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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1961
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, with per copy and carrier options. It notes mailing areas, prices for trading and outside trading areas, and annual US mail rates, payable in advance.
Frances Perkins, first female cabinet member, reveals the rift between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Alfred E. Smith. Nominations in 1924 and 1928, Smith's defeats, and 1932 tensions fueled lasting enmity. Perkins notes envy over leadership roles and withheld support, with rival factions stirring the divide. Jack Kearns advocates boxing unionization and sterilization.
The piece notes Kennedy’s administration staffing heavily from Harvard, with key roles in treasury defense attorney general solicitor general budget director and national security advising filled by Harvard graduates or faculty. It suggests concern over Harvard’s strong presence in government but defends the choice if quality remains high. It ends with a remark on Kennedy’s youthful leadership and international impressions.
The piece praises Horace Greeley as a famed editor whose New York Tribune influenced rural America and anti slavery sentiment. It notes his failed 1872 presidential bid and argues his lasting honor comes from his journalism, leading to a 1961 stamp commemoration.
A massaged review of a 9,000 word task force report to President-Elect Kennedy questions its lack of clarity on recession causes and calls out reliance on temporary tax cuts. It argues depreciation tax allowances could modernize plants, notes billions needed for equipment replacement, and warns against price wage controls and planned economics.
The narrator recounts a quarrel with Ymelda over walking around money and threats to seek Communist aid. He riffs on Khrushchev, United Nations table changes, and then ties the joke to U S policy, representation allowances, and embassy bribery fears, ending with a quip about defecting with Kremlin funds.
Mrs Mary L Smith recalls Middletown life in earlier days with vivid scenes of Sunday porch greetings, a park by the Big Four Depot, a Polar Bear Tobacco display, horse stables, fire bells, the Bijou Rex garden fountain, Chautauqua tents, Dinky trolley rides, Frank Simons band, Kennedy daughters broadcasts, and a Flowery plant vendor with a whistle.
As Kennedy prepares to enter the White House his broad legislative agenda targets medical care for the aged education housing minimum wage and aid to distressed areas. He aims to ease interest rates revise labor laws spur development and expand national resources while facing opposition in a divided Congress and from some party allies.
Chairman Clifford Davis of Tennessee notes public opinion shifts as talk grows of changes after conventions. He warns too much time passes between conventions and the election, and now many believe the interval is too long before campaigns. An Ohioan completes a plexiglas transparent grandfather clock, a playful note amid the political chatter.
The forecast urges calm romantic energy for singles and harmony for couples. It predicts a propitious cycle from February onward with strong personal effort shaping career and finances, plus opportunities for travel late summer and romance mid year.
P F Johnson of the Ohio Employment Service notes intensified drive to fill openings under the National Defense program. George L Sturr of Middletown Iron & Steel Co elected secretary of the National Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel at a Baltimore convention. Edward M Brown admitted to practice before the U S Supreme Court. son of Mr and Mrs Ernest E Brown.
The United States produces about 40 billion tin cans annually to preserve food. Timbuktu is described as a caravan route town in the Sudan region of French West Africa with a population around 7 000.
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