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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1957
Page
2
Police Chief Joseph Blackmore ordered an immediate halt to all bingo games in Middletown. Churches clubs and private groups were told to stop and city officers will enforce the ban with arrests under the city gambling ordinance. The move follows Governor ONeill’s statewide order closing bingo activities.
Proposal to amend the Aeronca Independent Union constitution to allow affiliation with another labor organization will be voted on April 19. Robert Agee said readings will occur for second shift at 1 p.m. and first shift at 7 p.m. The changes would lower the threshold for affiliation to a majority of those present. Current rules require 75 percent present and 75 percent overall. A seven day advance notice is proposed. Also on the ballot is a dues increase from 50 cents to 2 dollars, already approved by first shift members. Agee heads the slate elected Feb 13 and the AIU, backed by the United Auto Workers, has held bargaining rights in local Aeronca plants for 11 years with about 1,013 members.
About 800 workers at Aluminum Industries in Cincinnati ended a weeklong walkout after management offered a nine cent hourly pay increase. Production and maintenance staff approved the settlement and regular shifts were set to resume today.
Franklin officers report two burglaries under investigation. Shawhan's Drug Store at 348 South Main Street was entered by climbing to a rear flat roof and entering through a second story window, with about $10 missing. The Presbyterian Church at Fifth and Main suffered a doorway break in, nothing taken. milkman alerted staff of the entry.
Franklin Special Judge J T Riley returns from vacation to Municipal Court with several assault and weapon charges from the Silver Bar incident on March 30. Dan Nease is guilty of cutting with intent to wound. George Terrell and Buford Webb receive fines and suspended sentences. Reedy is found not guilty on a warrant. cross-complaints dismissals result in costs. multiple bond forfeitures are listed for speeding and reckless operation.
Middletown Postmaster L Mor ton Taylor said orders from the Post Office Department call for service cutbacks if funds are not found. A postal bulletin notes funds are unavailable for normal postal services in the final quarter of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957.
Sheriff Paul A Pell Detec tive John Loftus and Ptl Jerry Merz of the Hamilton Police department and Henry Bruewer assistant county prosecutor will leave for Topeka Kan early Wednesday to return Gene Milton Mischke 29 and Curtis Allen 32 to Butler County for trial in the Sealtest Dairy robbery. The officers also will return Marvin Eugene Stevens of Middletown from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth Kan Stevens scheduled to be released after serving a sentence in Leavenworth is sought on a charge of larceny by trick in connection with the sale of an automobile. Meanwhile jurors were picked this morning for the trial of Frank Sumpter 31 of Newport Ky indicted by the grand jury on charges of armed robbery and abduction with intent to extort in connection with the dairy robbery last Feb 3. Jurors named included Mrs Fred Grant Mrs Virgil App Lois E Meyer T Katheryn Slaven Annabelle Alfred Carl A Schul Gus Saver D F Weaver John H Weber John Schaefer Carl Engel and Mrs Melvin Jones. A fourth defendant in the robbery case Raymond L White 33 1811 Woodlawn Ave Middletown pleaded guilty earlier to two counts of armed robbery and was sentenced to indeterminate terms in the Ohio Penitentiary. Mischke formerly of Cincinnati has been identified as a one time employee of the Hamilton dairy. Both he and Allen of Covington Ky were being held in Topeka in connection with cashing forged checks.
A 1957 station wagon carrying a family crashed into a ditch on U S 42 south of Waynesville. Clarence Shafer 43 from Cuyahoga Falls suffered severe arm injuries and shock requiring 200 stitches and is listed in fair condition. His wife Margaret 33 and children Joyce Morring 13 Ted Morring 9 were treated for injuries and released. State patrol cited slushy road conditions with mixed rain and snow. the accident occurred near the Ohio 122 intersection. Stubbs ambulance transported the injured to Middletown Hospital.
A Franklin woman, Mrs. Virgil Louise Swain, 31, Rt. 1, was burned yesterday when a stove exploded in her home. She suffered first and second degree burns to the face and arms and was treated at Middletown Hospital before being released.
Ten year old Paul Gutshall son of Robert Gutshall of 2209 Lamberton Street fractured his right wrist in a fall at school. He received treatment in the emergency ward at 4 50 p m.
Selective Service announces a May draft call totaling 833 men with 17 inductees from Butler County Ohio. The youngest eligible is age 22 by May 1 unless previously drafted or delinquent. April's call reached 726. Ohio's May total last year was 764 with other quotas listed for Hamilton Montgomery Preble and Warren.
Two crowded electric trains collided in a Cape Town suburb on Monday killing at least 24 people and injuring scores. Authorities investigated the cause as emergency crews aided survivors.
Between 400 and 500 solicitors are expected to attend the final training session tonight for the Civic Association youth building fund program. The Drive workers meet at 6 p.m. in the Manchester Hotel senior ball room for a dinner instructional program led by William Verity. Henry Woods and W. W. Sebald explain the building program while Carol Burns represents Civic Association teenagers and Robert Cordray presents a slide show on needs. The Rev. E. H. Hammon and Rabbi Harry Roth will also participate. The campaign opens tomorrow.
Harold E. Young outlines a four month active duty option under the Special Volunteer Reserves for April and May enlistees. Recruits may finish high school before active duty. upon reporting they can join Regular Marine Corps for three or four years or be discharged from the Reserve. Both paths send recruits to San Diego, with credit toward total reserve obligations.
Tuesday night schedules include Y Men's Club at 6, Sertoma at 6 30 and Civic Chorus at 7 30. Fire departments, gun battalion, PTA and sport clubs gather at local venues. Wednesday brings Golden Age Club at 1 30 and National Guard drills at 7 30 with several civic and fraternal group events.
A break in at Hempstead Coal Co on Girard Avenue and Verity Parkway yielded no loot per police. A theft report on Central Avenue described a large Black woman slipping a billfold with $1 and papers from Mrs. Omer Southard. Leila Williams reported missing blanket towels and wash cloths valued at eight dollars at Reynolds Avenue. Ollie Henry 32 was arrested on a juvenile neglect warrant. Howard Smithson 48 was charged with driving while intoxicated. A Grove Street call reported a nine year old boy mistreated a nine year old girl returning home from a store.
Firefighters respond to 6:24 p.m. call at Kenneth Jones residence 330 Curtis St. They discover no fire and no damage. Overheated oil stove identified as cause with no injuries reported.
The board named Rev H H Jung of Central Evangelical & Reformed Church of Dayton to speak at Lemon Monroe graduates, with Middletown High seniors hearing Dr Herrick B Young president of Western College for Women in Oxford. Services set for Sunday May 26. A cooperative parking plan between Lemon Monroe High and Monroe Presbyterian Church received board approval. The board will pursue action to eliminate a sanitary nuisance east of the proposed lot where garbage and raw sewage drain into an unsanitary swamp. A new hospitalization and medical insurance plan with higher rates but more benefits was approved for Middletown teachers, with salary deductions to be arranged via the clerk's office. The Amanda School gymnasium was approved for use by Calvary Baptist Church for two months. Other actions included teaching contracts for 1957-58, clerical appointment for the superintendent’s office, and a change in tennis coach at Lemon Monroe High.
Paramount screens Paris Does Strange Things at 6 15 and 9 55 p m Lust for Life at 7 55 p m Strand presents Task Force at 6 00 and 9 20 p m Fighting 69th at 7 50 p m
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