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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1957
Page
10
Dr. George W. Crane explains that stuttering in toddlers is normal and often tied to development rather than handedness. Parents should avoid scolding or pressuring a left handed child to switch to the right hand, using toys on the right to encourage preference naturally.
The piece mixes anecdotes about Elvis writers Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller with Lena Horne at Cocoanut Grove and a TV film set on Republic's State Trooper. It weighs in on Sea adventures, new films Love In The Afternoon Island In The Sun and A Face In The Crowd while noting stage roles for Belafonte and Davis Jr. and casting rumors.
A raft built from seven pine trunks heads from Bordeaux across the Atlantic. Crew members Guy Gouttepierre and Rene Lescombe expect a four to five month voyage toward South America and plan to explore the Amazon upon arrival.
In Akron Ohio Edison Co offers 5.1 per cent wage increase. Utility Workers Joint Council members vote on the offer with results pending. The IBEW with 760 members rejected the proposal while UWJC negotiators advised acceptance under a wage reopening clause. Both unions cover multiple Ohio cities and former Ohio Public Service locations.
Sen. Morton Ky urges Congress to fund Ohio River Valley development and flood protection in a speech. He cites a multi billion dollar industrial boom since 1950 driven by atomic energy steel and chemical sectors and notes coal barge shipments may be hampered by obsolete locks and dams and flood threats.
An 18 year old recruit from Cannon Ball North Dakota Carl Two Horses arrives at the naval training center and says his Sioux family name traces back to his ancestor who earned two horses. Fellow recruits include Marcus Two Hatchett Fred Big Pig Horse Leroy Everybody and Sam Tall Bear.
The Weather Bureau begins using two mobile weather stations on trucks to monitor hurricanes near coastlines. Each unit, crewed by two observers, reports hourly to forecast offices and transmits data to locations including New Orleans Burrwood Athens Hatteras Norfolk Washington Nantucket and Boston. The trucks are storm ready and water sealed with wind and rain sensors and radio links.
Senate Rackets Committee investigator John Dye Cheasty testifies for a fifth day in the bribery trial of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. He describes photographs he says show a $2000 payoff for inside material on Teamsters President Dave Beck, monitored by FBI agents during the day of Hoffa's arrest.
Promoter Jack Hurley announced August 22 as the heavyweight championship date in Seattle at Sicks Stadium for Floyd Patterson and Pete Rademacher, provided Patterson defeats Hurricane Jackson on July 29 in New York. If Jackson wins, the Seattle bout is canceled.
A drive-in in Jackson Mississippi displays a sign reading Lets all be thankful we dont have as much government as we pay for provoking local chatter about sentiment and free expression during the Thanksgiving season.
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