Middletown Journal Subscription Rates Listed
The Middletown Journal announces subscription rates for in city and surrounding areas. Per copy 30 cents in city with 40 cents including Sunday edition. outside city 25 cents with 35 cents for Sunday. mail rates range from 9 to 15 dollars yearly depending on area, with 35 dollars outside U S A. All subscriptions payable in advance. The paper is published every evening except Sunday from 1007 First Ave Middletown Ohio. The verse from Corinthians appears in the notice.
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Sunday News Journal
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Supplementary unemployment benefits reshape auto layoff costs
In the downturn, auto workers face new S U B benefits beginning June 1 if still unemployed, under 1955 contracts. Benefits fund 5c per hour with 65 percent pay for four weeks and 60 percent for 22 more, funded privately and topped by public benefits. Ford opposes GA W, while unions argue pay guarantees stabilize incomes and demand broader use in steel, farm equipment, and other sectors.
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S.U.B. Fund
The Second Year of Sovereignty in West Germany
West Germany marks its second year as a sovereign republic with NATO membership and foreign garrisons. Allies fund defense while Bonn seeks cautious rearmament. Bonn enjoys economic growth amid reunification hopes. Leadership succession questions arise as Chancellor Adenauer nears 80.
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West Germany
Federal Republic of Germany
N.A.T.O
Free World
Geneva
Soviet Union
Free Germany
Adenauer
Grits and Southern Womanhood Probed by Hal Boyle
Hal Boyle visits Connley’s Creek North Carolina to test two famed southern claims. He lets locals share views on grits, Southern women, and the contrasts with Northern girls, noting charm, cooking, loyalty, and a long memory in married life.
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Mary
Margie
Middletown honors last Civil War veterans and track win
Platt Vorhis dies at 90 as one of Middletown's final Civil War veterans, Clint Orr remaining in Ohio. Poppy Day sales reach 500. Prize sellers named. Middletown High School shocks by winning Southern Ohio track meet in Norwood with Frank Myers, Tom Heck, Allan Fanning topping events and the medley and mile relays. Coaches Glenn Ellison and Rayner Greene.
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Middletown
Platt Vorhis
Clint Orr
Ohio
Middletown High School
Norwood
Frank Myers
Tom Heck
Allan Fanning
Glenn Ellison
Rayner C. Greene
Chiefs Must Decide Use Of Military Funds
Washington editors argue for a clear, urgent review of defense funding interservice rivalries. The piece warns political and contractor interests shape debates, urges harmony among Air Force Navy and Army, and stresses Congress should scrutinize outcomes without vetoing strategic needs for a war that could begin soon.
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Congress
Eisenhower
United States
Armed Services
Factographs and trivia from distant times
Distilled spirits tax began in 1789 with domestic alcohol taxed by 1791. Paper has about 10,000 uses from kindling to wounds. Ecuador’s Andes rivers drain both oceans. Emus are the second largest living birds after ostriches. Ocean salinity is around three and a half percent. Arab and southern Arabian dagger culture noted. Gorilla habitat in west Africa's great rain forest of French Cameroun. Martin Van Buren first US president born outside Britain. Black Death struck Europe in 1348. Butterflies have flown high over the Rocky Mountains. Department-store escalators travel about 40 feet per minute.
Coincidence and Fate Behind Barkley Death
Washington veteran Senator Alben W Barkley and former aide William Vaughan discussed quotable generals. Barkley joked about Robert E Lee before dying while giving a speech at Washington and Lee College. Separate notes feature Edwin Neff and a campaign bubble gum quip. Rep Hays and Burleson exchange about the Ten Commandments after reading Truman.
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Washington
Alben W. Barkley
William Vaughan
Vaughan
Wilson
Clay
Lincoln
Veep
Robert E. Lee
Senator Barkley
Lee
Washington College
Washington & Lee
Bill Vaughan
Lexington
Washington & Lee College
Brooks Hays
Arkansas
Harry Truman
Hays
Omar Burleson
Texas
Brooks
Burleson
Youthful track athletes set speed records across town
A quirky column notes youths continuing to push speed limits in training as they chase new marks. The piece jests about future pedestrians and odd taxation rules among Pacific tribes for those over five feet tall. It also mentions Fritz Fenderbender, once feared on highways, now driving so slowly that fence posts resemble telephone poles.
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Fritz Fenderbender
Elmer Rice
Nanete Fabray
20Th Century-Fox
Marilyn Monroe
Jules Pfeiffer
Marilyn
Ray Ryan
Las Vegas
Palm Springs
Madrid
Ramp crops lift West Virginia line above the rest
Dave Regan notes a quirky West Virginia railroad, Stroud's Creek and Muddiery, with ramp eating as a local custom. The public relations director J. L. Stanton hints at news releases, but ramp reports dominate as maintenance crews report a ramp crop thriving on the main line. Traffic stays good and locals are said to be in rudest health.
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Mr. Neff
West Virginia
Stroud’s Creek and Muddiety
Muddiety
J. L. Stanton
B&o
John
Stroud’s Creek
Sam Culver
North Carolina
United States
Miss Midnight's Notebook and Hollywood Buzz
Jayne Mansfield finds her dream man in Mickey Hargitay a former Mr Universe whose bulk pairs with intelligence. Cannes debuts and theater cast plans mingle with celebrity gossip as figures like Bella Darvi, Marilyn Monroe and Debbie Reynolds surface in varied projects and headlines.
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Jayne Mansfield
Mickey Hargitay
Mr. Universe
Jayne
Mickey
Estrellita Horoscope Forecast for August and 1957
The星 sign advises progress possible this period in work studies or home tasks with extra effort. Full Moon warns on emotional control in relationships. If your birthday tomorrow focus on improvement over money for a productive year. August October promise social and creative relief from work. domestic tensions rise late this year. romance travel strong early 1957. A child born today may be talented generous.
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