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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1969
Page
4
Alaska has just received about 900 million dollars from oil land leases while three to four billion dollars of oil will flow to private firms. The public debate centers on how to spend the windfall, with ideas ranging from tax repeal to paying off debt and funding roads schools airports and hospitals, all urging a broad state goals review.
A reflection on the springtime surge of volunteer activity and the role of well motivated do gooders in American society. The piece notes the wide reliance on volunteers to fundraise, support the less fortunate, and improve schools, justice, government, and hospitals. It calls out motives and praises unpaid effort.
The piece argues the 1966 federal minimum wage and draft rules deter teen employment, citing NFIB data that 500,000 teen jobs vanished and 40 percent of firms no longer hire under-twenty workers. Readers from New York and Oklahoma note training costs at $1.60 an hour, while a Michigan plant warns of war readiness needs if skilled trades fade.
The Vietnam Triangle Club ships 3000 holiday boxes to service men in Vietnam and asks for 300 pounds of hard wrapped candy. They operate at Murphy's until Sept 27 then move to Germantown for final packing. A Cookie and Kool-Aid Day is planned Oct 25 at 10 a.m. at 20 N Highview with cookie boxes for each service group.
David Lawrence critiques sponsors of equality for fostering segregation in schools and voting. He condemns literacy tests and supports federal safeguards, warns politics may shift as illiteracy fuels white discontent, and notes potential presidential impact and the rise of black separatism and black capitalism.
Local Middletown Ohio newspaper list of subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions. Rates include in city delivery 70 cents weekly, 3.00 yearly, and mail options for trading and outside areas with different annual charges.
Joseph Alsop argues Nixon should learn from Hue's Tet massacre to preserve the peace in central Vietnam. He warns that withdrawing troops risks North Vietnamese units breaking the screen around Hue, endangering civilians and undoing provincial stability built by Col Li Van Than and ARVN Marine and Airborne units.
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