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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1971
Page
4
James Reston and William Furlong offer postgrad reflections on the Class of 71. They note job scarcity and waning activism as graduates grow introspective and face the harsher realities of postcampus life. The era’s optimism gives way to disillusion and personal responsibility.
Jeffrey Hart reports on a UC San Diego branch where a separate Third College educates minority students by design. He decries physical segregation and a curriculum he says promotes anti white sentiment and anti Western ideals, funded by California taxpayers.
A scholar notes the course readings emphasize anti imperialist texts by Che Guevara and Arevalo while omitting figures like Sato and Indira Gandhi. A student calls the curriculum a grudge driven list and questions missing viewpoints on U S policy.
The critic argues the latest books push Marxist European roots and dictators as heroes, failing to present genuine Third World cultures or diverse political systems. The list allegedly oversimplifies the Third World as socialist and anti US, ignoring democracies like Japan and India.
A letter from A. L. Groves of Penney's honors his son and describes a father's evolving role. The piece notes a father’s changing interests, responsibilities, and eventual wisdom, ending with a daughter Sally Jean's 21st graduation from Miami Valley Hospital nursing school on Father's Day.
The author argues some violence is seen as defense of rights while other acts are dismissed as youthful pranks. He contrasts New York bridge clashes with Teamsters blockades, cites a Michigan survey, and notes class and tradition shape responses to upheaval.
The Middletown Journal lists subscription options with daily and Sunday pricing. Rates include 80c for seven days, 10c per daily copy, 20c for Sunday, motor route at 3.47 quarterly or 3.20 four weeks, 15c monthly service charge, and mail at 30 dollars per year within and outside the trading area. outside U.S.A. 38 dollars. All motor route and mail payments are in advance. The paper, founded in 1857, is published by News Journal Inc.
A reader thanks his grandmother Mrs Alene Sorrell for years as a Peastown School teacher and notes her family tradition of teaching. The letter also recalls REACT volunteers managing traffic at events and an embedded soldier’s wartime letter emphasizing faith and peril.
In a wartime account a wounded soldier credits prayer and scripture with survival and conversion. After a close battle he reads Psalm 91, prays publicly, and reports fellow troops turning to God. He urges widespread prayer and Bible distribution to bolster morale and victory. Mrs Carrie Hudson, Claredon Avenue
In Middletown the REACT group led by president Lester Mannon pooled member effort for a single goal of community service. The volunteers contributed time and energy to assist the community once more this year through organized service initiatives.
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