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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1951
Page
3
Missionaries say the Communist regime in Peiping is ejecting Christians and seizing Catholic parishes while pressing believers to join the reform church. Foreign Catholic missions endure in China with about 3,000 kept, and Protestant workers reduced to about 100.
A reflective verse celebrates attachment to one’s homeland no matter where life takes you. The poem asserts that every place can feel like home through heritage roots friendships and shared understanding, ending with a universal note that someone will call any spot home.
The government orders a 60 day moratorium on rapid tax amortization for new and expanded defense plants due to shortages of critical building materials. Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson announced the halt, effective August 18, suspending permits for tax write offs over five years for defense contractors.
The Senate Appropriations Committee urged the Army Engineers to operate several river locks including Muskingum in Ohio for another year to aid potential shippers and commerce, reversing earlier plans to close due to low traffic amid wartime disruptions.
The text notes that depreciation reduces profits used to compute taxes. It explains depreciation is subtracted from earnings for tax purposes.
Two Middletown area soldiers joined Army engineers to construct a 1,100 foot ponton bridge over the Kansas River connecting Fort Riley and Marshall Air Field. Pvt. William H. Thorpe and Pvt. Junior Lee Tibbs from Camp McCoy led by example in the emergency project amid the 99 year flood history. The structure, though shorter than Remagen's WWII bridge, ranks as a major wartime style crossing built under flood conditions.
A W C T U study reports drunken driving arrests more than doubling and drunkenness up 21 percent in Kansas after repeal. The figures compare 1948 to 1950. The report also notes five new countries affiliated with the world W C T U, including British Guiana Paraguay Panama Nicaragua and Haiti.
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