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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1963
Page
4
Middletown Journal announces subscription prices for daily, Sunday, and mail delivery. Rates include 6c per copy on weekdays, 15c Sunday, 50 cents weekly in-city, and yearly mail options from $12 to $35 outside the trading area and overseas. Founded 1857.
The piece argues that lack of training and job skills hinders African Americans’ progress toward equality. Donald Warden urges emphasis on skill development and improved training opportunities, noting a need for both opening job access and boosting workers' abilities. It also compares 1964 political climate to 1860 slavery debates, warning that reform critics threaten social programs and national unity.
The Alabama judge Walter B. Jones received one electoral vote in 1956, highlighting electoral college flaws. Jones was known for segregationist rulings including banning the NAACP in Alabama and restraining Freedom Riders demonstrations, with several orders later overruled by higher courts.
Senator Frank Lausche drilled Secretary of State Dean Rusk on Cuba missile inspections and Soviet violations from 1939 to 1946. Lausche cited Kellogg Briand, Manchuria, Finland, Estonia Latvia Lithuania, Korea, Iran and other agreements, asserting repeated Soviet breaches.
On this date in history many events are noted including Krakatoa eruption in 1883 with vast loss of life and global tsunamis, Paris hydrogen balloon ascent in 1792, penicillin discovery in 1942, and the 1945 start of U.S. occupation of Japan. Also mentioned are Pershing treaty in 1915, 120000 East Germans at West Berlin in 1961, Nobel laureate E. O. Lawrence death in 1955, and Mariner II Venus mission in 1962.
A discussion with Roy Wilkins clarifies how integration and segregation are used in civil rights debates. The piece probes whether support for intermarriage and school desegregation implies broader enforcement of equal rights or labels opponents as segregationists.
Washington interview traces Mort Caplin's praise in Chicago for tax rules on entertainment deductions. Caplin cites industry outreach by the National Restaurant Association and a new booklet. he plans a Chicago news conference to showcase restaurateurs backing the reforms.
A survey notes Arnhem Land Arnhem Jangwa as complex language. Irish people visit cinemas most, averaging 18 times yearly. Liechtenstein covers 61 square miles with about 15 thousand residents. Sumerians understood arch construction by 3600 BC. Cuneiform is among the oldest written texts. The longest man is a 230 foot hill carving in Wilmington, Sussex. Sponges lack mouth stomach and nerves and are among simple animal forms.
Dave Regan highlights a new Civic Association building at Broad Street and Manchester Avenue as a long lasting tribute to Middle town’s generosity thriftiness and civic spirit. The project is funded from existing savings and reflects decades of community care from birth clinics to Golden Age clubs.
Dorothy Kilgallen reports Fellini courting Elizabeth Taylor and potential crossovers with Burton. Harriman may be Democratic VP material in 1964 amid UN talks and Viet Nam concerns. Gov. Brown faces France Soir mockery over Cary Chessman and a Riviera guillotine idea.
A reader muses on the difficulty of aging birds by appearance, using bald eagles as an example. The note shifts to a broader claim about rivers adding about 180 million tons of salt to oceans annually, suggesting long familiarity with such claims.
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