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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1960
Page
5
A listings page details various meetings. On Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Blythe Williams Post 231 and several posts meet at their halls. Thursday features Kiwanis Lions Toastmasters AA and other fraternal gatherings around midday and evening at multiple venues.
House Rules Committee chairman Howard W. Smith said he is available but has not called a meeting. The 12 member panel blocks floor action on school aid and housing bills, with potential moves to bypass the committee amid talks with Speaker Rayburn.
Police sealed off the Seaforth area north of Sydney in a manhunt for the kidnapper of Graeme Thorne an eight year old snatched on his way to school. The body found at a Seaforth rubbish dump was bound gagged and wrapped in a blanket with a bright striped blanket as the chief clue. The boy likely died within a day of his kidnapping on July 7 after a ransom demand of 25 000 pounds 56 000 dollars phoned to the Thorne home.
At age 58 Leo Lecouteur paddles a 16 foot canoe from Lake Nipissing Canada toward New York City. He left in July from Sturgeon Falls Ontario and expects to reach the city late in September proving that a man at 45 is not all through.
Actress Greta Thyssen files for divorce from Ronald Starr in Los Angeles. She requests alimony of $1 annually, a move explained by her attorney to keep doors open for later support. Thyssen, 28, married Starr 27 in New York City on January 8 and separated last January. She was Miss Denmark in 1951.
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