Middletown Journal Subscription Rates From 25 Cents
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices for local and out of area readers. Rates include 25 cents per copy, weekly by carrier, and yearly mail options up to $10.00 outside the local area, with all payments in advance. The page also features a Bible verse quote from Romans 8 25.
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Sunday News-Journal
Maiin
Sunday News- Journal
U.S.A
F. S. Binder
Future officer education and Burma turmoil mix in 1940s policy look
Secretary of Defense Forrestal backs an Air Force Academy and a reform of academy teaching to build versatile officers and foster inter service teamwork. Burma reels under civil strife with Premier Nu citing 30,000 deaths and $64 million loss, forcing foreign aid appeals as self rule nears. Crime waves and policing debates frame domestic mood.
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Air Force
U. S. Army
Naval
Congress
West Point
Air Academy
Burma
Thakin Nu
Rangoon
Britain
Truman Readjustment Seen as Uncertain this Year
Washington column outlines an economic readjustment since the 1948 election. It argues Truman policies scare business, depress expansion, and raise taxes, causing unemployment rises and diminished consumer demand. The piece criticizes excess profits taxes, labor policy, and partisan handling of labor unions, predicting slower growth through 1950. It warns voters will judge the administration after the 1950 elections.
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Truman
Education reform urged to curb college dictate on high schools
Dr George W Crane records a luncheon exchange with Homer J a 32 year old state teacher convention chair. The discussion centers on reducing college entrance pressure and revamping high school curricula toward life skills such as business law psychology and practical courses. Crane advocates legislative action to drop obsolete entrance requirements and shift to life readiness.
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Homer J
Crane
America
One Word Led To Another on Tax Pains and Patrons
A humorous column riffs on taxation and history figures in a playful critique of income taxes. It blends quotes from Hoover Paine and Decatur with wry lines about government, lawyers, and Centennial taxation, noting England started income taxes in 1849 amid global jitters.
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Paine
National Capitol
Oscar
England
France
Germany
Russia
Brandeis column tackles reader mail and offers
Erich Brandeis notes readers flood his desk with questions about his appearance and his wife's attire. He shares several mail examples from Time Magazine and others, including offers for subscriptions and publicity guides, then dismisses them as unread and filed for next Thursday.
Questions and Answers summary of historical curiosities
A compact Q and A set explains the Douay Bible as an English 16th century Douai translation revised in the 18th century, notes Mary Kies as the first woman granted a patent in 1809 for weaving straw with silk, mentions ancient glove use by cavemen and a Tutankhamun era linen glove found in Egypt, and cites Peter Stuyvesant losing his leg while governing New Amsterdam and Curacao where his right leg was amputated.
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Douai
Flanders
Mary Kies
Egypt
Tutankhamun
Peter Stuyvesant
New Amsterdam
New York
New Netherlands
Curacao
West Indies
Harp-Playing Farmer Heads Back From Heaven
Hal Boyle recounts John Nobody, a Missouri farmer killed by a mule in 1897. After dying, he rises to a heavenly harp chair but longs for earth, asks for a two week vacation, travels back to Missouri by tractor and cloud ride, learns of modern wars, and returns to heaven with a wary, everlasting gaze toward earth.
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New York
John
Peculiar
Heaven
Heavenly Symphony Orchestra
Earth
Missouri
Washington
Kansas City
Spain
Cuba
Germany
Japan
Russia
Old John
St Patrick Day Cheer Sparks Irish Pride at City Dept
Detective work by Police Chief Tom Carmody reveals a birthday in the department last week for Clerk Bob Quinn. From then on Quinn was the butt of jokes and good wishes as St Patrick’s Day festivities spread from the station to his home. A caller misdialed, sang Happy Birthday, then claimed to be from Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Washington
Detroit
Martinsburg
W. Va
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Time Magazine
F. D. Pratt
Airmail
Jittler
Tyne Magazine
Frank “Q'Dobrozsi
Tom Carmody
Bob Quinn
Quinn
Alcoholics Anonymous
United States of America
Way of a Fighter by General Chennault
George E Sokolsky argues that White House policy on China misled the public. He cites Gen Chennault as a truth-teller who asserts U S errors endangered Korea Japan and the Pacific. The book challenges officials and urges readers to study Chennaults account.
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Congress
Dean Acheson
China
Walter Judd
Minnesota
Acheson
Claire Chennault
United States
Japan
George C. Marshall
Manchuria
Korea
Marshall
Douglas MacArthur
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Yangtze Valley
Shanghai
Okinawa
Philippines
Yangtze
Nanking
Burma
India
Malaya
Indonesia
Siberia
Saigon
Yalta
Chennault
Stars Foresee March 16 Birth of Bold Ideas and Change
The reading predicts an unforeseen event may alter stagnant affairs. A brilliant idea or fresh perspective could spark progress but risks to funds, reputation, and health exist. Those born this day may see a dramatic mood shift and new opportunities through inventive insight, balanced by caution.
Highest earthbound tower tops North Carolina peak
The FM station WMIT builds the tallest earthbound structure in eastern America. Its radio tower sits on Clingmans Peak in North Carolina, 20 feet below Fort Mitchells 6,684 foot peak, yet the tower rises above the observation platform on Mitchell.
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WMIT
Clingsman’s Peak
North Carolina
Mitchell
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