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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1964
Page
4
The Middletown Journal lists subscription costs for its readers with daily in city and suburban carrier options at 50 cents weekly, seven day mail rates at 12 dollars in the trading area and 20 dollars outside, and 35 dollars per year for outside the U.S. All payments are in advance. Published daily by News-Journal Inc. Founded 1857.
A column surveys urban efforts to curb pigeons including nets, spikes, and deterrents with Paris’s humane method cited as effective. It also criticizes four day party conventions for excess and urges shorter, sharper proceedings. The piece notes rise of telephone selling and calls for ethics and enforcement to curb intrusion.
In Athens harbor a toothless Greek shoeshine man watches American visitors eat with a Greek guide. Once a net hauler, he now earns little. He lends a brass medallion to a girl, jokes about dowries, and finishes a perfect shine for a price that few can afford. The scene contrasts old life with a imported tourist world.
The piece argues that campaign argument will warn Russia about attitudes toward aggression and warn of a possible depression at home. It stresses candor on war and peace, criticizes Bay of Pigs handling, and says campaign debate will shape future U S policy on Cuba and foreign and economic issues regardless of the winner.
James Marlow notes two uncontrollable pressures on President Johnson: Negro riots in northern cities and escalating upheaval in South Vietnam. He warns these events could cost Johnson white votes and complicate U.S. policy as generals rise and fall, with no clear path to stability.
Dave Regan contrasts past and present attitudes to provocative art and style, recalling September Morn and 1920s fashion. He notes aging memory, changing hair trends, and how what was once daring reappears in modern magazines and media.
Dorothy Kilgallen recounts the life of touring pianist Byron Janis tracing 19th and 20th century travel from Russia to America. He recalls historic peers Paderewski Rubinstein Rachmaninoff and de Pachmann, practice quirks on ships and hotels, and moments from performances in Tbilisi Lenigrad and Paris with wit and nostalgia.
The sun’s light is scattered by air particles making the sky look blue. Inside the jumping bean is a caterpillar larva from a gray moth. meteors may be fragments of comets.
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