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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1965
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices and delivery options for 7 day mail and carrier service in city and suburban areas. It notes rates of 12 dollars yearly by mail within trading area and 20 dollars outside, with international 35 dollars per year, and advance payment required.
The tobacco industry faces scrutiny as doctors and statisticians testified before the Senate Commerce Committee about the 1964 Surgeon General report on smoking and health. The discussion weighs mandatory warning labels for cigarettes against fairness and precedent for government advertising controls.
A column urges persistence in hardship with stories of a Berlin wall private tale and a discouraged businessman who finds resolve in a trucker’s advice. It highlights space age anxieties, and cites Christopher Columbus’s endless voyage as a parable for never giving up.
The Middletown column covers proposed skateboarding events at Jacot Park backed by White and Slagle, the city commission backing a skate tournament, and a judge who faced a minor stop sign incident with a police car nearby. It also notes a house fire on Middletown-Hamilton Road with community volunteers helping.
Paul Harvey praises Augusta as golf paradise awaiting notables after Cypress Point Greenbrier and Broadmoor tests. He recalls Bobby Jones shaping a private nursery into a county Eden on Washington Road, forging a Masters venue where legends walk the fairways each spring.
A former disbursing officer, Gardner Foster, retired at 67, found work through a state employment office. He shifted from planting to selling evergreens and trees, leasing a lot and building a nursery business with a $12 daily starter job. The piece notes similar opportunities for other retirees and advises contacting commercial employment agencies or state offices.
In New York gossip, Jimmy Durante receives the University of Notre Dame Club's Decency in Entertainment plaque though not Oscar nominated. Agnes Moorehead again misses best supporting actress, while Brigitte Bardot and Jeane Moreau star in Viva Maria with George Hamilton.
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