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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1956
Page
4
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Republicans tout national prosperity as a key campaign issue while Democrats attack a corporate‑driven boom. Adlai Stevenson laments rising costs and regional unemployment as the 85th Congress weighs corporate taxes, relief for small business, and proposed cuts from 30 percent to 20 percent on the first 25 000 of income with shifting surtax plans under consideration.
The Founding Fathers would be astonished by today’s reverence for the Constitution. States split on ratification with Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Georgia backing it, while Massachusetts and New Hampshire demanded a bill of rights. Virginia and New York faced stiff hurdles, and Rhode Island barely approved. Opposition was stronger before ratification than after the document took effect.
Hal Boyle profiles Joseph E. Sharkey, octogenarian retired dean of diplomatic reporters, noting a lifelong quest for truth. He recounts eight years since visiting homeland, Siberia odyssey in 1920, boxcar trip with British troops, and pistol defense against a dreshky driver. Sharkey covered Korea, Ireland, Greece, Russia, and key international conferences.
Adlai Stevenson repudiates proposed federal measures to fire security risks from all agencies. He argues loyalty should be tested across government not just in sensitive posts, warning non sensitive agency evasions aid espionage. He faces voter questions over party stance and wartime investigations amid 1950s Cold War scrutiny.
Washington notes lampoon the 1956 presidential race as a clash of press releases from GOP and Democratic HQs. Lou Guylay and Sam Brightman craft quotes, with each side preempting the other. The piece jokes about duplicated recitals, semantic boasts, and a cake recipe from Ike Day. It closes with local items on Middletown tennis, Detroit assessing officers, and a golf bogey win at Wildwood.
A 1936 column recaps baggage math for a transatlantic air trip, weighing 82 pounds for a portable typewriter plus case and 11% pounds for a suitcase, plus 22 pounds for an extra shoes case. Remaining allowance is 44 pounds. The piece spirals into anecdotes about renting attire in London or Paris, weighing methods, and excess baggage charges. It also mentions a St Pauls Church delegation to Cincinnati, infant care training, and a jumbled mix of quotes and horoscopes.
A Texan offering up to 196000 bullfrog skins to Tremont Ohio factory yields a single dried skin and a heartfelt poem about a worn book. The note blends quirk with verse and recalls agricultural notes about fertilizer, clover seed, and mowing rituals from a past collection.
London hosts 18 nations seeking peace in a volatile world scene. Egypt asserts control of the Suez Canal, Britain and France oppose single management, and Russia warns of aid if clashes erupt. Across the globe Greece Cyprus Turkey and border skirmishes test diplomacy. Khrushchev visits Yugoslavia amid East West fracture as Korea Vietnam cycles of tension persist.
This daily forecast notes sudden and unpredictable events that may disrupt routines but are not necessarily calamitous. It urges tact and diplomacy, warns against letting emotions rule, and highlights a birthday person’s artistic, intuitive, and industrious traits with steps toward long term planning and early 1957 gains.
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