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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1963
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions. Rates include 50c per week in city areas, 12 dollars yearly by mail in the trading area, 20 dollars outside the trading area, and 35 dollars outside the U S. per year.
The piece frames the nuclear test ban as a partial step toward peace, noting President Kennedy’s view of it as a symbol of a changing era. It comments on Dirksen’s cautions, Britain’s stance, and predicts a possible new global trend. It then shifts to currency depreciation, showing Bolivia and Ceylon as examples, and ends with a seasonal reflection on summer’s end and a locust’s shrill hum.
In a late night Las Vegas interview at the Desert Inn the veteran comic Ben Blue, 62, discusses his wealth, pay, and peers. He recalls Eddie Fisher, Jackie Gleason, Jim Durante, and Sammy Lewis, plus wild show nights and a drunken rain-drenched three hour performance.
The article argues East Germany would sign the partial test ban after the three depositary nations. It claims East Germany would gain de facto recognition and could force signatories to recognize it. It warns this undermines Potsdam and could jeopardize West Berlin.
The piece playfully weighs where Dean Rusk Anrei A Gromyko and Lord Home might sign the nuclear test ban treaty. It riffs on historic sites from dining cars and rafts to oaks and bridges, noting impracticality and dangers of each option while recalling WWI and WWII signings.
Henry Ford’s birthday recalls Middletown’s first Ford dealer Dan Snider who started at West Middletown in 191? and sold 700 cars in one year a local record. He moved to the YMCA site then Main Street and Manchester Ave before leaving in 1940. the piece also notes a local boy seeking odd jobs and a sympathetic newspaper response with a Journal number to call.
Dorothy Kilgallen reports a heat wave in London mirroring New York’s 98 degree heat. She notes Kenneth Wagg’s forthcoming book on Margaret Sullavan, Leland Hayward’s objections, Mandy Rice-Davies intrigue, and a visit to Dr Stephen Ward’s former flat with remarks on his medical status and a legal debate over his professional base.
Facts touch many topics from penguin moults to noiseless rubber wheeled subways in Paris. Electric storms occur roughly once a decade at polar regions. Elephants reach infancy at 25 years. Philadelphia observes Flag Day first in the U. S. Fresh water pockets exist in some oceans via subterranean springs. Saffron yellow holds sacred status for East Indians.
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