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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1953
Page
4
Announcement lists subscription prices for the Middletown Journal edition, including per copy, city carrier, and mail options with and without the Sunday News Journal, plus international rates and payment terms. The fragment ends with a biblical quotation from John.
A underfunded surge in 1953 enrollment tests the system as 30 million students flood back to class in crowded conditions. About six million study in firetraps while many attend makeshift spaces. 70,000 elementary teachers are needed and construction lags. By 1960 needs could reach 700,000 classrooms.
The piece cautions that despite a Korean truce easing wartime boosts, America will keep troops in Korea and Japan, while heavy rehabilitation and U S rearmament require ongoing imports. It urges Japan to expand markets and boost efficiency to balance trade amid Southeast Asian ripples.
The U S Bureau of Public Roads opposed toll roads as costly and duplicative and hindering free highways. The American Society of Planning Officials adds a warning noting toll roads have not faced a depression test and drivers will pay to avoid congestion if free highways do not improve.
State officials uncovered a bookie operation run by a patient in a Chicago mental hospital. The patient accepted bets from other patients with help from hospital staff and a physician. Psychiatrists might say such horse players resemble those outside, but more intense.
Hal Boyle profiles real people who earned money from hobbies. Albert Marsh bred hamsters to gross four thousand dollars weekly. Myrtle Helm created fast drying paint and grew sales above one hundred ten thousand dollars annually. Helen Simon turned wild huckleberry jelly into a growing business.
A 1953 letter from Senator Taft to Charles Kennath predicts a sound federal budget by July 1, 1954. Treasury Secretary Humphrey reports deficit falling from 9.9 to 3.8 billion dollars, with a path toward balance aided by tax cuts and reduced government spending.
A government statement notes $80 billion in past-year appropriations will be unspent by July 1, 1953 and a request for $73 billion in further funding. It argues the Eisenhower administration cannot freely set fiscal policy until July 1, 1954, and that progress will be slow amid inherited obligations and past criticisms.
The writer praises returning home to pastoral comforts after a two week trip through Connecticut Vermont Massachusetts New Hampshire and Maine. He notes fewer weeds and bugs at home and cites a doctor attributing heart trouble to the urge to impress others while on tour. The piece contrasts wealthy travelers with modest folk and ends with a light note on home and a reference to Home Sweet Home.
The piece weighs chances of a Korean peace conference succeeding, noting U S efforts in the United Nations to include Russia and India, the risk of China obstruction, and the high stakes of a possible prolonged occupation of Korea if talks fail. It cites Syngman Rhee’s hard line and the potential for renewed fighting if the conference collapses.
Twenty years ago on Thursday August 31 1933 Mr and Mrs Max Finkleman left by car for St Louis MO to visit relatives. Urban Kurry Ardmore Drive and daughter Mary Margaret returned from Milwaukee vacation. Miss Dorothy Thompson Lexington KY visited her relatives Mr and Mrs Homer Mitchell Aberdeen Drive. Child labor was history in hung.
Young Roland Hamilton, a freed prisoner of war, returns to Middletown to a dining chase for banana cream pie. At Manchester Hotel the VFW and local chefs rally to deliver the pie but hunger wins out as he prefers ice cream. the pie is saved for later.
Dorothy Kilgallen is away and Steve Allen offers insights on radio and TV studio audiences. He notes applause for hometowns as a universal urge and proposes a Rand McNally Show reading place names. He values child guests for honesty and a confident older woman as top interview subjects.
NRA officials estimate about 1,000,000 workers signed the re employment pledge with President Roosevelt aiming to bar under sixteen from employment. Some agreements permit 14 to 16 year olds to work outside school hours under certain codes.
The day favors material gains and prudent business moves with social and communal projects. Romance is aided and a highly influential person could boost prestige. expect aid and new honors. Guard finances in the last quarter of 1953 and avoid risky speculation. Curtailed spending through year end. buying and investing look better in early 1954. A child born today will be practical and inventive.
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