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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1964
Page
3
An American military adviser died when a Viet Cong mine struck an armored troop carrier about 15 miles west of Saigon during an operation in Leng An and Hau Minh provinces. Nine Americans have been killed in the past two weeks, with total U.S. casualties at 153 since December 1961.
Senate hearings into the funeral industry found price competition deliberately hampered and forbidden. Sen. Philip A. Hart, chair of the Antitrust subcommittee, warned the Federal Trade Commission will scrutinize the situation. He cited the National Funeral Directors Association ruling that advertising prices is unethical and said no group may agree to curb price competition.
Workers from the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Utility Workers of America walked out at the Ohio Edison plant in Warren, an unauthorized strike after contracts expired June 30. Officials say service will not be disrupted. The IBEW represents 595 workers and UWA 1,471.
President Johnson dislikes the hot flood lamps used by television crews and kept camera access limited at the mass transit bill signing. A $375 million measure, touted as a decade’s landmark, drew photographers in only briefly at the ceremony. The article notes Baltimore as the first American city served with gas.
The ceremony had four governors three major city mayors and 24 congressional leaders, yet President Johnson’s signing of the transit act drew no news photographers or TV coverage. He called the law one of the most profoundly significant domestic measures.
Rep. Don Edwards says his son Leonard and other civil rights activists will keep working to register Negroes in Mississippi despite threats. He notes strong local distrust of the FBI after the Philadelphia kidnapping case and worries what happens when summer ends.
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