Walter S. Geckeler Elected President Of Ohio Teachers Group
Walter S. Geckeler Middletown recreation director and Roosevelt Junior High instructor was elected president of the Ohio Classroom Teachers Association at Columbus. He succeeds Glenn Livingston and is a founder and active member of the local group. The three day meeting drew about 900 Ohio teachers with several from Middletown. The article notes other officer elections and the association's role within the Ohio Education Association which has about 47 000 members and promotes school improvement and teacher status.
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Walter S
Steve” Geckeler
Middletown
Roosevelt
Ohio Classroom Teachers’ Association
Columbus
Ohio Education Association
Geckeler
Glenn Livingston
van Wert, O
National Education Association
Ohio
George Beery
Franklin County
John D. Blackford
Mariemont
John C. Griffith
Akron Garfield
R. B. Oldfather
Painesville
Ira Baumgartner
Sylvania
DEA
A. J L. Mattoon
Findlay High School
Educational Council, Research Organization of the
OFA
Edwin W. Bush
Lorain
Kate L. Boyce
Dayton
Mary Hannaberg
Springfield
Leonore Holliday
Cincinnati
Jason
C B. Cleaver
Norwood
Ohio Elementary Principals Association
Sue Beeghly
Robert L. Nash
Margaret Lou Rook
Akron
Clyde Scott
Maumee
Roy Gillespie
Zanesville
Classroom
Future Teachers
Obituary Thomas E Kindig of Germantown Dies at 81
Germantown resident Thomas E Kindig aged 81 died Friday at his South Cherry Street home after a six day illness. He was born in the same house. Survivors include two sons Edward of Xenia and James of Farmersville, a daughter Lena Selby, two sisters Gertrude Kindig of Sarasota and Daisy Grice of Tampa, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Services Monday at 2 p.m. at John Arpp Funeral Home with Dr. C O Arnold officiating. Burial in Germantown Cemetery. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today.
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Germantown
Thomas E Kindig
South Cherry St
Edward
Xenia
James
Farmersville
Lena Selby
Gertrude Kindig
Sarasota
Fla
Daisy Grice
Tampa
John Arpp
C. O. Arnold
Germantown Cemetery
Fire at Otterbein Home Barn Deliberately Set
Lebanon Ohio fire chief Clarence V Dunham says a 30000 barn fire at Otterbein Home on November 12 was set deliberately. State arson investigator Willis Peterson reports two suspects questioned and two more to be questioned next week. The fire spread quickly but caused no injuries.
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Lebanon
Clarence V. Dunham
Otterbein
Willis Peterson
Police Briefs: Valuables Recovered and Reckless Driving Arrests
Anne Owens reported a $275 wrist watch stolen from her dining room then found on the floor beneath the refrigerator. Warren Mitchell and Glenn Caskey were arrested or informed of recoveries, and Miles Sanky faced a $25 fine for reckless driving after a Route 747 junction arrest. Two men charged with disorderly conduct were picked up at Chili Parlor and Clinton St. and Central Ave.
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Anne Owens
Garden Ave
Miles Sanky
Plum St
Sanky
Justice of the Peace
Lummie Bailey
Middletown
William Day
Elliston
Elmer Gilbert
Dixie Heights
Clinton St
Central Ave
William H. Laird, Ohio Grange veteran, dies at 95
William H. Laird, age 95 and reputed to be the oldest Ohio Grange member, died yesterday in Big Plain after a year long illness. He was a longtime figure in the agricultural fraternal organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
William H. Laird
Ohio Grange
Big Plain
Middletown Optimist Club elects new officers
W J White was elected president of the Middletown Optimist Club at the annual election held Friday noon at the Manchester Hotel. Other officers include Dr. Robert Ligett and Detective Joe Blackmore as vice presidents Gene Gillespie secretary treasurer George Wedekind Jr sergeant at arms. Board members are Jack Casper Carl Martin Joe Dillon and Don Worman. Installation will be by District Governor Marion Foltz. A Christmas party for children is planned for December 23. The annual meeting is April 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. White
Middletown
Optimist Club
Manchester
Robert Ligett
Joe Blackmore
Gene Gillespie
George Wedekind Jr
Jack Casper
Carl Martin
Joe Dillon
Don Worman
Marion Foltz
Columbus
John Johnson
Blackmore
Sheriff Raids Beechwood Camp in Montgomery County
Sheriff Ben H. Smith and Ohio State liquor agents raided Beechwood Camp in German town Dam this morning. One arrest was made, Robert Pero of 625 South Main Street Dayton was fined two counts totaling 500 dollars, with half suspended. Beechwood Camp is incorporated with William E. Wilson of West Carrollton as president. The raid occurred at 5:03 am and most club equipment was confiscated.
