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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1964
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription rates for various delivery methods including daily, Sunday, and international options. The page also features a Bible verse from John 11:44 about Jesus commanding to loose and let him go.
United Nations Secretary General U Thant will visit Moscow in late July to meet Premier Khrushchev and Soviet officials. The talks center on Moscow’s failure to pay about 50 million dollars in UN peacekeeping assessments, with a possible General Assembly vote if Paris and others also default. The outcome could affect the UN’s fate, but there is hope for a cooperative solution to avert a showdown.
Publication of medical findings has raised awareness of links between smoking and lung cancer. Mayo Clinic surgeons report more patients surviving five years or more after surgery due to earlier treatment, though cases continue to rise. The message remains clear: avoid smoking as a principal cause of illness.
A US survey shows 43 million Americans will camp this year, 13 million more than a decade ago. The piece warns campers will crowd existing sites unless state and federal efforts to create more campsites surge significantly to meet demand.
Jim Bishop recounts discovering a mimeographed joke sheet from Ed Lewis that paralleled a Corey Ford work. After contacting Ford and noting the theft, Bishop proceeds to publish with proper credit, describing the literary scramble and the response from Ford and The Detroit News.
The San Francisco convention sees infighting as Governor Scranton's bitter letter prompts GOP critics to question extremism claims. Despite disputes, the platform gains support from Goldwater allies, with optimism for a first-ballot nominating victory and calls to counter misrepresentation within the party.
A writer recalls swapping counterfeit inscriptions in Stanlee Dixon’s autograph book during the 1952 Republican and Democratic Conventions in Chicago. The hoax involved signatures from Eisenhower, Lodge, the Warren sisters, Truman, Kefauver and others, with one notable falsified Lyndon Johnson line. Stanlee later exposed the fraud, prompting a call to curb autograph forgery at future conventions.
The passage lists curious statements on geology biology and history. It notes the Blue Nile delivering silt to Nile flood plains the bacterial fermentation creating holes in cheese the improbable survival of newborn lobsters and the Eiffel Tower as a temporary Paris Exposition 1889 monument dedication by Daniel Webster.
A Middletown journalist who moved on to law and remarried in Columbus faced a chaotic post wedding scene. A close friend gained a hotel room key and hosted a string of all night calls until 8 am and 1 am midnight departures. The tale ends with speculation the couple fled to Canada for a honeymoon.
Dorothy Kilgallen reports on a CBS TV Cinderella special with Julie Andrews in a California shoot this summer and updates on showbiz: Rhonda Fleming wedding chatter with Harry Lee, Eddie’s legal limbo, and Ingrid Bergman’s praised return in The Visit.
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