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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1961
Page
4
Middletown Journal details subscription prices for week days and Sunday editions. Rates include in city 50 cents weekly, six day mail $10 yearly, seven day mail $20.60 yearly, and outside U S A $35 yearly with payment in advance. Published daily by News-Journal Inc. Founded in 1857.
The Soviet party’s move to remove Stalin’s body from Red Square signals Khrushchev’s victory after six years of struggle. The public has learned details of purges, and Soviet leadership factions are exposed as murderers. The action may ease Berlin tensions temporarily while triggering a broader internal readjustment.
Washington columnist notes Ike Eisenhower, once bored with Gettysburg and politics, now campaigns passionately for James P. Mitchell in New Jersey and Louis Lefkowitz in New York. He criticizes Kennedy policy while Democrats accuse him of campaign oratory. The November 7 race tallies nationwide tensions shaping 1962 and 1964 GOP prospects.
The Saturn giant rocket, weighing about 50 tons and over 160 feet tall, with 1,300,000 pounds of thrust, launched from Cape Canaveral. It marks a new class of rockets aimed at placing a US expedition on the Moon, with future vehicles to circum-navigate the Moon and eventually carry men to its surface.
A Senate Internal Security Subcommittee review equates the Bang Jensen death in a New York park on November 24, 1959, with earlier Soviet linked cases. It parallels Gen Walter Krivitsky’s 1941 murder and hints atOGPU involvement, noting testimony by ex MVD agents and alleged pressure to label deaths as self-inflicted.
Donald Brown notes 345 Legion memberships signed versus 100 a year earlier. Jack Kercher says JCs endorse the municipal tax levy on the general election ballot. Wade Miller, high school principal, serves as convention hero for the Miamisburg group. Girl Reserves regarded as vital link between school and community.
Washington reports a brighter path to averting war as US and Soviet tanks faced off on the Berlin border. The West asserts a resolute stance, asserting allied rights and deny East German sovereignty without Western consent.
In Fort Malaber Florida George Dixon recounts a long friendship with Tom Ferris now a General Development Corp vice president. Ferris recalls wild publicity stunts for Munoz Marin Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, plus other eccentric campaigns and encounters with celebrities like Barbara Stanwyck Irving Berlin and the Mackle brothers.
A group of over 50 newspapermen visited Florida and praised General Development Corp as a sound builder and land developer. Port Charlotte and Port St. Lucie were highlighted with affordable homes, a new hospital, and retirement appeal, while Malabar near Cape Canaveral offered future job growth and land investment prospects.
Dorothy Kilgallen reports on Chicago travel plans for a Living Room appearance and potential feuds between Judy Garland and Connie Francis. The piece notes How to Succeed box office success, Ak Khan gossip with Anouchka Von Meks, and critiques Yves Montand. It covers premieres, fashion ventures, music industry bets, and a health salon tax lien amid celebrity chatter.
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