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Montgomery County
Ben H. Smith
Ohio State
Beechwood Camp
Germantown Dam
Smith
Robert Pero
South Main St
Dayton
Squire Oscar Marker
Jefferson Township
William E. Wilson
West Carrollton
Vital Statistics Deaths and Births Roundup
Death Thomas E B Kindig 41 of Germantown. Births Mr and Mrs Boyd McNally Miami sburg Route 2 a son yesterday. Births Mr and Mrs Denton Hall 406 Park St a boy yesterday. Births Mr and Mrs Charles M Thompson 3213 Waneta St a boy yesterday. Births Mer and Mrs Ralph Nunley 1306 Jacoby Ave a girl yesterday. Births Mr and Mrs G B Cox South Lebanon a boy yesterday. Out of Town Mr and Mrs Robert McGill Jr Toledo a boy Friday paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Robert McGill Lebanon. Mr and Mrs Dallas Hoppe Detroit a girl Friday paternal grandmother Mrs Linnie Hoppe 116 Eaton Dr. In The Hospital Mrs G B Rose Germantown Route 1 surgical. Mrs Francis Wagner Columbia Ave surgical. Mrs Emmett Long Franklin Route 1 medical. Mrs Oscar Monk Linn Rd surgical. Mrs Dominick Oshust Taylor Ave medical. Mrs Max Rader Excello medical. Howard J Corwin Franklin. Dismissed Mrs Thomas Swank Baltimore St. Mrs Sherman Vice Middletown Route 2 Charles Fletcher North Verity Pkwy. Grove Dingess Shafer St. Miss Marilyn Gomin Sixth Ave. John T Knapp Sherman John Laurens Casper St. Mrs Sanford Henderson Eighteenth Ave.
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Boyd McNally
Miamisburg
Denton Hall
Park St
Charles M Thompson
Waneta St
Mer
Ralph Nunley
Jacoby Ave
G. B. Cox
South Lebanon
Robert McGill, Jr
Toledo
Robert McGill
Lebanon
Dallas Hoppe
Detroit
Linnie Hoppe
Eaton
G. B. Rose
Germantown
Francis Wagner
Columbia Ave
Emmett Long
Franklin
Oscar Monk
Linn Rd
Dominick Oshust
Taylor Ave
Max Rader
Excello
Howard J. Corwin
Thomas Swank
Baltimore St
Sherman Vice
Middletown
Charles Fletcher
North Verity
Grove Dingess
Shafer St
Marilyn Gomin
Sixth Ave
John T. Knapp
Sherman Ave
John Laurens
Casper St
Sanford Henderson
Eighteenth Ave
Paramount and Strand Screens This Weekend With Double Features
Paramount presents Follow Me Quietly with Landigan and Patrick at multiple showings and Doctor and the Girl with Ford and De Haven. Sunday offers Always Leave Them Laughing with Berle and Mayo. Strand features South of Death Valley with Starrett Burnett and Lone Wolf and His Lady with Randall Lyons plus Sunday Big Cat with Foster Garner and Flame of Youth with Fuller McDonald.
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Paramount
William Landigan
Dorothy Patrick
Glen Ford
Gloria de Haven
Milton Berie
Virginia Mayo
South of Death Valley
Charles Starr
Barbara Fuller
Ray McDonald
Weather Cancels Santa Visit in Middletown
Bad flying weather cancels Santa’s annual Middletown appearance. Organizers push the event to next Saturday with the same program and time, noting Santa was to arrive by Aeronca at 2 p.m. and ride through town. The Middletown Fire Department and Merchants Association sponsor the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Middletown
Jack Clark
Santa
Clark
Aeronca
Quartet Show On Tonight at Monroe High School
Charlies J. Reuthe president of the Lemon Township Athletic Association said the SP ERSQSA barbership parade will go on at 8 p m tonight in Monroe High School's new gymnasium. Eight quarters from Middletown will perform to raise funds for the township athletic program.
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Monroe High School
Charlies J. Reuthe
Lemon Township Athletic Association
Reuthe
Middletown
Township High School
British Governor of Sarawak Dies After Stabbing
Singapore AP report states Duncan G. Stewart, 45, governor of Sarawak, died in a Singapore hospital after seven days of illness from a stab wound. He was stabbed December 3 during his first visit to Sibu in the north Borneo crown colony, arriving a month earlier.
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Singapore
Sarawak
Duncan G. Stewart Stewart
Sibu
North Borneo
Driver Pinkney Kramer Killed In Columbus Fall
Pinkney Kramer a 29 year old from Louisville Kentucky died yesterday after falling twenty feet from a scaffold at the Hercules Box Company in Columbus Ohio authorities said. He was employed at the plant and died at the scene.
