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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1959
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices including 6c per weekday copy and 15c Sunday, 50c weekly by carrier in city, 45c outside, $10 yearly in trading area, $20 outside trading area, and $35 to U.S. addresses. Published daily by News-Journal Inc founded 1857.
Prime Minister Macmillan’s planned return visit to Russia mirrors Khrushchev and Bulganin’s 1956 trip to England. The visit provoked boos at Oxford and Edinburgh and tense exchanges with Labor leaders, while Mikoyan faced protests in the United States. The episode fails to widen British American unity on Berlin.
The Public Health Service and NOVIS reported Europe faces another influenza wave with many US deaths in 1957-58. Surgeon General Burney urged vaccination for pregnant women, the elderly, chronically ill, hospital staff, and key workers. Polyvalent vaccine targets multiple strains, including Asian Flu, with 15–20 million affected and 78,000 excess deaths in the prior outbreak.
American working women are aging, with half of women employed outside the home over 40. The column surveys common concerns from dental visits to fence investments, engagements, necking in public, and quirky trivia. It blends light anecdotes, statistics, and quotes as a humorous miscellany.
Fulton Lewis Jr outlines a practical path to ease Secretary Dulles’s burden by pairing Herbert Hoover Jr and Richard Nixon as potential understudy and co leader. The piece stresses need for strength, world knowledge, anti-Communist savvy and confidence in Dulles, with Nixon providing rank and Hoover offering steady support.
Paul Harvey argues that The New Yorker is a unique hybrid rooted in nowhere, praising mutual exchange between New York and Chicago. He resists relocation, notes Manhattan’s allure and Wall Street influence, and advocates peaceful coexistence, shared access to waterways, and equal civic status for New Yorkers within the United States.
Factographs report that cotton mills in the United States employ about 500 thousand people two thirds of Africa lies in the northern hemisphere about seven million dollars are spent yearly on sunburn remedies in the United States Hawaii became a territory on June 14 1900 and silica is the most abundant material in the earths crust
George Dixon rails against foreign dispatches praising Lopez Mateos dining over Eisenhower, defending chili as breakfast staple and Mexican dishes. He mocks elite European fare, endorses chili with coffee cake, and urges Americans to respect local cuisine and drop provincial labels.
A reader protests disbelief of her 47 year age due to graying hair. The column endorses cosmetic aids, birth certificates for proof, and hints at increasing use of appearance management by both women and men as competition tightens for workers over 40.
Dorothy Kilgallen guides readers through a lively Manhattan scene. Gwen Verdon headlines Redhead with Richard Kiley. Edith Piaf performs at Waldorf Astoria in a stark, commanding solo act. The piece also spotlights street life on Sth Ave and 8th Ave, and notes Dixieland at Roundtable on E 50th Street.
At the annual fish fry in Manchester Hotel W B Riggs announced 420 new members joined the Middletown Fish and Game Association with Mack Holman topping signatures at 487. N J Lawler urged trades and labor progress, while Middies basketball lost to Hamilton 26 to 23 on a controversial final call that sourly reflected on refereeing.
Harry A. Lewis aged 60, well known florist, died of a heart attack in his Central Avenue shop. Fire brigade and police noted the sudden collapse occurred during business hours. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Lewis family.
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