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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1951
Page
10
Middletown Journal readers are invited to a complimentary roller derby event at the Cincinnati Garden tomorrow night. The final derby week aims to boost local interest in the sport, linking television popularity to live attendance, with free admission upon presenting the coupon at the box office.
Cincinnati Garden Management offers Middletown Journal readers a free ticket to the National Roller Derby on Thursday night April 26. A coupon must be presented at the ticket office for admission.
Bard College president James H. Case Jr argues that military life fosters maturity and purpose in young men. He notes teens are turbulent and indecisive, while Army experience builds independence, responsibility, and clearer goals. Case warns some veterans pursue degrees for benefits, not education, and urges college men to act as guides for others.
The National Air Races return after 1949 to Detroit August 18 and 19, sponsored jointly by the Air Foundation and Aero Club. Limited military participation was authorized by the Defense Department. The event’s last Cleveland hosting ended after a fatal crash involving Bill Odom’s Thompson trophy racer and two others.
The piece urges early social and academic support for timid children. It recommends scheduling neighborhood events within 24 to 48 hours, tutoring at home during the first weeks, and exposing new students to the local community and school to ease timidity and maintain steady progress. It notes examples from modern personnel practices and personal commitment to a long constant school district.
Thirty eight graduates of the Home Nursing course taught by Miss Gladys Glass in Monroe will attend a covered dish supper and meeting at 6 30 pm Thursday in the United Presbyterian Church. Paul Wilson Middletown safety director will present a feature length film after the dinner. Former students may bring families as guests and anyone can attend the meeting following the supper.
A dinner meeting of Zone Nine of the Ohio State Optometric Association is set for Thursday at 7 p m at the Elks Building in Piqua. The zone covers optometrists from Middletown and the Miami Valley. Dr John Quirk a cardiologist will speak on Heart and Vascular Embarrassment of Ocular Functions. The dinner honors Dr Albin L Thomas of Piqua one of the oldest active practicing optometrists in Ohio.
Canton Ohio Mayor Thomas H. Nichols praised the Stark County grand jury report and said he will probe the police force following claims of corruption and lax enforcement. Municipal Judge Donald L. McCarroll derided the report as a slap at honest police and questioned why action on the red light district took so long.
Joseph Pursglove, 73, longtime coal producer in Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, died last night. He led the Pursglove Coal Sales Company based in Cleveland, after previously founding the Pursglove Coal Mining Company in Pursglove, West Virginia. The firm was sold to Consolidation Coal Company in 1993, then Pursglove ran the sales organization in Cleveland.
James A. Gillam, 21, a Jehovah's Witness from Canton, becomes the first person sentenced to prison under the postwar draft law. Gillam was convicted of draft evasion after refusing to register. Federal Judge Charles J. McNamee imposed a three year term.
On a doorstep near Mayor Impelliteri's mansion the Lex Thompsons' rift appeared mended when he gave Claudette Colbert a diamond wristwatch at a recent dinner. Claudette and Jack Benny boarded a plane to California as a familiar actress tried to greet them, but they did not recognize her. The actress penned a flaming note and asked the steward to deliver it after takeoff.
Harold Kress was named president of a newly organized Fruit and Vegetable Growers Marketing Association. The group includes 150 farmers from the Greater Cincinnati area who have marketed on the Cincinnati wholesale market. Attendees came from Butler Hamilton and Clermont Counties Ohio Dearborn County Indiana and Campbell Kenton and Boone Counties Kentucky.
Chicago welcomes General MacArthur with a major civic reception at Soldier Field after his arrival at Midway Airport. A 200-member reception committee will orchestrate events including a 17 gun salute and a formal parade through the Loop. An estimated 3,000,000 residents are expected to view the welcome.
An advertisement touts Restin Tablets as a non habit forming remedy for sleepless nights and nervous tension. It promises genuine relief and urges purchase at Castell Brust with a guarantee of authenticity.
Garfield School pupils present an annual spring program in the auditorium at 7 30 p.m. The show features songs and dances depicting holidays and events from Lincoln’s birthday to Christmas with Father Time narration by Frank Harris. Performers include grades K to sixth and solos by Danny Reedy with tap routines by Butch Great house and the Mce Donald siblings.
After a Chicago welcome, General MacArthur and his wife will travel to Milwaukee on Friday where he will receive an honorary degree at Marquette University. Their son Arthur, age 13, accompanies them in the mammoth celebration.
The shot load leaves the muzzle at 950 miles per hour and slows to about 650 miles per hour by 20 yards, illustrating rapid velocity loss in close range.
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