Middletown Journal subscription rates and contact details
Subscriptions and pricing for the Middletown Journal and Sunday News Journal list per copy 5 cents carrier 25 cents week. Evening Middletown Journal and Sunday News Journal 35 cents week. Mail rates for trading area five days a year 10. Outside area six days 7 year with combined editions at $10. Outside U. S. A. $25 year. All mail subscriptions payable in advance. Biblical quote included.
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Year of Opportunity in Reorganization Battle
The Senate Executive Expenditures Committee rejected Plan No. 12 abolishing the General Counsel of the NLRB as Congress fights the Hoover reform proposals. Citizens Committee warns of political motives behind reforms and withdraws support from about half the plans while predicting more committee and floor clashes before May 25.
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Senate Executive Expenditures
Congress
Citizens Committee
Hoover
National Labor Relations Board
Senate
Hoover Commission
NLRB
Postman Rings Once as Washington Faces Shifting Mail Policy
The Postmaster General orders a roundup of mail deliveries to a single daily run, despite rising rates and a costly operation now short of receipts. Critics call the move bureaucratic incompetence and warn of diminished service while warning of broader government waste and censorship abroad. The piece links postal cuts to broader fears about economic policy, library closures, and Soviet influence in Prague.
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Donaldson
Washington
Congress
Europe
Post Office
Psychology of first degree stimuli in selling tactics
Dr. George W. Crane discusses how department store firms use direct, tactile sales appeals to customers. He explains first second and third degree stimuli with examples like apple pie, silk, and desserts to show why hands on experience boosts sales and consumer desire. The piece cites Linda V and a Toledo lecture context.
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Linda V
Toledo
Washington Happenings Warn of U S Resistance in Berlin Riot
David Lawrence reports that the United States warns Moscow that if a communist youth demonstration in West Berlin turns violent, American forces may use tear gas and, if needed, machine gun fire. The piece links this to Roosevelt era caution and argues for firm, united American resolve akin to World War I and World War II mobilization.
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Washington
United States
Russia
West Berlin
Hitler
Great Britain
France
Rhineland
Moscow
Baltic Sea
Congress
Berlin
Department For State
Senate
McCarthy
Klieglights
National Capital
Louis Budenz
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Dean Acheson
Wisconsin
Department of State
Barbs on paint and a lassie blush unseen
The quip notes that too much paint causes concealed blushes and that a failure is often someone who believed life’s worst moments were its best. It comments on vanity and misplaced optimism with a cynical, wry tone.
Brande recalls televised encounter with a woman author
A radio/TV reminiscence laments mispronounced names and a flirtation with a mysterious Evelyn Barkins. The piece praises Dr. Martin G Vorhaus's A Guide to General Medical Practice for its plain wisdom on education and parent child clashes, quoting his view on generational tensions and the need for balanced guidance.
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Macmillan People
Martin G. Vorhaus
New York
Vorhaus
Expertism and retrogressive education debate
The speaker attacks progressive schooling urging a return to fundamentals and parent child bonds. She criticizes overreliance on science and formulas, noting a rise of expertism where everyone seeks expert status in all fields. The remark underscores a call for common sense over specialized jargon.
Lioness Who Won't Eat Meat Captivates Auburn Ranch
Hal Boyle reports on Hidden Valley Ranch near Auburn where a 350 pound lioness named Little Tyke refuses meat and survives on cereals milk eggs and cod liver oil. Owners Georges and Margaret Westbeau showcase a peaceful habitat where the lioness and gentle creatures coexist, challenging fears of predators in a small oasis of harmony.
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Auburn
Wash
Georges and
Margaret Westbeau
Hidden Valley Ranch
Westbeau
Tyke
Seattle-Tacoma
Fidden Valley Ranch
Georges
Mrs. Westbeau
Dr Vorhaus and My Lady Discuss Expertism and Education
A lyrical invitation imagines Dr Vorhaus and a TV figure debating expertism and retrogressive education. The speaker suggests they should meet, write a book together, and urges all parents to read it.
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DR. Vorhaus
My Lady of the
Reading with speed not expression shapes minds
In a reflective piece, Harry Boyd argues that schools wasted effort on teaching reading with expression and slow, phonetic decoding. He asserts rapid reading is essential to grasp a flood of knowledge and keep up in a knowledge-driven world, urging earlier, better instruction.
