Middletown Journal Subscription Rates and Policy
The Middletown Journal lists per copy 5 cents, city carrier 30 cents weekly, with Sunday News Journal 40 cents in city, 35 cents outside. Mail rates include 9 dollars in trading area with Sunday edition, 15 dollars outside trading area, 35 dollars outside U S A. all subscriptions payable in advance. Ezekiel 14 10 verse quoted.
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U.S. Mexico discuss curb on wetbacks amid border patrols
Washington braces for high level talks to address illegal crossings from Mexico as the army boosts patrols about 100 miles south of the border. Congress extended the 1952 anti-wetback program to December 1955, with penalties and border search limits under debate and patrols numbering about 1,080 along 5,000 miles of frontier.
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Months Ahead of Critical Budget Battle For Eisenhower
President Eisenhower and his budget team face a looming deficit for the year ending next June 30 amounting to about 9.3 billion dollars, with automatic tax cuts totaling roughly 8 billion dollars set to take effect and further 3 billion in April. The White House orders push for deeper current-year cuts and a review of all programs, challenging agencies to eliminate unneeded functions while Congress resists cutting popular benefits.
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Hal Boyle Climbs Giant's Ledge in Catskills Adventure
Hal Boyle and a barefoot Missouri crew reach Giant's Ledge atop the Catskills at 3000 feet. The party plants a flag and jokes about selling the peak to Gov. Dewey, crediting Frances Boyle for sandwiches and recalling witty banter from base camp.
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Kilroy and Mr. Pleasant Tale on an Alpine Peak
The narrator recalls a barren highland once tropical in climate and notes a ruined orange peel fragment. An earlier barbarian explorer left Kilroy was here etched in stone. The scene looms under a daunting summit named Mr. Pleasant as the speaker imagines a potential ascent with extra gear.
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Who Reached Giant’s Ledge First Aboard A Bold Ascent
The narrator notes a mountaineering ascent on Giant’s Ledge by a multi person team. It questions who first reached the top among sponsors Bill and Fredrika Gray, six freckled animals, the narrator, or Mrs Hugh Tenzing Blake. The group refuses to reveal the exact pioneer, stressing teamwork and offering a cheeky tip about following the prettiest girl.
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Labor Board's Shift Signals Ideological Struggle in U S
David Lawrence argues the Labor Relations Board's forthcoming 3 to 2 Republican majority could reshape employer employee relations and return to Wagner-era rules, signaling a broader shift in governance and civil liberties under Taft Hartley debates.
Eisenhower Aides Signal Shift in NLRB Policy
United Press reports Guy Farmer, Eisenhower elect ed chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, issued his fourth dissent against holdover members as a policy shift under a future Republican majority is anticipated. An NLRB source says the ruling signals a major change in Taft Hartley interpretation once the five seats favor Republicans. The changeover could come after the remaining vacancy is filled.
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Is Hatred a Sin When Grief Overrides Faith
A reader asks if hatred can be justified by grief from two sons killed in Korea. She cites Bible calls to love enemies yet feels deep, consuming anger toward Asians. She seeks a substitute for hatred beyond faith and willpower to walk forward with hope.
Restful schedules ease restlessness and boost creativity
The column advises organizing routines to curb anxiety and irritability. Evening group activities stimulate mind and imagination and may reveal hidden hobbies with potential value. For tomorrow’s birthday initiates an auspicious period for ventures and favors, with a call to tact and diplomacy. A self possessed, ambitious child born today may be dictatorial.
Woman’s Letter Sparks Talk on Healing and Faith
The narrator seeks his wife’s help to comfort a grieving woman. He believes a woman’s perspective can restore faith and willpower after loss. He recalls the minister’s view that time heals but questions how the woman can regain belief and strength.
War is sin and must be eradicated say weary mother
A mother argues that war itself is mortal sin and calls for eradicating it. She emphasizes that soldiers on both sides are ordinary people pressured into killing, not personal enemies, citing losses among North Koreans and Chinese as examples of shared suffering. She asks readers to consider the hurt of all parental grief.
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Government controls on business trigger partisan labor rulings
The text blasts federal labor policy as illogical in a democracy and blames the Wagner and Taft-Hartley Acts for creating a government of men rather than laws. It accuses the Labor Board of partisan packings and Mussolini like rulings that erode employer free speech and assembly rights.
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Reforming Labor Board Power and Judicial Roles
The writer questions liberal silence on speech freedom infringements by the Labor Board and criticizes coercion by union organizers. They argue for fixed legislative standards and life tenure federal judges to interpret labor law, proposing the Labor Board become purely administrative while courts handle disputes.
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Air Force police nab two photographers then release them
Washington days grow hot as Air Force police seize a TV cameraman and a news photographer outside temporary government buildings. Both denied military aims, freed after mercy. A staff wag buys goldfish, flooding a rooftop lake as Kinsey jokes circulate about the society department windows.
