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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1948
Page
2
A citywide charter revision study committee will meet Wednesday May 5 at 7 30 p m in the Civic Association auditorium. Elliott D Levey chairs the group which will organize appoint a permanent secretary and a ways and means committee. About half of 40 civic groups already named delegates.
Twenty one truckloads of rubbish were removed from private homes on the first day of the 1948 Clean Up Paint Up Campaign. Trucks will collect rubbish Wednesday at the curb in Arlington Square Homestead Bellomonte district and South Highlands. Delbert Mann said six roads were postponed to Tuesday. Fire inspection in downtown by civilian-fireman teams began Monday as Fire Chief William F Fishbaugh announced. Inspector Karl Davis will inspect industries for fire hazards later in the campaign.
Dress rehearsal for the American Legion annual show Fall Out For Fun will be held tomorrow night at the high school auditorium. The 30 member cast is directed by Harris Rosedale of Cincinnati who wrote the show. The program features a GI chorus line in Mother Wore Tights and 15 scenes in a fast moving two hours. Curtis Thomas handles arrangements. Curtain time is 8 p.m. each night.
The senior scout planning committee discussed a miniature airport at Camp Hook with power model Air Scout planes. Glenn Thompson will pick the site Thursday subject to camp committee approval. The field features a 30 foot circle and a 30 by 20 foot runway.
The community chorus movement started in the United States in 1912 when Harry Barnhart organized a chorus in Rochester New York.
Middletown officials invited to a May 11 meeting in Hamilton to discuss financing the proposed Blue Ash airport. Mayor Albert Cash of Cincinnati calls the meeting with executive secretaries of Chambers of Commerce and mayors from Hamilton Miamisburg Lebanon Batavia Franklin and county commissioners from Butler Warren Clermont Brown and Hamilton counties. The 1 30 p m event at the Anthony Wayne Hotel ballroom aims to assess central airport benefits for freight use.
Berlin reports say American authorities will demand an explanation from Soviet officials tomorrow about why Hans Kanig, Berlin’s chief of police, fled to the western zones to avoid arrest. The move follows interrogation over the discipline of an officer who lured a German citizen into the Soviet sector for kidnapping. A western press item notes a new kidnapping of a German civilian in the Soviet zone and cites safety rules against abductions.
In southeast Korea and Cheju Island the UN election campaign has seen 351 deaths in 3.5 months. The U.S. army gave the tally including 68 police, 196 Communists, and 87 Rightists amid ongoing violence surrounding the elections.
Daniel J. Lynch, 39, pleaded guilty in district court in Quincy to registering horse race bets. The totally blind man kept his horse plays in braille and was fined $100.
Westinghouse Electric Corp announces price cuts of five to ten percent in all airport lighting equipment. W F White, manager of Westinghouse lighting division in Cleveland, said the reduction affects about 90 different items.
Groveland, Fla. AP Lake County watermelons moved to market about a month earlier than last year. The first carload of 933 cannonball melons shipped to Chicago yesterday sold for 1,650 dollars.
Canton notes a campaign launching a $10,000 scholarship fund at Kent State University for Romanian descent students. Concurrently local theaters list showings: Three Daring Daughters, A Woman's Vengeance, Last Moment, Pirates Of Monterey, and Oklahoma Blues with various times Tuesday and Wednesdayilled.
Armco Steel observes a 3 p m dedication ceremony at the Fast Works Middletown plant for two 70 ton electric furnaces with a first heat pouring to a ladle. Speakers include Armco president W W Sebald and VP F E Vigor, with L F Reinartz as Middletown manager hosting officials from Middletown and Hamilton.
Middletown police and city officials inspected the mobile crime laboratory during a one hour visit this morning. The unit, sponsored by the Buckeye State Sheriff's Association and the Ohio Moose Lodge, will aid major crime investigations across Ohio. Sheriff Charles J. Walke said it would move to Hamilton for inspection this afternoon as the tour proceeds through all 88 counties.
Detroit AP reports the death of the fourth of four premature babies born yesterday to 28 year old Mrs. Anne Borg at Providence Hospital. Four infants weighed under two pounds each and were delivered by Dr. Edward King and placed in incubators. The mother and her husband Joseph a Ford pipefitter were reported in good condition.
