Wagner grandsons win Bayreuth staging battle
Rich ard Wagner's grandsons pushed modernist aims at the Bayreuth festival as critics shifted toward acceptance of abstract, symbol driven staging. Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner oversee a $440,300 season running July 23 to August 25 with international cast and 100 plus chorus. ticket sales cover about half the costs.
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Wagner
Bayreuth
Daniel DE Luce
Germany
Richard Wagner
Bavaria
Wolfgang
Astrid Varnay
George London
New York Metropolitan
Roman Vinay
Chile
Tristan
Festspielhaus
Mrs Ohio contest draws 62 entrants for Mrs America elim
Sixty two married women from Miami Valley enter local Mrs Ohio elimination at LeSourdsville Lake on Sunday August 24 with 230 registered but only those meeting information requirements qualify. Local entrants list Middletown Hamilton Cincinnati Eaton Mason Franklin Trenton and more with master of ceremonies Dick Hageman and Omar Bread Days offer half price rides for ride week.
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Middletown
LeSourdsville Lake
Miami Valley
Asbury Park
N. J
Virtue Fishbaugh
South Main St
Marjorie Grant Gentry
Margaret Marie Dyehouse
Columbia
Maxine Fisher
Wanda Pleak
Meadow Ave
Pat Boyd
Logan Ave
Mae Howard
Young St
Dick Hageman
Cincinnati Televi
Imogene A. Morrow
Eaton Route 4
Peggy Bercaw
North Section St
Mason
Anna Lou White
Franklin
Box 185
Lois Messinger
North Miami St
Trenton
Lake Management
Omar
UN Asks Reds To Pinpoint Prison Camps
UN truce delegates press North Korea to provide exact locations of prison camps in North Korea to protect soldiers. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison sent the demand in a letter to Gen. Nam Il during Panmunjom talks. United Nations officials disclosed findings about artillery and air activity near Panmunjom in early August.
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Reds
Munsan
Korea
United Nations Today
U.N
U. N
William K. Harrison
Nam Ll
Panmunjom
Sh Sey Colmes W. McCarthy
McCarthy
British Capture Top Safecracker They Once Hired
Aberdeen Scotland P John Ramensky recaptured after escaping Peterhead Prison for the second time. He previously escaped in 1934 and spent about 30 hours free. Ramensky, Britain's No 1 cracksman, once parachuted behind German lines to crack Nazi safes during World War II.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
John Ramensky
Grim Peterhead
Here
Peterhead
Ramensky
Britain
Explorer Scouts Plan Canoeing Trip to Wisconsin
Eight members of Boy Scout Troop 44 Explorer Crew will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday in Carlisle to discuss a two week canoeing trip. Don Garrett of Mound Builders Area Council said the group will depart Sunday at 5 30 a.m. for a 10 day exploration by water at a Region Seven canoe base in Wisconsin, camping in state parks on the way and returning August 31.
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Explorer
Boy Scout Troop 44
Winford Kropf
Carlisle
Wisconsin
Don Garrett
Mound Builders Area Council
Region Seven
Boy Scouts
NYC Union Talks Show No Sign Of Settlement
New York and company men resume talks with no sign of an immediate settlement in the dispute that could halt New York Central trains east of Buffalo. A strike originally set for last Monday was postponed to allow federal mediators time to intervene.
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New York
Union
New York Central System
Buffalo
Teetotaling Widow Denied Stock Of Liquors
LOS ANGELES. W C Fields widow Harriett V Fields, a teetotaler, will not receive the 1533 stock of liquors from the comedian's estate after a court order. The judge ordered his former agent Charles Byers and brother Walter Fields to divide the liquors stored in Byers cellar, following Fields sanitarium admission and death on Christmas Day 1946.
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Los Angeles
W. C. Field
Harriett V. Fields
Fields
Charles Byers
Walter Fields
Byers
Visiting Dentist Sewed Deep Gash With Fishhook
A vacationing dentist from Erie, Pennsylvania, stitched an eight inch arm wound with fishing line after a guide at Big Moose Lake was struck by a breaking fan blade. Ernie LaDouceur, 45, operator of a fishing camp, was flown to Ft. Coulonge for further care. The incident occurred about 60 miles north of the Ottawa River town.
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FT. Coulonge
Erie
Eugene Engelbirger
Ernie LaDouceur
Big Moose Lake
Ottawa River
LaDouceur
Ottawa
Court Clears Franklin Man of Manslaughter Charge
A Dayton court acquitted Clarence J. Justus 29 of Franklin on a second degree manslaughter charge after a May 29 crash that killed George Douglas Sr. 31 of Franklin. Justus had been charged with reckless driving as he drove Douglas’ car into a National Cash Register building. the state offered insufficient evidence. Douglas owned the Virginia Restaurant in Franklin.
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Dayton
Clarence J. Justus
Franklin
Justus
George Douglas, Sr
Douglas
National Cash Register
John Hoover
Virginia
Principals To Return To Posts August 25 in Middletown
Middletown elementary and junior high principals resume duties August 25, eight days before the September 2 start. D. R. Baker of Middletown High is already at his post. McKinley and Roosevelt Junior High offices reopen for enrollment as current residents register for classes.
