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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1948
Page
12
Ruth Millett reports on Aurora Illinois celebrating Leap Year by designating a day when women seize city government to arrest bachelors, detain them in jail, and extract fines payable in candy perfume or nylons. The piece notes bachelors would likely welcome such a playful citywide event.
The piece jokes that bachelors become fair game in many places as married friends push dating, with wives and mothers pressing for matches. It argues a single Leap Year day could end the endless pursuit, letting a man dodge annual matchmaking pressure.
Easy plan for a memorable meal with Roast Beef With Vegetables and a chocolate pudding dessert. Ingredients include rolled beef, carrots, potatoes, onions, and watercress with a seasoned flour rub. Roast slowly, parallel pudding prepared, layered with pink whipped cream in parfait glasses.
The note outlines a daily menu with breakfast items seen as rhubarb sauce cereal and coffee, lunch featuring toasted muffins with cheese and tomato sauce, fruit and cookies, and dinner including enriched rolls, salad, chocolate peppermint parfait, and a roast with cooking times. It adds roasting temperatures and times per pound, vegetable garnishes, and a pink brown dessert color suggestion.
The piece argues against the notion that wearing glasses signals old age. It notes many readers need eyewear and that denying themselves due to vanity strains eyes. Children and students wear glasses too, so using specs is practical not a sign of aging.
AP reports John F. Kessel was named regional housing expeditor for Ohio Indiana Kentucky and West Virginia by Tighe F Woods. Henry M Stein becomes deputy expeditor for the same region. Kessel is from Saginaw Michigan and worked with OPA programs in Saginaw and Cleveland. Stein is from Detroit and serves as chief of operations in the Cleveland regional housing office.
Springfield officials will start considering a proposed one per cent income tax for five years. The ordinance would take effect July 1 and exclude earnings of $1040 or less, plus exemptions for soldiers bonuses, pensions, charitable and religious organizations, labor unions, and lodge incomes.
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