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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1967
Page
4
The House backed an anti riot bill amid public pressure to curb urban violence. A later vote rejected federal funding for city rat control, critics saying the issue lies in socio economic neglect. Rep Emanuel Celler warned the root cause is Negro discontent and slow progress to equality.
Vice President Humphrey visited Key West Florida to mark the citys first ocean water desalination plant now supplying water from the sea to about 50 000 residents. The event signals a historic step as the wave of the future in meeting water supply problems with nuclear powered units cited as a future option.
Joseph Alsop muses on a Greco-American dig on Thera led by Spyridon Marinatos finding a Minoan center buried under ash. He links the discovery to a future flood of insights from Linear A tablets, Catal Huyuk, Tartaria tablets, and the risk of knowledge overreach, posing a Bluebeard's chamber warning.
A reflective call to end prejudice and hate amid nationwide violence. The piece challenges white and Black readers alike to examine personal thoughts and actions, urging collective responsibility to heal a divided nation and restore its melting pot ideal.
Two letters from an Army captain and a Marine corporal in Vietnam express contrasting views on the war. The captain portrays South Vietnamese resolve against Viet Cong terror and urges understanding back home, while the Marine argues the United States is not fighting to win, cites misdirected bombing, and calls for a full effort and willingness to pay the ultimate price for victory.
The Middletown Journal lists daily and Sunday pricing for in city and suburban delivery as 10 cents per copy on weekdays and 15 cents on Sundays. Paid subscriptions by mail vary from 15 dollars yearly inside trading areas to 38 dollars outside the United States, with 7 day rates noted.
Letter writer from Lebanon Ohio argues the insured business is tax free and above laws, urging federal taxation and regulation. He cites McCarran Ferguson Act as protective for foreign underwriters, calls for removal of Senator Dodd from chairmanship, cites Prudential assets versus GM taxes, and appeals taxpayers to demand accounting and federal taxation of the industry.
The text lists notable firsts and facts: the 1830 census as the fifth population census surpassing 10 million. St Augustine Florida as the first Catholic parish founded September 8 1565. nearly 800 U S tree species nearing commercial size. Rhode Island the first of the original colonies to declare independence. jungle fowl as ancestral stock of domestic chickens. Henry Clay’s first House term with him elected speaker. the Suez Canal about 103 miles long connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas.
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