Fraternal Order of Eagles members meet at 8 p m for officer nominations. Officers will be elected at next week's regular business session.
The City Health Department led by John Otterbein completed an inspection of 88 city grocery stores. All but two were reported in excellent condition in the first such check in several years.
The Big Four passenger train 242 carrying about 100 passengers from Cincinnati to Cleveland side swiped a derailed freight car near West 73rd Street. No injuries reported and the train arrived 35 minutes late.
The Rev. Clive Knowles campaign director for Henry Wallace said Logan County officials unlawfully confiscated nominating petitions and credentials from circulators and pressured signers to strike their names.
Services for Anna Alma Gilmore 72 of 523 Main Street who died Sunday at her son’s home in Norwood will be held at 2 30 p m Wednesday at Proeschel funeral home Burial will follow in Beechwood Cemetery Morning Sun
Hamilton services for former resident Charles Becker who died Saturday at the Little Sisters of the Poor on Riddle Road Cincinnati. The burial will be in St Mary Cemetery Hamilton.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, 89, widow of Rev. Arthur Cooper formerly pastor at East Baptist Church, died after a lengthy illness at her Cincinnati home. She is survived by a son and a daughter Miss Gladys Cooper. Services set for Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Oswald funeral home Lebanon Cemetery burial.
Mrs. Laura Brant Skinner 79 was found dead at her Sycamore Street home in Lebanon. Death due to natural causes after six weeks of illness. Services set for Wednesday at 3 30 p m at Oswald funeral home with burial in Morrow Cemetery.
Former Middletown resident Mrs. Fanny Thompson died yesterday at her Hamilton home. Funeral services are set for Thursday at 1 p m at Second Baptist Church in Hamilton. Friends may call at Houston and Sons Funeral Home after 6 p m tomorrow. Burial will follow at Greenwood Cemetery.
Robert Shartle 35 of Los Angeles died early Monday in his home. He was a designer for Douglas Aircraft Corp and a Middletown High School graduate class of 1932. Survived by wife Viola, parents Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Shartle, a sister Mrs. James Lynch of Chicago, a brother Ralph Jr. of St. Louis, and aunt Mrs. Maryanna Shartle. Services at Utter McKinley Funeral Home Wednesday with interment in a Los Angeles cemetery.
Mrs Ora L Goodwin 66 former Middletown resident died at 7 30 pm Sunday at her Dayton home 2602 St Charles St She had been in failing health for a year Survived by husband Chester two sons Chester Jr and Robert both of Dayton and three others
Middletown's cancer fund drive nears its final week aiming for an $11,000 quota. So far contributions total $3,000 as E. J. Sebald urges intensified efforts. The Middletown Cancer Society, affiliated with a national program, plans a public information center at the Civic Association Building. The drive is led by E T Gardner and Bennett Chapple Sr, both cancer survivors who credit early diagnosis.
Fire Chief William F. Fishbaugh distributes Junior Fire Chief letters to pupils as part of the Clean-Up Paint-Up Campaign. The youths are tasked with home cleanup to remove rubbish that could feed a fire. Mrs. Ralph Rettig speaks tonight to the Federation of Women's Clubs at 7:30 p.m. in the Girls Club.
Miss Jukka Boberg a 16 year old from Rossvale Ohio was injured when the car she rode in driven by Malcolm Huey 19 of Cincinnati crashed into a parked truck on Route 48 near Ridgeville. She was taken to Christ Hospital Cincinnati.
Moscow report says Col. Ivan Shutov vice director of Red Star propaganda department died Sunday. He served in the Soviet Army for 25 years and had been a Communist Party member since 1921.
Mrs. Harry Kimball of Los Angeles California Mrs George Lake and Mrs Hershel Measels both of Dayton Ohio are among the daughters and sisters listed along with Mrs Ruth Manemaker of Dayton Mrs Madge Thoel king and Mrs Bertha Cunningham of Middletown and one brother Silas Kennedy of Eddyville Kentucky. Funeral is 2 pm Wednesday at the Baptist Church in Dayton with burial in Woodside Cemetery at 4 pm.
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