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Middletown
Hugh Butler
Board of Education
Middletown High School
D. R. Baker
Butler
McKinley
Roosevelt
L. J. Ragland
McKinley Junior High
Andrew E. Roper
Roosevelt Junior High
Leonard Minnich
Thomas A
Flying Squadron Makes Triple Run With Iron Lungs
Middletown emergency crew known as the Flying Squadron distributed iron lungs to polio patients. They used two Armco trucks and one from Lindon's Sales and Service to pick up three lungs in Columbus, delivering one to General Hospital Cincinnati and another to St. Elizabeth Covington Ky, with the third kept locally. The trip lasted four hours and 41 minutes, ending in Covington. Crew members were Harold Michael Herman Rekers John Fitzgerald Willard Gill and Charles Reuthe, chair of the Butler County NFIP chapter.
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Middletown
Armco
Lindon
Columbus
General Hospital
Cincinnati
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Covington
Harold Michael
Herman Rekers
John Fitzgerald
Willard Gill
Charles Reuthe
Butler County
The
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Lions Hear Student Pastor On Iron Mask Talk
Donald Calvert, student pastor of St Pauls Evangelical and Re formed Church, will speak to Lions Club members at noon after a luncheon tomorrow in the LeSourdsville Lake dining room. He discusses The Man Behind the Iron Mask.
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Donald Calvert
St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church
Man Behind the
Iron Mask
Lions Club
Calvert
LeSourdsville Lake
Rome Police Crackdown On Reckless Drivers
Rome police announce a crackdown on reckless drivers. The streets of the Italian capital are described as death traps by authorities. A Cincinnati resident and Eden Theological Seminary student from Webster Groves Missouri will be introduced by program chairman Harold Leichty.
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Rome
Cincinnati
Eden Theological Seminary
Webster Groves
Harold Leichty
Rome Auto Accidents Lead to License Loss Policy
Officials warned drivers that causing accidents would lose licenses and face full publicity for negligent or reckless driving. Recent figures show Rome records about one fatal auto accident each day, underscoring the new enforcement stance.
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Rome
Mail Carriers Meet in Middletown Hall
Chester E. Hollenbaugh, secretary of Branch 188, National Association of Letter Carriers, announced today the group will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Middletown Trades and Labor Hall.
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Chester E. Hollenbaugh
National Association of Letter Carriers
Middletown
Geologist Maps Honduras Canal Under Mountains
Dr. William H. Hobbs, an 88 year old University of Michigan geologist, proposed twin ship canals tunneling under mountains in Honduras to relieve traffic in the Panama Canal. He spoke at the 17th Congress of the International Geographical Union. No cost estimate was given and the plan has not been before the U S Congress. Hobbs said construction could take far less time than widening the existing Panama Canal under an Army backed plan.
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Washington
Honduras
Panama Canal
William H. Hobbs
University of Michigan
International Geographical Union
U. S. Congress
Hobbs
Anthropologists Find 1,500-Year-Old Body in Ontario Site
University of Michigan anthropology team unearthed a 1,500 year old Point Peninsula Indian burial on Georgian Bay near Little Current. Copper salts from buried ornaments preserved the bones well, investigators report.
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University of Michigan
Anthropology Museum
Point Peninsula
Georgian Bay
Here
Midweek Committees and Club Meetings List
A compact schedule lists Knights of St. John at St John Church basement, National Guard Company D at 2100 South Main, Kiwanis Lions at Manchester Hotel, Toastmasters Gard ner room, Alpha Council Jr. OOA M at 19 North Broad, Dog Training at South Main Armory, IOOF Lodge, Alcoholics Anonymous, Moose Lodge officers, Blythe Williams Post Auxiliary, Silver Leaf Social Club, BPOE 257 Ellis Temple, AELF executive and membership, Kiwanis directors at F Chew’s office, Middletown NA LCA Branch 18 at Trades and Labor Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis and Lions Clubs
Manchester
Toastmasters Club
Gardner
Alpha Council 326
Jr. O.O.A
North Broad St
South Main St. Armory
Alcoholics Anonymous
Moose Lodge
Hall
Blythe-Williams Post Auxiliary of
American Legion
Silver Leaf Social Club
B. P. O. E. Lodge
F. Chew
Journal
Middletown
National Association of Letter Carriers
Trades and Labor Hall
Castell Drug Remodeling Set to Begin at Central Ave
Castell Drug Company at 1126 Central Ave will start exterior remodeling this Thursday. President Sidney Brody said a new all glass front and redesigned sign are planned with a two month completion target. Interior renovations will follow. the firm has operated since December 1932. Secretary treasurer is Ormand Marstein.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castell Drug Company
Central Ave
Sidney Brody
Martin Bauer Construction Company
Brody
Castell Company
Ormand Marstein
New Safety Director Named In Cleveland
Cleveland automobile dealer Birkett L. Williams named to succeed Alvin J. Sutton as safety director. Sutton resigns to enter the trucking business.
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Cleveland
Birkett L. Williams
Alvin J. Sutton
Sutton
Hamilton Minister Transferred To Maud
The Rev. Howard Russell is transferred from Hamilton to the Pilgrim Holiness Church at Maud announced at the Eastern District Conference in Springfield. At the 48th annual conference Rev. O E Rutledge of Hamilton was elected conference treasurer. D A Pugh of Chillicothe and Raymond Simpson of Nelsonville won seats on the Advisory Board Council.
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Howard Russell
Hamilton
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Maud
Springfield
O. E. Rutledge
D. A. Pugh
Chillicothe
Raymond Simpson
Nelsonville
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Wieland
Richard
Sion
Dayton. Co. Cleveland
Charlie Kehrer
LeSourdsville Pavilion
Earl Holderman
Reeves Jewelers, Inc
Louis F. Jones
Nyc
N. Main ST
Franklin Man
Aman
Coats
Velveteen
Knights of St. John
St John Church
National Guard
107Th Armored Cavalry
Castell
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