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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1960
Page
4
The Middletown Journal details subscription prices for various delivery options in Middletown Ohio, including per week and yearly mail rates for trading and non trading areas. The note also lists the newspaper’s address, postmark, and founding year, and ends with a Bible verse.
A meditation on creators across art and industry, naming figures from Verily to Edison, Foster to Wright, and noting the sacred source of creativity. A closing line quips that the economy is pausing, with a hopeful note that the pause may refresh.
A presidential endorsement reinforces U S rights to Gulf of Guantanamo base via a treaty and vows to defend it, citing Castro linked to the Communist bloc and UN General Assembly limits on Cuban-Soviet invasion rhetoric. The note labels the stance clear and necessary to prevent misreading by Havana. A Texas store advertises gendered planes.
Cranberries return to the autumn scene as FDA inspections last year prompted a crackdown on tainted batches. Growers and processors faced hardship, but this year the cranberry harvest meets safety standards and is deemed safe for unlimited consumption, inviting renewed use in holiday meals.
A Norman V Peale essay urges forgetting past failures to progress. It recalls a Dakota farmer who saved five percent of his crop after grasshoppers and a dust storm, saying, I aimed to forget it. I just started working for next time. The farmer’s resilience came from church and the wisdom of Paul, shaping character and faith.
Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president re elected to a third term with 468 electoral votes while Wendell Willkie garners 63. States backing Willkie include Colorado Iowa Indiana Kansas Maine Nebraska North and South Dakota and Vermont. Bryan Hunter of Middletown earns a free ride through town in a wheelbarrow pushed by William W. Elam after a bet on the election.
A nostalgic note recalls a 20 year old Jaycees event that burned campaign propaganda in a downtown bonfire the night before an election. The piece laments lost ideas and suggests reviving the revival plan to soften political rancor and accusations of national campaigns.
George Dixon offers a playful wildlife analogy of Nixon Kennedy crowds on tour revealing odd “species” at campaign stops. He notes chest stabbers foot-pounders nodders chin-strokers and holders shaping reactions. He observes a shift from suiting to casual wear among audiences across the nation.
Dorothy Kilgallen notes Tony Curtis’ fury over rumors of marital strife with Janet Leigh amid a flood of show business gossip. Elizabeth Taylor health delaying Cleopatra sparks Wanger’s cautious stance, while Bertram Russell mocks safety through strength. Ella Fitzgerald buys a $100,000 mansion after selling a $70,000 hat.
The piece traces Richard Nixon’s uncovering of the Pumpkin Papers and the Alger Hiss case, detailing Nixon’s rise, Hiss’s career, and the reaction of Park Avenue liberals. It notes the case’s political fallout, the trial outcomes, and the lasting tensions between anti-Communism and elite prestige in Washington society.
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