Middletown Journal Publication Details
The Middletown Journal is published every evening except Sunday. Subscription rates include per copy five cents and carrier delivery 30 cents weekly in city area. Mail options listed for trading area and outside trading area with Sunday News Journal. Proverb quoted at end.
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Public Comment Sought On Pay TV Fee With FCC Deadline Extended
The FCC invites views on pay TV fees and methods. Deadline extended from May 8 to end of May due to volume. Supporters favor options to improve programs and remove ads. opponents fear loss of free broadcasts and access to top shows.
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Federal Communications Commission
F.C.C
Meat Consumption Reveals Rising American Living Standards
The piece notes a projected per capita meat use of about 158 pounds this year, 23 pounds higher than 1935–39. It argues meat’s protein content boosts health and recovery, contradicting the old elderly diet notion, and highlights meat’s economic role as agriculture’s largest cash market and workers’ purchasing power.
Atom powered merchant ship project gains approval
President Eisenhower announced the Maritime Commission will build an atomic powered merchant vessel to demonstrate peacetime atomic energy benefits. Leaders of American shipping praise the plan and anticipate its effect on modernizing the U.S. fleet with a proposed 1.6 million dollar ship program.
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Eisenhower
Maritime Commission
Committee of American Steamship Lines
Maritime Administration
U.S
TVA Bond Proposal Spurs Fortune Critique of Growth
The text reports Fortune denouncing TVA's bid for 75 million dollars in bonds to supplement congressional funding. It argues TVA is already large enough and questions private industry’s exclusion, warning against expanding government controlled power and citing the Dixon-Yates controversy as example. It contrasts private enterprise with the TVA model and cautions against further expansion of socialized federal power projects.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Fortune
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Dixon-Yates
Atomic Energy Commission
Debutante cost of Apache girl ball shocks tribe
In Mescale ro, Apache authorities plan four day and night festival for Ivy Lee Enjady, 14, as tribe covers expenses since beef prices strain families. Coming of age rites echo old hunts, tales, and rituals with stern warnings about laughter during the festival July 1 4.
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Ivy Lee Enjady
Ivy Lee
Astrological Forecast For Tomorrow And Birthday Hints
Estrellita The Stars presents a productive day for energetic workers and advises thorough analysis before action. It notes favorable future plans for those informed and warns against mercenary money handling, with specific birthdays promising steady advancement and broad opportunity through year end.
Allied Leaders Capable Lawrence Finds EN ROUTE FROM EUROPE
The article profiles Allied leaders and diplomats in Europe and highlights Sir Anthony Eden General Franco Adenauer von Brentano Strauss Kiesinger Ollenhauer Aldrich Dillon Lodge as pivotal figures. It notes Eden's diplomacy Franco's progress Adenauer's group and the importance of ambassadors in explaining America to Europe.
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Europe
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
America
Britain
General Franco
Spain
Franco
Germany
Adenauer
Heinrich von Brentano
Franz Josef Strauss
Georg Kiesinger
Bundestag
Erich Ollenhauer
Winthrop Aldrich
London
England
France
Douglas Dillon
Aldrich
Dillon
United States
Edg ar Faure Seen as Steady Yet Divisive France Leader
The article portrays Edgar Faure as a levelheaded premier coping with a polarized parliament. It notes his sincerity, appreciation of American support, and push for allied policy unity beyond facing the Soviets. It mentions France’s dilemmas in Indo China, Tunisia, Morocco, and Central Africa and his friendship with the United States.
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Edgar Faure
France
Europe
Indo- China
Tunisia
Morocco
Central Africa
United States
Graham Plan Aims To Fund Campaigns By Citizens
Washington Post publisher Philip Graham proposes mass contributions from ordinary citizens to finance campaigns, replacing reliance on big donors and special interests. The piece critiques influence peddling and jokes about reporting expenditures as a weak safeguard. It also notes Ezra Taft Benson endorsing gas chambers for turkeys to improve slaughter methods.
