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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1970
Page
4
A discussion on city versus suburban growth and funding. The piece warns that rep portionment shifts power away from cities to suburbs and federal aid is uncertain. It argues all stakeholders must contribute to city viability or poverty and urban ills will spread to suburbs and the region.
A Xerox Telecopier allows sending letter sized documents via telephone, enabling remote receipt as a document in hand. The development signals a new era in facsimile transmission, though the telephone will not replace stenographers entirely.
Ed Muskie advisers urge immediate setup of a full-time fundraising and promotional operation for 1972. Valenti recommends 2 speech writers, 2 researchers, a staff of 15 to 25, a telephony operator in Manhattan, and multiple staffers to back Don Nicoll and a capable press secretary. Expansion would follow after November as the nomination drive intensifies.
Paul Harvey argues Nixon administration policies increased black employment and appointed more nonwhites to high posts than Johnson. He cites improves in private industry, government staffing, and entertainment unions, while noting whites feel discrimination too as unemployment nears five percent.
In a Paris written voice, the piece argues Poland under Soviet influence offers only limited freedoms. It describes four types of Poles from committed Communists to true opponents, noting the church and select journals survive while mass political rights remain restricted.
In Poland movement is freer than in the Soviet Union and Poles can more easily secure travel permits to America for business than to visit the USSR. Intellectual and party conversations occur with implied system revision, reflecting unrestrained anti-Soviet cultural sentiment.
A compilation of brief facts covers a rawhide hackamore, a potsherd, Mozart’s burial in a pauper’s grave, the first traveling sidewalk at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the Gemini twins Casor and Pollux, and Hamilcar as Hannibal’s father.
The Middletown Journal lists daily and Sunday subscription prices. In city and suburban areas a week day copy costs 60 cents, Sundays 20 cents, and weekly or yearly mail rates vary by delivery area with U S subscriptions priced higher.
In Gratis a woman visiting a cemetery and a stranger discuss old Revolutionary War stones. A remark about turning a readable grave marker into a cocktail table prompts reflection on grave robbing. Memorial Day flag etiquette is clarified: raise to full staff then half until noon. A park note warns against disturbing kids near a playground. A Hamilton observer humorous about curfew and early routines near Oxford.
The Water Works argues fluoride levels in Glendale water ranged from 0.8 to 1.5 ppm in June 1970 tests and defends fluoridation as safe. It cites Chicago court history, nationwide use, and Middletown’s natural 0.3 ppm fluoride, estimating yearly cost at about $3,300 for 55,000 residents.
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