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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1957
Page
1
Local post office operations resume standard service after brief disruption. Officials cite restoration of mail handling, window hours, and carrier routes to normal by afternoon. Community members are advised to check the latest notices for any updated pickup times and parcel status.
Washington AP reports Post Office Department resumes near normal mail service using 41 million dollars in new funds after a congressional supplemental. Summerfield extends limited downtown deliveries and window hours, while Congress debates higher rates. Eisenhower says some hope remains for Suez canal resolution without UN Security Council intervention and notes progress in U S Egypt talks. He discusses disarmament talks and a natural gas bill, joking about his brother Edgar.
In Amman Premier Hussein Fakhri Khalidi said Jordan will press ahead with a federal economic and cultural federation with Syria and Egypt. He voiced belief such a union would benefit regional unity and suggested U S opposition would be a mistake.
Marilyn Monroe becomes chief asset and sole income source as she ousts Milton Greene from the board. A board vote on Tuesday installed a four member slate led by Monroe, leaving Greene out of the lineup amid accusations of mismanagement and a contract dispute.
A light exchange has a husband joking about a new malaria campaign while his wife quips about the Malarians, reflecting a playful domestic moment.
Detroit federal court heard fugitive Ewing Scott, a retired Los Angeles broker, will contest removal to California over the murder charge in his wife Evelyn Throsby Scott's 1955 disappearance. He was arrested at the Canada border and identified after using a false name. FBI found $10,000 in his belt as investigators press for answers on his 11 months on the run.
William Munley testified before the Senate Rackets Committee that he dynamited a 1954 nonunion project in Scranton on a dare without union orders. Paul Bradshaw, a Teamsters steward, allegedly urged the act but Munley said he did not discuss it with higher union officials. Bradshaw, convicted of dynamite possession, says he is protecting others. Three others pled guilty in state courts and served nine months. Robert Habshman invoked the Fifth Amendment and faced contempt proceedings but offered only name and address. Habshman had been tied to beatings and sabotage in related acts of terrorism.
Helen Canfield describes to the Senate how she and Bradshaw secretly recorded union officials. She claims the district attorney called it a gigantic hoax and that both had copies for safety before presenting them. Canfield says she was arrested for obstructing justice and Bradshaw faced a perjury charge.
Miss Canfield an egg handler in a Scranton warehouse targets male Teamsters with harsh words accusing them of lacking backbone to clean up union affairs. She claims her arrest over recordings was meant to frighten her, while senators Goldwater Mundt react, saying it did not work.
The Miami Valley faces mainly showers as a low pressure system tracks eastward. Forecast calls for cloudy warm conditions with highs around 60 and lows near 50 today, then cooler on Thursday with continued rain and a high near 55. Middletown reported a high of 54 last night and a low of 47 this morning, with .22 inches of rain over yesterday and today.
Scranton residents react to a Senate inquiry into labor activity amid shock over reports of strong arm tactics. The city, once robust in coal and steel, faced economic shifts and a life fund plan to attract new industry, with nine plants added and a history of few major strikes since the 1955 transit tieup.
In Washington the Teamsters Executive Board asks for negotiations and a bill of particulars to delay or derail corruption charges against Dave Beck and the union. AFL-CIO leaders plan hearings set for May 6 and May 20, signaling a likely stiff rejection of the delay bid.
Francis J. Whinnery aged 45 of Adena died Tuesday when his car left U S 250 near Cadiz Ohio, struck a bridge, according to the highway patrol.
Muddy in Saline County voted 56 to 2 to legalize liquor sales. John Molinaro, a former coal miner and town owner, controls most housing and will run the store after a 30 day state waiting period. He serves as village president and liquor commissioner with re elected six member council.
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