Butler County Fair Opens With Record Attendance and Live Judging
Hamilton reports 15,000 on opening day as dairy and baked goods judging begins and open class cattle, forage, and 4-H exhibits proceed. 4-H projects, a tractor rodeo, and nightly grandstand shows highlight the two day event with improved livestock handling and several award winners in the flower show. A few hubcaps were stolen, casting a brief shadow over festivities.
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Butler County
Town and Country Garden Club of
Hamilton
West Chester Garden Club
Town and Country Garden Club
Middletown
Thomas Lindsey
Oxford Rt. 1
George Weiss
Town and Country of Hamilton
Progress Garden Club
Tallawanda Garden Club
Sheriff's Deputies
Scrap Brokerage's Eldon McLaughlin to Speak at Rotary
Eldon H McLaughlin of the Eldon McLaughlin Scrap Brokerage Co will address the Rotary Club at noon tomorrow. The Manchester Hotel hosts the meeting and his talk is titled The Scraps of Your Life.
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Eldon McLaughlin
Eldon H. McLaughlin
Shirley Kaye Dominates NBTA State Twirl Contest
Shirley Kaye won the NBTA Senior State Championship and over all title at the state meet in Xenia. Miss Sandusky daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Sandusky earned her 147th trophy and claimed top honors in open national and state twirling events as a Monroe sophomore.
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Shirley Kaye
Xenia
Sandusky
iMr
Edward Sandusky
Dix Rd
NBTA
Shirley
Monroe
Butler County GOP screens for Sexton successor in Hamilton
A Monday meeting of the Butler County Republican screening committee in Hamilton aims to choosing a replacement for James R. Sexton four term state representative who withdrew from the fall election. Chairman Martin Coyle says no candidate has been chosen yet and the board must name a successor by Thursday to file with the Board of Elections. Possible Middletown candidate discussed to pair with incumbent Charles Jones against Democrats Ray Motley and John Thomas in November.
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Butler County
Republican Screening Committee
Hamilton
GOP
James R. Sexton
Sexton
Martin Coyle
Republican Executive Committee
Michigan
Coyle
Board of Elections
Charles Jones
Ray Motley
John Thomas
Thieves Loot Earl Loos Home Near Okeana
Deputies report a break in at the Earl Loos residence south of Okeana. Entry was through a front porch window. Loot valued at 251 dollars included two electric razors, jewelry, a camera, rings, a wristwatch, a pen set, and a pillow case filled with valuables. Total loss estimated at 231 dollars.
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Hamilton
Okeana
Speciff's Deputies
Earl Loos
Howjack’s Creek
Butar
Cosume
Whiskey Willie’s cited for beer and wine permit only
Ohio liquor control agents cited Whiskey Willie’s on the east side of Cleveland for serving whisky. The bar, run by William J. Olszewski known as Whiskey Willie, held a beer and wine permit only.
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Cleveland
Willie
East Side
William J. Olszewski
Hoax Call Demands 5000 for Baby Threat
A caller threatened to harm Dwight David Myers, nine months old, unless $5000 was paid at a bridge. Marion S. Myers and Mrs Myers reported the call to the sheriff after the alto voice demanded the money at 11 p.m. Sunday. The Myers Con struction Co. owner says he believes the threat was a hoax. no incident occurred.
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Marion S. Myers
Posttown Heights
Myers
Sheriff's Department
Bid Opening Tomorrow For 5th Freeway Section
Contractor bids for an estimated 7.4 million in interstate highway construction will be opened tomorrow. The fifth section of the Cincinnati Dayton Freeway includes a new interchange near West Salem in Wayne County and totals about 6.5 miles of new construction. Completion is targeted for July 31, 1960 with work to move ahead on a six lane, 440 mile freeway by year end.
