A letter criticized a Middletown shooting of a dog and questioned the use of a leghold trap.
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