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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1950
Page
4
The Middletown Journal announces subscription prices for carriers and mail within and outside the trading area. Rates include weekly carrier costs, five day and six day mail options, and annual outside USA pricing, with all subscriptions payable in advance.
Sociologists project lasting impact as television expands from a small audience to tens of millions. RCA pushes color TV licenses while color readiness remains debated. Viewers turn from movies and comics to in-home entertainment as the nation enters a new era.
A UN Trusteeship Council mission reviews the Fon of Bikom in West Africa who has over 110 wives. It finds polygamy under social security aims and urges gradual change, education for women, and no coercion, while noting respect for long-standing customs.
MIT researchers show a calcium acrylate salt mixed with muddy soil can harden in five hours to a surface approaching concrete strength. The method could transform rural roads and back lanes, though cost remains a hurdle, with potential military interest and broad layman appeal.
Dr. George W. Crane advises Sylvia G 32 to diet as the best antidote to overweight and notes her husband’s jealousy about a prior marriage. He urges reassuring the second husband to maintain harmony and suggests avoiding belittling remarks in front of the children.
Genevieve Kemble reports a sustained drama filled astrological forecast for Wednesday February 22. The entry notes unexpected openings for advanced goals and public private and intellectual affairs under a theme of strange developments with emphasis on adventure and change. Birthday guidance urges embracing unpredictable events and potential master achievements.
A columnist discusses strains in second marriages caused by aging, emotional drift, and sexual tension. Readers are advised to request a dieting chart titled How To Lose 10 Lbs In 10 Days by sending a stamped envelope and payment to Dr. Crane through the newspaper to obtain the chart and related materials.
Dave Regan notes insurance men dispute the rear driver’s fault rule in auto claims. He cites a chorus of public reactions on safe distance and sudden stops. He mentions Middleton residents pictured in a New York show crowd and complains of being blackmailed over a club photo.
Erich Brandeis reflects on a neighborhood mother and a doctor’s view as a boy in Western regalia endures a minor scalp wound. The piece weighs whether cowboy costumes shape courage and behavior, noting boys imitate heroes and react bravely to pain.
A string of wry, aphoristic quips about love, aging, manners, and modern life. Observations mix humor and irony as jokes on optimism, vanity, and society appear in compact one liners.
In a provocative piece executive vice president Herbert A. Nelson questions whether men are essential. The author riffs on gender roles, mocks anti equality arguments, and argues men remain needed for home life, technology, and social order with pointed humor.
Twenty candidates entered the Hurwitz contest with more than 20 advancing to the second round. Survivors named by high school officials include Harry Campbell, Earl Turvey, Mary Carmody, Kathryn Kettman, Pauline Weber, Henry Jones, Marian Berry, Lester Collier, Helen Rick, Grace Mehl, Eleanor Hamm, Ernestine Gilmore, Charles Rybolt, Jake Casper and Charles Kiester. On the Armce Band concert program Mrs Winifred Thompson, a Middletown girl, pianist, was listed.
An individual received an academic certificate in music after studying under Louis Savarne, a renowned musician, whose mentorship shaped the student’s development.
George E Sokolsky argues that pity cannot imply approval of Ingrid Bergmans adultery and public scandal He says religion condemns sin even if pity is due and urges moral law defend against public tolerance of sin.
The piece explains the origin of the phrase Not a Chinaman's chance dating to the California gold rush when Chinese laborers faced starvation wages and denied self defense in miner courts. It also covers presidential veto powers and Jackson Day tribute to Andrew Jackson, with a note on the Liberty Bell cracking in 1835 during John Marshall’s death toll.
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