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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1963
Page
4
The Middletown Journal in Ohio lists subscription prices for different delivery areas including in city and suburban carriers at 50 cents per week, $12 per year by mail in the trading area, $20 per year outside the trading area, and $35 per year outside the USA. All subs are payable in advance.
The article highlights rapid computer stock strength driven by emerging uses in law and finance. Magnetic tape legal libraries like New York state statutes enable fast case retrieval. Pay systems may shift to computer transfers, with balances and purchases recorded centrally. The piece notes investor optimism and dismisses external political blame for the Ngo regime change.
A Boise Basque community, part of a two million global population, forms a Basque language class for youths 15 and older. Basque language, unrelated to known tongues, fascinates outsiders and faces erosion as naturalized Americans lose the language. Twenty-one toasts were made at the marriage of two Soviet cosmonauts, signaling a joint space era toast.
The piece laments Rep Howard Smith as House Rules chair for barring hearings on the Civil Rights bill, highlighting a single member's power to stall floor debate despite growing national urgency. It notes Smith has begun hearings but criticizes the underlying system and cites Governor Wallace's Ivy League tour with 21 aides as context.
The piece reflects on Edwin Markham’s How the Great Guest Came about a cobbler Conrad who prepares his shop for Christ’s visit. Three strangers arrive: a beggar, a hungry woman, and a lost child, each aided by Conrad who thereby hosts the true guest. The author links the tale to Christian service and lifelong practice of unselfish love.
A family Christmas tree ritual goes awry as dad fights to find a decent tree in zero weather while kids, ornaments, and a stubborn dog clash. Tiny Tim breaks ornaments, plastic icicles drop, and the crooked scrawny tree finally stands with needles falling as the family echoes a strained holiday cheer.
A meditation on Christmas contrasts harsh street reality with hopeful childhood wonder. A distressed figure begs on a snowy corner while a father drives into the country to chop a neighbor’s trees for a festive display. Reminders of violence and disillusion mingle with the vow to keep Christ in Christmas.
Dorothy Kilgallen highlights public curiosity about Fidel Castro's grip on power with optimistic bets he will face trouble by the Ides of March. The column adds assorted pop culture anecdotes involving Frank Sinatra Jr kidnapping fears, Liz Taylor and Burton rumors, and legal skirmishes over identification laws.
A Tennessee reader reflects on Bronson Alcott and his progressive ideas in 19th century education. He notes Alcott's shift from reform to prominent roles as a vegetarian abolitionist and author Louisa May Alcott. The piece argues for balanced discipline and highlights Louisa May Alcott’s contributions while contrasting fruitless utopian experiments with practical schooling and duty.
A rooster named Harry won the Indiana State Fair crowing championship amid a string of quirky lines from a singer, a dietitian, and a grandparent figure, while comments on women and food mix humor with mock wisdom.
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