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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1969
Page
3
June 14, Flag Day marks the U S flag adoption anniversary of 1777. The piece urges respect for the symbol amid rising desecration and praises laws protecting the flag, urging citizens to visualize a nation without it and to "show the colors" on this day.
Washington reports quote Senators Kennedy and Mansfield as urging a moratorium on public commentary during Nixon-Thieu talks. They criticize U.S. strategy and imply possible removal of Saigon leaders if unelected Communists gain power. Leaders defend the South Vietnamese right to choose their government amid Paris negotiations.
Dr Edwin S Schmeidman of the National Institute of Mental Health proposes wide scale public alertness to personal crisis symptoms and to break down barriers to seeking help. He argues that crisis awareness could prevent many suicides as society applies recent findings to reduce this long deemed unmanageable problem.
Dispatches from Moscow note smart operators profit by buying state store goods and selling at three to four times official price. Despite fifty years of communism, citizens like Ivan and Olga expect better private merchandise, angering the government. The Presidium shows no mercy for private profit. The Billings Gazette remarks on taxes hitting middle income as relief rolls rise while jobs vanish.
A writer explains his aversion to travel and mountains while detailing vacation desires for his family. He recalls trips to Martha’s Vineyard and Paris, praises cruise ships and hotel luxuries, and jokes about democracy at home. He notes dreams of Honolulu, Zurich, Vienna, Rome, and Bahama waters, yet prefers returning home to rest and humorously muses on family dynamics and finances.
A reader disputes a psychiatrist’s view that fear of dogs signals mental illness, arguing fears can be common and not pathological. The letter emphasizes that emotional quirks can be treated by psychiatrists and that such issues need not imply hospitalization.
A columnist’s mailbag compiles odd facts and tips from 1960s US sources. It cites spinal height changes, cancer rates among Eskimo women, camping economics, tyramine in cheddar, a hypothetical ice cube to the sun, crisis flight, laundry storage hints, suicide risk, youth accidents, and a Sir Jacob Astley prayer, all in concise anecdotal form.
A To the Editor letter from Muscatine criticizes Ames Applicator Service for planned DDT spraying next Tuesday. The writer cites Rachel Carson, wildlife harm, and mounting bans, urges residents to complain, notes mosquitoes return after 48 hours, and worries about DDT residue on produce and air.
A nostalgic column recalls past Muscatine happenings with notes on Suel Foster’s strawberry treat for office boys, oil grain plow shoes sold at 99 cents, the Park Place Nine, and Clinton Nine’s defeat. It highlights Edith Critz pupils’ social at her home, Union Daily Vacation Bible schools starting in Muscatine, Women’s Relief Corps leadership, and Mary Beveridge’s AFS abroad trip to Coburg Germany.
A compact list marks June 4 anniversaries from 1815 Congress of Vienna to 1969 Westmoreland steps down in Vietnam. Historical notes include Dickens death in 1870 and Nero suicide in 64, plus Norway’s WWII surrender in 1940 and Austrian defeat in 1800. The piece recalls recent military statements about victory.
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