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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1964
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists mail and carrier subscription rates for city and outside areas, including 30c weekly, 12 yearly in area, 20 outside area, and 35 outside USA. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The paper states it is published daily by News-Journal Inc. and traces its founding to 1857. A biblical quote from Habakkuk appears in the footer.
In Preble County, consolidating nine small districts into three wealthier ones is urged to expand facilities and curricula for more pupils. Critics warn of local pride and tax fears, but proponents say taxes will rise anyway and the savings will fund better education, including items like language labs.
The piece argues most adults face aging as inevitable and natural. It cautions against frantic efforts to look young, calling such fights futile vanity. Wisdom lies in accepting age gracefully and using time for a fruitful life.
Oregon Senator Morse publicizes his property and income and pushes a law requiring annual disclosures by Congress members and other high officials. He notes his own income from a $22,500 salary plus over $10,000 in honorariums and $5,000 as employer benefit fund chair.
In a Marble Collegiate Church office on Fifth Avenue New York City Norman Peale reflects on friends and mentors who shaped his life. Photographs include his father Charles Clifford Peale and Dutch captain George Barendse who urged faith and steadiness. Hoover Dewey Thomas and Henderson appear among figures who urged perseverance and top effort.
At a City Commission meeting the chair thanked retiring commissioners Robert Hayes Calvin Lloyd and Martin Miller for their service. Newcomers Mary Lord Virgil Clark and James Curry were noted as ready to continue the city’s work. The session also included light humor about reporters and a closing note on local life in Ohio and Texas style anecdotes.
Paul Harvey discusses Lyndon Johnson promoting federal restraint while questioning whether the public is ready to accept leadership. He contrasts Washington cuts with local projects and recalls Pensacola Florida debating a federal grant for sewage treatment. The council votes six to four to accept the grant.
The Pensacola City Council urged Florida's Congressman to halt federal aid for sewage projects and similar programs. The measure passed eight to two but was defeated, signaling tension between fiscal responsibility and long standing leadership.
The column praises John Kenneth Galbraith for flexible thinking on welfare and federal aid to education. It notes his exchanges with Taft era ideas and mocks a spoof by Mark Epernay about McLandress, a satirical device to test public figures. It critiques self reference as a measure of objectivity.
Dorothy Kilgallen recalls Puerto Rico as an alluring island retreat near New York. She describes evenings by the water, local courtesy, and fashion in crowds while noting a comical airport age check that spurred tourism ideas. The piece blends tone on locale with humorous social observation.
Fragmentary notes claim early Virginia and Massachusetts settlers embraced a dance idea while a Coldwater Kansas dog teaches the family to bark. Statistics note one in five U S motels now sport a swimming pool signaling a tech era boom in inns.
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