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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1955
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription options with prices for in city and outside area, weekly per copy rates, mail rates for trading and non trading areas, and a note for U S subscriptions. The paper provides a quoted Bible verse and an address at 1007 First Ave Middletown Ohio.
California governor Goodie Knight, 58, says he will not seek the Republican nomination. He notes the California delegation to the San Francisco convention will likely be pledged to Eisenhower unless he withdraws. Knight had suggested Nixon and Knowland would join the California GOP delegation, and polls show Nixon leading among California committeemen.
Charles F. Kettering asserts future gasoline will be better due to fierce competition among oil companies. He notes today’s gas is 50 percent more efficient than in the 1920s, with two gallons doing what three once did, while prices and taxes rise. He adds competition drives oil exploration and better performance.
All Hallows Eve or Halloween is described as a degenerate holiday by some anthropologists while retaining deep religious roots in Europe and Latin America. The piece traces Celtic origins, Samhain lore, trick or treat from Irish and Scottish influences, and folk practices like apple peels and nuts to foretell the future.
Hal Boyle reports on Al Rockwell, a 35 year veteran piano tuner who runs a school in CLEARFIELD PA to train new tuners. He warns most pianos are out of tune and urges keeping instruments pitched, noting his graduates number around 300 and that tuning can revive neglected pianos for 25 to 30 dollars.
Washington ponders if 33 500 American lives and 103 000 wounded were betrayed by Communist agents in the British Foreign Office and embassy in Washington. The disclosure of MacLean Burgess and a third officer raises questions about who tipped off the duo and allowed them to escape behind the Iron Curtain. Len Eastland asks Dulles for answers as Soviet defectors link MacLean and Burgess toPassing documents to Moscow. The Senate Internal Security subcommittee notes wartime doubts about Allied subversion affecting Korea.
An American humor tone frames a tale of Pisa tourism where GI banter from Camp Darby engineers prompts the lord mayor to bar tower repairs. The narrator recalls American encounters abroad, luggage woes in Zurich, a Rome train ride, and Swiss delays, highlighting travel mishaps and cross cultural misunderstandings.
A narrator jokes about furniture shuffling over decades in a home. He laments limited circulation of a magazine piece and muses on arranging the living room, piano conflicts, and the fantasy of windowless spaces with wall-to-wall furniture on wheels.
The Columbia Pictures unit filmed in the House chamber with spotlights, hammers, rolling paper, and extras at $19.43 daily. Judy Holliday and Pal Douglas starred while Rep Earl Wilson wandered in as himself. The scene then moved to the Pentagon.
The Columbus gathering drew 327 delegates from 84 counties despite rain. They aim to carry Ohio recommendations to Washington on teacher shortages and crowded classrooms, with 68 delegates traveling to the White House Conference in late November.
The forecast says the stars favor creativity and imagination for tomorrow with friendly aspects for romance and domestic harmony. It advises new friendships and personal initiative leading to yearly goals, noting financial advancement and travel favorability in early 1956. A child born today is described as ambitious and perceptive.
The text explains how cloud brightness changes with droplet size, notes the US mean altitude around 2 500 feet, states Colorado as the highest state and Delaware the lowest, claims Americans eat about 27 million sandwiches daily, describes Seneca Lake depths up to 600 feet, and cites South America’s population above 121 million.
The WPA released two 1935 projects on Saturday October 26 creating jobs for about 300 local men through a street grading and graveling program. A Cleveland man claimed his dog caused his basement accident as the source of the incident. Miss Mary Strodtbeck Miss Elizabeth Cahill and Mrs Harriet Du Ermit attended the Cincinnati Business and Professional Women's dinner as Middletown delegates.
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