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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1951
Page
3
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Baltimore firm Greiner Company was proposed as the overall consulting engineer for a 300 million dollar Ohio Turnpike across northern Ohio. The plan includes a bid deadline of September 4 and engineering fees as a percent of construction cost. Final reports from Greiner and Parsons Brinckerhoff were submitted, with reinforced concrete favored for cost savings. The commission set August 20 for hearings on paving with oil and portland cement firms. A separate Harrisburg note reports the Senate Highways Committee considering extending the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the Maryland border.
The local Red Cross Home Service urges servicemen who enter or leave service and have dependents to apply for quarters allowance known as Class Q. Amounts vary by rank, with various dependents, and loans may be offered if first checks are delayed. The office notes that Class Q is not automatic and requires joint action by the serviceman and government.
Detective Millard C. Schath, 53, who killed four desperate men in his career and helped kill two more, asks retirement on pension from the Cincinnati police. He says he is tired of it all and notes he preferred shooting to being shot. A naval veteran, he served on submarines in 1924 and during World War II.
Akron based strike of over-the-road drivers ends after four local firms and one Toledo firm reach agreement on contract interpretation. Companies include ACE Transportation Summit Fast Freight Akron-Chicago Dixie-Ohio Express. AFL Teamsters had accused the five firms of contract violations but did not specify details.
Gov. Frank Lausche asked U S Army Engineers to keep operating and maintaining locks and dams on the Muskingum River until the Ohio Legislature can act. Engineers plan to abandon lower Muskingum next Thursday and the upper river later to save the federal government about 120000 dollars annually. Traffic on the river has diminished to a handful of commercial and pleasure craft.
An Akron couple and a Medina man were killed in a collision between a truck and auto on Route 30 near Beaver Dam. Victims were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Seifried of Akron aged 71 and 65, and Glenn Bradley Knecht, 33, of Medina, an employee of the Motor Cargo Company, per State Highway Patrol.
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