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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1962
Page
4
The Middletown Journal announces subscription rates and mailing details. Rates include per copy six cents on weekdays and fifteen cents on Sundays, with carrier and mail options ranging from ten dollars yearly in-city to thirty-five dollars outside the U.S.A. Subscriptions are payable in advance. The page also contains a biblical quotation from John 5:6-7.
A Des Moines gathering shows rising farmer discontent with prices. The National Farmers Organization mobilizes 17 Midwestern states to push for bargaining power by withholding production. If prices don’t improve, further coordinated action is expected to demand higher farm prices.
Astronomers photographed a comet 240 million miles from the sun between Mars and Jupiter showing a disarray likely from a collision with a solar wind of magnetic particles. The event created a nine million mile tail and invites anxiety about space incidents affecting Earth.
The piece recalls 1862 August to December when Union hopes dimmed after defeats at Second Manassas and Antietam. McClellan failed to pursue Lee, Lincoln replaced him with Burnside, and Fredericksburg cost 12,000 Union troops. Despite high losses and shaken leadership, the Union won in 1863, offering reassurance for present fears.
Norman V Peale describes Israel as a dynamic, youthful nation on the march toward modernization. He notes rapid immigration led to multi story apartment blocks, beehive industry, and vast water projects transforming biblical sites into modern infrastructure and economic vitality. He cautions historic locales fade while progress accelerates across Galilee and the Jezreel Valley.
A coin toss gave St Petersburg its name as an Orange Belt Line expansion reached the town. Francisco Fernandes carried tobacco to Europe in 1858 for Spain to study Mexican products. Telstar’s signal fades from 2 watts to about one trillionth. Rome’s Appian Way bears 2000 year old chariot wheel marks. The sun and stars are gas spheres bound by gravity. The giant Japanese spider crab has legs four to six feet long.
A column blends anecdotal humor on race and employment with memories of local life. It notes a Cherokee manager recalling his ancestry after a firm refused two Black applicants asserting they were judged on records, plus light vignettes about a weekend welcome, a school tale, a Middletown wedding, and an obituary anniversary for Ralph Ogles.
Paul Harvey praises Tania Verstak, Miss Australia and Miss International Beauty, a 21-year-old Sydney secretary who won $10,000 in Long Beach. She plans three months of welfare work in Australia and a three year path to partnership in her family’s building materials business, rejecting a world tour. Australian press lauds her poise as a global ambassador while urging younger generations to model restraint and responsibility.
Washington reports a tax revision debate turning the Senate into a garden of green bound volumes. The Kennedy plan, 392 pages plus 12 hearings per senator, prompts verbose praise and critique as lawmakers mingle in a fanciful flowerbed of liberal and conservative views while plotting the bill’s fate.
Dorothy Kilgallen notes social tension as Yves Montand and Simone Signoret face strain while gossip links Vince Edwards and Sherri Nelson, and Rex Harrison eyed for Her man Levin’s Broadway musical The Sleeping Prince. Crosby and Lourdes pilgrimage amid Rear Window reissue and Grace Kelly halo.
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