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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1953
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, including in city, outside city, and mail options with varying weekly and yearly prices. Also presents a biblical quote from I Corinthians 15:29 at the end.
Washington meets to elect a new GOP national chairman to replace C Wesley Roberts who resigned after a Kansas Legislature censure over a seminarium sale. The piece traces eight chairmen since 1940 and notes repeated short tenures across parties, blaming internal party unity issues.
Science writer William L. Laurence argues that advances could let humans live forever by regenerating from embryonic tissues. He cautions memory loss and aging would still occur, with immortality requiring preserved tissue jars and new governance for future lives.
Hal Boyle critiques high living costs by outlining the modern free loader. The piece satirically defines rules, contrasts dumb and smart loafers, and shows how social pretension hides opportunism, with humor about bar tabs and staged heroism.
Washington readers weigh how a Soviet push for a Korea cease fire could unsettle the Western alliance. Britain may push for China in the U N and a North Korean dominated settlement, risking further isolationism and possible large scale war in Europe and Asia.
Washington report reveals the GAO exposed that the armed forces diverted 22 million dollars in defense funds to create recreational facilities in Hawaii costing 2.5 million dollars annually to operate. The facilities include 80 tennis courts 23 athletic fields six golf courses and 24 theaters among others. Republican Rep. Norris Cotton criticized the program noting it diverts funds from weapons and contradicts constitutional control of the purse.
Dorothy Kilgallen surveys Broadway and film circles with Kilgallen’s lively notes. Katherine Cornell dominates her The Constant Wife tour, while figures like Gabrielle Wegge, Marciano, and Oscar Levant surface in digressions. The column hints at three dimensional film buzz, theater returns, and idle chatter aboard industry circles, ending with a tease for more on page five.
The column advises emotional restraint in opinions and problem solving today. It warns against taking unneeded outside advice on unfinished financial plans and notes birthday optimism for future security. It predicts constructive ideas, support from superiors, lively midsummer experiences, and possible inheritance or settled property matters.
The 1953 period is unusually harmonious though November should be watched for emotional tensions. Circumstances are temporary so expect relief. A child born today is likely enterprising and alert but may lean toward overoptimism.
The column recalls Bob Vanderveer, in an iron lung in Rochester Minnesota, and Pvt Glenn Morris, amputee at Fort Campbell Kentucky, awaiting mail from home. It also highlights Easter mood at Middletown Hospital Children's Ward with Girl Scout and Civic Club gifts, and includes reflective thoughts on Easter meaning and universal brotherhood.
A column reflects on honesty and the cost of truth in everyday life. It recounts a Yucca Flat test discussion and a reader’s anonymous critique, illustrating how truth hurts and why people resist it. The piece contrasts blunt speech with diplomatic rhetoric, ending with a sharp jab at a Soviet delegate.
Twenty years ago Berlin lawmakers backed a sweeping measure that sharpened Chancellor Adolf Hitler authority across the federation, granting him near omnipotent control as a death blow to the Reich’s original design. Also tonight, Miss Mariam Girard hosted a spring vacation gathering for Middletown High School's 1932 graduates at Hill Ave, with guests including Miss Inez Perry and others. Miss Elizabeth Verity of Pine Manor in Massachusetts visited her parents on South Main Street during spring break.
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