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Graham
Philip L. Graham
Washington Post
Times Herald
Underworld
Ezra Taft Benson
Benson
Delegation of Congressmen Visited Nicaragua for Highway Link Opening
A House Public Works Committee delegation traveled to Nicaragua to attend the opening of a Pan American Highway link. In Managua they were greeted by U S Ambassador Thomas E Whelan who noted a later stop at a local quarry for further arrangements.
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House Public Works Committee
Nicaragua
Managua
U. S.S
Thomas E. Whelan
Whelan
Tom Steed
Oklahoma
Harold Macmillan leads effort to ease Anglo American rifts
In Britain Harold Macmillan, head of the Foreign Office, is praised for his zeal in reducing Anglo American misunderstandings. His half American background and friendship with President Eisenhower are noted as reasons for confidence in his approach.
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Harold MacMillan
Britain
Eisenhower
American Ambassadors Speak to European Audiences
The piece notes James B. Conant delivering speeches in German to convey the American view. It cites Charles E. Bohlen in Moscow and Paris, praising his Russian reading and speaking skills. A separate dispatch will outline impressions of European affairs.
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Germany
James B. Conant
Harvard University
Charles E. Bohlen
Moscow
Paris
Bohlen
Europe
You Cant Stop Fish Talk Says Fisherman Philosopher
Harry Boyd muses on why fishing is unpredictable. He jokes that fish are more ignorant of human habits than fishermen are of fish, arguing that any serious angler maintains gear, studies conditions, and offers the right bait to match the moment.
Weekend Warning Sparks Dorm Room Revolt
In a campus anecdote, Representative Steed delays passing along crucial information. The next morning three colleagues burst into his room shouting revolution, alarming those nearby and highlighting tense political exchanges among peers.
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Steed
The Fisherman and His Gear
The author argues that many fishermen waste money on tackle they never use while sticking to old gear. He suggests a fish would live a hundred years if it could choose a fisherman who never changes. He notes fishermen forget or fumble their gear and assume fish notice nothing.
Weathering a Rain Day With Colorful Language and Odd Sights
A 3 year old visiting narrator recalls vivid rain day scenes including two boys guiding horses on S Main Street, a woman in a sheer cotton dress and a sailor hat, and a mother scolding a young boy for slow walking amid downpour.
Supreme Court Won’t Rule on Loyalty Case Yet
The Supreme Court declined to rule on the constitutional question of using secret witnesses in federal loyalty cases. It held the Loyalty Review Board lacked authority to reexamine employees already cleared by their agencies. Since then the board was abolished. now appeals rely on federal courts only.
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Supreme Court
Justice Department
Truman
Eisenhower
John P. Peters
Yale University
U. S. Public Health Service
Loyalty Review Board
Review Board
High Court
Peters
Wide Avenida Julio in Buenos Aires and other world facts
The article lists diverse trivia including a 150 yard wide Buenos Aires avenue, Zanzibar cloves production, the sea unicorn tusk, 9.4 million U.S. highway workers, dating ancient coins by tin content, $13 billion annual U.S. plant disease losses, tin lubrication in cars, whales with vestigial limbs, unique railroad punch shapes, 90 percent of U.S. schools teaching rhythm bands, German trains with telephone links, a bird neck versus snake body pliancy, declining written budgets, and swifts beating wings alternately.
Germany names Horwath as first postwar ambassador to Britain
The article notes Hans Heinrich von Horwath as Germany's first ambassador to Great Britain since World War II, with a cheeky aside about Londoners and the new H heavy accent. It also mentions a Russian cattle shortage, a South American city with 25 newspapers, a comic-strip shortage, and a humorous reference to hairless behemoth bones found by college students in the Northwest.
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Germany
Hans Heinrich von Horwath
London
Critics Claim Column's Two Paragraphs As Prolonged Humor
Critics view the two preceding paragraphs as an overlong attempt at humor in the column. The remark frames the piece as wishful humor rather than serious analysis.
Elephants cause train collisions spark big questions
Elephants in South Rhodesia have collided with railroad trains twice this year. Experts note the paradox of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object and discuss global hunger with about two billion people affected daily and undernourishment exceeding 75 percent of the world population.
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Riilroad
South Rhodesia
Africa
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