Not Candidate For Commission Wade Miller Says
A rumor that Wade E. Miller a retired school superintendent would seek a City Commission post this fall was scotched this morning He says he declined to run to avoid politics and wants freedom to come and go The scene on the Commission side shows Britt Kendrick filing petitions with over a thousand signatures while others like Sam Redding Reuben Doty Bill Denham Arthur Sanderson and Harold Goetz prepare or announce plans not to seek reelection
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Wade E. Miller
Miller
Commission
Britt Kendrick
Board of Elections
Kendrick
Lloyd Miller
Sam Redding
Reuben Doty
Bill Denham
Arthur Sanderson
Harold Goetz
Lamb enters race for Middletown Municipal judge post
John T. Lamb a 33 year old attorney moved to Middletown to meet candidacy rules. Vincent Sisson already circulated petitions as other contender awaits filing date ruling. Officials debate whether 60 day filing before election or February 3 deadline applies. Lamb says he is definitively a candidate and aims for a six year term under the Municipal Court Act with a salary of about 8000 dollars.
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John T. Lamb
Middletown
Lamb
Vincent Sisson
Board of Election
Ivamb
Jackson Bosch
Butler County
Liamb
West
Lamb Erd Ellison Law
Tillman Ellison
Neir
Middletown Federal Savings and Lean
Midtown High School
University of Michigan
South Pacific
Alton H. Combs
Ohio Municipal Court
Missing brown cow and heifer found near Peasttown
D C Montgomery of Corlee Road reports a wandering brown cow and heifer at his farm near the edge of Peasttown last night around 8:30. They escaped a fence while seeking apples and he penned them for the night. The sheriff's office is assisting owners to reclaim the animals.
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D. C. Montgomery
Corlee Road
Montgomery
Sheriff's Office
Veterans Village In Middletown Ends As Last Home Is Moved
The final barracks from Middletown’s Veterans Village on South Main Street has been removed. Cletus Borders of Franklin Construction moved the structures to Union Road near Franklin for rehabilitation into a housing project. Armco Steel holds title to the land and will control the property after the city abandoned the village in 1947 due to high maintenance costs.
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Middletown
South Main Street
Cletus Borders
Franklin Contractor
Union Road
Franklin
Armco Steel Corporation
Veterans’ Village
Auxiliary Patrol to Aid Traffic at Legion House Exhibit
Auxiliary highway patrol will assist Middletown police Sunday at American Legion Post 218 on Aber deen Drive and Stevens Avenue. Lt. Roy Nickell announced patrolmen will work three four hour shifts from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Legion post exhibits the house to the public before sale.
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Auxiliary Highway Patrol
Middletown
American Legion Post 218
Aberdeen Drive
Stevens Avenue
Roy Nickell
Nickell
Legion Post
Shooting Victim Improves After Wounding at Son's Grill
Clark Tingley, 35, assistant manager of Son's Grill on East Central Avenue, was wounded by four shots early Sunday. He remains at Middletown Hospital with injuries to the right chest and wrist. Police seek George F. Baron, 35, of 606 Crawford St, in the shooting.
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Middletown Hospital
Clark Tingley
Manchester Ave
Son's Grill
East Central Avenue
George F. Bar
Crawford St
Tingley
Red Radio Attacks Dulles and Rhee Over Seoul Talks
Tokyo dispatch reports a Communist Pei ping radio broadcast accusing U S Secretary of State Dulles and South Korean President Rhee of attempting to manipulate the postarmistice Korean political conference. The commentary claims Dulles aims to hypnotize Allies and world opinion to cover his schemes with Rhee.
Fleming Seen as Possible Taft Seat Pick Rumor
Rumor spread that Dr. Arthur Fleming might be appointed to the late Sen. Taft seat, a claim denied by Fleming in Washington. Ohio Governor Lausche declined comment in Seattle as speculation tied Fleming to a 1954 election, with other names like DiSalle and Burke floated by observers. Fleming, 48, a former Civil Service commissioner and GOP figure, has not pursued politics recently.
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Arthur S. Flemming
Robert A. Taft
Flemming
Washington
Frank J. Lausche
Seattle
Lausche
Columbus
Ohio Wesleyan Uni
Versity
Delaware
Office of Defense Mobilization
Associated Press
Senate
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Who's Who
Taft
Fastly
Michael V. DiSalle
U. S. Price
Toledo
Thomas A. Burke
Cleveland
Louis Bromfield
Richland County
War Manpower Commission
Hoover Commission
Ohio Wesleyan
Ohio Program Commission
Middletown
Light Agenda For City Commission Meeting
City Commissioners begin a light agenda led by the new City Manager Howard H. Kramer. One emergency ordinance before the panel would authorize selling a strip of unused cemetery property on First Avenue to the Denny Lumber Company as part of the First Avenue widening project. Also on tap are routine letters estimates and bid tabulations for Brooks Carmod and Hillman Park subdivision improvements.
