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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1963
Page
4
The Middletown Journal publishes daily news with rates for week day and Sunday copies. In city and suburban delivery, carrier price is 50 cents weekly, with mail options 12 dollars yearly in trading area and 20 dollars outside. USA rate 35 dollars yearly. Subscriptions payable in advance.
The piece notes Congress has not granted home rule to the District of Columbia despite Senate bills passing five times since 1949. The House District Committee blocks action, with vacancies limiting focus on D C problems. It contrasts Congo progress to underscore irony.
California leads in limiting exhaust and now pushes quieter factory operations. A new order from industry reps and state officials allows shutdown of any plant exposing workers to over 95 decibels for more than five hours. Most factories can be quieted, and California will push these methods, attracting wider attention.
The Air Force held Airman Gerald Anderson for 10 months on a murder charge after he confessed and later claimed coercion. A transient laborer confessed to the murder, civil authorities dropped charges, yet military hearings continued. Critics say the prolonged detention violated innocent until proven guilty principles and justice.
Norman V. Peale recounts a trip to Nara near Kyoto to see temples and Tenrikyo sites. The Tenrikyo patriarch discusses vitality and sin, describing dust washing ritual hands, and a philosophy of dust-free thinking linked to happiness. Lincoln is cited on self-worth and belonging to greatness.
A garbled column parries Cold War politics with satirical remarks about Gomulka and Khrushchev. It jokes about Red China and explores unlikely spaceships, life in the Milky Way, and skeptical bets on extraterrestrial contact.
A short humorous piece depicts a nearly three year old boy fixated on Roy Rogers. He imagines going West to round up cows and asks where West is, while observing Roy Rogers style and gear with playful misunderstandings. The excerpt blends childlike fantasy with popular culture references.
Paul Harvey condemns health food scams in St. Petersburg Florida where a clerk pretends medical authority to push pills on an elderly man. He urges government action to curb deceptive marketing and protect seniors amid rising mail fraud convictions and AMA concerns about supplement distributors.
In Wrenshall Minnesota a school board forced English teacher Richard Wyman to resign for assigning George Orwell’s 1984 to seniors. The columnist argues boards overstep by censoring literature and urges education over censorship, warning against anti communism zeal.
Dorothy Kilgallen reports on top directors courting Audrey Hepburn to play a lead in Dont Go Away Mad while studios scramble for star power. The column covers Rex Harrison ad campaigns, Joseph Cotten at the Fourteen Hotel, Van Johnson’s London role, and Goldwater’s Plaza show critique amid a flood of show business tidbits.
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