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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1949
Page
2
Babson Park column criticizes schools for valuing sports bands and parades over core academics. He argues employers favor practical skills and contests, predicts 1951 job shortages, and praises 4-H clubs while urging new clubs to boost secretarial, arithmetic, and spelling education nationwide.
Dayton market notes show Chicago wheat absence with corn prices from No. 1 to No. 5 grades and oats and barley quotes. Chicago grain review reports hedge selling and weak demand causing losses across wheat, corn, oats, rye, soybeans, and lard with July futures sliding several cents per bushel or hundredweight.
The Public Health Service reports the first known instance of tropical insect eggs on the outside of an airplane. A Miami sanitary inspector found eggs from South America on a wing. The insects are Phalaenidae moths. Later, three other species were found on planes in Honolulu. The service also notes fleas from wood rats carried bubonic plague in Dawson County Texas in October 1947, and histoplasma capsulatum was found in Norway rats in Loudon County Virginia, first time detected outside people and dogs. The FDA says sanitary conditions improved across major food industries. Aphrodite's link to a Semitic cult in Greece is noted.
The P Lorillard Company announced a 25 cent dividend with June 10 as record date and July 1 as payment date. The note credits Greene and Brock as brokers who compiled the dividend information.
Mrs. Jessie Adler of Miami Beach complained the United States Steel annual report was too confusing at the Hoboken meeting, while other stockholders said it was easy to read. The piece notes firms have expanded reports with graphs, color, and photos to boost investor interest, contrasting U S Steel’s 1920 gray-cover report with its current colored cover and images of workers.
Washington AP reports economy advocates see possible major victory as Congress edges toward blanket spending cuts despite Administration opposition. Democrats Russell Tydings and McClellan back broader reductions while Republicans like Aiken resist piecemeal cuts. A June test in the House could reveal broader spending restraints.
TRENTON The Free outdoor movies sponsored by the Trenton Merchants and operated by the Markel brothers will begin this Wednesday evening and continue each Wednesday throughout the summer. Physiologists say the conscious experience of appetite is quite different from that of hunger.
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