Comics and Honeymoon Page in Empire Magazine
A brief note highlights this week’s 1¢ pages featuring Empire Magazine comics content and a feature on honeymoon themes. The item hints at a light, entertaining sector within the publication.
08 Aug 1965
Page 1
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1965
Page
1
A brief note highlights this week’s 1¢ pages featuring Empire Magazine comics content and a feature on honeymoon themes. The item hints at a light, entertaining sector within the publication.
Myron Feinsilber reports a wave of articles scrutinizing President LBJ, focusing on his style and alleged flaws. Critics claim he overreaches, blames others, nags subordinates, and mishandles news, while maintaining broad public support.
Washington watches the public clash between President Johnson and the Kennedy brothers as UPI reports on the enduring political tension. The piece contrasts Johnson as a Texan with earthy style and brisk instinct against the Kennedys' urban elite image and wealth, noting speculation on White House ambitions.
An American housewife in Moscow describes shopping in the central market and modern dollar shops. She notes private plots supplying fruits and vegetables, high prices, and sensory market appeal with bread, cheese, milk, and popcorn. She contrasts pre revolutionary markets with Soviet era storefronts along Gorky Street.
DOS PALOS Calif Rancher Jerry Bunch grows home vegetables flowers and mushrooms using ditch irrigation and geese for weed control while workers shop on Sundays. Meanwhile in Moscow and Mexico City reports compare state stores and shark fishing efforts linking urban markets to international trade.
The piece observes Johnson as accessible yet quick to blame others, blending charm with sharp pressure on lawmakers. Foley notes Lyndon’s leverage over Congress, with prediction often met by presidential reversals to spite critics. Concluded on Page 4.
The article notes 16 sharks with strong commercial use, four in Mexican waters in the Pacific or Gulf of Mexico. Shark products include meat, canned flesh, teeth for ornaments, and skin. Shark-processing plants are on the Pacific Coast with Cabo cluster as a penal colony site and a new plant at Puerto Angel, Oaxaca. The Gulf Coast lacks enough sharks to attract Western fishermen.
The Army announces a lightweight 25 man ration for field use replacing bulkier meals. Dehydrated items cut weight and bulk, ionizing radiation preserves foods, and a 19% pound two man ration weighs about 19. pounds. continuous bakery with instant bread mix also under development.
The report notes Edward Kennedy pressing for a faster nonproliferation treaty and a state poll tax ban, while criticizing Johnson's Vietnam policy. It mentions Edward and Robert Kennedy’s failures in a Senate vote and their implications for a potential White House bid in 1968.
In Winnetka and nearby Chicago North Shore suburbs a push by NSSP seeks open housing allowing Black buyers. Residents express prejudice masking old customs, fearing property value or social disruption, while leaders argue attitudes must change to welcome integration.
A UPI report notes real estate executives in the North Shore tout a space access highway for NASA S Saturn V rocket and discuss resistance to showing homes to Black buyers. The NSSP is accused of pressuring agents to show any house to any buyer, mirroring Deep South voting drives.
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