Signal system ahead schedule for traffic light project
The new traffic signal system should be tested and ready by November 15 Superintendent Chalmers Brewer said Wagner Smith of Dayton, the contractors, are ahead of schedule Orange posts have been installed at most locations and will receive two coats of dark green paint Materials include wire arriving September 1 and controllers delivered September 7 at Middletown, with master control at City Building Pedestrian walk lights will be added at four downtown intersections One way street changes will put First Avenue eastbound Manchester Avenue westbound Main Street southbound between Manchester and First Street and new signs will guide motorists
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chalmers Brewer
Brewer
Wagner-Smith
Dayton
Howard Kramer
Dick Bohn
Bohn
Middletown
Charles Street
Manchester Avenue
Sutphin Street
Baltimore Street
Central Avenue
Main, Broad
Clinton Streets
Verity Parkway
First Avenue
Manchester
Main Street
First
Bills Face Commission for Tonight's City Meeting
Bills on fire station construction street improvements and aero subdivisions appear on the agenda. VFW requests parade permission for September 13. An ordinance levies special assessments for sidewalks curbs and gutters in Ward I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ward I
Two Injured At Underpass In Cincinnati
Two Cincinnatians suffered injuries when a car driven by Arnold T. Moore left U S 25 at the Maud underpass and crashed into a ditch at 12 10 a m. They were treated at Middletown Hospital and released. Jane Maggard, 19, suffered head and body lacerations and abrasions. Moore, 31, had head and body lacerations.
Miles and Tobias Win Photographers Association Honors
Ray A. Miles of Armco photograph er and Hyden S. Tobias of Tobias Studios earned certificates of merit from the Photographers Association of America. The Middletown pair were among about 600 best pictures chosen from roughly 8,000 entries at the Chicago convention. Miles submitted two prints. one for Armco magazine and a lemon-on-porcelain-table top ad. Tobias’ winning image is a bridal portrait of Mrs. Tom Nourse, formerly Mary Lee Knox of Middletown.
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Ray A. Miles
Armco
Hyden S. Tobias
Tobias Studios
Photographers’ Association of America
Middletown
Chicago
Miles
Tobias
Tom Nourse
Mary Lee Knox
Columbus
Corad Hilton
Low numbered license plates arrive at agency
Early crowds snagged large three and four digit plates while this week many customers walk away with two digit or single digit licenses. Columbus state offices sent a shipment of low numbered plates after the big supply ran out.
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Columbus
Chemist Named By Gardner Firm Promoted To Chemist
Logan W. Mather has been promoted to chemist in the Gardner Board and Carton Co technical department. He began with Gardner in 1927 as a laborer at the Lockland division and was a lab technician since 1942 after moving from the Lockland lab in 1937. Born in Wyoming Ohio, he attended Xavier University night courses and belongs to the Cincinnati Engineering Society. He resides with his wife on Cincinnati Route 5.
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Logan W. Mather
Gardner Board and Carton Co
Gardner
Lockland
Lockland Lab
Mather
Wyoming
Xavier University
Cincinnati Engineering Society
Cincinnati
At The Movies Listings for Paramount and Strand
Paramount presents Dangerous When Wet at 1 15 4 10 7 05 10 05 p m Confidential Connie 2 55 5 50 8 50 p m Never Let Me Go 1 15 4 05 7 05 10 05 p m Code Two 2 50 5 50 8 50 Strand shows Serpent of the at 1 15 3 45 6 30 9 05 Ambush at Tomahawk Gap 2 35 5 20 7 50 10 25 p m Sequoia 1 15 4 40 8 15 p m Trader Horn 2 25 6 00 9 30 p m
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Tomahawk Gap
Sequoia
Lions Club Outing At Crosley Field Caps Milwaukee Cincinnati Game
About 40 Middlesex Lions Club members attended the Milwaukee-Cincinnati baseball game at Crosley Field last night. Joe Blose served as outing chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Annexation Could Add 500000 In Annual Armco Taxes
Armco Steel Corp faces higher taxes if annexation advances. With an appraised area around 20 million dollars, Armco could incur about 500000 annually in increased city taxes depending on school bond outcomes. city's tax rate would stay near 22.96, while Lemon Township school bonds may change to about 20.50 if approved.
