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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1958
Page
25
Paul Ski Ri Hatfield, 23, climbs a 65 foot pole and balances on a 6 by 4 foot platform to chase the world pole sitting record of 169 days. He endures a rocky start, plans reading, TV viewing, and diary writing, and expects mail deliveries as his mother watches.
Ten Franklin youths completed recruit training at the Naval Training Center Great Lakes and are home on leave before assignment. The group includes Bramwell R. Lanier Lloyd R Hamilton Robert and Harold Brown Robert C Sibert Richard Hoskins Leroy E Johnson James R Allen George Allen and Robert L Hill Jr. Apprentice Seaman Seburn W Post, age 19, topped his electrician class in San Diego and will attend two weeks of projector school before joining the aircraft carrier USS Ranger in San Francisco as his home base.
New York’s Ziegfeld Club supports 200 former Follies girls with medical aid housing and job training while recalling stars like Irene Dunne Barbara Stanwyck Mae Murray and Billie Dove. The era’s glamour and stairway stage magic shaped a generation of beauties and dreams despite tragedy and decline.
Thirty Ohio Methodists led by Rev. Theodore Mayer of Warren begin a weekend tour of Soviet religious institutions in Moscow. The group travels to Stalingrad, Kiev, and other cities, conducted under the Methodist Board of World Peace auspices.
Washington experts say the recession may be ending this winter or spring with a stronger than expected upturn. They caution full employment is unlikely soon, foreseeing slower growth as the labor force expands and productivity rises.
University of Minnesota physicist Dr. Wallace D. Armstrong reports no ill effects from drinking five microcuries of radioactive fluoride June 20. The experiment traced fluoride absorption and bone uptake, noting radiation vanished within 24 hours and that results apply only to fluoride, not general irradiation. Bristol County, Rhode Island, is noted as the smallest U.S. county by area.
The piece traces European reception of American jazz from Brussels World Fair to dinner encounters in Moscow. It cites critics in Belgium, Perle Mesta’s Russia trip, and early European musicians who adopted trumpets saxophones and clarinets after hearing Fats Waller Ellington and Satchmo Armstrong arrive in the late 1920s and 1930s.
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