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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1963
Page
4
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An optimistic essay argues that human potential grows through surgical feats rejoining severed limbs and rapid medical advances. It warns war would halt progress, urging focus on positive developments in science and technology to secure the future.
The Treasury promotes allowing tax refunds to be taken in Series E and H Savings Bonds, arguing it helps debt management and thrift while boosting personal education funds, retirement planning, and national ownership. Over 45 billion in bonds exist, about one sixth of the debt, and the plan aims to grow bond use similar to payroll savings. Citizens expecting refunds are urged to choose Savings Bonds on tax forms.
A Midwestern businessman, aged 39 and highly successful, describes a sudden deep mood and eventual recovery through reading Thought Conditioners. He credits renewed faith, giving to others, and balancing gain with contribution, noting the sun returns as he daily seeks to help others.
The passage mocks weather forecasting and political imagery, joking about French forecasters predicting a hard winter as bears descend from mountains. It notes caution against being photographed in compromising positions and jokes about American representatives and turkeys.
A humorous snow episode follows an early riser who must walk to work carrying his shoes after his wife insists on overshoes. In another item a gasoline station attendant learns his borrowed car held nonpremium fuel, causing a start failure in extreme cold.
Paul Harvey condemns U.S. actions in Lebanon and Congo, criticizing Chamoun’s ouster, UN forces, and a gunboat diplomacy. He argues Adoula’s fragile rule, Lumumba symbolism in Elizabethville, and Soviet expansion in Leopoldville. He warns of Viet Nam, Laos, and Castro entanglements, urging disengagement and a return to American traditions.
John Chamberlain argues Congress risks elevating unions into a state-like force by pursuing compulsory arbitration and union shop. He cites leaders like Walter Reuther and Barry Goldwater’s exchange to warn that forced unionization could tax workers and empower mobs, threatening broad freedoms and creating an administrative monster.
The article notes a Cold War irony as Western unity wobbles. Kennedy pressures De Gaulle over Europe, defense, and the Common Market while De Gaulle pushes an independent French atomic program and keeps Britain out, widening rifts with Monnet and Ball weighing in. Belgium grows wary as tensions rise.
The nickname Old Ironsides traces to a gunner who saw solid shot bounce off Constitution in the 1812 battle with the Guerriere. The rest notes general facts on Arab groups, Roman and Greek military origins, criminal arrest, Washington trees at Mount Vernon.
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