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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1957
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription costs for various delivery options. Rates include in city, outside city, trading area, and U.S.A. mail plans, with and without the Sunday edition, all payable in advance. The paper is published each evening except Sunday from Middletown Ohio.
A columnist surveys options to curb rising living costs including government controls, voluntary restraint, and tighter credit. He notes wage and price gains, 7 percent wage rise last year adding 15 billion to personal income, and warns that both business and labor expect higher prices to cover costs. Federal Reserve chief Martin, urging tighter money, says credit control will be harder with a bigger budget.
The President's budget aims for a surplus if revenue gains hold, but critics warn the surplus reflects high business activity not cost cuts. Senator Byrd cautions against depending on rising receipts to balance the budget and urges expenditure reductions to avoid red ink if a downturn occurs.
The Bahamas island of Andros lures investors led by Dr. Axel Wenner-Gren who has bought 10,000 acres at Fresh Creek to develop Andros Town a resort city with canals a yacht club and a 4,100 foot landing strip. He envisions a tax friendly retirement paradise drawing buyers from around the world as hundreds of building sites and homes await sale.
The piece recalls 33,629 American lives lost and 103,284 wounded in Korea and criticizes a publishers board resolution urging travel to Red China. It emphasizes the ongoing UN and U.S. war posture against Red China, noting armistice violations and prisoner issues, and reinforces refusal to loosen travel and trade bans.
George Dixon recounts a humorous tale of mixing Roman and Arabic numerals from early schooling, a Saudi king visit, and a diplomat's clarification that true Arabic digits differ from Western forms. The piece ends noting a Nixonian Latin quip about evaluating numeral habits.
A miscellany of short notes on housing ratios, a Grand Palace joke about Al Jolson, a note on common executive ailments, the origin of the term Battle of the Century, and brief personality horoscopes. Also a few light crime vignettes and surnames common to Catholic families.
Tomorrow’s aspects are favorable for those with creative talent and enterprise. Sourcefulness peaks and can propel progress. If tomorrow is your birthday you can advance worthwhile aims by using skills strategically, avoiding over materialism, with personal relations improving especially in October.
Dave Regan notes two dates tomorrow and Thursday Lincoln's birthday and Valentine's Day. He compares public respect for Lincoln to Washington and recalls schools and banks closing on Lincoln's date in the past and the current rise of Valentines from penny cards and classroom exchange memories.
Dorothy Kilgallen notes Mike Todd guards a secret nuptial prop scheme while Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor loom as potential wedding adjacent headlines. Sidney Poitier eyed for Jamaica and other showbiz moves highlight a busy gossip wrap with actors, directors, and fashion moments across New York and Hollywood.
Alfred Trauper earned Eagle Scout at a 100-scout ceremony at the Church of God. Clarence Bailey Richard Laut won tenderfoot badges while Pete Turlukas Donald Lowe Robert McCroskey and Junior Razor earned second class badges. Armco Amateur Night at Strand Theater raised funds for flood victims as the Ashland plant resumed full operation after a shutdown that affected 3 200 employees.
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