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Newspaper
The Times Herald Record
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1967
Page
21
The piece argues for nonpartisan reform across towns reducing underassessment and conflict of interest in property taxation. It urges consolidating assessors into a single county office, questions highway department efficiency, and suggests merging public improvement functions to cut bidding costs up to half and reduce hearings.
Jim Bishop recalls Hammerhead Hennessy a tough police chief with a boxing bent who is promoted without a test. Hennessy later helps the FBI bust an interstate hotel burglary ring at Tall Pines Country Club Hotel by shadowing, listening from the starter’s office, and arresting two robbers in a hotel corridor. The tale pits a slow giant against clever criminals and ends with a dramatic takedown.
Edward P. Dougherty recounts the 1917 Brown Excise Law reducing liquor licenses to one per 500 residents. MiddletownMayor A C N Thompson appoints a commission including A E Hopkins Rufus C Maltby and Wickham T Shaw to cut outlets, with Goshen New Windsor and Warwick also shrinking. Reverend GW Grinton urged prohibition, criticizing young women around the Armory and post office as wartime morale concerns.
The bride anxious to please her husband cooks a fine meal ham ends cut off because that’s how Mother did it. The mother in law repeats the same reason, then Grandmother admits the ham fits only if ends are left.
Washington clashes erupt over Arthur Goldberg proposed U S Soviet deal linking Vietnam and Middle East security The plan would trade freedom of the seas guarantees for North Vietnam and for Israel via the Gulf of Aqaba with UN pilots enforcing passage U S and Soviet forces to act under UN charter if blocked Rusk opposes expanding crises and advocates keeping options open Johnson leans to Rusk while Egypt's Nasser warns grain pressure will be used to secure U S concessions and grain shipments.
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