Miami University dedicates Middletown and Hamilton campuses
Dedication ceremonies honored public and private support for Miami University branch campuses. Donations funded the 750 seat Finkelman auditorium and Gardner Harvey Library, with 600 full-time and 1,500 part-time students in Middletown and 750 full-time with 1,000 part-time at Hamilton.
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Middletown
Hamilton
Miami University
Dave Finkelman
Gladys Finkelman
Harry Hake III
Drug use and policy in 1960s America debated
William F Buckley Jr warns that marijuana scarcity drives a rise in hashish use and that amphetamines pose growing dangers. He cites UC Berkeley's Professor Hardin Jones on a seven percent monthly rise in drug consumption, California student experimentation, and calls for strong government action.
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Mexico
Hardin Jones
Donner
University of California At Berkeley
Jones
Reagan
Timothy Leary
California
Violence in Sports Through History and Modern Football
Renowned sportswriter Bob Oates contrasts today’s football violence with historic spectacles from bullfighting to chariot races and duels. He notes ancient arenas drew vast crowds and that modern football, with gear and rules, may still reflect primal impulses while causing fewer casualties.
Power and free speech clash on campus clashes
John P Roche argues open admissions spark intergroup clashes on campuses. He cites SDS, Women’s Liberation, Black groups and Marcuse, warning that endorsing suppression or violence harms free speech and invites retaliation.
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Women’s Liberation League
SDS
Hyde Park
London
Herbert Marcuse
Marcuse
New University Conference
Hanoi
Roy Wilkins
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates and Details
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions. Rates include 70 cents weekly by newspaper boy or motor route, 321.00 annual in-town mail, 3000 outside trading area, 3800 outside USA, with all payments in advance. Founded in 1857.
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USA
Still Of Night Camp Scene Skunk Interruption At Tonile Woods
An overcast night at Hues ton Woods shows two mothers at a campfire table as a skunk ambles toward them sniffing crumbs and then leaves. The scene follows families at a lodge where husbands fetched children after a movie. A light, humorous vignette ends with quiet relief.
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Hueston Woods
Welfare inquiry letter calls for action in Middletown
A Middletown letter to the editor questions the Welfare Department over inaction on a family with nine children and a pregnant mother. The writer urges investigation or a public campaign, noting a coworker assists a boy seen on streets and in need of schooling and meals.
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Middletown
Welfare Department
Professor Corrects Journal On Opening Day Impression
The professor says a Journal report misrepresented his reaction to the MUM opening. He notes an 8 to 8:30 a.m. inquiry about the day, not the opening, and denies sulking in his office while describing a rainy cool morning as rotten.
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Stalin
Polk Baptized Weeks Before Death in 1849
The text notes President James K. Polk was baptized June 9, 1849, a week before his death. It also mentions Swiss cuisine by region and La Paz as the world’s highest capital at about 12,000 feet, with coffee’s origin and the first Sherlock Holmes story.
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France
Charles Dickson
Andrew Jackson
Jackson
Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
U.S
James K. Polk
la Paz
Bolivia
Sherlock Holmes
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