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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1972
Page
4
Jeffrey Hart analyzes Senator George McGovern’s Oct. 10 Vietnam stance. He argues McGovern’s call for total U S withdrawal within 90 days and no more aid to the South reverses aid and signals to Hanoi a bargaining position. The piece notes three motives behind the speech and hints at a looming peace plan.
The FBI Bulletin notes that trained police dogs excel at locating hidden narcotics in baggage, mail, lockers, and on people. Maj. Holley D. Bradley explains a dog's nose sees more than humans, with dogs detecting scents at exponentially lower concentrations. Training emphasizes alerting on narcotics while ignoring distractions.
The Big Sur mudslides show hillsides with grass brush and trees as nature’s safeguard against floods. A House bill to upgrade emergency medical services narrowly passed by tie breaking vote of Speaker Carl Albert, led by Rep. Paul G. Rogers, potentially reducing highway deaths by up to 15 000. Preserve natural ground cover to control floods and slides. faith based exhortation closes the piece.
Middletown Diary notes an Ohio Health article on the Miami Valley, detailing its geography from the Ohio River northward about 100 miles, its two river valleys, early settlements at Columbia North Bend and Cincinnati, and the rise of industry by 1800 with mills, distilleries, a tannery in 1793 and pottery in 1794, marking the birth of the industrial Miami Valley.
Hanover N H columnist Tom Braden questions the fading fervor of student opposition to the Vietnam War. He recalls McGovern’s NH campaign, the campus mood, and the shift after Nixon ended the draft, noting how the era’s moral outrage waned with time and Vietnamization. He compares youth ideals to Gatsby’s fatherly caution.
The Middletown Journal announces subscription options including daily 15c weekday, 25c Sunday, home delivery 80c weekly, motor route $3.47 yearly in 12 installments or $3.20 in four weeks, 15c monthly service charge, and mail rates $30 per year within and outside the trading area, $38 outside the U.S. All subscriptions payable in advance. Founded in 1857.
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