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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1959
Page
4
Middletown Ohio publication details include address and mail rates for daily and Sunday editions. Subscriptions list prices for in city, trading area, and outside regions, with annual and overseas options and a Bible verse.
An opinion notes that Cold War fears cite a Communist takeover by infiltration, citing Czechoslovakia 1948 as a model. It recalls 1946 election gains, Gottwald as premier, police control, mass resignations, seizure of offices, and the 1943 purge of police by left-wing figures before Masaryk’s death and May 1948 elections.
The piece reviews Democratic stance on dividends tax relief, noting past Republican and Democratic positions from 1954 to now. It cites a current plan with a $50 dividend deduction per person plus a 4 percent tax credit, arguing it costs the Treasury $350 to $400 million annually and frames the party’s demand for a higher budget to cover needs.
A New York City panel plans a Jan 10 report to Mayor Wagner on legalizing off track betting to capture revenue and avert higher sales tax. The plan faces Board of Estimate approval, state legislature, governor, and referenda. Proponents cite England as a model, while clergy fear corruption.
New York AP report recalls Mrs. Henry B. Harris, Titanic survivor in her 70s, who lost her theatrical producer husband of 10 years in the 1912 disaster. She describes the quake of faith, a life shaped by two world wars, and four marriages, with strong resolve and nostalgia for a vanished era.
A Milton Eisenhower report to President Eisenhower argues against recognizing or backing dictators in Latin America. The piece recommends maintaining aid and diplomatic ties while fostering democracy, open dialogue, and gradual reform rather than abrupt non-recognition, with care over when to engage or withhold support.
Jim Bishop contrasts Salekard Hwaining and Riyadh as stark, brutal extremes of life. He recounts prison camps in Salekard, infant drownings near Hwaining on the Yangtze, and Saudi rulers exploiting women, slaves, and harsh punishments in Riyadh, urging reflection on modern civilization.
A collage of brief notes includes a Norfolk man’s record dinner binge, riot notes on Venezuela’s election, stone vultures at Chichester tax office, 130 million year fossils in England, vodka cocktail lists in the Daily Worker, and a Florida hotel study room for school holiday guests.
Star advice encourages direct effort into new profitable channels tomorrow with skill development to expand 1959 endeavors. For those with a birthday tomorrow a favorable cycle begins for job and financial goals, emphasizing tact in dealings and prudent finances through March and April and next November.
A weary columnist frets over ideas for a piece and abandons the task amid a drizzle and a blank editorial corner. He contemplates weather, children, and pets, but admits he cannot write a column today and leaves the page empty.
Washington column recalls a AAAS annual meeting对 vice president Raymond Birge criticizing parapsychology as occult. The piece links ESP to hobgoblins and recounts Houdini style tricks debunking alleged psychic feats, including a street photos double exposure hoax.
A second libel suit was filed against H O Miller by city commissioner C H Pippert over Miller's statements demanding the city be enjoined from a bond sale for the proposed municipal power plant. Thom as Baird tied first with L C Lynch after a 119 score in YMCA headpin play. Ulla Meadows, 22, was killed by a car near her Middletown home after alighting from a C&LE bus north of the Butler Warren line. Armco Band broadcasts set for Jan 15 on 42 NBC Blue stations from Emery Auditorium Cincinnati. Middies defeated Ironton 54-25 as Joe Cornella scored 17.
Article notes Karachi's traffic complexity with 18 registered transport types from American cars to pedicabs and camel carts. It adds that Eskimos, arriving from North America over a millennium ago, were Greenland's first inhabitants.
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