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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1957
Page
4
Middletown Journal announces subscription pricing for city and trading area readers. Rates include per copy costs, weekly carrier fees, six day mail at ten dollars, seven day mail at seventeen fifty, and outbound U.S.A. subscription at thirty five dollars yearly with payment in advance.
Senate leaders and backers push for amendments to the civil rights bill as a path to a compromise acceptable to Southern opponents. President Eisenhower and Senators Russell Mundt Case Kuchel discuss limited changes while O Mahoney and Auerbach propose jury trial and contempt tweaks to preserve voting rights focus.
Nathan Leopold seeks parole with the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board and possibly Governor Stratton after 33 years in prison for the Leopold and Loeb murder case of 1924. The board weighs whether Leopold has changed enough to be a constructive community presence and whether society will accept his release.
New York based Count Basie aged 53 discusses longevity in jazz, his early rise from 25 cent lessons to leading a top band. He credits technical progress of younger players, honors Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Benny Goodman as greats, and cites The One O Clock Jump and St Louis Blues as influential tunes. The pianist notes his life philosophy and recalls a long career including a Waldorf Astoria engagement.
A lighthearted column contrasts Mrs. Gore misinterpreting a class remark about living with Senator Smathers with a Tennessee matron's embarrassment. It also features Senator Neuberger defending his anti billboard stance after receiving praise and criticism from readers, including a letter from Iowa praising highway signs.
President Eisenhower’s budget directive to cap this year at 70 billion dollars signals a broader readjustment in 1958. It aims to slow spending, curb wage-price pressures, and potentially trigger a mild recession to stabilize the dollar, with tax cuts possible if non-defense cuts proceed and a revenue surplus may appear by year end.
Factographs note the Creek Indians earned their name from many creeks on their lands. An early automobile for sale appeared in advertisements as far back as 1896.
A reader ruminates on Tokyo as possibly the largest city while London remains ruled out, and debates New York's status. The piece cites a 32 year old Southern woman with five husbands, a Sophie Tucker ditty, and a puzzling trio of children all born at noon. It closes with horse racing views and a rhymed salad recipe.
Dorothy Kilgallen notes Linda Christian planning months in Mexico to translate diaries for an autobiography. Sidney Chaplin pursues Noel Airman role. Rose Morgan enjoys Harlem romance. Tony Curtis gains 50 percent of profits from Thieves Market. Rumors on Brando, Greco, and Briscoe. Cairo bans rock n roll. Lena Horne comments on aging in US theater.
A quirky roundup notes tempera experiments reaching extreme heat in a Chicago lab and a seven foot eight inch growing man in India. It cites a Baltimore zoo chimpanzee selling paintings for fifty dollars, UN headquarters windows numbering six thousand seven hundred eighty, and a hitchhiker who visited forty eight states Cuba and Canada in thirty three days.
Estrellita the Stars urge readers with ambitious plans to start now and seek experienced advice. For birthdays tomorrow, horoscopes predict occupational gains and help from high places in the coming three months. Exciting social prospects, a pleasant short trip, and good domestic news are likely, with August and November urging financial caution. A child born today is said to be capable, resourceful, and analytical.
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