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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1952
Page
10
Franklin Board of Education voted to place a 235000 bond issue on November ballots to fund new classrooms at Anthony Wayne School and convert spaces at Franklin High to classrooms. Enrollment is projected to rise about 1000 in five years. new hires include seven teachers for Central and High Schools.
Franklin police chief O E Chamberlain announced a second fogging of the summer spraying insecticide to curb polio and pests. A group led by Mrs Robert Miller has raised 366 dollars to fund the next two foggings at 150 dollars each, leaving 66 dollars for next year. The third fogging is planned for September and the effort was praised for public health support.
Three 4-H judging teams Beef Dairy and General Livestock will compete at the State Fair in Hamilton. Each team includes three members from local clubs with participants from Hanover Milford Fairfield and Union. Teams must place and justify selections across beef hog and sheep rings using breeds such as Angus Hereford Shorthorn Ayrshire Brown Swiss Guernsey Holstein and Jersey.
Dr Ar mand Haramer of Shadow Isle Farms Red Bank New Jersey sells a half interest in 1948 International grand champion Aberdeen Angus bull Prince Sunbeam 249th for 100000 to Murchison and Ljungdah of Barnet Texas. The bull will spend six months in Texas and six in New Jersey flown to Texas in September.
Franklin Superintendent J Forrest Burns announced a general teachers meeting for Monday morning September 1 at 9 30 a m at Anthony Wayne School to prepare for the opening of the Franklin School system at 8 30 a m Tuesday September 2. New teachers will meet at 11 a m Monday at Anthony Wayne and all teachers will convene at their schools at 1 p m.
Trenton Mr and Mrs Roger Dunham of Clarkeville visited as dinner guests of Mrs Jenny Dunham Sunday at her home.
Mrs Wanda Engle and her son Tommy of Middletown spent Monday with Mrs Lester Dennis. Mr and Mrs Herbert Conrad and Mrs Dorothy Lamb attended the races at the Dayton Speedway Sunday.
The German town Masonic Lodge invites members to an annual picnic at 6:30 PM at 1 Germantown Dam. Members are encouraged to bring guests and enjoy refreshments and fellowship.
Lebanon and Ft. Mitchell residents host family guests and relocate homes. Tom Neville recovers well after major surgery at Deaconess Hospital Cincinnati. Community reports include club meetings, piano recital plans by Richard S. Whitacre and students Beverly Van Camp Tommy Brown Joyce Bowling, and social visits in Waynesville Morrow Gulfport Swanton. Wedding of Miss Caroline Ann Pilliod and Donald Fraser highlighted.
Ottawa reports Canada is free of hoof and mouth disease and moves to lift six month old controls. Agriculture Minister Gardiner sends declaration to the United States seeking early consideration of ending the meat and livestock embargo. The U S will wait to ensure domestic livestock safety before any change.
Fourteen people were fined for traffic violations yesterday by area courts per the State Highway Patrol. Names include Juliet Underwood Cincinnati $10 and costs for lacking a driver s license. Henry Diggs Cincinnati $10 for failing to signal. Joseph Boldt Lebanon Route 2 $10 for failing to yield right of way. Noah Presley Tel City Ind $5 for running a stop sign. Edward Fair College Corner $25 for failing to yield. Dorothy D Maxon Middletown Route 2 $5 for yellow line violation. Norris Timmons New York $5 for crossing a yellow line. Seraphim Meneghello Cincinnati $5 for crossing a yellow line. Robert J Goebel Lakewood $20 for speeding. Jamie Collins Dayton $10. Lummie Bailey unnamed for yellow line. Ernest Gramm Dayton $15 for reckless operation. Robbie Robinson Dayton $10 for yellow line. Willie Collins Tinsley Ky $15 for speeding. Robert Kipler Hamilton $10 for operating an unsafe vehicle.
Franklin residents and visitors noted include Ronnie Franklin Jeffery observed at Middletown Hospital, Elmer Scholl visiting relatives, Ann Chapman on vacation, and the Hurst family weekend trip to Louisville visiting Bradley households. Birthday wishes mark Marcia Ann Mears. guests include Kuhns, Mears, Lucas, and Pierson families. Farewell dinners honor Richard E. Pierson Jr. in military departure. Junior Club and Girl Scouts host for James Alley’s moving plan. Visits from Keister, Snell, Drake, and Van Camp noted.
West Filton Mr and Mrs George Kirk and their son spent the weekend in Martinsville Indiana visiting Mrs Kirk s parents Mrs Clara Ebv and Mrs Lillie Shade visited Mrs Lucille Ferst in Dar rtown Sunday Rev Arthur Hammond served as guest minister at the Friends Church There will be no services Sunday at the Evangelical United Brethren Church due to the absence of Rev Smith The Ladies Aid will meet today with Mrs Edith Mann
The Chippawa and Y-Hoo tribes at YMCA Girls Camp in session at Camp Hook will contest a swimming meet this afternoon in the camp pool. Events include beginners non swimmers and advanced swimmers with stunts and water events. a cook-out, scavenger hunt, and campfire follow. Top prize is a cooled watermelon for the finder’s cabin-mates.
