Middletown News Pricing and Publication Details
Subscription rates per copy by carrier city area 30¢ week with Sunday News Journal 40¢ week. Outside city area 25¢ week with Sunday News Journal 35¢ week. By mail in trading area five days with Sunday News Journal 9 year. By mail outside trading areas six days with Sunday News Journal 15 year. Outside U S A 85 year. All mail subscriptions payable in advance. Published every evening except Sunday. 1007 First Ave Middletown Ohio. Petered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office of Middletown Ohio. Under the Act of 1879, those who are meek shall inherit the earth. Matthew 5 8.
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Equal Time Law Draws Protest From Broadcasters
Washington editors face a critique of the equal time rule for political candidates as the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters urges Congress to repeal the law. The piece argues such licensing conditions risk government control over media and could undermine constitutional protections of press freedom.
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New Sites For Industry Spread Across Rural America
Hal Boyle notes manufacturing plants are expanding beyond traditional hubs into small towns and rural areas driven by transportation, utilities, and cheaper land. Census trends show gains outside New England, with Los Angeles the lone big-city exception. benefits include jobs and local wealth, while initial costs rise and services strain when new plants arrive.
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Book Guide For Frantic Late Shopper
New York offers a Christmas book gift guide suggesting a book can bind friends and confuse enemies. It lists playful title pairings for public figures and businesses, implying thoughtful selections can aid personal relations and reflect political or social tones. The piece notes communities benefit when welcoming new business and industry growth.
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Closser
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Brooklyn Dodgers
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Harold Stassen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Adlai
John Foster Dulles
FBI
Wille Sutton
Joe Louis
Christmas Eve Reflections On Meaning Of The Season
The writer reflects on Christmas as more than snow or commerce, stressing the heart’s warmth, generosity, and the presence of the Christ Child beyond churches. It honors gifts, kindness, and remembrance of God in daily life across home, work, and street, urging personal betterment through the holiday.
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Tomorrow’s Stars Highlight Personal Ties and Opportunities
Estrellita notes a focus on relationships with friends and loved ones tomorrow and urges modest social plans. It cautions travel and birthday timing, predicts six weeks of pivotal change, and expects strong romantic, domestic, and social prospects through June with potential financial gains from personal ties. A child born today may be ambitious with writing talent.
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Tax Policy Debate Highlights Small Business Impact
A corporate tax reform proposal favors steeply rising rates to 75 percent, with small firms bearing the bottom rates. An oil company president warns confiscatory taxes would hamper reinvestment in facilities and hurt some 26 thousand suppliers, 75 percent of which employ under 500 people. He argues fairness to all sizes is the sound policy.
Long-Lived People and Peculiar Ponderings in Old Column
The piece cites Netherlands men as living longest with 71 year life expectancy, praises Dutch calm and biking for heart health, and notes U S life expectancy at 67. It includes Q&A on rich men, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, spiritual sex appeal, Miss New Orleans 1991, and whisky inputs. It closes with trivia on Neapolitan ice cream and redheaded fashion.
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Texas
Peggy Hopkins
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Farmville
S. Stanley Jorgce
Time Twas the Night Before Christmas Open Packages
James Marlow reads aloud a whimsical poem about gifts opened late at Christmas and the humorous idea of opening packages too late. The narrative imagines Ike and Stevenson in a White House setting with a playful moral about delayed presents. The verse ends with a reflection on late openings and the year ahead.
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Christmas Party Hosts by Sons of the American Legion
Twenty years ago on Thursday December 24, 1936, the Sons of the American Legion hosted a Christmas party for older boys and girls with entertainment by Fred Gorman the Rev Carroll Lewis and William Gade. Prizes went to Ronald Gill J L Elliott and J F P. An amateur contest sponsored by the Armco Assn. was won by Helen Cox with Henry Moore second and Jean Manning third. Pren ton Dodds was master of ceremonies assisted by Ruth Emerick Abe Gordon and Schenck Simpson.
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Fred Gorman
Carroll Lewis
William Gade
Ronald Gill
J. L. Elliott
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Armco Assn
General Office
Helen Cox
Henry Moore
Jean Manning
Prenton Dodds
Ruth Emerick
Abe Gordon
Schenck Simpson
Four new planets found by an Halian astronomer report
An Halian astronomer claims four additional planets orbiting distant stars. One planet supposedly requires 2,865 years for a single revolution, implying a summer lasting centuries and a winter after.
Broadway Bulletin notes and Hollywood rumor round up
Dorothy Kilgallen reports Rita Hayworth escorted by George Jessel in New York while Prime Minister Eden may retire for health, Queen Elizabeth to reward service. Tales of actors, premieres, marriages, divorces, and awards fill a busy Gotham entertainment page with names like Hayworth, Franciosa, Lollobrigida, Steiger, Ferrer, Kennedy, Fonda, Hutton, and Pidgeon amid a year end showbiz panorama.
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Rita Hayworth
Gotham
Georgie Jessel
Anthony Eden
Queen Elizabeth
Shelby Winters
Tony Franciosa
Hollywood
Het
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Dick Long
Kolony
Susan Ball
Smarty
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Robert
Diana Dors
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Jose Ferrer
Arthur Kennedy
Red Patrick
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Oregon
Michael Rennies
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Milano
Walter Chiari
Bettina
Donald Saddler
Ava Gardner
Greate Gracy
Tole
Geverally
Henry Fonda
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Inflating Aircraft Tires With Helium Claim
A claim states using helium instead of air in large aircraft tires saves 180 pounds per plane. The peach has long been cultivated in China with writings about it dating two millennia before Roman contact.
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