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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1961
Page
4
Middletown Journal lists subscription rates with rates per copy and by carrier or mail. Local weekly prices in city and suburban areas, trading area yearly options, and overseas annual rate are shown, followed by a biblical verse citation.
The Soviet Union's Arctic detonation, possibly 50 megatons, spews radioactive dust expanding atmospheric pollution and threatening global health. It may push the United States to resume atmospheric testing, a prospect many view as a dangerous race. A Minnesota couple hunts ducks together, married four months, prompting questions about therapy for older couples and the idea of a quack.
A University of Minnesota convocation drew over 5 000 listeners to hear Robert Frost. The veteran poet, praised for clarity and depth, defies the era’s quiet mood toward poetry and hints at a renewed public interest in poets as interpreters of the human condition.
The eminent German born Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben became an American citizen after arriving in 1778 and serving as inspector general. His Prussian training shaped the Monmouth victory and Yorktown siege, and his death came in 1794. He renounced pay until earned, earning lasting remembrance.
Hal Boyle profiles Olive Clapper, widow of Raymond Clapper, who survived his 1944 Pacific plane crash. She urges widows to stay active, seek work, and maintain skills, recounting her own post loss path of service. Now 65, she writes, speaks, leads CARE, and cochaired the American Food for Peace Council, proving love endures.
Tomorrow brings planetary influences that favor vigorous enterprise and new ideas in security programs. Birthday hints changes in home or business affairs soon with adaptation enabling profit within two weeks. November through mid 1962 offers strong stimuli, especially for medical and legal fields, plus travel and romance prospects.
Chairman Thomas W. Baird announced that Aeronca President Car I. Friedlander agreed to deed all water rights on the Wolverton farm property to the city. The land near the Smith Farm was recently purchased by Aeronca.
Washington observers worry about administration policy toward business. Attorney General Robert Kennedy is seen as potentially anti business, but political calculus suggests he may temper stance to avoid electoral defeat. The piece argues for cost stability, fewer monopolistic practices, and stronger antitrust law to curb wage and price pressures and bolster confidence for investment and growth.
Dorothy Kilgallen criticizes Rudolph Bing for opening night spectacle at the Metropolitan Opera starring Leontyne Price and Richard Tucker in Puccini satire. She calls La Fanciulla del West a hoot and mocks staging, costumes, and singing while noting Price's flawless voice and Tucker's weak upper register.
A reader letter argues that widows receive more Social Security than unmarried women like E. B. and calls the policy unfair. It notes W. F. will gain next July despite remaining single and contends seven million Americans on relief could be self supporting. The piece condemns penalties on single, self supporting maiden ladies and suggests bureaucratic fairness.
Washington chronicles recount a Karachi camel driver Bashir Ahmad who charmed CBS reporter Nancy Hanschman with floral compliments. His visit with Vice President Johnson on an Asian tour is hailed as a diplomatic gesture, boosting goodwill as he speaks at the Lincoln Memorial and inspires playful banter about future use as a ghostwriter.
A playful regional item notes that brilliant autumn leaves refuse to stay still, fluttering in the breeze as observers remark on the season's vivid display and the animals, including Brahman bulls, reacting to content moments with unexpected purrs and calm.
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