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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1964
Page
4
The Middletown Journal in Ohio outlines subscription prices for city, rural, and mailing areas, with rates per week and per year outside the trading area. The notice also includes a quotation from Isaiah 53:5.
The piece contrasts Democratic praise with Republican skepticism over President Johnson's budget. It notes aims to curb spending growth and the pivotal role of tax-cut timing. It ends with a quip about Senator Ribicoff and a light aside about Connecticut and fly swatters.
The Research Institute of America warns automation will idle up to 10 to 20 percent of workers in coming years, urging tax reform and anti-discrimination measures while urging leaders to address poverty and wealth distribution to stave off economic drift toward communism. The piece notes a surge in private enterprise as a path to progress and hints at space ceramics research as a separate venture.
In January 1962, Glacier 511 unleashed a seven minute avalanche on the Cordillera Blanca in Peru, killing 2,500 and burying eight Aymara villages. Bart McDowell notes the peak’s icy mass and the villagers’ quiet grief as a morgue attendant retrieves ten year old Homero Jiraldo Montes from the mud.
Washington warns that France recognizing Peiping undermines U S policy and UN goals. De Gaulle's move could prompt other nations to admit Red China, weakening alliances and aiding aggression while provoking Congress, Defense officials, and the State Department.
A Washington column parodies tiny states like Monaco San Marino Andorra Liechtenstein and others threatening the US with leverage or fault lines in diplomacy. It contrasts their imagined coercions with a jab at President Johnson and Sanctioned political forecasts from Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty.
An odd, fragmented reminiscence recalls a fallen item described as a yo-yo causing a symbolic catastrophe. The speaker Husearan sheds cold tears, framing the event as the century’s greatest natural disaster, a memory few still hold.
A note cites 3.7 million independent producers in United States agriculture and dates the first appearance of Gypsies in Europe to no earlier than the start of the 14th century.
The Journal revisits a lost cat tale. Beetle Bailey, a Siamese, was found by John Griffin, president of the Humane Association of Miami Valley, and taken in after missing since October. The cat returned to Mr and Mrs Raymond Mull of Trenton with their children, ending a long, winding rescue.
Dorothy Kilgallen reports on Broadway chatter about West Side Story possibly returning to Broadway during the World’s Fair era. Other tidbits note Golden Boy casting for Sammy Davis Jr., Dinah Shore springing to a club date, Peggy Lee at Americana, and Melina Mercouri likely to star in a Sagan film via Roger Vadim. A hospital scare for Jolie Gabor amid Oscar buzz for Hud, a Bardot comparison for Jane Fonda, and Joanne Woodward in trouble with a nude-promo film image. Insiders discuss Stalin play secrecy at New Amsterdam, Chayefsky’s Passion of Joseph D. theatre security, and a Streisand appearance at Gallagher’s afterpremiere party.
Estrellita notes planetary influences favor routine matters but discourage new ventures in the morning. Home and family matters, written communications, and finances show gains, especially for those born near February, March, April, September and November. Aquarius romance shines this year, with travel and social growth likely late March, mid June, September and December.
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