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Four-Hour Paint '“'Blitz*' Aids Elderly, III \\ idowDOIN' IT UP WHITE—Painters union volunteers tackU the north wall of a bedfast widow's home in a four-hour bliti job. Paint for tha job at 2110 Baltimore St. yesterday wai donated by dealert. (Journal photo-Weith)In Union Thor? Is StrengthMrs Emma Holt. 72-yea r-f old widow who has been bed-*fast for 17 months, feels a lot more snug in her small house at 2210 Baltimore St today, It has a spanking, brand-new coat of while paint, thanks 1 to eight members of the paint-r ers' union who staged a four-hour “blits” on the hou^e yesterday.Austin Smith, business agent for the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper 1 Hangers of America, AFL,said members of Local 643 voted unanimously to wield their brushes on the house after Mrs. Holt's plight was brought to their attention.They arrived on tha scent 1 shortly after 8 30 a m Sat ir-day and were leaving the ob 1before 1 o’clock in the after- 1noon. lt;Smith said paint was donated iby the Pittsburgh Paint 1Glass Store, LAS Paint Store, 1M o h a t a Decorators and the lt;Luhri Painting Co. Hie eight painters on the job were Sam Kelly. Russell Marshall. Russell Hixon, Vernon White. Carl 1Neeley, John Randall, George iHalsey and Warden B. Taylor.Mrs. Holt has been in poor health since she fractured her 1hip in a fail in January 1954. iShe was in the hospital for 73 lt;day* and ha* been bedfast at 1her home since. The hipbone j has been reset four times.Her only son, Wilbur Holt, was killed in World War 11.
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Middletown Sunday News Journal
Middletown, Ohio, US
Sun, May 22, 1955
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