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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1965
Page
12
In a 1959 Italy versus United States bridge match, Belladonna Avarelli as North-South used an artificial two diamond bid signaling a three suited hand with 17+ high cards. Avarelli later ruffed to five spades, scoring 450 points, while the US North-South pair went down one for a 30 point loss.
Gov James A. Rhodes directs the Ohio Highway Patrol to investigate the propane gas explosion that killed one and injured eight near Van Wert, with aims to determine any state responsibility. Sparks from a passing train likely ignited escaping gas, destroying a farmhouse and scorching about 100 acres.
Cleveland police and fire investigators say burglars may have started a $10,000 blaze at the Little House Restaurant on Sunday. Firemen found a window and frame removed from the west side and a cigarette machine tipped over inside.
In Cleveland AP reports both sides in the steel industry refuse to back down on pay. United Steelworkers president J. W. Abel seeks gains near 15 to 17 cents an hour while mills push for around 2 percent annual increases. With August 31 contract deadline near, neither side wants a strike as mills stockpile and overall output slips 3 percent the week to August 21. No. 1 heavy melting scrap holds at 34.17 a gross ton.
A West Berlin man Klaus Matuschka aged 27 was seriously injured when a Communist gun boat fired five shots from a machine gun at his motorboat on the Havel River. He and two women crossed into East German waters by mistake. the women were unhurt. The East German news agency ADN reported only that a patrol boat turned back what it termed organized provocations against borders.
James A. Pawley executive director of the Urban League of Essex County chairs the Newark Committee for the Preservation of Racial Peace and Dignity. The group proposes extending mandatory school attendance to age 18 to curb idle time among youth and promote racial harmony.
Port Vincent Louisiana AP reports 19 year old Johnathan Sidney Davis a LSU student drowned in the Amite River on Sunday. Davis a Columbus Ohio native was identified as the victim in the accident.
A reader aged years earning 20 000 yearly asks about adding 10 000 to AT T or another blue chip. Spear suggests diversifying into two off highs General Foods and American Electric for capital growth.
Legal notices detail divorce petitions and defendants required to answer by September 1965. Notices name Emanuel Jackson Dorothy Christy Edith Green and Irene Asher among others, with court case numbers and residence details in Butler County Ohio. Public hearing advertised on zoning and parcel splits for Henry Walker and others.
Funeral notices list several Middletown and nearby area deaths with family visit times and interment details. A 1965 Wesleyan Methodist Church petition seeks authority to encumber real estate with first mortgage in Butler County Ohio, with notice to members of the church on August 16 23 30 and September 6.
A brief listing notes Manchester Motor Inn contact phone GA 2 4571 notations and mentions NYSE in association with the entry.
Cattle listing shows 1,900 head with mixed prices across steers heifers cows and bulls. Hogs 1,800 head with barrows and gilts down 10-15 from prior. Sheep 300 head with lambs and ewes showing modest advances for shorn stock.
Sen. Hugh Scott says the Lake Erie to Ohio Rival canal is a purely pet project of Rep. Michael J. Kirwan. He criticizes it as economically unsound and worsening Lake Erie pollution by drawing trade to Youngstown.
Frank H. Ernst 74 of Wilmington Del a former Du Pont executive died Sunday night after a long illness in a West Chester Pa hospital He was special assistant to the director of the orlon acetate manufacturing division in the textile fibers department at retirement in February 1956.
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