NAJAC Youth Denounces Communism at Oxford Conference
Delegates at the 13th annual National Junior Achievement Conference in Oxford condemn communism as a destroyer of personal freedom and initiative. They back a resolution urging youth worldwide to study economic problems and reject totalitarianism. The program includes officer elections, a motorcade tour of Hamilton, and a Miss NAJAC talent contest won by Patty Meeks in a pantomime performance.
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Oxford
Esterday
NAJAC
Evelyn Day
Ann Stoutenborough
Dorothy Honaker
Armco Steel Corp
Ruth Maupin
Sorg Paper Co
Hamilton
Patty Meeks
Baton Whiz Shirley Kay Sandusky Wins in Chicago
Shirley Kay Sandusky, 13, of Middle Town, crowned first in her division at the 27th Chicagoland Festival at Soldiers Field. She earned a gold cup, beat about 50 competitors, and qualified to represent Ohio at the national meet in Kent last month. Her Chicago win earns national recognition and places her on the grand finale program at Soldiers Field.
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Shirley Kay Sandusky
Middletown
Soldiers’ Field
Ed Sandusky
Dix Rd
Ohio
Kent
Shirley Kay
Chicago
Patti Page
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Shirley
St. Paul
Minn
Hook To See Problems Of Armed Forces
Charles R. Hook will visit three California installations today and tomorrow to study military pay and personnel issues. He will tour Castle Air Force Base Merced the Navy lab in San Francisco and an Army Nike site in the Bay Area. The visits illustrate each installation’s manpower procurement and retention challenges.
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Charles R. Hook
California
Defense Department
Washington
Defense Advisory Committee
U. S. Air Force
Castle Air Force Base
Merced
Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory
San Francisco
Army Nike
Bay Area
Naval Laboratory
Nike
Hook
Shell kills three men on Rio artillery range
In Rio de Janeiro three men handling a dud artillery shell as a hammer were killed when it exploded. Investigations noted the men were working at an artillery range and the mishap occurred during casual handling.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Convention Schedule At Frisco Highlights Presidential Addresses
Condensed schedule for the Republican National Convention lists events in Middletown time today and tomorrow. Today features Rep Joseph W Martin Jr of Massachusetts address, Hoover remarks, and platform discussion. Tomorrow includes Thomas E Dewey address, state roll calls for president and vice president nominations and ballots.
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Middletown
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
Herbert Hoover
Thomas E. Dewey
Man Hurt As Truck Overturns Near Middletown
A Middletown man identified as Eugene Hayes was admitted to Middletown Hospital with severe lacerations to the right arm a possible skull fracture facial fracture and body bruises after a B. D. Morgan truck loaded with water tanks overturned on Rt 122 just south of the city at 845 am The truck operated by Claby Harville 40 Franklin Rd 2 ran off the road and tipped into a ditch after fluid shifted in the curve Hayes was transported by Schramm ambulance to the hospital.
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Middletown
Middletown Hospital
Rt. 122
Eugene Hayes
Wilbraham Rd
B. D. Morgan
Claby Harville
Franklin Rt. 2
Vacation home near Lewisburg ransacked. several hundred stolen
Deputy John Stover reported the A. A. Sharp residence near Lewisburg on U S 40 was entered while the Sharps were away from Aug 6 to Sunday. Jewelry guns silverware clothing and cameras were taken. a window was pried open and the couple’s restaurant sits nearby. The loss runs to several hundred dollars as a detail list is compiled.
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Sharps
City Commission Meeting Time Moved Up to 2 P.M.
Regular weekly City Commission session set for 2 p.m. tomorrow in the City Building. The hour was moved from 7 45 p.m. by a commissioners vote last week and will resume in the fall after the summer schedule.
Agers To Celebrate Members Birthdays At Meeting
The Golden Agers plan a 1:30 p.m. birthday and anniversary celebration at the Civic Association meeting tomorrow. Miss Joan Wilson will direct games and supervise city playgrounds and community centers, with refreshments provided.
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Civic Association
Joan Wilson
Oklahoma Delegation Skips Politicking At RNC
In San Francisco the Oklahoma delegation plans to skip tonight’s campaigning and attend a film showing. The movie title is Oklahoma.
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San Francisco
Oklahoma
A&P Confirms Site For New Middletown Supermarket
John C. Nicholls of A and P Food Stores announces site purchase at 1300 FE 1st Ave for a new 13100 square foot air conditioned supermarket in Middletown. The store will feature buff brick exterior, contemporary design, 100 paved parking spaces, across Clinton Street public parking, and extra wide aisles with quick checkout. No construction date given as railroad plans for a downtown freight station remain unconfirmed.
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Pennsylvania
1300 FE
1St Ave
John C. Nicholls
A & P Food
Indianapolis
Ind
Middletown
Nicholls
Grocery Company
Clinton Street
Clinton Canal
Pennsylvania Railroad
Permit Issued After Prolonged Zoning Battle
Harley Anglin finally secures a building permit for a utility building intended for a trailer park on Hamilton Miranda Pike east of Butler County fairgrounds after court challenges to an interim zoning resolution. The permit comes amid multiple court actions challenging the measure which county commissioners adopted in February 1955. The zoning plan now awaits rural voter decision in the November election.
