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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1963
Page
4
Middletown Ohio notices subscription prices for daily, weekday and Sunday editions. Rates include city and suburban delivery, trading area mail, and outside trading area. All subscriptions payable in advance. Established 1857 by News-Journal Inc.
The Washington Democrat senator Jackson endorses ratification, boosting the treaty’s chances of heavy approval. He previously questioned assumptions about the ban, but now states those views were hopeful and not reflective of official thinking.
The Agriculture Department foresees a national corn crop over 39 billion bushels with average yields near 65 per acre. Iowa may reach 77, Illinois 83, Ohio 81, and Indiana 85 bushels per acre as better hybrids and cultivation boost output. The issue: production outpaces demand, challenging profitability and export potential.
A long Reuters style feature notes debate over U S policy toward Hungary under Janos Kadar with hints Washington may restore normal diplomatic ties. It traces past shifts in policy from 1962 through 1963 including Senate letters and UN diplomacy amid exiled leaders’ warnings.
A quip laden note recalls a barroom debate over baseball bravado and opinions. It mentions Grandpappy Jenkins warning flattery can trap when it echoes belief, then shifts to a South Sea worm with porcupine-like quills as odd fish bait.
President Kennedy mails an interpretive reservation to Senate leaders outlining safeguards and the meaning of the proposed nuclear test ban treaty. The letter lays out seven explicit conditions and argues a formal Senate resolution would enhance the pact’s credibility and bind future administrations.
George Dixon argues against constant mail to lawmakers and suggests Postmaster General Gronouski raise rates on letters to Congress to curb the deluge. He notes lawmakers secretly hate mass mail but fear losing re election, and cites a recent example of a threatening letter to Senator Young.
The piece notes fall arrives with cooler nights and changing garden gardens. Women prepare early for new clothing, stores respond by shifting seasons, and old summer colors fade to bronzes and greens as forecasters anticipate a long winter before spring returns.
Hollywood gossip notes Gertrude Berg’s ailing state alarms Broadway friends as Dorothy Kilgallen and others discuss bios and pilots. Major stars like Dorothy Malone Alexis Smith Barbara Rush vie for Min and Bills leading role amid industry reshuffles and Oscar pushables.
On this date in 1862 Gen Robert E Lee's advance into Maryland was halted at Antietam. The battle left up to 22 thousand dead or wounded. In 1730 Baron Frederick von Steuben was born in Prussia. In 1776 the Presidio began at San Francisco Bay. Constitution ratified in 1787. Russian troops invaded eastern Poland in 1999. Allied airborne army landed in Holland in 1944. Senate aide Mansfield surveyed Indo China in 1953. Ford and UAW signed a three year pact in 1960. NASA named nine astronauts for training in 1969.
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