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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1966
Page
3
In Harrisburg Pennsylvania Republicans urged party voters to back a lieutenant governor candidate who died in a recent airplane crash just days before Tuesday’s primary. Democratic voters were also urged to participate in the ballot.
New York AP RFK voiced sympathy for student protests against deferment criteria based on college status or tests. He doubted the fairness of such deferments, arguing they favor the well off who attend college and leave poorer youths drafted. He stopped short of abolishing deferments, but urged close scrutiny of the system.
Birth notices list Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Taylor Jr. 2213 Winton St. with a boy. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Korner 3804 Fiesta Way with a girl. several other couples welcomed sons and daughters at addresses across the area during the period. Discharges include Edgar Thornsberry, Diane Royston’s child, and numerous named individuals and spouses returning home from hospital.
Army Chief Harold K. Johnson told 445 graduates at the Command and General Staff College that long hair is not a problem. He described the inductees as well educated and capable, noting the army can provide a haircut and training, and that the force fights to keep men free, including the freedom to protest.
Barry Goldwater told Face the Nation the 1968 Republican convention will be as conservative as 1964 with 75 to 80 percent of delegates supporting conservatives. He urged broader military authority in Vietnam and called Nixon a likely 1968 nominee while Hugh Scott doubted any front runner exists.
M Scott Carpenter arrives in Moscow not as an astronaut but as part of a large U S delegation to the International Oceanography Conference opening May 31. He is listed in the delegation as an aquanaut, reflecting his oceanic work.
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