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Hamilton
Harley Anglin
Anglin
Hamilton-Middletown Pike
Butler County Fairgrounds
Fairfield Man
Zoning Board of Appeals
Celadon Ave
Butler County Common Pleas Court
Randell Coning
P. P. Boll
Anglia
Local Men Invited To Atom Meet
Middleton residents and industry leaders are invited to the Ohio Conference on Peacetime Uses of Nuclear Energy and Radiation Safety on August 29 in Columbus. Attendees include executives from Armco Steel Corp Crystal Tissue Co Sorge Paper Co and Aeronca Manufacturing, plus government and labor representatives. The one day event is hosted by Gov. Frank J. Lausche at the Deshler Hilton Hotel.
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Paul Moore
Aeronca Manufacturing Corp
C. H. Murray
Armco Steel Corp
E. S. Myers
The
Middletown Journal
Robert J. McDade
Crystal Tissue Co
Arthur E. Linkins
State Industrial Commission
R. M. Lukens
Middletown
Jack Harris
E. E. Grant
D. G. Driscoll
Oe Paper Co
Frank J. Lausche
Deshler-Hilton Hotel
At The Movies Listings for Paramount Strand Colonial Dixie Cruise In
Paramount shows Comanche at 1 40 4 50 8 00 Pardners 3 10 6 20 9 30 Tuesday. Kentucky 1 30 4 50 8 10 Safari 3 00 6 40 10 00 Tuesday Secret of Convict Lake 1 30 4 45 8 00 Monkey Business 3 00 6 15 9 30 Wednesday Kansas Raiders 1 30 4 45 8 25 Taproots 2 50 6 15 9 45 Colonial Kansas Raiders 1 30 4 45 8 25 Taproots 2 50 6 15 9 45 Dixie Cruise In Godzilla 8 07 Man Beast 10 05 Tuesday
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Paramount
Pardners
Kentucky
Convict Lake
Kansas Raiders
Dixie Cruise
Break In Songs Milk Doughnuts Copper and Brass
Middletown police reported four break ins with little loot including milk doughnuts copper and brass. A boy took a quart of milk from Theodore Booth's back porch and hid behind his home eating doughnuts before running away. the doughnuts were left behind. Police recovered the doughnuts and turned them in.
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Middletown
Eudora Dr
Theodore Booth
Thieves Strike Homes and Businesses in Local Break-ins
Clinton Johnson reported copper and brass stolen from his back yard valued 35 to 40 cents a pound. Mrs. William Burton’s dog was taken from her yard after midnight. Norbert Frey’s wife’s bag was stolen from a car. A Kroger under construction was entered but only a claw hammer taken. Two soft drink machines were broken into with no cash found. An equipment shed at Smith Farm was entered with unclear theft. Kenneth Carroll reported a smashed car door with no theft.
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Clinton Johnson
Garfield St
Norbert Frey
15Th Ave
Kroger
S. Main Street
Smith Farm
Nine Butler County Men Inducted Into Armed Forces
Nine Butler County men reported for induction at Ft. Thomas Kentucky after registering with Local Draft Board No. 10. The group included Carl Weaver David Rader John Cope Donald Kelley Robert McGuire Homer Carr Dale Richter Roy Wolf and Carl Hacker with two volunteers. A brief ceremony at the Legion Home preceded departure and the Middletown Moose Lodge Ladies Auxiliary served coffee and doughnuts.
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Butler County
Ft. Thomas
Carl Edward Weaver
S. Main St
David Renick Rader
Crawford St
John Albert Cope
Carolina St
Donald Lee Kelley
Middletown Mounted Rt
Robert Clayton McGuire
Wayne Madison Rd
Trenton
Homer Fred Carr
Dale Eugene Richter
Roy Arnold Wolf
Hamilton-Scipio Rd
Hamilton
Carl Everett Hacker
Four Mile Creek
Legion
Middletown
GOP Bigs To Address Rally Here In Middletown
Top Republican leaders will speak at a Sept 15 rally in Middletown at Roosevelt Junior High School. Speakers include Sen. Andrew F Schoeppel of Kansas Rep Paul F Schenck Sen George H Benger C William O Neill and an Ohio Senate candidate. The event also serves as a training session for Butler County GOP workers on get out the vote in November.
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Andrew F. Schoeppel
Kansas
Middletown
Martin Coyle
Butler County
GOP
San Francisco
Roosevelt Junior High School
Paul F. Schenck
Dayton
George H. Benger
Ohio
William O'Neill
National Republican Senatorial Committee
Rep. Schenck
Schenck
House of Relatives
Coyle
Pravda Reporter Attends Republican National Convention
In San Francisco Pravda correspondent Fedor Orekhov arrives to cover the Republican National Convention as readers of the Soviet party paper anticipate detailed reporting on the event.
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San Francisco
Pravda
Republican National
Fedor Orekhov
Moscow
Hamilton Youngster Has Polio Second Time
A four year old Hamilton boy, Scott Gallacher, has polio for the second time and is at Mercy Hospital with non paralytic polio. He previously had polio in 1952 and had first and second Salk vaccine shots. The case is the sixth in Butler County this year and fifth this month, with one adult in an iron lung and officials saying the incidence is no cause for alarm.
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Hamilton
Scott Gallacher
Douglas Gallacher
Woodview la
Mercy Hospital
Charles Reuthe
Butler County
National Foundation For
Reuthe
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A&p
Atom
William Burton
S. Verity
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N. Main Street
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Yankee Rd
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