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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1958
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription rates including per copy five cents on weekdays and fifteen cents for Sundays. City carrier 45 cents weekly, mail in trading area ten dollars annually, outside trading area seventeen fifty, outside U S A thirty five. All subscriptions payable in advance.
The McClellan committee pursues Jimmy Hoffa as he announces a nationwide transportation union conference and a East and West coast dockers meeting for August 14. Hoffa envisions a loose federation of transport unions to coordinate new shipping techniques while AFL-CIO leaders resist affiliate links. Meany pressures Curran to back away, antitrust talk rises, and state labor regulation could surge if Hoffa’s plans advance.
A parable links a Kenya rancher guarding against lions with the polio fight led by the March of Dimes. The Salk vaccine offers protection, yet many still miss doses, risking new epidemics and forcing individuals to vaccinate themselves.
A collection of curious facts and wry observations from Hal Boyle notes varied trivia about animals people inventions and history. The items range from a robin’s worm diet to Chandragupta’s elephants real estate deal and Napoleon handwriting to parking laws in Gary Indiana.
Jim Bishop recalls Paddy, a petty schemer, who befriended an alcoholic Indian lookalike. Paddy plotted to insure both for 5000 dollars then kill him, while dragging the plan through thefts, drink and a fatal truck incident. Paddy died sick. the Indian buried him, weeping at the grave.
Paul Harvey recalls a rapid airstrike force mission from California to Beirut demonstrating in flight refueling and tactical air power. He argues Khrushchev was frightened by mobility and warns Lebanon’s presence hurt U.S. Middle East relations while projecting strategic resilience against Soviet pressure.
Washington correspondent Prof. Maar ten C. Bolle recalls Dutch exchange students and dating contrasts while musing on the vanished woodshed as a tool for discipline. He notes modern child psychology and questions desirability and practicality of recreating such a space, proposing a civilized alternative.
A quirky roundup notes skunks birth facts and a Chicagoan aiding by sowing pickle seeds across Indiana and Illinois. Grandpappy Jenkins praises the idea while a Connecticut woman spends 3000 on stamps to beat a four cent rate, and a Japanese whaler returns with 7 777 000 dollars in oil and whale meat.
The passage notes that while the move benefited Moscow, Khrushchev faced a direct challenge and withdrew. It casts the Soviet leader as opting not to escalate after a blunt head-on confrontation.
The piece captures a quiet summer day in the Miami Valley with residents in yards cutting grass trimming hedges and painting outside. People drive around enjoying cool breezes visit lakes attend games and dine at roadside eateries while farmers work to rescue crops from weeks of rain. The tone recalls Arcust Sundays and ends with a hope for no more rain.
Audrey Wood recalls her long career in theatre representing writers like Heyward and Gershwin. She details signing DuBose Heyward and George Gershwin for Porgy and Bess, Gershwin’s art and portrait, and Tennessee Williams early success with The Glass Menagerie including Mrs Williams and Laurette Taylor moments at Sardi’s.
In 1938 Middletown officials announced a $300,000 bond issue to fund 55 percent of a Bulls Run Manchester Avenue sewer project with a $245,454 PWA grant. state health board backs the plan as a step toward a future sewage disposal plant. A 1934 measure failed. Milk events at Armco Park crowned beauty winners and cow calls. local tennis matches saw Millan defeat Phillips and Kelius edge Finkelman.
Lake Michigan is the largest natural freshwater lake completely within the United States. Christmas Island, the Pacific atoll south of Hawaii, is the region’s largest coral ring. It was discovered on Christmas Eve 1777 by Captain James Cook.
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