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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1963
Page
4
Subscription rates listed for Middletown Journal readers include 6 cents per weekday copy and 15 cents for Sundays. Local carriers charge 0.50 weekly, trading area seven day mail at 12 dollars yearly, outside trading area 20 dollars, and outside USA 35 dollars. All subscriptions require advance payment. Printed daily by News-Journal Inc. Founded 1857.
An essay discusses the Air Force seeking military space studies and the shift toward space weapons. It weighs risks of expanding war into space against arguments for strengthened national power and urges restraint to keep space peaceful. The piece contrasts civilian space goals with potential Pentagon aims and notes trends in fashion as a distant aside.
Negro children in Prince Edward County Virginia resume schooling after a four year absence. Classes are in privately financed schools with federal blessing and special training to help catch up. The Supreme Court case on tax supported education is anticipated next summer.
North Carolina law requires drivers over a certain age to pass a full test every four years. Mrs Attaway Dyer Wharton of Greensboro, known as A A, failed at 80 on backing into a space but passed at 93 on her seventh try. She then sped home at 93 mph as friends cheered her grit and defiance.
Analysis notes that 15,000 large companies with annual tax labilities over 100,000 will still pay most of their 1964 taxes next year, delaying any immediate benefit from proposed rate cuts. President Kennedy urged business spending, but timing may curb stimulus and prolong recession risks.
The piece mocks federal takeover of martini classification by the IRS led by Mortimer Caplin, notes new rules on vermouth content and labels, and contrasts this with House tax changes affecting corporations and cash flow. It also references a Food and Drug Administration invitation and satire on bureaucratic reach.
A reader comments on the recent nuclear test ban treaty vote. She criticizes senators who opposed it while acknowledging supporters and the treaty's potential to curb nuclear threat. The piece notes the vote was recorded yesterday and urges prudent, prayerful hope for the treaty’s effectiveness.
Dorothy Kilgallen notes Sue Lyon’s engagement rumors and James Harris ongoing pursuit amid plans for Mexico and Puerto Vallarta. Ava and Liz clash on set while John Huston directs. Hank Williams casting, Jenny musical updates, Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch film shoot, and industry chatter from London to New York.
A historical note states that peanuts were brought to America on slave ships and fed to enslaved people during the voyage from Africa. It also mentions cork trees being stripped every decade after reaching 20 to 30 years old.
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