International effort urged to halt terrorism and aid handicapped access
A Sudan Khartoum attack underscores need for universal anti-terrorism agreement. Senator Charles Percy suggests tax incentives for accessible buildings to employ 189,000 handicapped people, offsetting costs. He warns governments backing terrorists must face sanctions or lose support, urging UN action. Faith without works is dead. James 2:17.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Charles Percy
Illinois
Percy
United Nations
Middletown Elks Lodge organized with 33 initiates
Middletown bands 257 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks held its charter night in Sorg Opera Building with 33 initiates and eight transfers from another lodge under District Deputy Phil G. Berry. The piece traces local fraternal history noting Jefferson Lodge 90 Masons first meeting in 1827 and Odd Fellows since 1842, plus Knights of Pythias Lafayette Lodge 37 and other orders.
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Middletown Lodge 257
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Phil G. Berry
Sorg Opera Building
The
Elks
Middletown
Jefferson Lodge
Mark Dixon
Third
Central
Main Street
Thomas Corwin
Lebanon
John Dodd
Reynolds
Third and Main
Leibee
Masonic
Hope Lodge
Independent
Order of Odd Fellows
Lou Young
Third Street
Leibee Block
Odd Fellows
England
Thomas Wildey
America
Baltimore
IOOF
Lafayette Lodge
Knights of Pythias
K. of P. Lodge
Butler County
J.T. Sutphin
Ohio
Knight of Pythias
Lafayette Company
Miami Valley
Shining Light Council
Order of the United American Mechanics
Leibee Building
Junior Order of American Mechanics
Viola Lodge
Daughters of Rebekah
Letter to the Editor: A Gross Injustice
A Middletown freshman choir medley from Godspell was canceled after a few critics deemed it sacrilegious. The writer argues the Bible verses are unchanged and urges dialogue with the concerned group. The choir offers to meet and resolve the dispute, citing the Bill of Rights and urging prompt attention.
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Middletown
Miss
Marcia) MacCagno
Sheldon Road
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates Notice
The Middletown Journal lists daily and Sunday newsstand prices and home delivery options. Subscriptions by motor route or mail are payable in advance with annual rates and installment plans noted for local and distant addresses.
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The
News Journal, Inc
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
U.S.A
Japan Needs A Psychiatrist In Identity Crisis
TOM BRADEN argues Japan faces an identity crisis amid trade, rearmament, and aid disputes with the United States. He likens Japan to a son coming of age under a controlling father, urging open dialogue to avoid a nervous breakdown and a potential shift in global posture.
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Tokyo
Japan
Washington
United States
Father
World Court
World Bank
Governors cry wolf over Nixon funds and state budgets
The piece argues Democratic governors led by Georgia's Carter and Kentucky's Ford exaggerate federal deficits. The Tax Foundation study forecasts state local revenues surpassing spending by 13 billion in 1975 and 9 billion in 1980, even with some aid extensions. It notes education costs rising, enrollments slowing, and property tax shares declining, while urging restraint on home owner burdens.
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Washington
Tax Foundation
Nixon
Wendell Ford
Kentucky
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Arkansas
Dale Bumpers
The
Capital Hill
Senate
House
Victory garden confusion in humor column
Jim Fiebig quips about Nixon era urges to grow victory gardens. He mocks supplies and farming know how, jokes about seed depth watering and sour notes on carrots and radishes, ending with a playful question if the government will pay for not planting.
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Jim Fiebig
Nixon
Labor
Peter Brennan
Brennan
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Supreme Court
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