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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1955
Page
8
Adnan Menderes leads a far reaching industrialization drive in Turkey funded largely by postwar U S aid. The program includes seven dams and power stations, port improvements, factories and new assembly plants. Critics call it piecemeal and inflation prone, while supporters credit it with potential historic stature.
Middletown Ohio readers are invited to request a free booklet about the Niagara Deep Massage device. The promotion claims quick daily use improves sleep, circulation, and relief from numb feet and leg cramps, with no cost or obligation.
Ohio records show a 15 percent drop in traffic deaths for January and February 1955 versus 1954, with 260 deaths this year against 305 last year. February 1955 toll was 129, down eight percent from 140 in February 1954.
A long list of real estate transfers in Middletown shows multiple grantees including Willard Williams, Bonnie Leonard, Milhur Realty Corp, and others. Several lots and partials are exchanged with varied sums, some marked no tax, across numerous parcels and cancellations involve Citizens Building and Loan and First National Bank among others.
Agriculture Department scientists pursue a new group of chemicals to curb house flies and other insects that have developed resistance to DDT by preventing growth and reproduction. Port of New York Authority projects two million helicopter passengers annually in the city area by 1960.
Ohio House votes show a nine member elected state board as a possibility, with a hybrid plan allowing both election and gubernatorial appointment. The debate grew tense as supporters and opponents argued over the 101st General Assembly’s most controversial issue. Rep. A. Bruce McClure urged compromise in a closely fought bid that fell five votes short of passage.
The Ohio House planned a vote today on a bill to establish six additional municipal courts in Eaton Elyria Findlay Lebanon Marietta and Troy before district recess. If approved it moves to the Senate.
The House approved a bill to elect board members from nine appellate districts by a 99 to 31 vote and sent it to the Senate. In the Senate, a coalition of 16 lawmakers including 12 Democrats and four Republicans supports an appointed board, needing 17 votes to pass.
Peiping radio quoted a Canton court as sentencing 26 Nationalist agents who allegedly entered the city with explosives to sabotage National Day last year. The broadcast said nine were sentenced to death while the others received suspended death terms or prison sentences.
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