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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1959
Page
4
Middletown Ohio notices show subscription rates for News Journal Inc. including daily, Sunday and weekly carrier options. Rates list per copy, city area delivery, trading area mail, and outside areas, with annual prices and advance payment required. A brief biblical quote from Job accompanies the notice.
Red China is reorganizing half a billion peasants into 26,000 communes with 20,000 persons each, enforcing labor regimentation and family separation. Decrees since December ease strict living while preserving aims to boost agricultural and industrial output for 1959 and expand influence abroad through foreign aid in Southeast Asia.
Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey opens at Madison Square Garden and Clyde Beatty Cole Brothers at Palisades Amusement Park on the same day as two rival circuses begin the season. The revival of circuses despite unions and transport troubles boosts optimism across Europe as well.
New York AP profile of Audrey Meadows outlining her diverse career from concert singing to Broadway to television. She dismisses typecasting, discusses plans to learn guitar, and prioritizes kindness over anger while noting fears of storms and a playful view on epitaphs.
The article quotes Walter Reuther and Rep. Wright Patman criticizing profit retention in the auto sector. It argues that saving earnings funds expansion, supports job creation, and explains why reliance on borrowing shifts costs to taxpayers. It notes past tax policy and the 1906-37 era on profit distribution.
Dorothy Kilgallen reports Betsy Drake dating Jerrold Kushnick a Wall Street lawyer at the Sage as a tutor and suitor while Cary Grant attention centers on a party where he charms Au Kar Wai a new arrival in Hollywood. Other gossip notes cover George DeWitt Sylvana Pampanin marriage rumors Lollobrigida bids for Guns of Navarone lead Kerouac and Berle bits and a Rififi sequel in development.
Astrology note predicts progress for those born tomorrow with imagination and enterprise. May September November bring setbacks. June July October favor cooperation and arch travel and romance in June. Domestic crises possible in April September. December brings excellent news. A child born that day will be loyal and pleasant.
In a playful vault of sensational lines a haunted house Bodwenn Hall is said to harbor five ghosts including a dog while jokes critique England s most haunted site. A star design change prompts a quip about naming the American flag New Glory and other tongue in cheek notes touch on music jails racehorses Warm Springs and infant furniture with a space ship nod.
In a lighthearted column the writer jokes about hockey players at work and a playful mix of spring fashion. He notes window shopping for spring clothes, especially sport coats, trousers, hats, and colorful ties, and hints at a wish for travel and a new wardrobe while staying grounded.
Jim Bishop recounts the burial of Jesus after the crucifixion. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus place the body in a tomb near Golgotha, with spices, linen, and a rolling stone. Mary and the mother of Jesus mourn as the tomb is sealed and the momentous day ends.
In 1939 Rayner C. Greene, the basketball coach, was named to direct the restoration of Middletown High School baseball after a multi year lapse. Also noted, James C. Woodard was dismissed as warden of the Ohio Penitentiary amid charges against him, while Welfare Director Charles Sherwood filed two Civil Service complaints. George Whitman starred as Huckleberry Finn in a Roosevelt Junior High production with Harold Com and Lee Bal ard in key roles.
Some authorities credit ice cream to Romans under Emperor Nero AD 54 to 68 while industry data show glass steel and chemical sectors consuming about 20 percent of U S coal production. A starfish feeds on oysters by prying the shell and turning its stomach inside out to digest.
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