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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1968
Page
4
The Senate defeats a last chance measure to fund summer jobs for urban youth, criticizing it as needed to prevent violence in ghettos. Javits' plan to add 52 million to highway funding stalled in conference, while critics say highways are chosen over people and crisis grows with summer.
Georgia Governor Lester Maddox pushes to remove a high school novel A Patch of Blue from required 10th grade reading. He objects to the book's romance between a Negro and a blind white girl and seeks to influence school material choices.
Jim Bishop profiles Ed Sullivan, called a dull yet immensely influential figure who has dominated television for two decades. Sullivan blends piety and star power, nurturing talents like Carmine Santullo while maintaining a plain folks image and shaping weekly TV rituals.
A columnist urges a government pause on new laws and court rulings to reform and codify U S legal framework. He cites housing discrimination cases dating from 1866 to 1968 and argues for a year without new legislation or decisions to reduce overlap and confusion.
Joseph Alsop argues the wartime tax bill led by Rep. Wilbur Mills will pass the House with strong support, stabilizing U. S. fiscal policy. He notes international pressure from France under De Gaulle and Couve de Murville, IMF loans and gold-supply tensions that could influence the global monetary outlook.
The Journal published by News Journal, Inc. lists subscription rates for city readers and mail customers. Daily copies cost 10 cents on weekdays and 15 cents on Sundays, with weekly and yearly mail options ranging from 15 dollars to 38 dollars, payable in advance. Founded in 1857.
A letter from Dottie F. Whaley recounts London after RFK's assassination. She describes crowd reactions at Piccadilly Circus and BBC coverage, foreign students grieving, and British views on guns and violence. She notes she cannot vote in November and honors JFK MLK RFK as great men.
The writer urges the Democratic Party to nominate either Edward Kennedy or Sargent Shriver for president with RFK as the likely candidate after recent victories in California and South Dakota. For vice president suggestions include Otto Kerner Harold Hughes and Stephen Young. Nixon is proposed as Republican nominee with Rhodes or Gerald Ford as possible vice presidents.
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