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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1961
Page
4
Public subscription notice from The Middletown Journal details city daily and Sunday delivery rates, carrier and mail options, and prices for local and out of area readers. The page also lists publication details and a Bible verse.
The piece explains that predicting stock prices is difficult due to emotional and intangible factors. It notes tax-related reinvestment of about a billion dollars into January could lift prices, citing January 4 as a strong session. It mentions Kennedy’s inauguration and Averell Harriman’s role as factors shaping sentiment and market responsiveness.
Antarctic summer brings scientists and workers to McMurdo Sound as the Naval Air Facility floods from winter quiet to a workforce of about 700. The site prepares for an atomic power plant while harsh conditions persist, offering little leisure but a shift in mood for those far from home. Consumers fall behind on bills as Christmas payments arrive, per the American Collectors Association.
A polling group finds 47 percent of American adults attended at least one church service weekly in 1960, about 50 million people. The article notes this matched 1959 and lagged behind 1958, and questions whether attendance reflects genuine worship beyond numbers. It urges personal self-reflection on true spiritual engagement.
Norman V. Peale advocates maintaining a positive attitude despite natural negativity. He discusses a man labeled a possibilitarian who sees possibilities, pursues action, and finds solutions through persistent effort and faith. The tale emphasizes looking for soft spots in problems and keeping hopeful perseverance.
A Middletown Hospital switchboard buzzes with calls about peanut brittle for a patient. City officials explain blue salt is an intentional marker for streets and no prejudice is involved. Local readers note traffic timing, ambulance courtesy, and a Camden model Racycle sale as a quirky city roundup.
Paul Harvey evokes Esther to urge commitment and courage for 1961 Americans. He links the biblical risk of concealing Jewish identity to resisting communism and calls readers to act at work and in society, stating the hour of burning requires personal sacrifice and steadfast duty.
After a river overflow, man eaters roam the streets while locals protest stray dogs. A jackrabbit reportedly outspeeds a race horse. Old Big Ears balks at saddling, unsettling formation. Scout Leader sprains ankle playing checkers headline notes odd firehouse game with feet.
Dorothy Kilgallen and celebrities collide as Cohns office hosts a scuffle over a West Side restaurant venture while Julie Newmar and Van Cliburn listen to Cozy Cole at the Metropole. Frank Sinatra teases politics, and Monty Clift linked to Misfits promotion amid Hollywood chatter and Broadway hopes.
George Sokolsky critiques Lee Mortimer and Cleveland Amory on society’s decay while praising ordinary decency and a New Year rite. He recalls editors’ cynicism, laments lost truth, and admires authentic American music and simple, multilingual readers. He notes Kennedy’s appointments to teachers and defends a nonclass society. It ends with asking if he is mean before Christmas.
On Wednesday January 15 1941 Middletown and Hamilton shut all public and parochial schools as influenza cases rose. Dr E T Storer warned churches and other gathering places could close if the outbreak continued. The first deaths were Hamilton residents Mrs George Brown 63 and her daughter Mrs Darrell Wilkins 34 who died within the same hour in the same hospital room.
The text notes that more than one third of Arizona’s population lives within a 30 mile radius of Phoenix. It also mentions the Philanthropist as the first abolition newspaper, appearing in Mt. Pleasant Colorado in 1817.
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