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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1961
Page
4
Local Middletown scene centered on S Broad Street area near First Avenue in Middletown Ohio with community activity and streetscape notes.
Subscription details list prices for daily, Sunday, and weekly delivery in city, trading area, and outside regions. Rates include 6 day mail at $10 annually, 7 day mail at $20, foreign mail at $35, with all subscriptions prepaid. Published daily by News-Journal Inc founded 1857.
An editorial urges voters to approve two renewing levies on the upcoming Tuesday ballot. The Middletown School District levy, first approved in 1956, is framed as essential amid rising costs. A small tuberculosis levy funds care and acts as a public health measure to prevent wider illness. The piece argues education and health sustain a progressive community and urges a YES vote to strengthen America’s future.
In Ohio voters will decide Proposed Amendment No 2 on November 7 to authorize legislative power for government continuity during emergencies including enemy attack. It aims to preserve executive legislative and judicial leadership, prevent unlawful power grabs, reestablish normal services, and avoid martial law with lines of succession and other measures. A light jab about Moscow and Walter Ulbricht ends the piece.
An opinion piece notes a rise in cigarette smoking and growing evidence of links to lung cancer. It stresses the troubling spread among youth despite warnings and urges parents to actively counter the attraction of smoking to their children.
The author shares reflections on living longer and better, inspired by his father and visits to Baden-Baden and Badgastein. He notes hot springs may aid health but emphasizes spiritual health, peace, and a life lived with God as the true secret to longevity, urging daily time in nature and faith.
A humorous column recounts a downtown bookstore encounter about a book titled The Tropic of Cancer not being really about cancer. A Dayton shopper repeats the gag, another buys the book thinking it is about cancer, and a man offers three times the price. The item then moves to staff antics and a newspaper quip about perfume in bras, with others noting newsroom chores and odd ideas. A church parking lot quip and a Kentucky Colonel joke round out the page.
Two Kennedy aides, Sen J William Fulbright and Sen Hubert Humphrey, became targets of East German and Polish praise for their foreign policy stances. Gaertner praised Fulbright for opposing shooting and supporting negotiations, while Humphrey toured Europe and Poland, noting State Department interest in the Rapacki Plan for a Central European atom free zone. Ellender also drew Kremlin praise for views on war and peace.
Dorothy Kilgallen notes The Gay Life producer Kermit Bloomgarten enlists Morton Da Costa to fly to Detroit to salvage the show. Martha Raye and ex-cop Bob O Shea reconcile and shop for a Long Island home. Peggy Lee’s Basin Street East benefit delights a stylish crowd. Peggy’s performance followed by praise, with Quincy Jones’ band backing.
George Sokolsky laments the neglect of small businesses as global crises and UN politics dominate. He argues excessive forms, licenses, and taxes enslave the small entrepreneur, pushing many toward unionized or proletarian paths and eroding the middle class and local autonomy.
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