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Newspaper
The Times Herald Record
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1972
Page
18
The text notes growing resistance to higher postage rates and inflation relief efforts. It cites hawks criticizing the Moscow summit as overly idealistic and mentions Pompidou warning France may derail the planned October European summit unless demands are met.
Jim Bishop recounts Blackwell's Island later called Welfare, detailing a prison on the south and almshouse on the north, the warden who allowed crime, and inmates like Jim McNally and Francis Xavier McNally. The tale covers poverty, corruption, and a funeral mixup with a thief.
Middletown High School’s Class of 1922, the largest to date with 62 graduates, held commencement in the new State Theater under retiring Superintendent James F. Tuthill. Laura Pearl Wallace won the Samson Scholarship. Elsie Bull and Ernest Heissenbuttel won multiple prizes. baccalaureate and class day events preceded the ceremony.
Art Buchwald reports on a fictional GOP raid on the Democratic National Committee. He portrays Republican officials denying knowledge of the operation while framing it as a protective counterstrike amid election tensions. The piece satirically argues perpetrators face demotion and a lifelong ban from buying for the party.
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