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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1963
Page
3
Washington AP reports the Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health nears a final judgment on links between smoking and health. The panel, drawn from health agencies, federal units, and the tobacco industry, faced delays and scrutiny but aims to publish a November or year-end report focusing on evidence validity rather than policy actions.
AP report notes a three year study published by McGraw Hill urged state legislatures to avoid prescribing specific courses in public schools. The NEA sponsored study endorses local teacher control, with states setting general goals and funding, while decisions on content remain local.
AkronAP The coroner ruled Saturday that strangulation caused the death of a 71 year old widow whose body was found in tall weeds about four blocks from her south Akron home.
The Lemon Monroe FSA Club installed officers Sharon Mannon president Linda McIntosh vice president Anita Oney secretary and Mary Lovelace treasurer at a workshop at Lemon Monroe School. Thelma Bowyer is adviser Eight Hours in a Secretary Day was the workshop theme.
Ohio Catholic educators will press for a law guaranteeing every child the right to ride public school buses. They label current statutes discriminatory and seek to extend bus transport to all state children. A recent attorney general ruling limits buses to transporting pupils to public schools or functions and bars rental use. The convention also endorsed anti discrimination instruction and interracial justice within Catholic schools. In Iraq, archaeologists in Zagros Mountains report a Neanderthal skeleton about 45 thousand years old with elbow amputation, one of the oldest known surgeries.
A volunteer network backed by Arizona business leaders uses modern tools and old fashioned effort to promote Barry Goldwater for 1964. The national office in Goldwater hometown operates cluttered amid post office and storefront. 100 plus volunteers push bumper stickers, pins, books, and other promo items while typewriters and phones scramble for use. National chairman James C. O Mall ey oversees a nonpartisan, unofficial campaign with no formal authority from Goldwater.
Singer Johnny Mathis collapsed shortly before his Denver appearance but returned to perform for about 30 minutes before a 3000 person crowd. Organizers push for Goldwater’s Republican nomination with a nationwide petition drive, with 51 Goldwater chapters and 3 million signatures hoped by the national convention. The $2 fee funds campaign literature and staff salaries as petitions are signed.
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin told a Mexico City news conference that closer US Soviet diplomatic relations are needed before space experiments. He supported joint projects and said the USSR leads in space development. Accompanied by Valentina Tereshkova, they were greeted by about 1000 people in Mexico.
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