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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1965
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices for various delivery methods including daily, Sunday, city routes, and mail options. Rates show 60 cents per week in-city, 15 dollars per year within seven days trading area, 24 dollars outside trading area, and 38 dollars yearly for outside USA. All payments in advance.
Middletonians face key ballot choices next Tuesday as two city commissioner seats and the fate of Middletown's Progress Bonds loom. Incumbent William Denham seeks a fourth term, backed for steady leadership and city progress. Opponents Dave Armbruster Joseph E. Lewis and Glenn E. Clemons bring business and finance experience, each with a distinct path for the commission. The proffered outlook frames the vote as a test of direction for Middletown.
The Mississippi Supreme Court overturned Robert Moses’s 1961 conviction for unlawfully disturbing the public peace by violent and boisterous conduct. The reversal cites insufficient evidence, a move seen as a rare crack in Mississippi’s racial norms. The Ford Foundation plans $85 million for symphonies, with a joking note about borrowing from the Beatles if funds run short.
Weeks before the spaceflight, Col. White sent a letter praising the author’s life philosophy and urging self improvement. The piece urges high-minded thinking, self mastery, and service to others as paths to bring out the best in oneself. It cites Kant Carrel Brooks and references Ed White and the space program as global, unifying examples.
Three times in recent history observers claimed the California gray whale extinct, while supporters dub it a comeback. Grandpappy Jenkins questions why waves of “singing commercials” are treated as music rather than nature's persistence.
A Middletown couple vacationing at a swank hotel wake to find the wife naked in the hall and the husband orchestrating a return to their room by using the elevator key. The incident ends with the couple fleeing to their room as the operator brings the key. Also included is a light animal feature about Mittens the cat asserting feline authority during mealtime.
Paul Harvey argues Uruguay offers lavish welfare like six hour workdays and full lifetime benefits funded by government payrolls. He notes high unemployment, universal free education and healthcare, and heavy post election inflation as workers rely on state payouts.
The Walter Davenport couple, facing a generation gap in valuing heirlooms, devise a plan to preserve family treasures. They fund a bank safekeeping, loan furniture to a county memorial home, donate for display cases, loan items to the church parlor, and inform heirs and the executor of the estate.
Dorothy Kilgallen notes Richard Burton's controversial Dylan Thomas book piece to be published. Critics question editorial judgment while praising Burton as articulate. Also covers Uruguay economic woes, The Idol shooting, and film industry chatter including The Bedford Incident Oscar push.
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