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Ohio Department of Highways
Cincinnati-Dayton
West Salem
St. Rt. 1
I Wayne County
Cincinnati - Dayton
Ohio River
Toledo
Rt. 123
Warren County
Warren- Montgomery County
Clear Creek
Lower Springboro
Pennyroyal
Charles M. Noble
Wayne County
Kozlov Awarded Lenin Order On 50th Birthday
Frol R. Kozlov a rising Kremlin figure and Communist party veteran has received the Order of Lenin on his 50th birthday. Since 1939 a party official he joined the Presidium in 1957 and became premier of the Russian Republic in December. He was named one of the Soviet Union's two first deputy premiers last March.
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Moscow
Frol R. Kozlov
Kremlin
Communist Party
Kozlov
Russian Republic
Soviet Union
Home Children To Be Junior's Guests
Robert B. Bruton superintendent of the Jr. QUAM Children's Home at Lexington North Carolina and a group of the home children will be guests of Alpha Council 326 at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Council Hall 19 North Broad Street Bruton and the children have been making a tour including state conventions of the order in Kentucky Indiana and West Virginia.
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Robert B. Bruton
Jr. Quam
Lexington
N. C
Alpha Council
Council Hall
N. Broad St
Bruton
The
Order
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Ice Age Ice Cover Blanketed New England Thickly
A thousand feet of ice coated New England during the last glacial period. The extensive ice sheet shaped valleys and left behind deposits that influenced the region’s geology and hydrology.
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New England
Accident Rate Finally Catches Cautious Worker
Frank Lodwick, 35, of Middleton, an employee at Valley Sheet Metal Works, cut his left little finger on a fan blade while repairing an air conditioner. The gash required 20 stitches at Middletown Hospital. Lodwick had been installing air conditioners for about 10 years without a serious mishap. The unit was intended for his own home at 931 City Ave.
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Frank Lodwick
Lodwick
Valley Sheet Metal Works
Middletown Hospital
City Ave
Franklin man suffers arm fractures at Cheney Pulp & Paper
Mitchell Young aged 26 of 9850 Janet Avenue was admitted to the hospital after a fall at Cheney Pulp and Paper Co in Franklin. He works on a wet machine and broke his right arm in three places when he lip ped and struck a wall. He was taken to the hospital by Dave Patrick, superintendent of the paper plant.
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Franklin
Mitchell Young
Janet Ave
Cheney Pulp & Paper Co
Young
Dave Patrick
Fire crews aid man after lamp set at sewer excavation
Firemen from Company No. 1 responded to a report at Lafayette Avenue and Verity Parkway on Sunday to straighten a Yoledo Lamp near a sewage excavation. Edward Banks, 73, of 920 Ninth Avenue, received oxygen and was transported to Middletown Hospital by Jordan-Hall Ambulance after ongoing breathing trouble.
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Lafayette Avenue
Verity
Parkway la
Company No. 1
Edward Banks
9Th Ave
Banks
Middletown Hospital
Jordan-Hall
Fitzgerald Obses 30th Year on Mincle Town Police
Capt. Joan Fitzgerald marked 30 years on the Mincle Town police force. He began Aug 18, 1928, served under six chiefs, was promoted to captain in 1955, and plans to work beyond age 51 as long as he can. He recalls Model T cruisers and Black Maria wagons, contrasts 12 hour days seven days a week with today’s 40 hour week.
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Joan Fitzgerald
Mincletown
Fitzgerald
Atective
Knights of Columbus share $15,000 for capital tower
The Supreme Council opened its 76th convention after Ohio affiliates donated 15000 toward a 1 million dollar bell tower in Washington DC. Ohio council representatives presented checks to Supreme Knight Luke E Hart of New Haven. The tower will be completed next year at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the Catholic University of America campus.
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Cleveland
Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus
Ohio
Washington
D.C
Luke E.hart
New Haven
Conn
National Shrine of
Ship Jumper Back Aboard
Henning Jorgensen, 17, jumped ship in Savannah, Ga, but Immigration Service found and returned him to the Anita Dan in Houston. Immigration Investigator Wayne Payne picked him up the day the ship docked in Houston.
