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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1960
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists pricing for daily, Sunday, and Sunday-delivery options, including per-copy, weekly and annual subscriptions. It notes mailing areas with rates for in trading area, outside trading area, and outside the USA, with payment terms in advance.
The debate centers on whether armed reconnaissance can be less aggressive than observer planes and why the U S government keeps details secret about the RB-47 shot down July 1 near Murmansk. Questions loom about Soviet reluctance to publish findings and timing of Russia’s disclosure, plus the fate and location of the downed aircraft.
In Ceylon the Wednesday parliamentary vote tests parliamentary democracy amid three Communist parties and a contender known as the Weeping Widow. The United National Party led a fragile minority government after March results, while Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of a slain prime minister, leads the Sri Lanka Freedom Party with Communist ties in a contest seen as pivotal for the nation’s future.
Fulton Lewis Jr reports Kefauver, once a leading presidential hopeful, now campaigns in western Tennessee against Judge Andrew Taylor. Kefauver trails with small crowds and faces backlash over civil rights votes and foreign policy, while Taylor portrays him as overly ambitious and disconnected from local voters.
A horse owned by S A Long was saved from the Hydraulic Canal after police utility and street department workers were summoned. Lester Woodburn and Mrs. Nell Vice organized a Wiener feast for neighborhood children at Yankee Road Park. George Conover and Jens P Pleasant of Middletown graduated from Miami University's summer school.
George E. Sokolsky denounces the U S presidential nominating convention as undemocratic and hypocritical urging nationwide presidential preference primaries. He argues Congress could regulate federal elections to restore real voter influence and warns against the ease of dictatorship.
George Dixon reports on Erle Cocke Jr urging Texas delegates to aggressive tactics at the Democratic convention. Demonstrators for Kennedy Stevenson Humphrey and others flood the caucus, with Cocke warning of scalpings and urging seating disruptions as LBJ aims to secure victory. The column notes strained father son dynamics between Johnson and Kennedy.
A witty, opinionated collection ponders secession in NYC and Brooklyn, a teen antique dealer defying norms, clocks dating before 1840, a Texas centenarian fending off robbers with an 86 year old rifle, and a jab at weather predicting the office picnic date.
The column notes the storekeeper, Dave Regan, is again in Holmes Hospital Cincinnati with a stubborn ailment. Reports are encouraging but he will be out of action for a time. Substitutes will be used in the space, and readers are invited to send messages.
Treasury agents pose as bartenders in New York to gain inside information on narcotics trading. Hollywood buzz covers Yves Montand heading to Darryl Zanuck’s project Sanctuary, Brando and Ford eyeing Exotica, and Rome of industry moves amid Cuba’s impact on U.S. investments.
The text presents varied notes on geography and biology, mentioning the Mississippi River’s depth from source to Gulf, a tropical tiger beetle’s scent attracting bees and predation, rabies patterns in dogs, F W Woolworth’s repeated failures before success, the jack rabbit’s name origin, Marquesas Islanders harpooning wild cattle due to lack of firearms.
The gist urges a balanced, tactful approach to business and creative work. For birthday readers, foresight will boost job progress in early 1961 with August November and December favorable for finance and business, while January opens strong opportunities. social life, travel, and romance gain positive guidance through year.
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