Shriver Plan for Universal Youth Examination Raised
The article reviews Sargent Shriver's proposal to register and examine all youths at age 16 under the Selective Service System and to link high school level testing with a national network to address educational and motivational deficiencies. It weighs this against fears it echoes compulsory service and could threaten freedom and personal choice, urging careful study before adoption.
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McNamara
Sargent Shriver
Office of Economic Opportunity
H.e
Shriver
States mark Lewis and Clark Trail from Missouri to Pacific
Eleven states along the Missouri and Columbia rivers unite under the Lewis and Clark Trail Commission to post signs and mark the historic route. Captains Lewis and Clark silhouettes will line highways near the explorers’ original paths with campsites, a riverine and mountain bridle path, park areas, boat ramps, lodgings, and recreation facilities planned to be finished by 1969.
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Missouri
Columbia
Congress
Pacific
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Rocky Mountain
Commission
March to depart like a lamb warn of April rain
The piece predicts March will end softly like a lamb, while April is typically rainy. Flooding and below normal rainfall figure, a potential freeze could ruin forsythia and early blooms. Daffodils, jonquils, tulips thrive, magnolias may suffer from late freezes. Spring yard work awaits.
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March
Pacifists Prolonging War, Symington Says
The pacifist view that halting bombing will end the war is argued to prolong conflict as civilian limits hinder military aims. Senator Symington reports pilots resist civilian interference and fear escalation, while President Johnson faces domestic opposition and calls to remove sanctuaries to shorten the Vietnam war.
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North Vietnam
United States
Symington
Missouri
Air Force
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Washington
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate Foreign Rela
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Hanoi
North
Johnson
Debating Kennedy Biography Wars and Book Feud
Writer Jim Bishop laments Kennedy book clashes over authorship and censorship. He recalls decades of research into the assassination, praises Manchester's forthcoming The Death of a President, and argues for an unbiased untampered account despite public uproar and sponsor battles.
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Kennedy
William Manchester
Gore Vidal
Esquire
Jackie
Bob Kennedy
Manchester
Bobby
Preserve Natural Beauty At New Park Letter
A Middletown reader urges preserving Sebald Park as a nature oriented space rather than a full golf course development. She details the park’s rich flora fauna and creek, warning housing growth could erase this heritage and calling for no destruction of nature.
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New Park
Sebald Park
Middletown
Ashland Howard Franklin
Communism on the Home Front Debate Letter
Paul O Flynn of 503 Ross Street criticizes U S policy and wartime spending in Vietnam arguing for opposing communism at home and questioning why Americans would fight abroad while the Communist Party operates via simple applications. He urges citizens to reject communism domestically.
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Vietnam
United States
Communist Party
Paul O'Flynn
Ross Street
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates and Details
The Middletown Journal lists subscription options with per copy and weekly rates for city delivery, motor routes, and mail in trading areas. Rates include in state and outside areas, with international pricing and advance payment required. founded 1857.
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