Four Ballot Issues Seek Support In May Primary
Four issues will appear on the May 7 primary ballot. Three state measures propose reforms to funds disposition in schools, vacancy filling in the Ohio House, and judicial system administration. all have bipartisan backing and require voter approval. A local issue calls for replacing the 120 year old Butler County Jail, costing .50 mills for three years. Current jail capacity is insufficient with 86 men and 68 beds, and 8 women with room for 6. Voters are urged to support all four measures.
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Ohio House of Representatives
House
Senate
Ohio
Butler County
Safety Costs Under Study for Auto Safety Features
Secretary Boyd told the Senate Commerce Committee that recent safety related price increases appear insignificant but remain unverified as cost figures have not been analyzed or obtained from manufacturers. He will establish an office to collect data and monitor how safety mandates affect pricing to reveal the true impact over time.
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Secretary of Transportation
Alan S. Boyd
Senate Commerce Committe
Boyd
Letters to the Editor Urge Jail Bond Vote in Butler County
The Middletown League of Women Voters backs a 1964 jail levy costing 50 cents per thousand for three years to replace unsanitary facilities. The piece invites tours of the jail and urges voters in the May primaries not to be complacent about the issue.
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League of Women Voters
Middletown
Butler County
Central Ideas About Guerrillas To the Editor
The letter outlines a view of guerrilla bands as independent, tough, loosely organized yet strategically capable fighting groups. It discusses characteristics and aims of such forces, framing them as a form of irregular warfare.
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Nhco
Viet Cong
Vietnam
United States
Butler County voters face jail bond decision next Tuesday
Dave Began urges Middleton residents to approve a new Butler County Jail. The old jail, 120 years old with overcrowding, poor ventilation, and dangerous conditions, would be replaced at a cost of one million dollars, funded at 50 cents per thousand of valuation for three years.
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Butler County
Board of Estimates
Parks Commission
Assembly
Senate
U Thant
Columbia
Buckley rails at Columbia gym plan and campus calmness
William F Buckley Jr notes Dean Coleman at Columbia University faces calm resistance amid heated debate over building two athletic facilities near Harlem. He recalls past campus clashes, cites official approvals, budget figures, and charges of separate and unequal access, arguing youth rebellion reflects broader authority failures.
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Harlem
University
Columbia
Sarajevo
Columbia University in Crisis Over Rioting Faculty Opposition
Columbia University remains effectively shut as students seize several buildings in protest. Police are not yet deployed despite verbal clashes over calling in authorities. President Grayson Kirk faced fierce faculty backlash and later reconsidered, amid attacks on actions against student demonstrators.
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Columbia
Robinson
Columbia University
Grayson Kirk
Benjamin Spock
William Sloan Coffin
Richard Greenman
Charlotte Corday
Strikers Pursue Mixed Aims Amid Discipline Concerns
The text notes four objectives guiding the strikers, with two aimed at shielding individuals from punishment. It highlights a tension between collective aims and personal interest as the strike unfolds.
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates and Details
The Middletown Journal lists subscription terms with rates for daily and Sunday delivery, city and suburban motor routes, and mail for various regions. Rates include 60 cents weekly in city, 15 dollars annually by mail in trading areas, 24 dollars outside trading areas, and 38 dollars outside the USA.
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U.S.A
Mao in Trouble in China Flares of Civil War Rattle Provinces
Joseph Alsop analyzes Mao Zedong's China where major fighting erupts in Szechuan and Yunnan. He details factional coalitions such as Red Flag and East Wind in Kwangtung and the rise of mass organizations led by demobilized soldiers like Chang Ts’un, urging readers to fear wider instability as clandestine groups emerge.
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Hong Kong
China
Szechuan
Mao Tse-tung
Yunnan
Artillery Group
Kunming
Red Guards
Kwangtung
Red Flag
East Wind
Chang Ts’an
Nn Kwangtung
Chang Ts‘un
Chang Ts'un
Landmark Military Inventions and Honors Across U.S. History
The text traces milestones from Gabriel Jones Rains' invention of land mines used against the Seminole in 1840 and in the 1862 Yorktown retreat, to Desmond Doss receiving the first U S Medal of Honor awarded to a conscientious objector in 1945 for Okinawa bravery, to Robert Scott's fatal South Pole voyage, and to Mardi Gras etymology from French Shrove Tuesday meaning fat day.
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Gabriel Jones Rains
Yorktown
Rains
Harry S. Truman
Pfe
Desmond Doss
Lynchburg
Okinawa
France
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Marine Corps
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FOX Hunt
William F. Buckley JR
Dean Coleman
New York
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City College
ROTC
NAACP
National Conference of Christians and Jews
West Point
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Dmz
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The
New York Times
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Joseph Alsop
Mao
Robert Scott
South Pole
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