Meat price protests and proposed meat fast urged by Connecticut group
The piece notes nationwide protests against rising meat prices led by the Connecticut Junior Women's Clubs planning a week long meat fast on April Fools Day and supported by Rep William R Cotter who argues for price rollback. It discusses government price controls, retail pass through, and potential impacts on production and consumer relief. It also references broader war casualty updates and a Bible verse at the end.
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Connecticut
William R. Cotter
Cotter
House
Middletown Plans Local Air Service And Flying School
Palmco Air Service purchases a red and white Waco three place biplane for 20 cents a mile and will base it at Middletown Municipal Airport. Pilot George Wedekind, veteran of World War I, offers flight training with local instructor Marion Wetzel assisting. The Middletown Airport Park, Inc. operates on borrowed funds, aiming to develop air travel as the city enters the Air Age.
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Palmco Company
Tom Palmer
Sam McAdow
George J. Wedekind
Middletown
Hamilton
George Wedekind
U.S. Army Air Service
Second Aviation Instruction Center
Tours
France
Branch of Aeronautics
Department of Commerce
Wedekind
Marion Wetzel
Aviation Field
West Point
Miss
Miami River
Germantown Road
Miami Conservancy
Farnsworth
Smith and Wolverton
David Harlan
Crystal Tissue
J.A. Aull
William O. Barnitz
Charles R. Hook
George M. Verity
Lakeside
City Commission
Middletown Airport Park Group
Anti-aid to Vietnam axis explained for foreigners
A columnist argues that McGovern and Buckley oppose aid for North Vietnam for different reasons and that explaining U S politics to foreigners requires understanding American voters. He notes conflicting motives, Nixon’s peace moves, and the difficulty of a clear national consensus amid divergent loyalties.
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Washington
George McGovern
North Vietnam
James Buckley
New York
Nixon
McGovern
Buckley
Lyndon Johnson
TVA
Vietnam
Johnson
Richard Nixon
The Journal Subscription Rates and Details
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Kennedy 1963 Ireland visit recalled in book excerpts
New excerpts from Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye recount JFKs 1963 Ireland trip, his insistence on a personal pleasure visit, family dynamics at Dunganstown, and his admiration for Irish cadet drill near memorial services at Dublin Arbour Hill.
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Johnny
John F. Kennedy
Kenneth P. O’donnell
David F. Powers
Joe McCarthy
Little, Brown
Ireland
West Germany
NATO
Italy
Britain
JFK
O’donnell
Kenny
O'Donnell
McGeorge Bundy
Kennedy
Dublin
Arbour Hill
Military College
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
Arlington National Cemetery
Jacqueline
Dallas
Letters condemn crowd at river death show and report charity drive
A reader scolds spectators who gathered around a dead man in the Great Miami River and disrupted emergency responders near Dayton. The letter also notes a Middletown Sertoma Club collection for the Middletown Treatment Center for Brain Damaged Children raising $533, with 80 percent to the center and 20 percent to the club, while about 20 percent of cans were stolen.
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Chautauqua Dam
Dayton
Red Cross
Warren County
Ohio Highway Patrol
Miami Township
The
Middletown Sertoma Club
Middletown
Sertoma Club
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