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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1961
Page
6
The Middletown Journal from Middletown, Ohio lists subscription rates for daily, Sunday, and mail delivery, with annual prices. It notes publication by News-Journal Inc and includes a Bible verse from Isaiah 9:2. The piece identifies the newspaper’s address and print status as a second class mail matter in Middletown.
The Virginia Supreme Court ordered the state to run public schools, voiding a law that let private groups own school buildings. With integration barred, Prince Edward county faced no schools or mixed outcomes, while most African American children gained no education. The piece links education with national tensions and politics.
In Tucson Yaqui Indians in a slum wickiups area collect for flood victims in Sonora though they have little to spare themselves. Their Easter ceremony draws many visitors and highlights their quiet generosity. A judge rules an outsider cannot stop a man from beating his wife, a decision seen as incongruent with fitness campaigns.
The tax related selling dominates February trading as investors aim to realize gains or losses. Despite heavy blocks moving, the Dow Jones averages stay near all time highs with upward potential by year end. Institutional holders lead the activity ahead of year end asset statements.
Jim Bishop argues the United States holds a strategic edge in a silent war with the Soviet Union. He details dispersed SAC bombers, long range missiles, submarines, and bases from Europe to Alaska, claiming the odds favor the U.S. in a high stakes missile contest.
The piece questions the U N led Congo operation as a potential superstate overreach, arguing the mission under Feb 21 Security Council action lacks broad Congolese support and risks violating international law and Latin American precedent. It warns that backing force to restore order may erode national sovereignty and set troubling precedents for future interventions.
In a St Francis Hotel encounter in San Francisco a friend failed to gain quick access to former Vice President Richard M Nixon as his advance man Robert Holdiman narrates the scene. The talk yields one line about Nixon’s income but offers little news.
Officers of American Legion Post 218 set a monthly meeting to discuss Middletown civil defense. Attending will be Detective Ray Frane aiding training plans for an auxiliary police force, and Ralph Pearson head of the Local Defense Council. Sam Henderson was elected president of the Middletown Local of the Teamsters Union, succeeding Louis Gabel. Others elected include Frank Murray vice president James Greenfield secretary treasurer and Ray Collingsworth recording secretary.
Dave Regan urges readers to finish exterior decorations now as the city rushes toward Christmas. He notes simple displays can be attractive and cites a door with spruce and a red bow as an example. The column promotes entering the annual contest and emphasizes the season’s brief display period.
Dorothy Kilgallen features on gossip and entertainment moves including David Garroway’s TV return talk, Arthur Godfrey firing more personalities, Wynne Lasser planning a new club, Cary Grant linked to Watcher in the Shadows, Martha Raye musical secrecy, Joey Dee’s late taping, the Enterprise carrier’s launch, Desilu deal chatter, Phyllis McGuire dating, Archibald Capote screenplay feud, Huldah Clark teaching The Twist in Russia, Faye Emerson’s NY visit and travel schedule, and a 1962 engagement of Morton Downey Jr and Sheri Ann Hirst with Miss America ties.
The passage jokes about Kyzyl as the capital of Tanna Tuva a nonexistent Soviet member state and notes a Mansfield style misdirection in crosswords. It sneers at typhoon named Wilda and mocks a bullfighting spectacle in France honoring Pablo Picasso.
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