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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1962
Page
4
The Middletown Journal announces subscription rates and mailing options for readers. Rates include weekday 6 cents per copy, Sunday 15 cents, city carrier 50 cents weekly, and mail plans ranging from 10 dollars yearly within trading area to 35 dollars outside U S A annually.
Rep. Walter H. Judd, once urging retirement, reverses decision after heavy public pleas and announces he will seek re election. He faces challenger Donald M. Fraser, Minneapolis attorney and former state senator, in what promises to be a high profile contest drawing national attention.
The death of Mrs. Grant at 83 recalls Gen Ulysses S. Grant’s distinguished lineage through Elihu Root’s daughter and Grant’s own family. The line includes three married daughters and a history of generals, with no son to carry the military name forward, a loss the nation might feel.
More than three and a half million fans paid about 20 million dollars to see My Fair Lady as the Lerner Leone production closes its New York run on July 7. It opened March 15, 1956, tying a record engagement of 2,621 performances and promising revivals to come.
Jim Bishop mocks his family the Bishops as talented in many sports yet consistently lousy at them. He jokes about golf boating boxing fishing and more detailing misadventures with humor and affectionate satire.
A fragmented note claims statistics show today’s women are taller stronger and heavier than prior generations and adds a remark about beauty. the passage ends abruptly with a printer named Milt claiming he met one person who can be identified.
Washington column weighs a spat between Senator Hayden and Rep Cannon over who chairs money bill conferences. The piece lampoons aging appropriations leaders Hayden and Cannon while noting Mansfield’s offer to host in center Capitol space and his readiness to cross sides if needed.
The piece presents Attorney General testimony on whether the Kennedy administration and steel industry acted with an understanding to keep steel prices in check during wage talks. It cites a 1940 antitrust ruling that price fixing is illegal per se, and notes officials suggested a noninflationary outcome but the price rise followed. The AG says there was no explicit understanding, but an assumption existed among some executives.
A State Highway Department survey from 1961 shows ages 25 to 34 have the highest share of accidents and fatal crashes, with teens contributing notably. The Fourth of July is the most dangerous period, and Ohio’s 1961 traffic deaths total 1,674, below prior years but behind California, Texas, New York, and Illinois.
Dorothy Kilgallen presents Harold Rome, composer of I Can Get It For You Wholesale, discussing his lack of direct film work, the fate of movie musicals, and his belief that good storytelling drives audience appeal. He advocates a central New York theatre ticket bureau to simplify last minute seating and expand audiences, noting benefits to producers and patrons.
Factographs identify the Grand Banks off Newfoundland as the world’s largest offshore fishing grounds. Dinosaur National Monument on the Colorado-Utah border has yielded millions of pounds of petrified dinosaur bones. About 180 holly species exist globally, with only 12 species occurring in the United States.
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