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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1963
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, with rates for city carriers, suburban areas, and mail delivery in trading and outside areas. It notes payment in advance and provides domestic and international yearly totals.
The end of Katangese secession eases United Nations finances as military withdrawals reduce the burden, shifting aid responsibility to individual nations led by the United States. Congo’s needs remain. its government benefits from Katanga resources but requires continued generous help to stabilize and build institutions. Europe resents France blocking Britain from the Common Market. De Gaulle’s plans are seen as self interested.
A federal move cuts long distance rates after April 1, offering three minutes for a dollar continent wide with 25 cents for each additional minute. Station to station calls drop, while person to person rates within 800 miles rise. The lighter cost should boost overall talk, perhaps even prompting a JFK Soviet direct line.
A 51 year old grandmother led six boys aged 12 to 16 over the Berlin Wall, with one boy her grandson, showing grandmothers can act like younger generations. The group crossed under guards and all survived, challenging outdated views of grandmothers as mainly idle and knitting.
In San Diego a Marine recounts reunion with a young guide aboard a warships graveyard. The guide, who is an orphan, reveals he became Jerry Kerb to honor a fallen friend. He sought belonging through Marine service and a second, tragic loss after returning home.
Three major U.S. steel firms report 1962 sales rise but profits drop, mirroring a trend blamed on administration wage and price controls. U.S. Steel, Bethlehem, and Jones & Laughlin show reduced profits and continued dividend cuts as wage costs rise and demand slows. The piece argues high wage demands and costly labor policy hinder steady profit growth and urges policy changes before more wage pressure hits the industry.
Washington dispatch recounts a humorous misadventure as Hawaiians cope with expected royal arrival by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. A joke about aloha, winds, and conclusive Hawaiian resilience follows, ending with a quip about a Maine newspaper headline amid imagined catastrophe.
A collage of archival tidbits notes fleas trained in 1821, birds with keen hearing, Versailles housing 1800 to 2000 rooms, movies common nine times yearly, spoons as early utensils, honey beers and gra known as 1000, firefly species around two thousand globally, and the Holy Roman Empire existing 962 to 1806.
A lively opinion piece defends February, praising its warmth after a harsh winter and Leap Year benefits. The author jokes about birthdays, February ambitions, and the month’s quick passage toward spring, arguing against canceling February. It notes Washington and Lincoln born in February and hints at social mores during Leap Year.
The speaker reflects on August 1945 and February 1963 praising the bomb as a blessing and a deterrent. He argues the weapon shields a smaller, god fearing fraction of humanity from larger enemies and warns that a McNamara Khrushchev deal risks universal death. He contends the arsenal keeps leaders of nations in check.
The forecast promises a good day with benign planetary influences for business and finances and a six month gains outlook. A birthday note predicts a satisfying year with May June support, then November news and December expansion. romance favored now, May, June. The column shifts to Secretary McNamara’s congressional remarks outlining a flexible plan to strike military targets if needed, plus potential US troop involvement in South Vietnam, prompting critique of war policy and executive resolve.
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