Six Korean veterans were added to the Middletown American Legion Post 218 as they applied for 1953 membership cards. The new members raise total post membership to 15 from Korea. Gerald Springer was the first to join in 1951, with six others also joining that year. The six 1953 additions are David Getz, Tommy Ritter, Curtis Adkins, James Whitt, Hoover Nickell, and Herschel Roberts. Altogether 57 persons have applied for new Legion cards.
A congressional sub committee praised the Wright Patterson Air Force Base Air Materiel Command supply management after a two day inspection. Representative Herbert C. Bonner said the findings should please the taxpayer as the panel reviews installations to root out overlap and duplication in military supplies.
The 1955 Soviet plan promises output rises over 1950 level, with steel up 12 percent, coal 43 percent, oil 85 percent, grain 40 to 50 percent. The congress will have two delegates per 5 000 members, one voting and one with advisory voice.
Mrs. Jo Farmer returns from a month away to discover kudzu vines invading her Providence living room. The plant slithered through a window slit and wrapped around picture frames and the piano. She had been warned the vine could grow a foot a day when planted 25 years ago.
Discrepancies in the books at the Bank of Dierks total 132000. State Bank Commissioner Ed S McKinley says some money may be accounted for as the audit continues. President George Westbrook cautions it may take a week or two to straighten the books. Assistant cashier Opal Simmon ton, 32 years in the post, is under a doctor's care and was arraigned in Hot Springs on a federal false entries charge, released on 7500 bond.
Albert A. Horstman announced at a Democratic officeholders meeting that he will resign as Montgomery County Democratic Executive Committee chairman before the November election. He gave no exact date, citing his Oct 1 appointment as chairman of the Catholic Order of Foresters will demand too much time. He will remain Ohio Democratic national committeeman and keep county central committee membership.
King Faisal II of Iraq, 17, toured Ford Motor Co in Detroit riding a Patton tank and driving a newly built car off the line. He met Henry Ford II and showed reluctance to leave Detroit for Chicago, leaving by plane last night.
Los Angeles attorney Martin Gang claims Howard Hughes and others slandered him in press statements worth 800000 dollars after settling Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger damages suit against Hughes RKO Studio. Gang led Grangers in their contract dispute with Hughes, and the dispute was settled out of court.
Riverhead New York 58 year old woman said to have weeks to live sparked a 13 state police alert for passing worthless checks to obtain medical care and narcotics. She used aliases including Grace Benincasa and forged Dr M Z Ploski’s name on a 45 dollar drugstore check.
Thomas A. Durbin and his wife welcomed three newborn sons Dennis David and Daniel Tuesday in their four room bungalow. They already have 10 month old twin daughters Dorothy and Mary. The Durbin family space is tight with one bedroom and five children. Durbin works as a chauffeur for the Sisters of Charity at Mount St. Joseph on the Ohio.
Four Swiss men have been trapped in an underground cavern near Muotathal for five days. They entered a network called Hell's Fole and rising waters cut off contact. A Zurich diver standby for possible rescue. Food for ten days had been left by previous explorers.
U N liaison officers told Communist representatives at Panmunjom that UN warplanes unintentionally flew over the truce talks site on August 16 violating neutrality. They rejected a Red protest that Allied planes flew over on August 13 for lack of evidence. Talks enter fourth weeklong recess with plans to reconvene August 27.
Slightly more than one third of the normal work force crossed a police guarded picket line at the billion dollar Paducah atomic energy project today. No violence was reported as state police and sheriff's deputies stood guard to ensure workers could pass through. One Japanese variety of watermelon is practically seedless.
The government claims 1,420,068 in tax and penalties against Henry M. Garsson, a wartime munitions figure who pled guilty to conspiring to defraud on war contracts. Garsson was sentenced in 1947 with Andrew J. May and Murray Garsson. he served time in Danbury, Conn, and was released in June 1951.
In Secaucus New Jersey a New York firm sprays deodorant on the hogs at Charles Schoch’s farm to curb odors. Schoch, president of the Stock Farmers Association, predicts many hogs will be treated. He cites Doris Duke’s pigs as a model for fragrant pens with wisteria scents.
Ohio Methodist leaders in Columbus discuss need for worship facilities near Pike County area of the $1.2 billion atomic plant. Executive committee of the Town and Country Commission considers steps to aid church presence. Rev. Wade Bradford notes 14 Methodist buildings around the 6400 acre site.
Wellsville City Council approved a first-reading extension of rent controls by a 5 to 2 vote. The bill advances to two more readings on September 2 and 16, aiming to cover the period from September 30 after federal controls end to April 30 next year.
Britain's DeHavilland Aircraft Co said Japan Airlines ordered two Comet jet airliners and seven other transport planes. The total value of the deal is about 1 million pounds about $4.2 million.
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