Middletown Journal Offers Various Subscription Rates
The Middletown Journal lists subscription options for carriers, evenings, and combined papers including the Sunday News Journal. Rates range from 25 cents weekly to 25 per year for outside U S A. Payment is in advance and the page includes a Zephaniah scripture quote.
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Sunday News Journal
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Middletown Journal
Evening Middletown Journal
U.S.A
Fear as a wartime instinct and farm land trends
The article surveys wartime fear as a normal instinct, urging calm in face of Korea and World War III anxieties, and warns against extreme reactions. It then notes hazardous driving near children and urges careful backups. It reports farm land demand rising, prices near record highs, and farmers investing as the dollar weakens, with mortgages up 15 percent from 1946.
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Washington
Comics as Aids Not Dangers Says Dr Crane
Dr George W Crane argues in a Worry Clinic piece that comic books foster reading and learning, citing personal experience and examples from his own family. He praises classics illustrated and Bible stories in comic form, contending comics offer moral guidance and cultural value while being safer than movies. He notes benefits include reading habit formation and even bowel regularity, urging youth to access quality comic book materials.
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Covington
Ind
Chicago
St. Louis
Indianapolis
38th Parallel Vanishes as Korea Divides No More
Washington observes that the 38th parallel, long a dividing line in Korea, has effectively disappeared as UN forces under General MacArthur advance. The change follows Inchon landings and a shift to a broader UN strategy to disarm North Korea, with future elections and a unified Korea anticipated under UN supervision.
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Washington
Korea
United States Navy
Inchon
Pancho Villa
Mexico
Columbus
New Mexico
Wilson
General Pershing
United States
United Nations
MacArthur
38Th Parallel
China
Russia
North Korea
State Department
North
South Korea
Looking At Life and the Cost of Progress
A reflective piece contrasts a former friend turned acquaintance with wealth found in Florida and a hurricane’s wreckage to underscore human limits. It recounts a Florida mansion and yacht destruction, a moth causing a power outage, and ends with an 84 year old Canadian failing a citizenship test, joking about fishing licenses.
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Florida
New Hampshire
California
United States
Hollywood Frontline Shows Aide Tosses Tape to Troops
Air Force Sgt. Howard Jackson of San Antonio proposed using taped Hollywood performances to entertain troops on Korea’s front lines. He recorded Al Jolson at Taegu and played it on Inchon beachheads, a hit with soldiers. Jackson urged stars to pre record skits for forward use, noting letters to Hollywood rarely reach busy celebs.
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Korea
Howard Jackson
San Antonio
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California
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United States
Jolson
Jackson
Taegu
Inchon
The Stars Say For Sunday October 1 Gen Kemble
Genevieve Kemble outlines a cautious forecast for Sunday October 1 warning against overreliance on routine and old ideas. Rewards come from quality work and inner satisfaction though external pay may lag with deferred compensation and honest effort praised by time. A birthday note cautions delayed rewards for serious ambitious children born that day.
Baltimore men build elaborate television station
In Baltimore workers constructed an extensive television station featuring thousands of feet of wire, tubes, and complex machinery as part of a major broadcast facility project.
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Baltimore
Strange creatures we humans are as they are
A reflective note on human nature cites Franz Schubert's diary line about accepting people as they are rather than as they ought to be, highlighting mixed traits of good and bad, folly and wisdom.
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Franz Schubert
Barkley's flying fear roils Democratic push in 15 states
Washington scene notes that DNC leaders fret Mrs. Vice President Barkley wont fly, potentially costing votes in 15 states as George Barkley tours to boost Democrats before midterms. They insist the Veep draws crowds and would be more effective with his wife aboard, though she remains earthbound.
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Democratic National Committee
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Veepers
Independent Heiress Works for Her Keep in Maine
Patricia Capehart daughter of Senator Homer Capehart of Indiana, despite wealth, earned money by waitressing in North East Harbor Maine. After six weeks she saved 1138 dollars and, with 118 in her pocket, drove home in a 1938 jalopy to rejoin her senior year at the University of Maryland.
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Patricia Capehart
Sen
Homer Capehart
Indiana
North East Harbor
Maine
University of Maryland
Marines cross Han River amid fire and peril
31 Marines aboard an amtrac trapped in a burning building near Seoul escaped as smoke and heat peeled the steel. The craft crossed under fire, its crew including Sgt. Raymond Lohmeyer of Kalamazoo and Lt. Arthur House of Portland recalled the desperate exit and quick dash to safety. Tech Sgt. F. G. Ezell from Greenville and others in a Marine patrol credited Ezell with averting a trap in a rice paddy as Reds hid nearby.
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Han River
Seoul
Raymond Lohmeyer
Kalamazoo
Mich
Theodore Swierczek
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Amtrac
Arthur House
Portland
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F. G. Ezell
Greenville
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Leslie Cox
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Benny Day
Phoenix
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Calvary Cemetery facelift gains civic backing
Dave Regan notes a town led project to beautify Calvary Cemetery on Clark Street with hedges pines and flowering trees to shield against industry and keep it a respectful symbol. Donations arrive from former residents across Ohio California Michigan and Indiana aided by Edith Bergen treasurer.
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Michigan
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Ohio
Edith Bergen
Raymond Schindler: Broadway’s Quiet Con Master
Dorothy Kilgallen profiles Raymond Schindler as a portly, soft voiced private eye known for the quiet con method. The piece praises his storytelling aura and notes Rupert Hughes wrote a biography about him, contrasting fiction and real detective work.
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Broadway
Raymond Schindler
Detroit
Havana
Copenhagen
Rupert Hughes
Whisky buried in Seoul by Ezell’s brother in Korea
Ezell recalls his brother Jack fighting with combat engineers in Korea before the war. Jack and friends stole a case of whisky from the officers club and buried it in a secret location when the Communist invasion began. Jack gave a map showing the hiding spot, Ezell says, and Seoul will be the first stop on arrival.
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Beaumont Soldier First to Receive Credit for Pyongyang Action
Maj. L. E. Garrett of Beaumont Texas became the first man in the Seventh Infantry Division to receive official credit for shooting a North Korean. Garrett, directing an infantry assembly area, engaged two enemy soldiers after being warned of Reds hiding in a rice paddy. He killed one assailant and killed the other with an M1 rifle after initial fire.
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Schindler as Real-Life Lone-Wolf Detective
A biographer portrays Schindler as a mega detective combining Holmes Poirot and Vance with a vast staff and resources. He resolves murders, saves innocents, combats blackmailers, and exposes graft in politics, while his quiet demeanor and businesslike falcon-like facade suit a late 1950s era.
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Sherlock Holmes
Hercule Poirot
Philo. Vance
Schindler
Philo Vance
Lone Wolf
Chase National Bank
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