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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1949
Page
5
Julie Strnad wins custody of six year old Antoinette in a final divorce decree from Antoine Strnad. The four year battle spanned New York and Europe after she used artificial insemination with his permission.
Mr and Mrs Carl Perry hosted a lawn party on Baltimore Street to honor their daughter Miss Joan Perry bride elect of Harlan Dennis. Guests enjoyed games and prizes won by several listed ladies and a luncheon followed by gifts from many supporters. The wedding is planned for Saturday August 10.
Mrs. Oscar Riley Jr. and Miss Virginia Edwards attended a misc postnuptial shower at Baltimore Street Yellow House. Guests included Mrs. Takach Mrs. Leslie Dixon Miss Joyce Fordyce and many Edwards Riley and Higins family members as games and refreshments followed a yellow white theme.
In Ozark Alabama two self styled Negro Ku Klux Klansmen were jailed after pleading guilty to violating the new anti masking law. Tommie Johnson 19 and Robert E Lee Miller 21 were sentenced to six months and 60 days respectively for wearing white sheets to threaten two Negro girls. Raymond McClendon 20 faces trial this afternoon.
Station slate lists Saturday and Sunday lineups with program previews, features, sports, and weather. Highlights include Midwestern Hayride and Who Said That? on Saturday night and Reds game and Auto Races on Sunday, plus NBC Theater and specialty shows.
A post nuptial shower was held for Mrs Harold Parks at the home of Mrs. Wilfred Linkous 2409 Grand Ave. Pink and white decorations and garden flowers framed the gift opening. Prizes went to Mrs Harold Wray Miss Jo Anne Koontz Miss Phyllis Gingerich and Miss Alline Montgomery. A late lunch was served to a large invited group led by the honored guest and hostess.
The article notes Cardinal Spellman criticizing the Barden bill as un-American and anti-Catholic while Mrs. Roosevelt urged no tax funds for private or parochial schools. A Senate-passed bill would let states decide federal fund distributions and current measures omit health and lunch funding for all schools.
Beverly Hills, California AP reports Lila Leeds, recently convicted with Robert Mitchum on a marijuana charge, pleaded guilty in City Court to being drunk in an automobile. She received a suspended ten day jail term, a $50 fine, and one year probation.
Frank Potter and his wife and four children completed an 11 month voyage in the two masted 46 foot schooner Seven Seas. They began in Long Island after buying the ship and sailed to Boston then down the Atlantic coast around Florida Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to Beaver Pennsylvania. They plan to sell the vessel before settling down in Beaver.
A compact schedule appears with station names WSAI 1300 and WPFB S10K listing various programs. It names Christian Science and bands for bands music, Hawaii Calls, Hit Parade, Jamboree, and Dancing segments, with mentions of True or False and Rhythm Boys.
A medical expert from the Public Health Service will examine two Albuquerque patients to determine if they have Bubonic Plague. Dr. Vernon B. Link from the Western Plague Laboratory is assigned to diagnose amid uncertain cases as federal fleas are found in wild rodents across New Mexico.
Hollywood reacts to Ingrid Bergman announcing her divorce from Dr. Peter Lindstrom while Hollywood doubts she will retire. Observers note her acting remains her first love despite flops Arch of Triumph and Joan of Arc and her ability to command $200000 per film.
The piece warns a husband facing temptation from a new girlfriend to verbalize affection for his wife and resist rivals. It advises the wife to outdo the rival, be aggressively seductive, and states a bulletin titled Sex Differences Between Men and Women is available by sending a small fee.
An 20 inch crude oil pipeline from Longview Texas to Lima Ohio will begin in October with work in Butler County. Mid-Valley Pipeline Company announced the project, stating it will be an interstate common carrier costing about 56 million dollars and funded by Mid-Valley stock sales to Standard Ohio and Sun Oil, plus bank and insurer loans.
Dr. Robert C. Rutledge Jr. faces 10 years to life after a judge denied a defense motion for a new trial in the slaying of Byron C. Hartman. Rutledge plans an appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court as his wife Sydney expresses continued support.
Tender crude oil to Mid-Valley from production fields in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. In all, nine of the ten contracts for the construction, and for the Mississippi River crossing, have been awarded.
Pictures that seem three dimensional can be developed on a special glass infused with gold and other metal particles so fine they are invisible under a standard microscope.
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