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Middletown
Armco Steel Corp
R. H. Smith
Butler County
Armco
Lemon Township
Lemon-Monroe
Township
Armco Republic Steel Plan Major Minnesota Ore Project
Armco and Republic steel corporations outline a 250 million dollar project to mine iron ore from taconite rock near the Mesabi Range in northern Minnesota. C W Beck, Armco raw material manager, told Rotarians at the Manchester Hotel luncheon that the nation uses 125 million tons of iron ore annually and that supplies will tighten by 1973. George Kuehnle was program chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armco
Republic Steel Corporations
C. W. Beck
Rotary
Manchester Hotel
Beck
Mesabi
Minnesota
George Kuehnle
Women Drivers Get Helping Hand
Charleroi Pennsylvania reports the Chamber of Commerce completes a municipal parking lot for 900 cars. The parking stalls will be about 50 percent bigger than the average stalls and designed with women customers in mind, stated by Alex Zelinski, head of the parking committee.
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Charleroi
Chamber of Commerce
Alex Zelinski
Roosa Dayton’s Homefront News From Reunion and Return
The Roosa family and Mrs Ellis plan their annual reunion as Private Roosa, who enlisted November 3 1950, returns home briefly from service. Reports note four other Middletown POWs still not released with final letters arriving, while Roland A Hamilton was released last week.
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Roosa
Army
Lemon - Monroe High School
Oakland
Route
Monroe
Rossa
Middletown
Perry Osborne, Jr
Perry Osborne
Lebanon
Charles D. Riddell, Jr
Charles Riddell
Germantown
Beecher M. Mefford
David M. Mefford
Edward A. Rub
Andrew E. Rub
West Chester
Roland A. Hamilton
Altha Hamilton
Woodlawn Ave
Plastic artificial eyes shown at Montreal hospital
Lucite plastic is used by doctors at Queen Mary Veterans Hospital to manufacture artificial eyes. The new eyes are durable enough to withstand a concrete car bounce and feature nylon threads or veins to enhance realism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Queen Mary Veterans’ Hospital
Colonel Burnett Named Officer At Walter Reed Army Hospital
Middletown native Lt. Col. Jack D. Burnett has been named management officer at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D C. He previously served as executive officer at the Army Medical Research Laboratory Fort Knox Kentucky and held key posts at Letterman Army Hospital San Francisco Dibble General Hospital Menlo Park and Tokyo General Hospital. The Burnetts reside at 114 Shephard Street Chevy Chase Maryland and have two daughters Miva and Cheryle Rei.
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Burnett
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Middletown
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, D. C
Jack D. Burnett
C. A. Burnett
Orchard St
Army Medical Research Laboratory
Fort Knox
Walter Balger
Tytus Ave
Army
Newne City
Granberry
US S. Army Medical Service
U.S. Mili
China
Japan
Tokyo General Hospital
406Th Medicial General Laboratory
Letterman Army Hospital
San Francisco
Calif
Dibble General Hospital
Menlo Park
Letterman
Miva
Cheryle Rei
Shephard St
Chevy Chase
Memorial service to honor 400 Korean War dead by DAV chapter
A memorial service at the Disabled American Veterans 32nd national convention in Kansas City honors Marine Pvt. Floyd Cooper and 399 others killed in Korea. Names from DoD lists symbolize communities. John E. Feighner leads a 30 minute service with Protestant Catholic and Jewish clergy participants.
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Marine Pic
Floyd Cooper
Mary Louise Nunlist
Clark St
Kansas City
Cooper
Bunker Hill
Korea
Middletown
Hamilton
New York Central Railroad
Woodside Cemetery
Kansas City Auditorium Music Hall
Department of Defense
John E. Feighner
Cincinnati
DAV
Five Minor Mishaps Reported In City
Five minor accidents were reported yesterday with several injuries. William D. Perkins, 12, of 1702 Lawn Ave., abrasions after his bicycle struck a car driven by Renavoe Staton, 29, of 1600 Lafayette Ave., in an alley near Lawn and Lafayette at 1 10 p.m. The driver was parking at the time. Damage to Frank Sedlock’s car, 70, of Miamisburg Route 3, reached 300 dollars after he tried to pass a truck driven by Ray Collingsworth, 40, of 3001 Princeton Ave., as the truck turned left from South Verity Parkway to Girard Avenue. The truck was undamaged. Edward McCarty Jr., 21, of 3203 Manchester Rd., struck the rear of John Mester’s car, 35, of 330 Hoover St., Hamilton, at 3 05 p.m. after Mester slowed for a traffic light. Most damage was to McCarty’s car. Melissa Bryant, 41, of 3225 Yankee Rd., backed from a curb and hit Jordan Smith’s car, 31, of 909 Ninth Ave., causing 50 dollars damage at 2 55 p.m. at 18 South Broad St. Sgt. Douglas Barrett, 42, of Highview Road, had his private car damaged about 25 dollars when his car scraped a parked auto owned by Donald Ward, 16, at 11 47 a.m. in an alley off Charles Street. Ward’s car was not damaged.
