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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1959
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription rates for different delivery areas and frequencies. It notes daily publication by News-Journal Inc, with a Bible verse and founding year 1857.
Congress approves an $800 million four year education program for loans to students and national defense skill training. About $471.2 million is allocated for 1959 loans with a 3 percent interest after repayment. Eligibility favors science engineering language talent and prospective teachers.
An analysis of New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller as he prepares his first legislative address in a year shaping 1960 presidential prospects. The piece recalls past New York governors who rose to national races, notingRockefeller’s sizable statewide win in a Democratic landslide year and the enduring pattern of state leaders advancing to the White House.
In a humorous New York AP column Hal Boyle notes that New Year reforms collapse quickly at home. A man vows to quit smoking drinking and debt and to be kinder, yet after two weeks his self-improvement falters. He returns to poker, skips chores, and the household tension eases as normalcy returns.
A Washington column argues that liberals from both parties now mimic McCarthy era tactics by seeking majority rule to curb filibusters, while southern senators defend the two thirds requirement. It notes the Senate’s status as a continuing body and the clash over expunging or censuring past actions, with emphasis on the 1954 anti McCarthy debates and the balance between majority and minority powers.
Fulton Lewis Jr. reports on Arthur S. Flemming facing GOP blowback over a Social Security commissioner appointment. Flemming defended deputy William Mitchell amid party leaders’ protests, then briefly backed down before naming Mitchell on Christmas Eve, angering Meade Alcorn and Republican stalwarts.
The forecast urges logical thinking and practical action, urging realistic expenditures and restraint on impulses. For those with May to August as a period of social stimulation, it highlights foresight in planning through early June for job progress, and predicts advantageous planetary cycles and travel prospects in mid-1959. A birthday child is described as ambitious and resourceful, likely becoming an excellent teacher.
Twenty years ago on Friday January 6 1939 City Commissioner Thomas W Baird filed a libel suit in Common Pleas Court against H O Miller former city manager alleging defamation after Miller urged solicitor Fred J Schatzmann to seek an injunction blocking sale of mortgage revenue bonds for a municipal power plant. The city also extended its option for six months on land at the site on Route 73 north of the city.
Twelve student nurses at Middletown Hospital Nurses Home receive caps after completing four months of preliminary training. Named among the group are Dorothy Wills Georgianna Timmons Nadine Orr Virginia Burner Doris Maier Zelma Lawson Helen Adams LaHoma Brewer Elaine Hursh Wanda Hess Ellen McKinney and Helen Harden. Also reported is the death of Lorton D Wilmore a 76 year old prominent Middletown contractor at Middletown Hospital.
North Madison and South Madison fire departments fought a blaze at Jess Lockard’s Strebee Road home. The family lost everything but salvaged furniture as the house collapsed. Captain Lawrence Wood led efforts to find clothing and furniture for the Lockards eight children and parents, with donation steps at the Peastown fire house or pickup requests to GA 3-1810.
Dorothy Kilgallen mentions Lana Turner’s new Mexican romance and Armando’s marriage proposal while Tallulah Bankhead’s pre Broadway show folds then reopens in California with a $130,000 setback. Rumors touch Sardi Set and Huntington Hartford’s losses, Eddie Fisher’s finances, Elizabeth Taylor gifts, Amy Roosevelt’s divorce, Hurok’s Moscow circus, and more.
A noted vocalist’s appetite for steak before shows prompts a quip about singing for supper. An Atlanta boy’s pet batam rooster resurfaces after Thanksgiving, staying wary of becoming turkey. British museum staff miss glis glis rats found in pairs. North Creake, England, buzzes as three million northeastern Europe starlings descend. A London home collapse follows wallpaper stripping, illustrating a “chain reaction” in action.
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