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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1961
Page
4
Middletown Ohio subscription details list weekly and Sunday carrier prices, six day and seven day mail options, and annual rates. Advertising notes express mail delivery and advance payment terms.
Nixon plans for 1962 appear dashed but he returns to Los Angeles signaling a run for California governor. Mur ray Chotiner leads the mobilization to rebuild the GOP while Goldwater and Kennedy loom in national contest. A State Department estimate puts moon project cost at 250 per person, eight kids noted.
A Science Service report highlights the cost of delaying medical care with thousands of preventable deaths from cancer rheumatic disease and tuberculosis. It urges early diagnosis and patient action. The piece also notes two Massachusetts men patented a fish lure combined with a beer can opener, likely to please fishermen.
Kirk Douglas argues Trumbo is not a Communist for using a pseudonym and defends America's free enterprise system as better than a propaganda driven totalitarian model. He asserts Trumbo is no less a Communist by pen name and praises American film making. Hugh O’Brien tells Senate that TV success does not require excessive gore.
Jim Bishop surveys shark behavior from sub tropical waters to Miami. He explains sharks range in size from 18 inches to 70 feet and are slow, opportunistic feeders that seldom hunt humans but may attack when panicked or provoked.
Yale professor Robert Triffin explains two paths to bankruptcy a slow and a fast one. He warns overspending financed by short term borrowing risks liquidity crises and notes the dollar's decline as gold reserves thin and spending outpaces earnings.
Senator Magnuson leads Century Twenty-One Exposition push for Seattle with Laos not expected to participate due to unsettled conditions. Senate figures Mansfield and Humphrey joke about bursitis and the Minnesota Twins as part of a congressional interlude. The rest of the column satirically covers Swiss cheese fraud, a defense of William Wieland, and Census Bureau data on average family size.
The National Geographic Magazine notes the kilt likely evolved from early Celtic garb with a 15 foot tartan laid on the ground, pleated, spread, belted and pinned at the left shoulder. It also states six thousand pounds of steam are used to dry each ton of newsprint.
The text outlines astrology oriented guidance for personal relationships and family matters influenced by planetary aspects. It notes a constructive birthday year with possible achievement of previously unattainable occupational goals, cautions against overtaxing oneself, and suggests financial opportunities in late 1961 and early 1962, plus romantic and social chances in late December and next May and June. A January birth indicates cleverness and dramatic ability.
Middletown prepares for Steelmark Week from June 27 to July 4 featuring a parade and weeklong displays including a space nose cone and Bell systems to speed communications. Prizes, steel marks around town, and public affairs like a barbecue for retail workers accompany a joint service club meeting headlined by Dr. Peter Castruccio former WWII agent and Aeronca space division director.
Dorothy Kilgallen notes Gary Morton’s rising comic career alongside Lucy Ball’s influence. Eartha Kitt to Broadway in The Widow Paris, Vic Damone’s Italy trip for his son’s sixth birthday, and ongoing romances. Edith Piaf ill, Dinah Washington book planned, Liberace dating, Channing tours, and Hitchcock eyeing Alberghetti for a chillers.
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