Middletown Journal Rates and Publication Details
The Middletown Journal publishes daily except Sundays with a subscription structure including city and trading area rates for per copy, carrier, and mail options. The page lists prices for in city $0.30 weekly and outside city $0.25 weekly with Sunday edition options, plus annual mail rates and a biblical verse.
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Eisenhower’s measured stance in McCarthy-Stevens affair
The President refrains from defending the Army in the Peress case and urges Congress to act with fair play. He asserts executive cooperation with investigations while protecting officials from personal humiliation and defends loyalty of the armed forces, noting General Zwicker amid McCarthy’s attack. Public sentiment remains divided ahead of 1954 elections.
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Army
Peress
Stevens
Eisenhower
Congress
Executive Branch
General Zwicker
McCarthy
Eisenhower backs farm plan over higher wool duties
President Eisenhower says he will not act on Tariff Commission calls for higher wool duties. He favors a farm plan to let domestic wool seek its price in the market with government compensatory payments funded by wool import duties. Congress weighs whether producers accept the plan or pursue higher import tariffs.
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Eisenhower
Tariff Commission
Senate Agriculture Committee
Australia
Congress
Past Exchanges With Reds In Diplomacy At Geneva
The article recalls past U S and French mediation efforts with Soviet Russia in 1929 over the Chinese Eastern Railway and the 1950 UN debate with the Chinese Communists on Formosa and Korea. It notes Moscow's rebuke of U S mediation and the slow path to recognition, as well as Beijing’s bellicose stance affecting diplomatic status.
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Geneva
United States
Russia
China
France
Moscow
Stimson
Korea
Red China
Cruising Aboard Mauretanias Deck Reveals Hidden Desires
Hal Boyle observes passengers on the Mauretanias Caribbean voyage, finding varied motives for cruising from romance and escape to bragging rights and repairs of relationships. He notes intimate conversations at sea, quirky characters like Watterson Lowe the official humanizer, and a lighthearted mood as travelers seek joy and forgetfulness.
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Mauretania
Caribbean
Virgin Isles
Frances
Roger
Watterson Lowe
Cunard Line
Watterson
Radio Networks Denied Senator McCarthy Right of Reply
The CBS and NBC faced critique for denying Senator McCarthy a right of reply in a public dispute, arguing networks control air time and news judgment while government limits on broadcasting remain. The piece defends press parity, warns of diminished public trust, and stresses three sides to the Stevenson McCarthy controversy and the networks’ duty to news fairness.
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Washington
Columbian Broadcasting System
National Broadcasting Company
United States
McCaffee
America
Leonard Hall
Republican National Committee
Adlai Stevenson
Miami
Stevenson
McCarthy
Nixon
Wisconsin
Florida Tourism Prices Reach Tourists Like Mountain Heights
The piece notes Florida’s tourist industry as the state’s greatest, with hotel rooms from 14 to 50 dollars for two meals daily. It cites December to March as peak tourist season, and highlights millions in taxes from gasoline, sales, beverage, cigarette, and racing taxes. It recalls Gasparilla era pirates and observes tourists’ willingness to pay high prices for luxury venues.
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Florida
Salares
Sil da
Miami Beach
Florida Commentary on Life and Diamonds in Paradise
The writer contrasts quietKey West and glamorous Miami Beach with Floridas hospitable scene and wealth, noting large diamonds in luxury hotels and the country’s pleasant ruin. The tone mocks fears of ruin and imagines how Molotov might react to the sunny, moneyed landscape of Florida.
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Key West
Miami Beach
America
Florida
Molotov
Estrellita Stars Forecast for Tomorrow and Sunday
The column predicts profitable intellectual pursuits and relaxing leisure Sunday. It notes strong relations with friends and business associates in the evening and possible progress through their goodwill. If your birthday is Sunday or Monday, it outlines career, travel plans, finances, and social life for 1954 and beyond.
From Behind the Curtain He Steps Into a Bathing Suit
A commentator notes that a figure of his nationality emerges from the Iron Curtain and appears in a bathing suit, humorously observed as less dignified than some capitalists encountered locally.
March 1994 M E Girls' Service Club Meeting Hostesses
Miss Elizabeth Smith and Miss Barbara Shoemaker hosted the March meeting at home on Linden Avenue. Police sought a band of youths who smeared grease on five Vanderveer Street area residences and garages. Victims included Mrs. Van Sickle Hurwitz Great house Sickle Evans. Fred Cramer was in Indianapolis on business.
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Elizabeth Smith
Barbara Shoemaker
M. E. Girls’ Service Club
Linden Avenue
Vanderveer Street
Alice van Sickle
B. F. Hurwitz
C. R. Greathouse
E. R. Sickle
L. D. Evans
Fred Cramer
Indianapolis
Saul Gelb
Gelb
Comedienne
Gracie Fields
Boris Alperovici
Henry Cabot Lodge
White House
Ohio girl wins prize for better roads list
A young Ohio girl earned a prize for a list of road improvement ideas. The column wonders who filed the list in the wastebasket and notes reader interest in practical civic suggestions.
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Ohio
Traffic tweaks urged for one way streets in Manchester
Readers urge Lt. Jim Combs to time walk lights to clear intersections before pedestrians move and vice versa. They note frequent violations in the Manchester area from Sutphin to Bellomonte, call for clearer lane rules, longer no parking yellows, and curving guides. Pedestrian violations persist but fines deter jaywalking after crosswalk removal.
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Jim Combs
Jimmy
Manchester Avenue
Sutphin
Manchester
Bellomonte
Kilgallen Jottings Touch on Arrests and Party Gossip
Dorothy Kilgallen reports on Saul Gelb's drug seizure and police surveillance impacting nightclubs. plus celebrity dating, marriages, theater plans, immigration nudges, and a San Quentin jazz note. The pieces mix crime, entertainment, and nightlife in a brisk, gossip-forward column.
Hairdresser dispute nearly delays Garroway Show
On The Garroway Show a union objected to Lisa Kirk bringing her own hairdresser, risking delay until three minutes before airtime. The District Attorney probes a Carnegie Hall concert. Frances Faye settles with ex manager Phil Kahl for eight thousand dollars after switching agents.
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Garroway
Lisa Kirk
Lisa
District Attorney's
Carnegie Hall
Frances Faye
Phil Kahl
Portrait of a Torchbearer At LeVouvray Bar
Pietro Mele appeared at LeVouvray's bar the other evening posing as a torchbearer while gently fondling a jewel encrusted gold cigarette case.
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Pietro Mele
LeVouvray
Answers And Questions From A Public Night School
Questions cover locations and unions. The first public night school for high school subjects opened in Cincinnati Ohio. The largest U S labor union is the United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers Union. The nation’s capital library is the Library of Congress. China’s current year is 4651 on the lunar calendar and 2505 since Confucius.
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Cincinnati
United States
United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers Union
Congressional Library
Library of Congress
Confucius
Sun Yateem
Repub
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Dave Regan
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Sherri Windsor
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Vera
Robert Newton
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Mary Dees
Jean Harlow
Bellef
New York
Joe E. Lewis
Cleveland
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