Conserving Electricity Becomes National Duty This Summer
The Office of Emergency Preparedness urges a nationwide effort to curb electricity use due to a weaker power supply. Officials warn brownouts or blackouts are likely during peak heat periods unless all sectors cut consumption. Government, industry, and the public are urged to adopt frugal electricity habits now.
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Johnson
White House
Office of Emergency Preparedness
United States
West Coast
Russians Move Into Indian Ocean Ports Near Mauritius
Russians are deploying ships to the Indian Ocean and using Mauritian docks and air facilities for refitting after Britain abandoned its naval base on Mauritius. Britain opposes the shift, arguing Mauritius cannot be a modern base, while Soviet activity there remains limited but potentially growing.
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Peter the Great
Russia
Europe
Peter
Indian Ocean
Mauritius
Africa
Britain
Breslin interview record keeps editors honest
John P. Roche argues for an objective record of interviews citing his Breslin encounter. He recounts insisting on taped or secretary recorded conversations to prevent misquotes and to settle disputes over what was said, ensuring accurate public records and accountability.
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White House
Jimmy Breslin
Breslin
New York Intelligentsia
West Side Jacobins
Riverside Drive
Queens
Aic
New York
Roche
The Middletown News Journal Subscription Details
The Journal published daily by News Journal Inc lists subscription rates for various delivery methods. Prices include 8 cents for daily copies, 20 cents for Sundays, and motor route payments of 3.47 dollars in 12 installments or 3.20 dollars quarterly. Old and misread text mention mail and outside-trading-year terms.
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Me News Journal, Inc
Cress
Middletown
Ohio
USA Air Motor Rovte Anc
Payadie
Aovence
Breakfast program aids Amanda pupils with devoted workers
Amanda elementary principal Homer Davis credits two midtown volunteers from First United Presbyterian Church and five fifth grade students for running a federally funded breakfast program serving 100 to 120 students daily. Most served free. others pay a small fee. He praises their unselfish civic effort.
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Homer Davis
Amanda Elementary School
Middletown
Amanda
First United Presbyterian Church
Davis
Economic regulation in crisis as Richardson urges tripod governance
Secretary Elliot Richardson argues for shared federal state and local roles to reform and support local governance while maintaining federal accountability. He warns against centralization, calls for targeted revenue sharing, and stresses the need for jobs, fair pricing, and national economic policy amid rising production costs and looming wage pressures.
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Washington
Elliot Richardson
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Richardson
Disa
Democratic Policy Council
Burchett blamed as funded Communist operative in Paris dispatch
The piece cites Wilfred Burchett labeled left wing by the New York Times and accused by George Karlin of long standing Communist ties. It alleges Burchett acted as an unpaid or paid agent for Chinese and Vietnamese parties, with connections to Moscow, and notes a 60th birthday party funded by figures such as Noam Chomsky and Pete Seeger.
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Dwight Eisenhower
New York
Wilfred Burchett
Paris
China
Burchett
Lin Piao
Mao Tse-tung
Sidney Rittenberg
New York Times
George Karlin
KCB
Senate
Peter Burchett
Karlin
Berlin
Communist Party
Moscow
Chinese Communist Party
Vietnam
Vietnam Communist Party
Ho Chi Minh
Hanoi
Soviet Communist Party
Wilfred
KGB
Benjamin Spock
Ossie Davis
Pete Seeger
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