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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1954
Page
8
A Cincinnati reader criticizes the McCarthy Army investigating subcommittee hearings. The letter claims the husband has quit work to watch hearings all day, finding it the biggest mess in Washington and asking Senator McClellan to explain what McCarthy seeks.
Listings show FBI In Peace And War at 8 p.m. on WHIO followed by The Great Gildersleeve at 8:30. Crime Classics at 9:30 and Army McCarthy hearings highlights at 10. TV Theater and boxing also featured later with Morals of Marcus and Becky Sharpe at 11:30.
The article profiles Arthur Penn, a onetime Fort Jackson Army private and Co lumbia community theatre participant who became a prominent director for NBC Television Playhouse. It traces Penn from early acting in New York and New Hampshire, through WWII service, study at Black Mountain College and European training, to his directing career and collaborations with Fred Coe and Paddy Chayefsky.
The listing shows a slate of radio programs across stations WKRC WLW Lebanon WPFB WSAI WPFB WMOH and more. Programs include Newsreel Interviews Music Hall Mystery Quiz Aunt Jenny Farm Hour Riders and Dialing with varied time slots late evening.
Crunchy brittle tea scrolls with a molasses ginger cookie recipe plus a spring dinner idea. The page lists two scroll variants using oats, molasses, and nuts with baking directions, plus a dessert option filled with whipped cream or ice cream.
The speaker argues for personal autonomy amid emotional conditioning and suggests a psychiatric therapist as a reinforcer for regaining free will. The passage stresses resisting the reflex to please and becoming openly receptive to one’s first feelings to express true individuality.
The Sharpsburg mayor and Council discuss an ordinance to require women to wear clothing from shoulder to knee in public. Mayor Elmer Kennedy notes objections from some older residents to girls wearing shorts.
Mary Haworth offers advisory column guidance in the Jour nal format. She counsels through the newspaper column rather than mail or personal interviews and asks readers to write in care of The Jour nal.
Sirens in Formosa signaled two blackouts between midnight and dawn as radar spotted unidentified planes over the Formosa Channel. Officials found no indication the planes were Chinese Reds, following fighter plane clashes off the China coast. Nationalist air force reported damage to one Red MIG jet.
Easy to sew pattern for short fuller figures offered in sizes 14 through 24. The mail-in notice from Marian Martin lists fabric needs for size 16 percent and includes a complete illustrated sew chart and a 35 cent pattern price plus 5 cents extra for first class mailing. Mail to News Journal Middletown Ohio Pattern Dept New York NY with name address zone size and style number.
A hotel clerk reports a repeat robbery by a bandit with a long knife who reclaimed attention by saying I am here again and stole 40 dollars from the cash register in the early morning. The suspect, James L. Vaughn of 222 Boys Avenue La Grange Illinois, appears in court notices for a divorce case filed by Betty Vaughn in Butler County Ohio.
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