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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1957
Page
6
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices for daily, Sunday, and mail deliveries. Rates include 5c per weekday copy, 15c Sunday, 45c weekly city carrier, 40c outside city, and annual mail options from 10 to 35 dollars, with international price.
Middletown's Park Board notes a busy season with 20 percent swimming attendance rise and expansion needs for softball, football, and youth programs. Voters may face a charter amendment in November to relieve city budgets, funding next year's recreation plan.
A Senate congressional session sees a grass roots push for tighter federal spending and $6.2 billion less in new appropriations than the White House proposed. Yet Washington hears from groups hurt by cuts as local chambers of commerce protest economy measures that affect their pockets, revealing a culture of selective austerity.
Governor Grantham recalls 750000 refugees from Communist China flocking to Hong Kong. Most refuse to return, choosing freedom despite deplorable housing, while resettlement and housing projects expand. Over 200000 seek permits to visit kin back home.
Historical note highlights past newspaper buildings and people in Middletown. Mentions 1857 founding of Western Journal, former Canal Street and Wall Alley sites, and a current CG&E building amid rapid expansion. Calls for photos and archive tips with contact to Dave Regn.
A historical reflection notes that 220,000 have already crossed and 3000 more arrive weekly seeking freedom. The speaker emphasizes that migration is a chosen act driven by hope and intelligence, shaping the journey toward a freer life.
Fulton Lewis Jr. outlines a Democratic Advisory Committee on Economic Policy seen as a leftist group within the party. He names Leon Keyserling, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., John Kenneth Galbraith, Benjamin Buttenwieser, Seymour Harris, Wilson Wyatt, and Adlai Stevenson among participants, contrasting them with Byrd and Johnson as critics. The piece portrays the committee as an economic politburo aiming to influence policy from Washington with a socialist bent.
A captain in the United States Navy holds a higher rank than an Army captain. The statement highlights naval over army seniority in typical ranking hierarchies. A separate note denies any Israel currency movement across borders.
The essay argues nationalism fragments humanity and fuels racial hatreds across the globe. It cites Singapore Cypriot identity divisions and Kerala India as examples, then notes U S racial tensions and the danger of a national police force, concluding with a claim on civilization being a continual contest of who is first.
Dorothy Kilgallen notes Holliday romance in Gotham while Da Costa weighs Copper and Brass at tryout. Crosby faces BMI-ASCAP clash as MacDonald and Eddy clash on Patti Page show. Rod Steiger marriage improves, Stuff Smith ill in France, Atlas Shrugged drawing heat, Halsey bio planned with Cagney, Sayonara hype grows ahead of Yuletide release.
E S Sherron named full time probation officer for Middletown by Hamilton court. Martha Byrd to be stationed here permanently as clerk stenographer. Lafayette Temple Pythian Sisters attend 49th convention in Dayton with Pocahontas M. Clark named delegate. Thomas W McCartney leaves Metropolitan Life to become district manager in Owensboro Kentucky, Glen Lane named his replacement. Monroe Grange wins top exhibit at Butler County Fair amid county competition. Chester Crockett serves as Warren County grange deputy. The Last Train for Madrid plays at Paramount theater starring Lew Ayres Gilbert Roland and Dorothy Lamour.
A Hollywood star in Britain reports that in recent weeks six British peers have proposed matrimony. The source notes she jokes Cupid now wields a machine gun, while an historian claims Shakespeare earned about $150 yearly from his plays, calling it the unkindest cut.
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