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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1962
Page
13
In Cleveland, Steel makers await the labor settlement’s effect on May and June shipments. Steel Magazine notes May bookings solid but little June tonnage, hoping orderly inventory cuts follow. If new car sales stay strong, dealer inventories may not grow, and gradual reductions could offset adverse effects.
William Colquhoun, 35, of Springvalley, fell about nine feet from a ladder while working on a roof at a one story addition for the Market Development Center at Armco on Forrest Avenue. He was treated at the scene, taken by ambulance to Middletown Hospital for check up, then released and returned home by Valley Sheet Metal Works, his employer.
Police issued ten tickets to motorists using last year’s license plates yesterday. One new plate was found on the street, likely dropped by a passing car. The owner of plate 510 MZ will be notified by postcard to claim the last tag at the Police Traffic Division office in the City Building.
Three Middletown High School varsity debaters will discuss federal aid to education at the Rotary Club meeting at the Manchester Motor Inn at noon tomorrow. Participants are Bob Davison on the affirmative Bill Havemann on the negative and Tim Walker to summarize.
In Kansas City detectives enforcing the 187 year old blue law arrested two store managers and two clerks for selling non essential items on Sunday. The four were released on bonds of 200 dollars each as Missouri began enforcing the law last December.
The piece notes cavalry mattered throughout the war but was mainly a Confederate strength until 1864. It cites that Southern horsemen were often country boys skilled with horses, while Union troops had a higher proportion of trained soldiers.
Local market notes list prices for cattle and bulls with ranges such as cows 13.50 to 16.50 and heavy bulls 19.00 to 21.00. Names like Greene and Ladd and contact GA 2-4571 appear amid broker and company references including Sora Paper Co and First National.
Cincinnati market notes show cattle slaughter steers and heifers steady to moderately active, cows and bulls mixed. Calves and hogs trade steadier with barrows and gilts near 16.75 for 130 lb, sows around 14.00 to 14.50, lambs 19.50 for choice and prime, and few wooled ewes about 5.00.
Ohio and Indiana farm prices after candling and grading show jumbo eggs 26-32 cents, large 25-30, medium 20-26 and small 13-20 cents. Farm to plant prices include loose large A 31-35 and carton large A 37-40 cents. Retail deliveries in major Ohio cities quoted large A white 64-63?, medium A white 32-39, large B white and brown 33-37 cents. Poultry farm prices list No 1 quality fryers 14-16, hens heavy 16-18, light 7-4. Potatoes 3.00-4.50.
Service stations and other sites holding 1961 Kennedy School for the Deaf license plates are asked to retain them until Friday. A school truck will tour Middletown that day to collect plates from schools and outlets not on the list should call GA 3-6639 before Friday to confirm stopping. Collections organized by Girl Scout Troop 204 led by Mrs. Rodney Sorrell.
Youngstown area firm Mc Kay Machine Co plans an April 11 start on a new plant and office building in Austintown Two. The work forms part of a 4.5 million modernization program for the firm's Youngstown Warren Operations.
Everett Sherron and Richard Bendel were named co chairmen of a community events calendar project for the Lemon Monroe Band Boosters Club. The 1962 63 school calendar will list birthdays anniversaries meeting dates and athletic game dates and be available next September. Proceeds go to music instruments and uniforms for the band.
In Deep Creek Virginia a Negro shipyard worker Anthony Gist says he will repair and move into his new home despite a Saturday explosion that heavily damaged the vacant white neighborhood house. The blast shattered windows knocked walls and ripped doors as anonymous callers warned him away.
Firemen answered an auto fire at Nelbar Street and Tyrus Avenue at 7 10 a m blamed on a faulty carburetor. The vehicle operated by Donald Bowlin 209 Lylburn was saved with no damage. Firemen were also called to a false alarm at Eighth Avenue and Lincoln Street at 3 04 a m yesterday.
A nine year old boy told police four older boys forced him at knife point to accompany Raem to a drive in restaurant yesterday. Police arrested J C Shepard, 39, Riviera on a warrant charging assault and battery. Patrick Troy reported hubcaps stolen from his car in the 1900 block of Logan Avenue valued at 65 dollars. Police arrested George Thomson, 33, Young Street, at 317 Curtis Street yesterday on a disorderly conduct charge.
Police fired riot shells in Salisbury Southern Rhodesia as demonstrators at three Zimbabwe African People's Union meetings ignored dispersal orders. Several Africans were arrested though no serious casualties were reported, with Nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo prominent in the events.
Six exhausted schoolboys aged around sixteen crawled to safety after nearly twelve hours lost in a maze of quarry caves near Bath England. Rescuers with searchlights scoured five miles of tunnels until the boys forced their way out by digging through about twenty feet of soil with their fingers.
Cleveland police cited over 700 motorists for lacking 1962 Ohio license plates on Sunday with suburban police adding about 100 tickets for the same offense. Tickets cost $3 each. Police began impounding cars seen on Cleveland streets with 196 plates, though only a small percentage were actually impounded.
A Sunday night blaze in Newman Hall a Catholic college dorm in University Circle Cleveland caused 4100 dollars in damage and displaced 11 students who had to relocate to new quarters.
A honey colored male cocker puppy with speckled face is found in Georgia. A brown and white female beagle hound is lost on Maude Hughes Rd. Rewards offered. Also a tub of clothes left at a laundromat near Yankee Rd and Smith, containing a pink and white snow suit. Contact numbers GA 2.9384 GA 43-8540 or GA 2-7860. Monuments advertise Schwartz Memorials Lebanon 2.1916 toll call accepted.
A string of funeral notices and death announcements from Middletown and nearby Ohio towns lists names including William Motives BLASTMr William 75 Vanessa Jean Fugate Osroe Jacob Gephart Minnie Belle Gibson Arthur John Lida Robe William Davis Medley Rufus Morgan Ruby Mae Betty Yenser. Details cover hospitals, funeral homes McCoy Leffler Joseph R Baker & Sons and arrangements, services led by Reverends Bergdall Wallace Heaton and others, with interments at Woodside Mt Pleasant Miami Cemetery and more.
ROTTEN MANURE for sale delivered. GA 8068 MANURE by the load or sack. GERANIUMS onion sets garden seeds potted plants at C BERNS' GREENHOUSE 3214 Yankee Rd Dial GA 3.5306 SAND gravel fill dirt top soil MUSHROOM DIRT GA 2-837 ROTTEN manure rich dirt load or bag delivery GA 3-3958 ROCKNOLL NURSERY 66 Varieties evergreens your selection 5 for 12.00 Morrow Ohio Phone 3861 TOP SOIL Fill Dirt Gravel GA 3.4061 or SH 6.5578 MULFORD'S Home of a Million Plants Rt 42 Lebanon Phone 51826 Special Notices
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