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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1957
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices for daily, Sunday, and seven day mail options. Rates include 10 year trading area, 17.50 year outside trading area, and 35 year outside USA with advance payment required.
A look at big money on early quiz shows from radio to television notes Johnny Eddy and others, detailing multi thousand dollar wins and the evolving practice of prize taxes and trusts. It covers Mrs Richardson Leonard Ross Charles Van Doren Teddy Nadler and young Robert Strom among others with dates and amounts.
Roger Fleming of the American Farm Bureau Federation warns that programs intended to shield small family farms pose the greatest danger besides atheistic communism. He argues that equal shares politics centralize power, threaten liberty, and threaten free market cash income for livestock producers.
The author argues the Easter resurrection is the greatest news story, surpassing Salk vaccine breakthroughs. He reflects on faith, eternal life, and how belief empowers life beyond death, citing Einstein Jeans and William James while urging readers to embrace the Cross as a life transforming symbol.
A compilation of quirky observations spans shoplifting claims at La Printemps in Paris to wage protests by milk truck drivers, pen changes in schools, a British hitchhiker in a drainpipe, and a Ceylon premier’s pigeons birthday greeting.
A humorous column describes a feud with rabbits invading lawns and gardens, using rocks as deterrents. The narrator notes ongoing skirmishes, near misses, and low casualties, ending with a lighthearted vow to continue the siege until flowers are safe again. Also recaps a caller who mislaid a billfold leading police to the owner through photos, and a TV moment where a girl screamed during a toenail trimming mishap.
The U S Army disbanded its pigeon corps at Fort Monmouth N J causing veteran carrier pigeons to return to civilian life. With telephones widespread demand vanished and many pigeons faced unemployment. Senator Clifford P Case was urged to seek pension funding but warned Congress aims to cut spending.
Paul Harvey argues that the medical field is rediscovering the will to live as a healing force. Dr George Baines cites cases where faith and confidence aided recovery from paralysis brain injury and chronic disability. He asserts that convinced doctors and their belief can influence outcomes sometimes turning skeptics into healers.
Dorothy Kilgallen notes Linda Christian swains and a Swiss florist chasing unpaid bills from the Marquis of Portago while Anita Ekberg shocks Paris press with double entendre quotes. Paul Du Pont exits Marta Eggerth’s dressing room amid claims of assault. Harlem’s Gold Room opening eyed as gay nightlife revival. Lavern Baker plans portable bar act. Agent Carlton Cole closes four deals and signs Errol Flynn. Rosalind Paige lands Warner Brothers contract. Roosevelt Sanders aids Rockefeller entourage with lavish lunch for airport run. Teamsters urge Dave Beck to resign amid scandal. Bar owners report slow business near Coliseum. TV debutant Tab Hunter and Barbara Ann Scott in a Fall special. Lurlean Hunter debuts at Village Vanguard. Helen Rose’s wardrobe solution for Jean Simmons in This Could Be The Night.
A college advocates removing baby pigs from their mother in chilly weather and placing them under heat lamps. Critics worry the approach is unacademic and cite a scholarly pigsculture treatise headlined by a humorous poem about heat lamps. The poem, humorously calling it hog gerel, underscores the controversy.
The 11 year old Princess Elizabeth received a poodle from Uncle David the Duke of Windsor to mark her birthday. She spent the day with Margaret Rose playing a game of Coronation. Middletown artists were invited to display during Art Week co chaired by Mrs. R. C. Beam and Miss Lois Ware. Thomas A. Sullivan, longtime livery stable operator, died after months of illness. Three Middletown safety promoters attended the 8th All Ohio Safety Congress in Columbus. Four Middletown girls aged 14 were sent to Hamilton Training School for Girls after a school hockey and intoxication incident at a speakeasy.
Factographs note zoologists count over 900000 animal species and tropical trees reach their largest size in South America. Providence Rhode Island dates to 1636 via Roger Williams. the first chewing gum patent came in 1869 to William Semple. about 30000 Americans die yearly at home. Vermont lacks a seacoast. last horse drawn streetcar left New York in 1917. Mona Lisa measures 2 ft 6 in by 1 ft 9 in. first schogher built in 1713 by Andrew Robinson. a codicil adds to a will.
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