Middletown Journal Subscription Rates and Publication Note
The Middletown Journal in Middletown Ohio lists subscription rates for various delivery areas and frequencies. It states prices for per-copy, weekday and Sunday editions, carrier and mail options, and annual rates for trading and outside trading areas, with international pricing and advance payment requirement. Isaiah quote appears at the end.
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Civil defense budget cuts amid apathy and policy delays
Since mid June the United States has faced an assumed period of heightened tension for civil defense. The 1957 federal appropriation for civil defense was slashed to 39.3 million despite Eisenhower pledges of expanded public education and training.
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United States
Washington
White House
Executive Mansion
Congress
Federal Civil Defense Administration
House
Senate Appropriations
Joint Atomic Energy Subcommittee
Eisenhower
Val S. Peterson
Civil Defense
Sterson
Foreign small cars gain ground amid U S auto boom
The article notes rising foreign car sales in the United States nearing 200,000 this year, about 3 percent of total American new car sales. Germany’s Volkswagen dominates foreign imports, with others like Renault and Isetta priced around 998 to 1500 dollars. It also reports U S firms expanding overseas imports through local dealers and new models from Nash Studebaker Packard, Vauxhall Opel, Ford Britain, and Chrysler initiatives.
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U. S
New York
Nash
Studebaker- Packard
General Motors
Pontiac
Buick
Ford
Britain
Chrysler
Bert Garner Whips Inflation By Living Off The Land Near Maryville
A 71 year old man named Bert Garner in the Great Smoky Mountains lives a frugal life with 15 cents a day or less, grinding corn and soy, making simple meals, and avoiding public spending. He builds a cabin, studies widely, rejects the rat race, and says freedom is his main virtue. He travels little, works few jobs, and has no plumbing or electricity, relying on kerosene for light and a self sufficient routine aligned with nature.
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Tenn
Bert Garner
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Great Smoky Mountains
U. S
Kear Aeean
Paradise
New York
Philadelphia
Rat allweather vehicle for Arctic use by Canadian Army
The Canadian Army introduces the Rat an all weather vehicle designed to traverse land snow and water in Arctic conditions. It promises versatile mobility across varied terrains aiding operations in extreme environments.
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Candian
Arctic
Civil rights debate fails to win Negro votes
David Lawrence argues that racial group favoring does not guarantee votes. He notes polls show Negro voting patterns follow economic influence, with Northern Negroes leaning Democratic. He cites Michigan and Gallup studies and argues Republicans won small gains among low income Negroes but Democrats remained favored, predicting economic factors drive allegiance more than civil rights rhetoric.
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Washington
Congress
United States
North
Warren
Supreme Court
Stevenson-Kefauver
Republican National Committee
Michigan
Chicago
Gallup
Pittsburg
Robert L. Vann
Pennsylvania
Democratic Party
FDR
Best Man Records and Oddball Almanac Bits
A Brooklyn bachelor holds the title of Best Man at twelve weddings while Joseph Handisides, a 39 year old British man, served as Best Man at nineteen nuptials. The column also riffs on marriage quirks and trivia from stage versions of Around the World in Eighty Days to Camp Fire Girls, odd restaurant menu items, and airline salaries.
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Brooklyn
Joseph Handisides
New York
California
Kirally Brothers
Manhattan
Detroit
Safari Land
Sparkman prophets on housing bill and other jokes
Washington gossip sketches Senator Sparkman’s ill fated Fourth of July housing bill prophecy as already passed, while Judge Russell Train hosts a barbecue where a journalist’s water prank sparks a near fire response. The column also lampoons Secretary Benson’s cockroach project, and Minnesota Senator Humphrey’s push for pictures in the Congressional Record.
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Washington
Senate
Senate House Conference Committee
John J. Sparkman
Alabama
Sparkman
Russell Train
Judge Train
Mr. Evans
Tony
Netherlands
Dutch West Indies
Max Moerel
Weber
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Chautauqua Players Offer Summer Drama Then and Now
The Chautauqua Players of New York stage eight shows through September with The Rainmaker opening. Penelope Allen earns praise for range from farce to tragedy while John Hillerman impresses as a strong actor. Dinner at the Chautauqua dining room pairs with affordable theater for under seven dollars for two.
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Chautauqua Players
New York
Eight Flags
Penelope Allen
John Hillerman
Sal Mineo
Tauqua
Last of the Dutch wheelwrights Anson Stump in Kutztown
Paul Harvey recalls Anson Stump the 71 year old wheelwright at the Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival in Kutztown near Reading. Stump demonstrates wagon wheel making from raw timber to iron tire over three days while honoring a lineage tracing to Ben Franklin era. He is described as the last master of a fading craft in the Dutch Country.
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Kutztown
Reading
Stump
Anson Stump
Pennsylvania
Ben Franklin
Stump Reflects on a Life as a Wheelwright
Mr. Stump has plied the trade since age 19 and is now 72, a veteran wheelwright reflecting that it may be late to begin teaching others.
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Mr. Stump
Estrellita predicts romance and social gains ahead
The stars foretell a congenial mood for most people tomorrow with strong creative inspiration. If you have a birthday tomorrow, use the four upcoming months to advance business goals and lay a foundation for money and job expansion in 1958. August September bring social thrills and potential new romance for singles.
Snakes and diplomats swirl in odd wartime scenes
Photos show a balloon detonation over Nevada with a serpent like streak in the mushroom cloud. In Hamra Sweden Nehru, Swedish ministers and envoys danced around a may pole. Yugoslav refugees in an Italian camp complain of spaghetti. a Chicago burglar steals muskets and whisky amid a shooting spree.
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Nevada
Hamra
Sweden
India
Nehru
Italy
Chicago
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