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Newspaper
Playground Daily News
Location
Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1968
Page
4
A Friday morning June 28 1964 page four issue of the Playground Daily News features local briefs notices editorials and community notices. The readable text shows standard front matter and assorted short items typical of a small-town newspaper page.
The piece notes Resurrection City in West Potomac Park failed to spark lasting conscience, deteriorating from high hopes to chaos and scandal. Leaders struggled to control militant elements, drawing criticism from Congress and the public. Yet the campaign did press awareness of poverty, forcing recognition of economic extremes and prompting cautious government reaction.
Across nations strict controls fail where public support and enforcement vanish. With private arms thriving in Harlem and Juarez, the piece argues for tough penalties, police vigilance, and steady public backing to prevent a slide toward gun-enabled social decay.
Philadelphia scientists use a thermograph to show smoking narrows peripheral blood vessels, causing smokers to feel colder than nonsmokers. The study finds nicotine intake reduces blood flow to fingers and toes, making warmth efforts futile. Waving arms is noted as a quicker way to feel warmer than smoking away a cigarette.
The Playground Daily News publishes from Fort Walton Beach Florida with staff including John H Perry publisher Frank Haugh Jr editor Don Hilton advertising James Pulliam circulation and a general office address at 11 Eglin Parkway SE. Subscriptions list daily and mail options with rates and a Fort Walton Beach postal designation.
Washington Merry-Go-Round notes Senator Margaret Chase Smith pushes a bill to study movies and televised crime while President Johnson contemplates a new FCC appointment amid industry ties. It critiques regulatory laxness, profits, and ties between networks and Madison Avenue, urging a courageous, live-wire pick to curb crime and influence.
Bill Vaughan muses that summer begins as it ends and midseason signals arrive earlier. June 21 marks summer but stores and magazines push fall and winter items before the season starts. He jokes about travel guides, fashions, football on TV, and political campaigns already shifting toward November. Summer ends as soon as it begins, a paradox never felt with other seasons.
The piece argues that hereditary baldness affects about 40 percent of men and cannot be cured by cosmetics or tonics. It mocks bad jokes, praises accepting baldness, and suggests social kindness. It even lampoons replacing the bald eagle with the bald man as a national symbol.
Highlights on June 28 cover events from 1914 Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination sparking World War I to the 1968 present era. Notable items include 1778 Monmouth Battle Molly Pitcher, 1838 Victoria crowned, 1919 Versailles Treaty, 1944 Dewey nomination, 1945 MacArthur Lucon, 1958 Soviet protests over air space, Khrushchev in 1960 East Berlin, and Johnson-Hussein talks in 1967.
John Chamberlain argues that Supreme Court Open Housing moves will spur suburban zoning disputes driven by money, not color. He cites high construction costs, mortgage rates, and a 1930s Suffern New York model where bank tellers and teachers formed a building guild to cut costs, suggesting inner city residents seek affordable paths to suburban living by cooperative land buying and collective building.
An analysis argues that UN economic sanctions against Rhodesia will not topple Ian Smith’s government. It notes Soviet trade with Rhodesia, calls for continued South African and Portuguese support, and questions U.S. role while warning that Moscow sees Rhodesia as a potential Vietnam in Africa.
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