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Howard H. Kramer
First Avenue
Denny Lumber Company
Brooks, Carmod
Hillman Park
Bland Testimony Stumps Probers In 1948 Fund Claim
House investigators pressed a bland testimony as Welburn S. Mayock a Washington lawyer testified he raised $30 000 for the Democratic Party in 1948 via a $65 000 fee after appealing to an old friend then Secretary John Snyder whose intercession with Revenue Bureau officials aided a business tax ruling.
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Washington
House
Democratic Party
Welburn S. Mayock
Washington, D. C
Democratic National Committee
Truman
Mayock
Secretary of the Treasury
John Snyder
Snyder
Revenue Bureau
Lawmakers tour for war surplus and rehabilition abroad
Lawmakers plan varied trips to study veterans affairs at VA headquarters in big cities, postal facilities in major urban centers, Canadian wheat imports, drought and forests in the Southwest and Northwest, and an explosion claims probe in Texas City. Additional plans include UN American activities inquiries outside Washington in Michigan and a nine man delegation to study handicapped programs in the North and South.
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United States
House Veterans Affairs Committee
Big City
Veterans Administration
Post Office Committee
Senate Agriculture Committee
Northwest
House Judiciary
Texas City
Tex
House Un-American Activities Committee
Washington
Michigan
House Labor Subcommittee
McConnell
R-Pa
Storm Disrupts Phone Service in Wildwood and Middletown
A brief electrical storm disrupted telephone service for about 200 users in Wildwood and caused scattered tree damage in Middletown. Ohio Bell's Hugh Harvey said a cable on Bexley Drive failed at 4:45 p.m. with full restoration by this morning. A transformers outage near Vannest Avenue affected power from 4 to 6 p.m. in that area. Rainfall totaled .60 inches.
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Wildwood
Middletown
Hugh Harvey
Ohio Bell Telephone Company
Bexley Drive
Harvey
Vannest Avenue
George Kuehnle
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company
Hamilton
Kuehnle
Big Docket Set for Butler County Grand Jury Recall
The Butler County Grand Jury reconvenes at 10 a.m. Monday August 10 to consider about 60 charges against 52 defendants from transcripts of Hamilton Middletown and county courts. Notable cases include armed robbery at Rainbow Gardens Millville with about $300 taken and embezzlement charges against former Union Township magistrate Hobart Mercer. Additional indictments cover robbery cutting to wound larceny non support and various assault and property offenses across townships.
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Butler County Grand Jury
Joseph T. Kiep
Hamilton
Middletown
Butler County Prosecutor’s Office
John David Ribar
Hanover St
Louis Howard Bryant
Stillwell- Beckett Rd
Rainbow Gardens
Millville
Union Township
Hobart L. Mercer
West Chester
Clay Jones
Samuel Oliver
William Ritchie
Thurman Marley
Harry Long
Edison Hughes
James Riggins
Harold W. Hurter
Claude Gibbs
Joseph Meyer, Jr
St. Clair Township
E. P. Miller
Louis Ginn
Lemon Township
Omar Leslie
William Ryan
Harry Williams
Lowell Johnson
Charles Walden
Oxford
Charles Lackey
William Hicks
Monroe
Charles Anderson
Jean Anderson
Mabel Dyehouse
Merle
William Tallon
Passionate kiss ends in elderly man’s death in Mexico City
A dying man collapsed after a long kiss with a woman whose husband had left her. She admits accepting his advances due to two days without food. Officials report the incident occurred yesterday in Mexico City resulting in the man’s death.
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Mexico City
Eac
Gardner Employees Hiked As Cost Of Living Soars
The Gardner Board and Carton Co will grant a three percent wage increase this month affecting over 2,000 workers in Middletown and Lockland. President E. T. Gardner said the raise adds about 5 cents an hour for hourly paid staff, part of cost-of-living plans in effect since October 1950 tied to the Cincinnati area BLS index. Manchester Machine Co. Middletown, a Gardner subsidiary, is included, and Gardner operates plants in Middletown and Lockland with nationwide sales offices.
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Gardner Board and Carton Co
Middletown
Lockland
E. T. Gardner
Gardner
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Cincinnati
Manchester Maschine Co
Manchester
Gardner Company
Looting at King’s Drive-In on Oxford State Road
Deputies report a theft at the King’s Drive-In on Oxford State Road where about $50 in change was taken. Loren Gustin, deputy sheriff, said pinball and cigarette machines were looted yesterday.
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King’s Drive
Oxford State Road
Loren Gustin
At The Movies Paramount Strand Showtimes
At the Movies listings show Paramount and Strand schedules for Wednesday and Thursday. Paramount screens Sangaree and Girl Who Had Everything with multiple late shows. Strand presents Fair Wind to Java Come Back Little Sheba and 49th Man along with Siren of Baghdad plus 3-D Charge of Feather River times.
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Feather River
Java
Little Sheba
49Th Man
Bagdad
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Jj. T. Lamb
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Butler County Bar Associations
Nor Chamber of Commerce
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Pat
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White Villa
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Sucker, Rath & Co
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