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Peter Rabbit
Amy Lowell
Frustration Woven Through Endless Reading Pent Up
A narrator laments endless unread books and chronic frustration. Immersed in two dozen volumes, they doubt finishing any of them and wonder if reading three times could help. The tone is reflective and anxious about literary overload and unfinished goals.
Stars Say For Wednesday April 26 Daily Horoscope
Genevieve Kemble predicts a concentrated effort on April 26 with a focus on strong objectives and organized energy. An aggressive, detail driven attack on lagging circumstances aims to overcome obstacles and broken promises. Birthday individuals should apply bold, practical plans to break through.
Lions and farm animals share a peaceful pasture scene
A lioness roams a ranch pasture near prize chickens and peacocks then nuzzles a horse. In a guest house she frolics with a coon a terrier puppy a cat and a lamb. Westbeau says fearless living dissolves savagery and hunger. a wrestling match with Little Tyke follows as the narrator ends with a close encounter.
Promising Guidance Foresees Growth Amid Obstacles
The text argues that stubborn opposition or unfulfilled support can cause defeat, but with cautious management, security minded plans, and long term goals, worthwhile progress is possible. It notes a child born today gains energy, initiative, courage, patience, industry, and vision to overcome obstacles and enmity.
Local theater notes and Easter party keepsake tale
A local man attends a White Russian Easter party at a noted artist's home and preserves a decorated egg bearing a famed signature. He safeguards the keepsake during travel, returns to Middletown, then sadly breaks it. The Little Theatre's clocking of plays shows laughs per performance for My Sister Eileen and Room Service, with crowds counting hundreds of chuckles across nights.
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Singer
Caruso
Middletown
Eileen
Budenz testimony and Amerasia case kept alive
The Amerasia case is being reopened with Senator Tydings and counsel under scrutiny. Budenz's testimony confirms a Communist cell at the Institute of Pacific Relations and suggests investigations will widen to related groups. Thorpe’s statements question relevance, while Budenz’s credibility remains affirmed through government cases and personal risk.
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Tydings
Edward P. Morgan
FBI
Robert Morris
Cunsel
Rapp-Coudert
New York
Louis Budenz
Daily Worker
Communist Party
Senator McCarthy
Alfred Kohlberg
Budenz
Ben Sitlow
Joseph Zack
Hede Massing
J. B. Matthews
Whittaker Chambers
Hidden Valley Ranch creates a brief warless world
In Hidden Valley Ranch a lioness and a man share a tense bond as neighbors fear the return of savagery. Westbeau defends the experiment while Tyke and Georges contemplate consequences of their 200 acre refuge amid war and hunger, a temporary peace for a troubled era.
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Georges
Westbeau
Hidden Valley Ranch
Incorporation of Blumberg and Cohen Inc. in Columbus
Twenty years ago the junk dealers Blumberg and Cohen filed the corporation papers with the secretary of state in Columbus. Incorporators were Ben Blumberg, Louis Cohen and Fred B. Cramer, all of Middletown. Mrs George Shephard hosted a Zion Lutheran Church Women’s Missionary Society meeting at Highland Street with papers read by several members and remarks from Mrs Emerson Murphy, Mrs C B A Stacy, Mrs Malcolm Reed, Mrs Ova McKee, Mrs Shephard, R Weis hart and Mrs Ted Karshner. The Reed Klopp women’s bowling team, set to represent the local furniture company in Louisville, Kentucky, consisted of Mrs C W Bates, Mrs Mary Williamson, Miss Alice Stoecklein, Mrs C Nordman and Mrs C Burling.
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Blumberg and
George Shephard
Highland St
Woman’s Missionary Society
Zion Lutheran Church
Emerson Murphy
C. B
A. Stacy
Malcolm Reed
Ova McKee
Shephard
Robert Weishart
Ted Karshner
Reed Klopp
Furniture Company
Louisville
C. W. Bates
Mary Williameson
Alice Stoecklein
C. Nordman
C. Bureling
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Erich Brande
Evelyn Barkins
Hal Boyle
Harry Boyd
America
Genevieve Kemble
Dave Regan
George E. Sokolsky
Fordham University
Arthur Garfield Hays
Hays
Marvin McIntyre
Adolf A. Berle, Jr
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