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William D. Perkins
Lawn Ave
Renavoe Staton
Lafayette Ave
Lawn
Lafayette
Frank Sedlock
Miamisburg
Sedlock
Ray Collingsworth
Princeton Ave
Collingsworth
South Verity Parkway
Girard Avenue
Edward McCarty, Jr
Manchester Rd
John Mester
Hoover St
Hamilton
Mester
Central Avenue
Grimes Street
McCarty
Melissa Bryant
Yankee Rd
Jordon Smith
Ninth Ave
Smith
South Broad St
Douglas Barrett
Highview Road
Federal Civil Defense Agency weighing evacuation plan
Washington reports the Federal Civil Defense Administration leaning toward evacuating a city if a bombing raid is warned. Officials caution no decision has been reached while discussions about evacuation versus shelter continue. Administrator Val Peterson noted the trend toward evacuation. A spokesman said the trend existed even before Russia hinted at hydrogen bomb progress.
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Washington
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Val Peterson
Russia
American Oriole Named for Old World Orioles
The American oriole is named for its resemblance to true orioles of the Old World and classified in the scientific family Teteridae.
Model Club Plans Flying Show Sunday
The local model airplane club will stage a 3 p.m. Sunday flying show at Gardner Park. Dick Dearth says the program includes dog fights speed flights stunts and scale displays with radio control and autogyro demonstrations. Beatty's Hobby Shop will award merchandise certificates to plane owners and prizes to contest winners.
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Gardner Park
Dick Dearth
Beatty’s
Dearth
New Training Unit Set Up In Korea
The United States 8th Army announced a streamlined training command in Seoul. The 10th Corps, renamed a group, will handle training and operational control of all three Republic of Korea army corps under Lt. Gen. Reuben E. Jenkins who led the U S 9th Corps in Korea for a year.
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Seoul
U. S. 8Th Army
United States
10Th Corps
Republic of Korea
Reuben E. Jenkins
U. S. 9Th Corps
Korea
CIO Opens Fire On 751 Elections
The CIO Political Action Committee launches its first campaign to elect a labor friendly Congress in 1954. Top CIO leaders are to assemble for a review of the past seven months as organized labor gauges its progress since the last presidential election.
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Washington
CIO
Political Action Committee
Congress
Labor Organization
No Luck At All
Seven year old Douglas Wied of San Diego endures a string of health woes starting with a stomach ache at Sunday school. His appendix is removed after the ache, then he contracts measles in the hospital, recovers, catches mumps, and loses a tooth the following day.
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San Diego
Calif
Douglas Wied
Engineers Work On Maps For Middletown Annexation
City engineers prepare May field map for areas seeking annexation to Middletown. Charles Walter handles the project and will visit Hamilton for ownership and deed information. North Middletown comprises Avalon Roselawn and Dixie Heights. legal petitions require county action before any city move.
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Middletown
Charles Walter
Mayfield
Hamilton
Walter
North
Avalon
Roselawn
Dixie Heights
Fred J. Schatzmann
Prowler Scared Away At East End Home
A prowler fled after a porch light was turned on at 108 Ardmore Dr. Police found a side door and several windows open at the Goebel Salyers home while they were away. Mrs. Edward Brown called police from 110 Ardmore Dr. Mrs. Ray Melampy, the daughter, said no items were missing after the check.
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Ardmore Dr
Goebel Salyer
Edward Brown
Ray Melampy
Pimples Pimples Relief Ad for Petersons Ointment
Advertising copy urges avoidance of scratching and squeezing pimples and offers Petersons Ointment for fast relief of itching pimples red blotches and eczema. Claims skin improves after one application with a money back guarantee and mentions use for itchy feet and toe cracks.
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Peterson
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Paramount
Lions Watch
Redlegs
Frigidaire
Kelvinator
General Electric
Braad ST
Warren Wolf
Steel Company
Jim
Roosas
Mrs. Ellis
Mrs. Roosa
City Marine
Chuck” Maertz
Lincoln-Mercury Company
Chuck
Lincoln - Mercury CO
Model Club
Melampy’s
East End
Men's Shop
Dacron and
Dacron
Cath Stee
Central Ave
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