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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1960
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices for different delivery options including per week, carrier within city, and mail outside trading area with annual rates. Also notes post office mailing details, printing by News-Journal Inc. and a biblical quotation.
Fire Prevention Week highlights the vast cost of blazes and the need for vigilance. Since 1911 Fire Prevention Day has evolved into a presidentially proclaimed week. The message urges households to inspect attics basements circuits fuse boxes and cords and to curb matches smoking and careless use of electrical devices to reduce needless fires and deaths.
The Also Rans Lar Daly drives equal time reform aiding Nixon Kennedy debates. Norman Thomas quits Socialist bid after three elections. Prohibitionists back R L Decker. Henry Krajewski runs again for Poor Man's Party. Eric Hass tops Socialist Labor, Farrell Dobbs for Socialist Workers. Homer A Tomlinson write in for Church of God. Many minor groups lack candidates this year.
A profile of Jackie Gleason, towering over a small office, detailing his personality, family, religious faith, and career moves. The interview covers Behan, his dreams to do CBS projects, plans to shoot with Willie Mosconi, and his life from a Brooklyn upbringing to fame, including his finances and show history.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev heads home after three weeks in New York as Nixon and Kennedy brace for a pivotal campaign phase. The debates and TV coverage drew far more attention to performers than policy, with polls remaining fuzzy and no clear front runner emerged.
Two years ago on Thursday October 10, 1940 Mrs. Robert Eagle of 330 Clark Street became the first patient at Cincinnati General Hospital to utilize an iron lung purchased for Middletown Hospital with funds raised by the local polio committee. B D Morgan, a local builder, won a contract to construct a hangar at Middletown Airport with a bid of 9150 dollars. Captain Robert Stuart, commanding officer of the local National Guard unit, led his men to Dayton for physicals before heading to Camp Shelby Mississippi for military training.
Washington reports a partisan parlor game as GOP voices unleash a speech kit and a flood of rebuttals. Leaders Paul Theis and Chet Holifield trade volleys while Democrats counter with study group tactics and recalls of Roosevelt Truman era policy. Time grows short as both sides edge toward countering counter rebuttals.
Tomorrow brings opportunities through study work and careful money tracking. Birthdays hint at a slow start through 1960 with spring brought growth and a vision to resolve confusion. Summer hosts shine with parties, social life peaks next fall, and a child born that day may become an excellent lawyer with self discipline.
Statistics show litter removal on U S highways costs about 50 million annually. National Wine Week runs October 8 to 15. Hussein allocates Mondays to hear big subjects. A U S erasers firm sold over four million in 1959. Who said to err is human. Alaska citizens vote at the totem polls. Unpopular speeches risk in Australia. Imagining an overripe ostrich egg adds to the week’s quips.
Dave Regan chronicles a first ceramics lesson at the Fine Arts Center. The writer and Cahoda tackle clay, discovering its stubborn will as they pound, knead, and shape a bowl after three hours of messy trial. Pete Dahoda of Miami University facilitates the session, mostly with female students. The author plans to return next Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Dorothy Kilgallen reports Vic Damone failing to reach Pier Angeli in Paris, eyes U.S. custody of their child after a heated call. Bill Miller to run the Riverside Hotel in Reno with Donald O’Connor and backers in a $5 million deal. Plus Hollywood chatter on Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, Brigitte Bardot, Somerset Maugham, and more from New York clubs to politics and Cuba.
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