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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1960
Page
2
Ogles y Barnitz Bank & Trust plans weekend remodeling of its downtown office. Tellers will move behind a long south side counter and officers will be regrouped on the north side to speed and simplify service while the interior gains a warmer, home like look.
In Columbus area a second degree manslaughter charge is filed against 36 year old Eileen Dailey of Marion. She released on 90 dollar bond after her car collided with another and skidded into Nelson Bobb a highway surveyor who died instantly.
Ohio Bell appeals to 1.65 million customers to oppose extending the 10 percent federal excise on local telephone service and to press Congress to let the June 30 expiration stand. The wartime tax also taxes liquor tobacco furs and jewelry but Bell notes telephone is the only utility taxed. Last year subscribers paid 25.245 million dollars in federal excise taxes on local and long distance service.
The Senior Choir of Tried Stone Baptist Church at 1410 Garfield St sponsors The Way of the Cross, an 8 pm Sunday play at the church. Rev Hubert Hart leads Triedstone Baptist Church, with new members from Mt Auburn Church in Cincinnati joining.
Svena Brik the 60 pound sea lion with four escape attempts is ordered to a more secure enclosure at Fairyland Lake Merritt Oakland. The creature previously lived in a UC Berkeley fraternity house wading pool and was entrusted by Karen Toothman a 19 year old UC student after evading campus police Tuesday.
Scientists estimate fish spent about 250 million years evolving to their current forms and learning to swim. The study highlights gradual adaptation and anatomical changes that enabled efficient locomotion in ancient aquatic life.
Eight Middletown area boys will compete in the Optimist Club oratorical contest at CG&E auditorium on Maryetta Street starting 6 30 p m tomorrow. Club president Marvin Shane says trophies await the top three, who advance to a zone contest April 23 in Hamilton. Elimination rounds lead to an international contest at Optimist International's convention in Grand Rapids June 2 3. Top prizes include one 1000 scholarship and three 500 scholarships. Contest rules require four to five minutes on The Voice of Optimism.
Louisville scene reports Dr. M. S. Akardin attributes rising alcoholism to women's independence in American homes. He argues maternal authority shifts create insecurity in children, leading to potential alcoholism, noting less alcoholism in Jewish families due to strong cultural and family ties.
Richard L. Davis 79 dies at his son's home in DeGraff Ohio. Services set for 2 p m at Bexer Funeral Home with burial in New Carlisle Cemetery. Ronald E Baston 23 of Kings Mills Killed in auto crash. Funeral 10 30 a m Saturday at Tufts Funeral Home Loveland with burial in Union Cemetery Loveland. He is survived by wife two children parents and siblings.
Harvey Lyons 85 of 81 W Elm St Monroe died yesterday at noon after a year of failing health. He retired from Armco Steel Corp in 1929 and had been married 56 years to Corrine. Surviving: wife, two daughters Mary Quill Covington Ky Louella Anderson Dayton, a brother Pete Piqua, two sisters Bess Peltier Day-ton and Clima Myers Piqua, six grandchildren four great grandchildren. Solemn Requiem High Mass 10 a.m. Saturday Seven Dolors Church Monroe burial Woodhill Cemetery Franklin. Friends may call Schramm Funeral Home tomorrow 2–5 and 7–9 Rosary 7:15 p.m.
Infant Julian Franklin, son of Mr and Mrs Vero, died yesterday at Middletown Hospital. Graveside services were held at 10 a.m. today in Springboro Cemetery with arrangements by Eaton Funeral Home.
Earl Spicer, 43, of 717 Walnut Street, will be served at 10 a.m. Saturday, according to Webb.
Lowell Mellett, 76, a longtime newspaper executive and former Roosevelt aide, died Wednesday after a long illness. He edited the Washington Daily News and led the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, and headed United Press Washington Bureau. He also wrote a column for the Washington Evening Star from 1944 to 1956.
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