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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1963
Page
4
Middletown Journal rates for daily, Sunday and mail subscriptions are listed. Per copy costs five and ten cents during weekdays and Sundays, with weekly and annual mail options for local trading area and outside regions, payable in advance. Includes publishing note and a biblical motto.
The article notes selective steel price increases by U S Steel and others may not trigger government action. It warns of a consumer price spiral as costs pass to autos and appliances and signals potential wage demands from the Steelworkers Union after April 30, with the possibility of a strike. Werner von Braun mentions a Mars craft, echoing Tom Swift.
Obituary notes Brinsley Macnamara one of Ireland’s leading cultural figures who died in Dublin at age 73. author of Valley of the Squinting Windows published in 1918, a realist tale set in the Irish Midlands highlighting the harm of gossip and social mores.
Fulton Lewis Jr. reports GOP leaders forecast gains in the 1964 Senate elections. With 25 Democrats up and only nine Republicans, Republicans expect at least six seats, basing optimism on 1958 losses and prior upsets. Potential nominees span Ohio Indiana North Dakota California Utah Minnesota and more, as the party eyeing seats held by Engle Moss Hartke and McGee faces internal splits and strategic challenges.
Heidelberg, a medieval city by the Neckar, hosts Germanys oldest university founded in 1386. The city became a center for artists in the 19th century and camel backbones are straight like horses while humps store fat. Over half of chronically ill Americans are under 45.
Washington editor analyzes Kennedy era price policy in steel. He notes vague laws, potential anti trust concerns, and how selective price increases under Kennedy influence could boost business confidence and overall economic mood. The piece foresees gradual price changes and a possible year of progress for steel.
A Washington columnist imagines a napkin taken from the Capitol dining room as a chart of missile systems drawn by senators. The inked diagram satirizes the endless anti missile exchanges and the pursuit of a workable solution, ending with the napkin’s impracticality and the joke of laundering a scale model.
On this day April 23 1963 highlights recall historic events including the 1896 public screening of motion pictures in New York. Other notes mention Washington moving into the presidential mansion in 1789 and Queen Victoria founding the Royal Red Cross in 1883.
Readers retell a Sunday garden misadventure with dandelions and a warning that the weeds will return. Ted Vradelis and Harry Mercer share a root-destroying solution. The Armco Founder's Day luncheon drew a record crowd and honored late George M. Verity for his humane approach to industry.
Louis Sobols New York report says Liz Taylor remains distressed as Petra the German child, renamed Maria, may stay with the actor if the Heisigs who signed over custody relent amid neighbor taunts. The case unfolds with court and family tensions surrounding the adoption and identity.
A vivid report notes Britain’s rugby victory over France by an unprecedented 42 to 4 margin. The piece also mentions varied observances and a Moscow report on Russia building about 500 new movie houses annually, with a quirky aside about popcorn concessions.
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