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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1958
Page
4
Hal Boyle compiles curious aloud notes from readers and public life. He cites a cow as nature’s mower, aging America, literacy gaps, and quirky facts on bottles, flags, and jokes. The column links everyday oddities to broader trends.
Dave Regan recalls his father who preferred walking over riding streetcars, a habit that kept him healthy to age 85 before death from malignancy. The piece contrasts older generations valuing walking with today’s car-bound youth, noting the shift in lifestyle and its outcomes.
The House Ways and Means Committee focuses on cost of living rises in Old Age and Survivors Insurance and public assistance while the uninsured struggle. May unemployment fell to 4.904 million, with insured unemployment at 3.101 million. States may borrow to extend benefits up to 50 percent of state durations, retroactive to mid 1957.
The musical tent business dates to 1949 with St John Terell’s fill in Lambertville New Jersey. The 1958 season opens mid June with The Most Happy Fella. About 22 to 25 tents operate on the East Coast and nearby areas, attracting an audience of roughly 31 percent of a million people and about seven million dollars in gross. Many other music festivals across United States and Canada also debut this summer including Tanglewood in Lenox and Berkshire Music Barn with jazz acts.
A Washington Post and Times Herald advertisement seeks waitresses age 21 to 35 with precise measurements 34-24-34 or better and height 5 4 to 5 8. The column questions what such physical standards say about society, noting how externals now seem to matter more than inner qualities and pondering progress and direction in modern culture.
Fulton Lewis Jr reports that despite new skyways and stricter safety, near misses in U. S. air space rose to 79 from May 2 to June 10 1958. Experts attribute the uptick to more pilot reporting, not more danger, noting radar bottlenecks and lengthy ground control training will delay safety gains for years.
Lunar vibrations boost ambitions while beware of delays and discouraged moments. For births tomorrow, year offers career and financial gains with September promising results. Singles may wed, relationships improve, with July trips and a possible December journey. Early 1959 brings business opportunities and a child born today will be versatile and principled.
A roundup of quirky notes from politics and society including a stockmen association price rise for rustlers to 1000 dollars, Russia's long awaited census, a no vote tally in an Indianapolis precinct, a 121 year old Yugoslav farmer who smokes, a critique of Stalin, a comedian's hair jab, Peruvian students clashing with Nixon, an ostrich speed claim, a tremor machine concept, desert barefoot burns, and licensing tom tom drums in Africa.
Russell Barnard left for Cara cas Venezuela to serve as consulting engineer on a government project, loaned by the American Rolling Mill Co. First of the season's free public concerts was set for Sunset Park with D. W. Jacot as master of ceremonies. Colin Gardner III announced the birth of son Colin IV at Cincinnati Jewish Hospital.
L A Waldner was re elected president of the Council for Temp lar Advancement in the third district of Ohio at the second annual picnic at Miami Valley Chautau qua for Southern Ohio Masons under auspices of Middletown Commandery Knights Templar.
Miss Ruth Stubbs daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur A Stubbs finished first in the Willard Memorial Prize contest for outstanding work in the Latin department at Heidelberg College Tiffin.
Dorothy Collins may return to Hit Parade in a revised version while Sid Luft weighs a life story book with Judy Garland. Mike Todd Jr plans a Broadway play next season as Juliette Greco’s illness shocks Paris. Jane Russell and Bob Waterfield may deny rumors again.
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