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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1964
Page
7
Coroner Ches ter Hager ruled 6 year old J. T. Marshall Jr. was electrocuted by lightning while using a telephone. The handset disintegrated but the cord remained intact, with no other marks on the house or lines. The lightning struck before a thunderstorm.
Surgeon General Luther L. Terry told Congress that more legislation is needed to regulate cigarette advertising and labeling, arguing FDA should have authority rather than the FTC. Senator Maurine Neuberger urged blocking moves that would impede either agency’s plans for mass education and research on smoking. Representative Horace R. Kornegay claimed the tobacco industry was unfairly condemned by a Public Health Service report.
Washington report says Prince Georges County prosecutor released two card files listing nearly 2,000 men and 90 women tied to a call girl ring. FBI and Sen. John J. Williams probe the material as police link two 1963 stabbings to the case. one fatal, one nonfatal, with key arrests and prosecutions ongoing.
Korengay urged the committee not to condemn thousands to squalor by destroying the tobacco industry. Mrs. Neuberger countered that human life and its economic value must be weighed against the value of a single industry.
Delegations from Connecticut and Massachusetts walked out or remained seated as Gov. George Wallace delivered the keynote at the national Junior Chamber of Commerce convention in Dallas. Wallace denounced the Supreme Court and federal courts as creating a judicial oligarchy while urging his presidential bid.
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