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Houston, Tex
Henning Jorgensen
Savannah
Immigration Service
Jorgensen
Houston
Wayne Payne
Eisenhower nominates Milton for undersecretary post
President Eisenhower nominates Hugh M. Milton II to be undersecretary of the Army, replacing Charles G. Finucane who has resigned. Milton, 61, a Republican from Alexandria Virginia, has served as assistant secretary overseeing manpower and reserves.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Hugh M. Milton II
Milton
Alexandria
Charles G. Finucane
Hydrant Tests Planned This Week Citywide
Fire Chief William Fishbaugh announced tests Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday may cause tap water discoloration but not contamination. Areas tested include North of Columbia Avenue to Big Four switch track and east of Main Street to the Big Four Railroad tracks. The second area runs north from Countral Avenue to Elm o Place and east of the Big Four tracks to Glenmore Drive with all streets in between affected.
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Fie
William Fishbaugh
Columbia Avenue
Main Street
Countral Avenue
Elmo Place
Glenmore Drive
Burglars Take Safe From Ehrlich's Super Market
In Lebanon thieves used heavy tools to break into Ehrlich's Super Market on Columbus Avenue between midnight and 2 am and stole a safe with the previous day’s receipts. Police say a 1954 pickup from Simpson's Tractor Sales may have been used. Loss estimate not available. the crime marks the store’s third burglary in three years with prior losses of 4000 and 13000.
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Lebanon
Ehrlich
Columbus Avenue
Tom Johnson
Simpson
Irwin Ehrlich
Thelves
Ohio Solons Cast Votes on Recent Roll Calls
AP tally of how Ohio members in Senate and House voted on key measures. Senate passes four year extension of Reciprocal Trade Act 71 to 28. various amendments on whisky, oil and gas tax, and cabaret tax rejected. Senate passage to override veto on Portsmouth shipyard wage bill 69 to 20. House overrides veto attempt 202 to 180. resolution on Bernard Goldfine contempt adopted 369 to 8. Party lines noted for each roll call.
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Washington
Ohio
Congress
Senate
Bricker
Lausche
Byrd
D-Va
D-Wis
Malone
R-Nevy
Portsmouth
N. H
National Defense
Naval Shipyard
Henderson
Hess
McCulloch
McGregor
Minshall
Schenck
Vorys
Ashley
Baumhart
Jenkins
Scherer
Vanik
Bernard Goldfine
Boston
Betts
Bolton
Bow, Brown
Clevenger
Dennison
Feighan
Hays
Kirwan
Minhall
Polk
Ayres
Baumhart, Jenkins, iScherer
Archaeologist Sir John Marshall Dies at 82
Sir John Hubert Marshall, a renowned British archaeologist, died yesterday in Guildford England at the age of 82. His career spanned decades of excavation and research establishing key findings in early civilizations.
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Guildford
England
Sir John Hubert Marshall
Kettering Woman Killed in Waynesville Crash
A two car collision on Route 73 near Waynesville killed Mary E. Thornton 58 of Kettering and injured three others. Thornton died at Miami Valley Hospital after the 5 10 p m Sunday crash. Her husband Daniel 62 suffered head lacerations. Leonard Smith 65 and his wife Glancey 65 were treated for injuries. State patrolment said Thornton may have been westbound on Route 78 when the other car pulled onto the highway from Lytle Road. one occupant was wedged and another pinned, with the cause under investigation. Warren County logged its 10th fatality of the year.
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Rt. 73
Waynesville
Mary E. Thornton
Far Hills Ave
Kettering
Miami Valley Hopital
Dayton
Thornton
Daniel W
Leonard Smith
S. River St
Franklin
Dayton Hospital
Glancey
Smith
Lytle Road
Warren County
Volunteers Build Chapel Forms At Camp Hook
Ten laborers from the Middletown Trades & Labor Council AFL volunteered to form walls and floors for the Boy Scout chapel at Camp Hook. John Miller of McGraw Construction supervises, with Gus Miles coordinating volunteers. Funds come from the Kiwanis Club and local supporters as rains slowed progress.
