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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1978
Page
17
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A reader asks Ann Landers to reprint W. O. Newman's column on tickets and road safety. The piece warns that speeding tickets, harsh judgments, and fatal highway accidents reveal the real consequences of reckless driving. The letter includes a violent description by the Kentucky traffic safety official.
A reader reflects on the pull of soap operas on families and daily life. The piece weaves in personal anecdotes about actors, romance, and cluttered routines while contrasting screen fiction with real relationships and financial pressures. It ends with a note from a veteran reader offering tough love and unsolicited guidance.
Dear Heloise shares practical tricks to lengthen battery life from flashlights to radios. Store in cool dry places away from sun, turn equipment off after use, wrap spares in plastic and refrigerate for freshness, and remove batteries for long storage to save pennies.
Cairo based census chief Gamal Asgar says Egypt now has 40 million residents with 20,405,600 men and 19,594,400 women. Cairo’s population is listed at 8,370,000 with a 47 percent increase since 1976.
On this date in history major events include the 1954 settlement of the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia, Christopher Columbus reaching Costa Rica in 1502, Chester A. Arthur born in 1830, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr completing the first non stop Pacific flight in 1931, Pablo Picasso born in 1881, and dynamite explosions near an integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee in 1958.
A survey of varied historical moments cites a 1976 fallout detection in the eastern U S from a Chinese test, Portugal’s 1960s student protests, Canada wheat sales to China, and U S President Carter signing human rights covenants. It also notes birthdays of Georges Bidault and Joshua Logan and a brief antique aphorism about making hay.
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