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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1949
Page
10
The excerpt outlines budget friendly spring meals with emphasis on greens and fruits. It lists Luncheon and Dinner options featuring cottage cheese, peanut butter sandwiches, eggs, sardine salad, creamed salmon, stuffed cabbage, liver, vegetable soup, and various sides plus tea or coffee and milk.
A daily menu lists Breakfast items tomato juice omelet herbs enriched toast butter or margarine strawberry jam coffee milk Luncheon options include potato and leek soup pilot biscuits fresh vegetable salad with cottage cheese balls enriched hard rolls chocolate brownies tea milk Dinner features veal saute with mushrooms mashed potatoes buttered lima beans enriched rolls spring salad with French dressing and prepared vanilla pudding topped with strawberries or rhubarb coffee milk
In Ravenna Harcort Manufacturing Company begins production of custom plastic moldings with 25 workers and an annual payroll of 50000 dollars officials said. The article notes marital tensions between Mary Haworth and Frank and suggests Bette becomes a neurotic victim of the conflict.
A vertical and horizontal word list puzzle with clues for fibers birds plants gods and more. The grid hints include entries for fiber knots Brazilian macaw biblical land and other terms across religious animals and measurements.
Pattern 9049 offers a feminine basque top lantern skirt and eyelet trim in sizes 12 to 20 with a 35 yard requirement for size 16. Includes Sew Chart and complete steps. Send 25 cents to Middle town Journal pattern dept New York for pattern and name, address, size, style number. Marian Martin Fashion Book adds a free pattern and 15 cents more for Summer 1949 fashions.
Donora residents enter a second day of a four day smog test to replicate the deadly industrial conditions that caused 22 deaths last October. Public Health Service technicians conduct the experiment at Webster’s request as thick smoke drifts across the Monongahela River amid a west wind.
Fayetteville North Carolina police seek a slayer after the nude battered body of 41 year old Martha Kennedy Hicks was found in a pine thicket near a lover's lane. Hicks had been missing since April 9 and was found by Nathan Farmer a local resident. The victim lived with her husband Joe Hicks a retired soldier in Bonnie Doone.
Ohioans would pay more in annual taxes under a sales tax bill before the State Senate, says Ohio Chamber of Commerce executive Herschel C. Atkinson. He says the bill would raise well over 60 million dollars annually by expanding taxes on electricity, telephones, water, cigarettes, liquor, livestock and farm machinery and would tax charitable institutions for the first time on their purchases.
Tall chimneys and oven vents emitted smoke yesterday while wind kept visibility clear. Residents fear a repeat of last fall’s smog that killed 22 and sickened hundreds, though investigators say no danger and pledge to halt the test at first harm signal. The city’s historic name was Le Havre de Grace.
Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders, now in missionary work in Japan, will receive a spontaneous contribution from fellow airmen. Deshazer, a former B 25 bombardier captured in China, spoke of influencing Japanese through churches rather than bomb bays. The Raiders planned a documentary on their raid and philanthropic ties in the Orient.
Service clubs and fraternal organizations in Middletown support the American Cancer Society campaign now in its third week. Campaign chairman Fred Danford cites broad endorsement as vital to fundraising and education, noting more patients seek examinations and earlier cures. He cites hospital data: 76 cancer patients in 1947 rising to 92 in 1948 with deaths dropping from 52 to 38. Speakers Bureau led by Mrs. Erle Hanson will bring doctors and leaders to meetings this month.
Beverly Hills police chief said no criminal charges will be filed in a kidnap hoax involving a five year old and about $30,000 in racetrack losses. The boy’s mother Mrs. Joe Goodman admitted staging the kidnapping to hide betting losses. Goodman and two others were questioned. charges were dismissed or released.
George Mathieson a Michigan State senator from Royal Oak filed grand larceny charges in Delaware Circuit Court against Clarence Walker 20 of Floyd Va and Robert J McCutcheon 40 of Sandusky Ohio for stealing personal belongings worth 500 from his automobile. Detective Chief Mervyn Collins identified the defendants.
The lower classes were barred from fighting for 200 years in the Middle Ages. An exception existed for townsmen who supplied military units to great lords in exchange for free charters. Most combat was performed by armed knights on horseback.
WALTERBORO AP A 60 year old farmer Wyman Hiatt is to face murder charges in June after admitting to poisoning his 80 year old sister Carrie Hiott Carter and burying her alive in a barnyard grave behind their rural home. Solicitor Randolph Murdaugh said a grand jury would be asked to indict. The sister's body was found in the barnyard grave April 8 after Hiatt reported the poisoning on April 5.
An American educator warned the German martial spirit remains strong after years of reeducation. Dr. Aloner G. Grace of the U S Military Government said three years is insufficient to eradicate reverence for guns and glory and warned of persistent nationalist trends in teachers and textbooks. He urged careful screening for peaceful content in German education while noting broader challenges of rebuilding Germany. A Military Government report added eastern Germany under Russian rule pushes educated Germans to Allied zones, with 768 crossing the border in a week, and 300 repatriates daily at Hof center. estimates place German prisoners under Russian control as high as 200,000.
Massillon Alliance and Wellsville voted to switch to daylight saving time this Sunday. Cantor city officials did not take a position on the change.
An old newspaper ad promotes Laura Wheeler Needlecraft patterns with crochet directions Pattern 937 and a request for twenty cents to The Journal 178 Needlecraft Dept P O Box 116 Flatbush Station Brooklyn NY Print pattern number name address and zone Send fifteen cents for 108 illustrations of designs for crochet knitting embroidery toys and more Free needlework pattern printed in book
The newly formed Drama Guild of the Cal vary Methodist Church prepares its first production What So Ever Ye Sow in May with Darrell Hodge as Prince Stephen and Jane Heck as Rebecca supported by Janet Sebald Ruth Robert Moore Daniel Robert Housh Eli Benny Weaver Rabbi Joseph Ann Heck Sarah and others. James Pelly directs with a later announced date. A machine gun was first fired from an airplane in 1912.
Kelley Island Lime and Transport Co. announced a record consolidated net profit of 165,388 dollars for the quarter ended March 31, or 43 cents per share. This compares with 29,662 dollars or 13 cents a share for the same period in 1948, marking the best first quarter in 20 years.
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