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Camp Hook
Middletown Trades & Labor Council
AFL
John Miller
McGraw Construction Co
Gus Miles
Trades & Labor Council
Kiwanis Club
Park Tennis Champions Crown Seven Divisions
Park playgrounds announces seven division champions from last week's playoff tourney. Winners include Claude Baker, Judy Voegle, Eileen Riesz, Susan Ledford, Bill McDowell, Judy McDowell, and David Sabo. The event closed a six week program supervised by Carolyn Wikoff and Lynne Lawson with 245 registered, 1,499 lesson sessions, and 88 in tournament competition.
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Joan Wilson
Claude Baker
Gary Justice
Judy Voegle
Janet Shaffer
Eileen Riesz
Carol Dowry
Susan Ledford
Sarah Jo Heffner
Bill McDowell
Ricky Adams
Judy McDowell
Becky Kling
David Sabo
Bob Fink
Carolyn Wikoff
Lynne Lawson
Man killed by car fan blade in San Diego
In San Diego, James B. Freeman was struck and killed by a six inch fan blade that flew from an automobile engine. He stood beside his car as Aaron Cowan, a friend, leaned under the hood to tune the engine when the blade buried itself in Freeman's forehead.
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San Diego
Calif
James B. Freeman
Aaron Cowan
Freeman
Dogs kill kangaroo at Toledo Zoo paddock
Two stray dogs slipped under a chain fence into a Toledo Zoo paddock and killed a 100 pound, five year old female kangaroo. The male mate was bitten but not seriously injured.
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Toledo, Ohio
Toledo Zoo
Cars and Light Poles Crashed in Middletown Incidents
Two light poles were damaged in late Sunday and early Monday crashes in Middletown. Floyd Cain of Dayton crashed on S Verity Park Way, a light standard fell onto a car at Middletown Auto Sales, Cain was treated and released. Donild W Yauch 17 also destroyed a light standard on S Verity Parkway and no injuries were reported. John Thomas 35 reported a hit and run on Van Ness Avenue after a backing car damaged his vehicle, damage listed at 25 dollars. David A Carter 12 suffered a sideswipe on Yankee Road and Taylor Avenue with the other car leaving 200 dollars damage.
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Middletown
Floyd Cain
Dayton
S. Verity Parkway
Hanover Street
Cain
Middletown Hospital
Donild W. Yauch
Nelbar St
John Thomas
Bexley Dr
McGee
Vannest Avenue
David A. Carter
Monroe
Yankee Road
Taylor Avenue
Carter Bar
Fire Guts New Home Killing Two Children
In Whittier California a family moved into a larger house a week before a blaze gutted the home. Fire crews say a clothes dryer short circuit started the fire and two children died.
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Whittier Calif
Gillian Roberts
Sailor Loses Swimming Bet Off Long Beach
A sailor bet a shipmate ten dollars he could swim to his ship anchored 1.5 miles offshore and failed. Lifeguards pulled Gerome Johnson, 19, from the ocean a mile from the USS Merrick suffering leg cramps and turned him over to shore patrol.
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Long Beach
Calif
Gerome Johnson
Merrick
Johnson
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Don Ellington
Fairfield
Pete Hasler
Virgil Otto
Reily Township
Otto
Journal
Sommers
N. Main
Herman Il
Red Star
N. Main ST
Ike
Army
Lewis Drugs
State Farm
John Howard
Tytus Ave
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co
State Farm Life Insurance Co
State Farm Fire and Casualty Cogy
Loomington, Illinois
Fire Guts New Home
Angkor
Cambodia
Maytag
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