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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1962
Page
4
The Middletown Journal based at First Ave Middletown Ohio lists daily and Sunday subscription prices. In city and suburban areas carriers charge 50 cents per week, with six day mail at 10 dollars annually and outside trading areas at 20 dollars yearly. Foreign mail runs 35 dollars per year, all payable in advance.
A Roosevelt remark on shelterbelt wind erosion is linked to modern crises such as London fogs and US snowstorms. The piece argues priorities matter as nations spend on war machines, delaying environmental improvements. A 75 year old retired machinist in Cleveland was arrested for failing to file a tax return, praised for economy.
Jack Mehler, a once-successful lawyer and congress hopeful, battles inoperable throat cancer after wartime service and financial hardship. He now lives with Evelyn Reinhardt and their five children in Teaneck New Jersey, facing a quiet holiday as a delivery boy arrives and a fragile resolve strengthens.
Washington veteran narrator describes a satirical interview with satellite reporters and aides. The piece centers on protocols, previews by George McBundy, and lighthearted jabs at media access. Names include Machinist's Mate Michelangelo Rembrandt O'Donnell and Pierrot Sallenders. Skybolt is invoked as a summative punchline.
A tasteless 1984 style memo targets the Kennedys with racist innuendo and a mocked dynastic plot. It depicts Caroline Kennedy marrying Martin Luther King Jr. in a mocked ceremony and Ted Kennedy resisting a Russian occupation of Florida. The piece condemns the satire as harmful to the GOP.
Wyoming remembers long serving senator Joseph C. Mahoney who died after a 22 year tenure beginning in 1933. He supported the New Deal and actively opposed the Dixon Yates contract and Eisenhower's nominee Lewis Strauss for commerce secretary.
The United States must choose between continuing the Skybolt defense missile or funding broader nuclear deterrence. Congress debates civilian versus military control, with analysts warning anti missile defenses rise in the Soviet Union and urging sustained armament in a costly global deterrent.
The piece notes executives fear disapproval from their boss over drinking and that expense audits curb liquor use. It cites Chicago businessmen cutting from about two and a half drinks per lunch to one and a half, while Los Angeles and San Francisco ad men average three drinks per lunch. The trend is labeled working lunches where martinis work harder.
The column fondly recalls post Christmas rituals and family moments while urging readers to set New Year resolutions. It promotes Doty House fundraising, notes slow donations, and requests help in locating a missing four month old collie gifted to a Middletown woman, offering to keep the matter private if found.
Dorothy Kilgallen notes Broadway woes with entertainment restrictions for 1963. Ban on heavy hosting to out of town buyers hits theatres, restaurants, hotels, florists, and car rentals, shifting social costs onto manufacturers and vendors. Other items include Dinah Shore selling her Hollywood home, Joe Levine’s film selected for Melbourne festival, a prominent financier facing a private club debt, and Woody Allen rising in New York venues.
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