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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1957
Page
6
The Middletown Journal announces subscription rates for 5 cent weekday copies and 10 cent Sunday issues. City carrier 45 cents weekly outside city 40 cents weekly. six day mail $10, seven days $17.50 yearly. outside U.S. $35 yearly. All payments in advance. Published daily by News-Journal Inc since 1857.
Vacation patterns in the United States shift toward longer and earlier vacation time. Employers offer extra days for early or late vacations, tie breaks to attendance, and some firms grant sabbatical-style leaves. Government and private sectors provide increasing vacation days with tenure.
The piece recalls historic proposals to curb courts, noting recall efforts 45 years ago and the 1912 clash over state court decisions. It highlights Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive platform’s push for direct public vote on acts voided by courts, and Taft's vetoes and state recall provisions shapingArizona’s statehood. The discussion links past recall debates to current Supreme Court reform talk.
Norman Peale imagines two church collections one for money and one for worries. Ushers would whisk away worries into overflowing baskets at services. People would feel relief then slyly reclaim old worries from the baskets, illustrating human nature: we hate worries yet cling to them.
A preacher urges releasing anxiety by imagining a mental wastebasket. He cites a Virginia mother and her eight year old son who learned to drop worries into pockets and sleep. The lesson: retain childlike faith, believe Bible promises, and fear loses its grip as confidence grows.
A humorous local item reports a vote for a non existent Brown's Run Country Club chairmanship amid disputes over a three inch knee length rule for women on the course. The piece also notes readers keen on who gains the knee measure reach. A bologna spelling gag and a fix it ticket tale close the slice of life.
National Guard infantrymen planned to fire an 81 mm mortar at Barnitz Stadium during a Fourth of July program. A misfire sent the seven-pound shell upward and down into the ground, prompting organizers to cancel the live demonstration amid a windy evening and a crowd expected near 10,000.
A release from the American Association of University Women details 121,500 in fellowships awarded to 44 American women and eight foreigners for postgraduate work in anthropology and dance. Winners are called fellows. two, archaeologist Martha Calef Heath and dance director Eleanor W. Struppa, will dig in Greece at Corinth and Athens. Other scholars travel to Switzerland and beyond to study paleontology and physics, with one aiming to study liquid helium near lambda point.
Cork is Portugal s chief export the dead outer bark of an evergreen oak harvestable without killing the tree Portuguese law allows stripping every nine years.
Opinion piece argues Mao Tse-tung and Communist China have executed millions, warning against Western nations expanding trade with a bleeding, repressive regime. It asserts internal unrest and anti Communist groups inside China and questions Western alignment.
Dorothy Kilgallen notes Bob Evans poised for Leopold role in Compulsion under Zanuck. Errol Flynn worries publishers over his auto biography. Larry Adler criticizes BBC from abroad. Ray Anthony and Mamie Van Doren linked to a major announcement. Kirk Douglas tax case probes tax-deduction gimmick. Abbe Lane exits Lanza project for Spain. Vaughn Monroe’s concert canceled by storm. Clark Gable courted by Warner Brothers. Thelonius Monk to receive police card and perform downtown. Headlines on Hepburn’s quick barefoot check on Stratford night watchman. Eli Wallach rumored for What Makes Sammy Run. James Marosca’s new Bantam book Mr Taxicab. Tom Corbally scandal. The Night America Trembled to TV. Brando boosts Paris attendance. Miss France in Miss Universe pageant. Second Hand Lipstick noted. Italy autograph craze noted with Jennifer Jones.
A British beauty consultant jokes about American dress while a London dog track arson stains headlines. A New York skyscraper observe platform, Ashikawa sunspots, and a hot sol foretell peach crops. Montrealers test six months in an underground box as Holland hosts a twins congress and Italy showcases humor. A Texas scientist counts mosquitos by bites as June brings chiggers.
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