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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1957
Page
4
Local Middletown Ohio newspaper issues rate card lists per copy prices for weekday and Sunday, carrier, and mail subscriptions. It notes in advance payment terms and publishing details, with a stray line referencing a biblical phrase.
In Middletown the business district hosts a three day Old Fashioned Bargain Days starting Friday at 8:30 with a parade and extended sales. Merchants tout discounts, period costumes, and block events to boost attendance and business. Citizens are urged to shop local and enjoy the city wide program.
Norman Peale recalls Herb Score and Gil McDougald in a dramatic 1957 game where Score survived a line drive to the eye. Both players and Score’s mother credited faith and St Jude with healing and strength, illustrating how belief can make a person whole in body and spirit.
President Roosevelt bans and embargoes 37 government owned ships operating privately to deter munitions transport to the Far East. In Middletown, a car crash injures Marjorie Wilmer 16 and three passengers escape unharmed. YMCA lowers age limit for memberships to eight. Civilian Conservation Corps enrollment grows with 14 Middletown youths applying.
A Wisconsin student dislocates a shoulder while studying. A Miami Beach child reads comics on a bike and ends up slightly injured. In Victoria a parrot named Mike lives rent free and drinks brandy daily by will. A sports manager considers pre game punching bag drills as fights rise on major league diamonds.
A newsroom reports that after watching Studio One’s Martians invasion, sleep overtook the staff delaying awareness of a shed fire nearby. Neighbors Les Mills and Joe Stein aided by hose while Mayfield Fire Department battled the blaze. garden hose section later missing sparked the tale.
George Sokolsky argues that progress can ruin beauty as Newport ponders a large oil refinery. He notes Newport's naval role, the Quonset Point base, and the Defense Department clash over refinery compatibility with military needs. The piece questions what counts as progress and who decides in the face of development.
The American Communist Party faces factional splits and shrinking membership from 80 000 in 1945 to about 10 000 now. Foster and Gates lead rival camps while Khrushchev’s revelations and Hungarian repression fuel dissent and outward claims of independence from Moscow. The party struggles to find leadership as Hoover notes the lack of real break with the Soviet Union.
Dorothy Kilgallen reports Jack Benny eyeing a Broadway musical adaptation of Father of the Bride while mulling a starring role. Sammy Davis Jr. settles with manager Bullets Durgom out of court. Mike Todd plans about 20 million for Don Quixote. Understudy June Ericson earns ovation after replacing Judy Holliday amid illness in Bells Are Ringing.
A collection of scattered notes covers topics from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park creation to practical trivia. It notes the number of bicycles in the U S about 12 million, Venus once called Lucifer, Sing Sing’s name from an Indian word, whale meat culinary notes and the NYSE’s 1792 founding providing a mosaic of historical tidbits and odd facts.
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