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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1963
Page
4
Middletown Journal announces subscription prices for daily, Sunday, and mail delivery in city, trading area, and outside areas with prepaid terms. The notice precedes a biblical quotation from Romans.
The Doty House facility for handicapped children faces a service risk as Hugh Butler resigns to cut expenses after donations cover only half of operating costs. Butler, a longtime public servant, urges community support to keep the program and his work from ending. A Minnesota mother of 11 buys a children’s clothing shop, a family business with steady customers.
Scientists revived the Telstar satellite after a long silence by modeling the issue, delivering a corrective signal, and restoring life to the craft. The prospect of live European broadcasts intrigues, though tech feats rival TV ambitions. California bands all numeric dialing as too taxing on users.
The article notes the first results from the Mariner probe to Venus, sent over 180 million miles to rendezvous with Earth’s neighboring planet. Despite a modest social splash after Christmas, the achievement is hailed as a pinnacle of scientific precision and imagination, inspiring pride across nations.
Fulton Lewis Jr. reports on Khrushchev promises and ongoing labor camps citing Bela Fabian and others. He notes millions drafted to virgin lands, quotas and deportations, with references to Kazakh and Ukrainian resettlements, and a 1946 Congressional report on concealment.
Tomorrow birthday readers are urged to be realistic and press major objectives with careful finances. Focus on ambitious goals now, especially in January, to make headway in the coming year and reap rewards as opportunities arise.
The piece argues the United Nations and the United States failed to condemn the Soviet missile bases in Cuba. It notes Khrushchev’s withdrawal, Kennedy’s pledge against invasion, and the Monroe Doctrine’s diminishing relevance. It warns that the Soviet presence persists with 17,000 personnel and weapons.
Dorothy Kilgallen reports a New York promoter syndicate plans a Pennsylvania mountain resort festival to rival Newport, prompting a scramble to lock in jazz acts from major booking firms. The column runs through showbiz moves, legal notices and industry shakeups, naming Joe Levine, Robert Weston, Roy Campanella, Connie Francis, Pat Boone, Valerie Gearon, and Chubby Checker among others.
The reading notes strong personal and financial lines by October with late September ideal for creative pursuits whether vocational or avocational. Relationships show excellent aspects most of the year, peaking in December, August, and September. A child born now is described as loyal, conscientious, and devoted to home and family.
Dave Regan writes of a spring fever day as he contemplates a cross country road trip to Arizona. He recalls stopovers at Will Rogers Memorial and Painted Desert, outlines places left to visit including Salt Valley, Tucson, and Sun City, and notes the warm 80 degree daytime and 60 degree nights amid aching sinuses.
Indiana Democrats received 5000 personalized Christmas ecards sent from Washington by Senator Vance Hartke. The signings mimicked his hand and included African postage stamps, shipped to Africa for distribution to constituents. The stunt also included a mocked letter from a toddler to Senator Metcalf and a burned-into-memory quip from education circles about a first grader failing.
A narrator doubts cheerful child quotables after a self-styled author writes to Senator Lee Metcalf of Montana, claiming to have published two books of cute sayings and is compiling more. The letter questions the wisdom of children’s witticisms previously treated as gospel.
The Magna Carta, England's great charter, was signed at Runnymede on King John's insistence by 2000 barons who refused foreign service and demanded an end to illeg al levies.
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