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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1972
Page
4
An editorial argues flood defenses remain inadequate and calls for applying expert methods to regulate tributary flows. It notes that major floods killed over 100 and caused more than a billion dollars in damage, urging society to marshal resources to avert such disasters. The piece cites Matthew 25 40 to underscore moral duty.
Gen. Creighton W. Abrams to assume Army chief of staff after Gen. Westmoreland retires. Abrams inherits an Army reduced to 13 divisions and about 861,000 men, facing morale and readiness concerns amid antiwar sentiment. The article notes West Point figures and officer worries about the service’s future roles.
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John Chamberlain reviews Senator Harris and Populists pushing family assistance and supports John H. Perry Jr.’s National Dividend Plan. Perry proposes a $509 annual dividend linked to voting records, funded by profits, phased in over five years, with checks mailed to all registered voters and measures to cut wasteful programs. The idea aims to align with capitalism while reducing inflation and bureaucratic bloat, but faces political resistance.
New Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery exhibit runs until Sept. 4 spotlighting candidates who lost races. Insight from Gene Farmer and Irving Stone on why Americans elect winners more than once and the enduring appeal and peril of failed campaigns.
The dialogue urges wind energy to avoid gas shortages, pollution, and transmission losses. H Guyford Stever of the NSF testifies that wind power is immediately applicable, contrasting with Russia’s magnetohydrodynamics and a 1940s Vermont windmill venture abandoned due to cost and fatigue.
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