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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1965
Page
4
Middletown Ohio notices list subscription prices for daily, Sunday, and mail delivery. Rates include 10 cents weekday, 15 cents Sunday, and 60 cents for city routes, with annual mail options overseas and domestically. The paper is published daily by New Journal Inc, founded 1857.
The piece portrays Governor Wallace of Alabama as resisting equal rights for Negroes and dismissing federal voting rights impact. It notes similar stance by Mississippi and South Carolina governors while predicting that rising Negro voter registration will gradually tilt political power toward more integration friendly state governments. The article warns against denying long-term change.
An American boy in Vietnam asks for a recording of Main Street sounds from home. Servicemen abroad increasingly seek tapes of familiar voices and local news to hear home, a morale booster amid duty far from home.
A playful plan to compress garage odds and ends into a compact display, inspired by a Chicago story of a car turned coffee table. The authors imagine mounting crushed items on a living room wall to create texture, testing if a new decor trend emerges or if the pieces return to the garage.
A congressman charges federal anti poverty dollars were used to post bonds for Job Corps members nationwide. The case cites Manuel Martinez of Kentucky released in Billings Montana after an arrest in a barroom attack on a police officer. The article notes planned appeals and mentions prior similar uses.
James Marlow reports on the push to repeal section 14B of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, aiming to legalize union shops nationwide. Democrats and Republicans clash over filibuster threats led by Sen. Everett Dirksen, with labor backing the change and Eisenhower opposed.
President Johnson endorses a plan to let each department set its own standards for nondiscrimination in federal contracts. Critics warn it invites diffuse responsibility and potential political favoritism, asking how due process and explicit standards will apply.
A quirky mix of items notes a Michigan ice boat sinking, a UC Berkeley study on smoking and growth, Alaskan bears’ weights, a poet’s neglect of autumn foods, and Minnesota’s baseball team widening a gap in the American League division.
Editorial quotes Paul Harvey arguing that government programs disincentivize individual aid and public charity. He cites welfare fraud, illegitimate births, and tax dollars supporting reliance, while praising voluntary agencies like the Salvation Army, Boy Scouts, and YMCA for direct aid. He laments impersonal welfare and urges continued private relief efforts.
Dorothy Kilgallen lauds Arlene Francis’ Mrs Dally on Broadway for its writing directing and casting. She notes emotional impact and predicts strong matinee crowds while praising Fors ter Meeker and Anthony. Also surveys Hollywood and TV picks including Elvis divorce and Stagecoach casting.
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