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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1964
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices for different delivery options including daily, Sunday, carrier, and mail rates both within trading areas and outside. It also notes publication by News-Journal Inc. and includes a Bible verse.
The McClellan committee clears Freeman and officials in the Estes case, dampening GOP leverage from the Estes matter while keeping Baker as the main potential scandal. The Baker probe, reopened to review new evidence, raises public interest due to Senate involvement and FBI inquiry ordered by President Johnson. A lighter note closes the piece with a joke about a new noise toy altering bicycle sounds.
A Duluth Minnesota hawk flyway records over ten thousand birds in a single fall day. Former gun hunting has given way to conservation minded viewing with binoculars. The piece notes social value shifts alongside a political jab about President Johnson and Goldwater.
The Chamber of Commerce notes fringe benefits such as sick leave pensions and health insurance have grown 25 percent since the postwar period. It reports average benefits per employee at $1,431 last year, up $177 from 1961, highlighting expanded employer generosity beyond wages.
Senate figure Hubert Humphrey spurned a bipartisan push to oppose recognizing Communist China. He privately opposes the shift but declines to sign a public committee proclamation endorsed by 345 lawmakers. The deadline-driven appeals traced letters from March to June, with no public endorsement.
The report details Hubert Humphrey criticizing Eisenhower era hardliners and urging lowered trade barriers to woo Beijing away from Moscow. It notes his 1957 Senate speech calling disarmament talks essential and a 1958 ADA convention highlight advocating peaceful coexistence with China and shifts in UN policy toward Peking.
A broadside by Independent Democrats of California circulated in Negro areas attacks Lyndon B Johnson as hostile to civil rights. It quotes Johnson saying he is not an advocate of civil rights while accusing him of opposing anti lynching anti poll tax anti filibuster laws desegregation of schools armed forces integration and fair employment practices.
Washington notes that the recently adjourned 88th Congress may presage a drift toward large borrowed spending and a larger public sector. Critics warn of artificial economic management, deficits, and a widening federal role under civil rights measures and defense contracts.
The Auto Workers strike at General Motors centers on Reuther pushing for full-time union officials on GM payrolls and full union control in manufacturing. He notes similar provisions at Ford and Chrysler, while GM resists extending management prerogatives. The piece argues GM workers gain no new pay or benefits, citing broader gains already settled and warning of lost wages to empower union leadership.
The forecast highlights strong imagination and enterprise with periods of progress in career and finances from February through October. Travel and social life shine between now and late January, with romance favoring May to mid August. A child born now is described as idealistic and self confident.
Dave Regan writes in favor of the principals behind Middletown school bond measure on the November 3 ballot. He notes the Board of Education completed projects, added Creekview elementary, and restructured facilities to save costs. He urges readers to repay the education they benefited from with their support.
Dorothy Kilgallen reports Vernon Duke and Lee Magid discuss reviving Cabin in the Sky with Della Reese at Huntington Hartford Theatre in Hollywood and a spring Broadway opening. The column covers Princess Grace amid My Fair Lady charity premiere and questions of her New York arrival.
A Tulane University doctor notes in a survey that bald men show lower lung cancer incidence regardless of smoking. Only 10 percent of surveyed lung cancer patients were bald. The report adds a pop culture aside about Robert Wagner and television plans with Sheldon Reynolds and previews of Joy House with Lola Albright and Alain Delon.
The oldest living winged insects are cockroaches, unchanged since geologic times. U S mineral imports supply uranium manganese cobalt nickel and tin. Harvard University honors John Harvard for his donation of money and a library. Linoleum originated in England with most later developments there.
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