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Air Force
End of Summer Fire Run Sparks Nude Fireman Scene
A heat wave empties the town as fire engines race toward a White House area blaze. A rear-seat fireman, helmet on, stands exposed with no shirt, drawing stares from onlookers during the unusual alert.
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White House
Procreation Presses On Amid Heat in Town
The town’s leading newspaper notes continued procreation activity despite sweltering heat as residents adapt, including the paper’s own cooling measures such as using cold water on the roof to stay through the day.
Quote on hate and war echoes across clashes
A rhetorical remark asks if enemies have the same right to hate as allies, suggesting mutual reluctance for war and invoking a biblical plea for forgiveness. The line contrasts bitterness toward foes with calls for mercy amid conflict.
Sheriff Association official jokes about GAO job interview
Charles Hahn executive secretary of the National Sheriffs Association rode a taxi with a talkative driver who recounted his brother in law applying for GAO work. The driver said the interview in a room with adding machines and comptometers asked about machine skills and the applicant replied pinball and slot.
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Charles Hahn
National Sheriffs Association
General Accounting Office
Questions And Answers Inquiries About Great Lakes And Houdini
Question on Great Lakes size notes about 94 000 square miles. Question about Harry Houdini escaping a US federal prison in 1902 where the assassin of President Garfield was once held.
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Great Lakes
Harry Houdini
Federal
Washington
James Garfield
Who Named Colorado State by Spaniards
The question and answer state that the name Colorado was given by the Spaniards, reflecting historic naming of the state by early explorers.
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Weather Heat Blankets Middletown Homes This Summer
The piece notes an unusually hot September across Middletown with broad heat, droughty lawns, and rising sewer taxes. It urges air conditioning, water usage over plants, and attic or window fans to improve comfort. It ends hoping for rain soon and reminding readers to stay reasonable in heat.
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Dorothy Kilgallen's Paris Dream Turns Into New York Tales
Kilgallen notes a Paris fantasy faded by Bonwit window displays and a New York vacation spent in work. She recalls Polly Adler's polite, boilerplate thank you letters to journalists and Arthur Shaw's shift to domestic calm with a baby on the way. Elizabeth Taylor's mother allegedly sells a gossip yarn to a national magazine.
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Shirley Treple
New York Scene Notes from the City
Sherman Billingsley looks tanned thin and fit a Leeksville North Carolina model Rose Dent arrives three 57th Street dress shops display holding the hemline Midtown banks boost guards after recent bank heists guards authorized to use real bullets Doris Lilly linked to John Huston before his trip to Ireland to direct a new film
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Leeksville
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Rose Dent
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Gotham
Ireland
I May Take Writing Up As A Career
The writer describes moving and organizing a workspace with busy workers and then finds sitting at a typewriter restful. He compares writing to other chores and notes the office is quiet with air conditioning and flowers, calling writing nice clean work.
Night Life and Heat in New York's Busy Streets
The city buzzes through heat waves with bands performing, late shopping, and round‑the‑clock spots like Lindy’s offering late night eats. Department stores lure shoppers with home goods as fire engines traverse Sixth Avenue during the night.
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New Signings and Stage Rumors Hit Jazz World
Phineas Newborn joins Peacock Records adding to a list of famed names like Thelonious Monk Ahmad Jamal Babs Gonzales and Crazy Chris Columbus. Ruth Brown wins praise on tour with Joe Louis spurring Woody Herman to book her with the Herd for autumn concerts. Cary Grant loses 25 pounds from jaundice but looks sharper while Spencer Tracy battles shingles. Damon Runyon Jr. urges readers to try Father magazine.
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Peacock Records
Thelonious Monk
Ahamad Jamal
Babs Gonzales
Crazy Chris Columbus
Cary Grant
Spencer Tracy
Everbody
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Ruth Brown
Joe Louis
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Hauselman Family Leaves for Gates Mills Visit
Mr and Mrs Arthur Hauselman and their Kenwood Drive family departed for Gates Mills Ohio to spend several days with relatives.
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Kenwood Drive
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Millan Returns Home From Exeter Summer Course
Bob Millan arrived home from Exeter New Hampshire where she completed a summer course at Phillips Exeter Academy during the break.
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World’s Fair Holiday Weekend Attended by Notable Visitors
Bill Snider Al Sanders and Rus sell Nein were in Chicago enjoying a holiday weekend at the World’s Fair with public events and exhibitions ongoing around the city.
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al Sanders
Russell Nein
Chicago
Corn Kernel Wisdom and Late-Home Family Lines
A quirky item notes a farmer jokes that wisdom lies in kernels while playfully remarking that the head of the family feels easy when arriving late, capturing a light homefront humor tone.
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