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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1957
Page
3
A Middletown school district story shows a boy helped by emotional support and the Lower Miami Valley Guidance Center. The principal notes multiple similar cases in Butler County and urges community funding for the non profit agency.
Reservations forWednesday night's dinner of the Butler County Mental Hygiene Assn. at the Hamilton YWCA can be made in Middletown through Mrs Donall Spears 2526 Wildwood Rd. Dr John A MacLeod assistant director of the Central Clinic in Mental Health Council of Cincinnati and Hamilton County will speak on How's Your Mental Health He will discuss normality signs of emotional disorder and the role of ministers doctors and social workers in promoting mental health in the community The dinner is at 6 pm with Dr MacLeod's talk at 7 The discussion session follows He is an instructor in psychiatry at the College of Medicine in Cincinnati.
Resolution appoints William L. Sennett, Donald M. Gose and Fred W. Becker as a three member board to estimate the assessment for cost of improving Gideon Road from Central Avenue to Grand Avenue, Burton Road, and Grand Avenue area, funding storm sewers, sidewalks, and bituminous surface treatment, reporting to the City Commission. The measure declares an emergency for public health and safety.
Middletown junior leaders placed second and third in the Southwestern Ohio Junior Leaders' Club meet in Piqua on Saturday. The 10 Middletown boys scored 44 points, 14 behind the Dayton Club winner, while 11 Middletown girls earned 28 points for third. Local girls scored an excellent 100 in marching. led by Shirley Stamper, they stayed near time limits. Individual honors went to Mike O’Neil, Fred Giltrow, Dick Roof, Donna Cross, St. Clair Leavell, Jim Robinson, Jim Liljestrand, and Gloria Miller, with other participants listed. Events included inspection, marching, calisthenics, gymnastics, athletics, volleyball, and aquatics.
City firemen report a blaze last night at 1616 Sycamore Street caused 75 damage to a 1951 model car owned by Mrs Emily Moon. Company 3 firefighters extinguished the rear seat fire after answering the alarm at 9 13 p m.
CHICAGO Two seventh grade boys were handed to juvenile authorities after admitting sending extortion notes to tenants in a Northwest Side housing project. The letters signed The Killer and The Gang demanded 20 to 50 dollars under threat of harm to children. A handwriting test linked Hector Donati 12 to the notes and implicated Anthony Corona 14. Both youths are in custody for further questioning.
Lewis J. Davis 57 president of Power Equipment Co. of Galion died after a heart attack in a Detroit area car near Temperance Michigan. Funeral services are set for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Snyder Funeral Home in Galion. Davis joined Power Equipment in 1954 and served as president since then. He also held roles at Cleveland Welding Division Hydraulic Steel Co. and North Electric Co. as treasurer, VP, and secretary across years.
A roundup of obituaries notes Jules Jeanneney former president of the French Senate died at 92. Lord Newborough, aged 78, died after a life at sea. Duke Shoop Kansas City Star Washington chief died. Louis M Rabinowitz 59 immigrant and benefactor died. Msgr Paul J Glenn 64 rector died. Frederick M Clancy 75 publicist for cowboy stars died. Sig Kriegsm an 63 Cincinnati manager died. John Richard Horst 45 Lexington horse photographer died.
Funeral notices list Daisy Taylor Watson 85 of 3111 Grand Ave dying in Cincinnati hospital and service for tomorrow at Riggs Funeral Home with burial at Woodside Cemetery. Surviving daughter G R Betts and two grandchildren. Other notices mention Hall, Kurtz, Menzer, Clawson, Bowling, Leonard, and Rich with services scheduled in Hamilton and area churches and funeral homes.
Mrs Charles Rau, 75, formerly of Middletown, died suddenly yesterday at her Dayton home from a heart attack. She leaves a sister Miss Nell Mininger, a daughter, and three sons. Daughter of the late Mr and Mrs John Mininger of Middletown. Funeral Thursday at 9 am Holy Trinity Church Dayton. Burial is in Dayton.
Charles A Hall aged 79 of 33 FE Std St died at 1130 p.m. Saturday. Funeral services set for 1 p.m. tomorrow at Anglesby Funeral Home with Rev H S Gessner officiating and burial to follow at an unspecified location.
Kenneth F. Goodson 44 resident manager of Kaiser Construction Co Ravenswood West Virginia and former general manager of an NATO air base project in Iceland died yesterday in Marietta Ohio.
Thieves raided Rossi's Grocery at 1401 Garfield St over Saturday night or early Sunday, taking meat, cheese, 31 pairs of ladies' hose, cash, and a gray portable radio totaling $110.88. Angelo Rossi reported the burglary to Det. Douglas Barrett and Ptl. Howard Watson. suspects fled after entering through a south side door.
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