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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1967
Page
6
The League of Women Voters held a Monday night political rally with 14 local candidates, turning a dull program into lively entertainment. Attendees enjoyed promised votes while some candidates complained about the volume, and President Wanda Starr pledged improvements for a bigger event next year.
A class discussion compares new and old renderings of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat. Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah offer a free verse version challenging FitzGeralds famed Fitzgerald translation. The shift could trigger a major literary controversy surrounding a once widely memorized poem.
Eugene V. Debs addressed about a thousand Middletown residents at the Sorg Opera House on November 3 1911 outlining Socialists aims from governance reforms to public works. He traced Socialist history from 1293 and 1905 founding of key unions while defending free speech and criticizing free enterprise.
Fragmentary text outlines a nonpartisan municipal service ideal tied to tenure based on good behavior and meritorious service. It references management of public utilities like street railways telephones gas and electricity.
The Journal published daily by News Journal Inc in Middletown Ohio lists subscription prices for per copy weekday and Sunday editions, city motor route, and by mail within and outside trading areas, plus US and international rates. It notes all subscriptions payable in advance and cites a founding year of 1857.
Washington reports the Department of Justice contemplates a antitrust suit to curb General Motors and its monopoly share in the auto industry. The piece argues unions influence costs and prices, complicating potential court action and delaying outcomes past 1968.
General Motors tops U S stockholders with 1 415 000, followed by Ford 439 900 and Chrysler 196 000. The 25 largest firms are held by about 10 909 000 shareholders, while total U S stockholders number around 22 million. The piece questions equal ownership and warns stock values may fall if government interferes with business efficiency.
Ruth Montgomery reports on former appointees like J Edward Day and T Coleman Andrews who weigh the pleasures and costs of high level service. James Morton criticizes expanding government and warns of a planned society centered in Washington. He blasts a Gardner pollution task force report as a blueprint for control and notes public demand may be manufactured in D C.
The Task Force urged the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to make every American thrive in an attractive, comfortable, convenient and healthy environment. Morton dismissed it as adding a new dimension of attractiveness to its citizens.
Crime Commission publishes a Who's Who listing 214 mob leaders or puppets and 42 controlled businesses, with many addresses on the Gold Coast and suburbs. Virgil Peterson notes pervasive mob tribute in Chicago life while authorities press convictions and public awareness grows. Illinois Senator Percy calls the move a step toward government momentum against organized crime.
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