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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1965
Page
6
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices including daily copies at 10 cents per issue and Sunday at 15 cents, city carrier 50 cents per week, and mail rates of 12 dollars yearly within the trading area and 20 dollars outside it, with outside USA at 35 dollars. All subscriptions are payable in advance.
The piece imagines two Americas one at work and one at play with vacation behavior replacing daily routines. It envisions colorful dress, fishing as industry, motel owners in government, water sports in the Olympics, and casual social norms. A joking headline notes Michigan Indians drink for solace, contrasting stereotypes with a practiced mockery.
An acquaintance Sam Jones recounts inviting a hungry, down on his luck man into his home. The encounter evokes memories of earlier hard times and contrasts it with today’s affluence. The piece argues many youths lack understanding of poverty and stresses that not everyone shares the prosperity of the era. The writer ends noting the unease of receiving a late call seeking aid.
Fulton Lewis Jr reports that VA directive of January 18 favors Job Corps members over veterans in admission to VA hospitals, despite officials denying bias. Rep. Roudebush and Rep. Adair call for full congressional investigation as vacant beds and wait lists strain care for veterans amid hospital cut plans. The piece also notes a San Antonio post office summer job program and Hanoi confirmation of American leftists aiding the antiwar movement.
A quirky note sketches Watchmen guarding tombs in the Valley of the Kings amid rumors of pharaoh shades. It calls the claim an empty rumor since mummies were moved long ago, while a health column warns diets affect driving and a Denver dispatch notes Colorado’s horse population doubling in ten years. The Cheapeake Bay village Chincodeague plans an oyster museum open only in months containing R.
President Johnson selects Associate Justice Arthur J. Goldberg to replace the late Adlai Stevenson as U S ambassador to the United Nations. The choice aims to strengthen dialogue in the UN and project American legal and diplomatic authority. Goldberg’s labor-law background and public service are noted as assets for mediation and globalization debates.
President Johnson selects Arthur J. Goldberg as the United States ambassador to the United Nations citing his negotiating skill and compassion for the global poor. The choice follows naming Thurgood Marshall as solicitor general and reflects Johnson's pattern of nontraditional appointments. Goldberg, from immigrant parents in Chicago, left the Supreme Court for the ambassadorial post.
A couple and their 14 year old son vacationing in Iowa rushed a gravely ill man from a small town to a Catholic hospital and then to Iowa City for proper care. An employer paid for travel back for the brothers while strangers and hospital staff provided meals and support, underscoring how a community and family rally when tragedy strikes.
A noted Hollywood gossip column reports a delay in a federal boxing commission bill amid ongoing political wrangling. The piece also surveys film festival kudos for Laurence Harvey and Dirk Bogarde in Darling and sketches celebrity moves including Eddie Fisher, Geraldine Page, Joyce Jillson, and Connie Francis on stage and screen.
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