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Columbus
Pinkney Kramer
Louisville
Hercules Box Company of
Mine Worker Crushed in Crooksville Shaft Incident
In Zanesville Ohio Paul Emberey was fatally injured when he was crushed between a car and a shaft inside the Misco Coal Mine near Crooksville on Thursday.
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Zanesville, C
Paul Emberey
Misco
Crooksville
Louisville Newspapers End Strike With Settlement Contract
Mailing room employee of the Courier Journal and Louisville Times ended a one day strike and returned to work after accepting a settlement request from the Independent International Mailers Union. A contract was signed calling for terms previously offered by management.
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Louisville
Courier-Journal
Louisville Times
Independent International Mailers Union
Woman Drowns After Jump From West Virginia Bridge
Police report a woman identified as Hazel Kenny 25 of Powhatan Point fell or jumped from a bridge into the Elk River in Charleston. The death was reported last night with investigators continuing to determine exact circumstances.
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Charleston
W. Va
Hazel Kenny
Powhatan Point
Elk River
Poice
Warren Community Chest Falls Short of Goal
Warren's Community Chest drive ends $28,077 under its $161,000 goal. Officials expect to meet the target once remaining pledges are collected.
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Warren, O
Warren
Austral ia Seizes Lead in Australia House Seats
Australia's free enterprise parties take a lead for a majority of 123 seats in the House of Commons. If the result holds, the eight year Socialist Labor Party regime may end.
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Sydney
Australia
Free
House of Commons
Socialist Labor Party
Rough Weather Strikes Nation
A batch of inclement weather spread across the nation with snow sleet rain and cold. The Up per Mississippi Valley and central and southern plains face much colder air and possible snow or mow. Blizzard conditions were forecast for western Nebraska and northwestern Kansas while light snow or freezing drizzle dotted Iowa southern Minnesota to Indiana and Ohio.
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Associated Press
Mississippi Valley
Plains
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
Minnesota
Indiana
Ohio
Weather Bureau
Appalachians
Rockies
Portland
Albany
N. Y
Fire from Welder's Torch Ignites Grease in Mill
A welder's torch started a small blaze in the grease in the pickler aligning machine at Armco Fast Works Cold Strip Mill shortly after noon yesterday. Fire Company No 3 and the ladder truck arrived at 12 21 p m but Armco employees put out the flames before they reached the scene. No damage resulted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armco Fast Works
Armco Emptiyes
Pythians Name New Officers For Fifty Term
The weekly Knights of Pythias session elected officers led by Woodrow Wilkinson as Chancellor Commander Marvin Holliday as vice chancellor Thomas Coddington as prelate and Wally Gray as master at arms. New Esquire rank candidates were Clyde Hackney Robert Easterling Paw Bowling George Schockley and Louis Hackney. The Knight Rank will be conferred Friday December 18 and a Christmas party with the Pythian Sisters is planned for December 22.
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Knigits of Pythies
Lafayette Lodge No
Woodrow Wilkinson
Marvin Holliday
Thomas Coddington
Wally Gray
Howard Knopshield
Nash Lambert
Norman Dole
Homer Jefferson
William Augsburger
C. W. Davis
Farr Coddington
Grand Lodge
A. F. Duvall
Clyde Hackney
Robert Easterling
Paw Bowling
George Schockley
Louis Hackney
Pythian Sisters
Congressman Enters Jail After Guilty Verdict
J Parnell Thomas, a New Jersey Republican and congressman, reported to federal prison in Danbury after being sentenced to six to 18 months for defrauding the government. He arrived from Washington by train and declined to comment beyond saying his wife could win his seat. Mrs Thomas announced plans to seek the nomination to replace him in New Jersey.
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Danburn Conn
J Parnell Thomas
Congress
Federal Correctional Institution
New Jersey Republican
Washington
Alexander Holtroff
Bridgeport
Danbury
Thomas
New Jersey
Germans Seek Role in European Army
West German Chancellor Adenauer urged German representation in a future western European army despite Allied disapproval. He said only German military forces could guarantee Germanys security, remarks made before a CDU closed meeting and confirmed by the party press chief.
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Koenigswinter
Germany
West Germany
Komrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Christian Democratic Party
CDU
Child Suffocates in Columbus kerosene stove fumes
Branda June Dresbach aged 16 months died after suffocating from fumes emitted by a kerosene stove in Columbus. Authorities reported the incident as an accidental death at the Dresbach home with the child of Mr and Mrs Fred Dresbach.
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Columbus
Branda June Dresbach
Fred Dresbach
Slippery Highways Trigger Auto Mishaps Across Area
State and local police investigated a series of minor crashes tied to snowy roads. In city incidents at Sutphin Street Central Avenue and 69 South Main Street two-vehicle collisions caused about 25 dollars in damage per vehicle. A third city crash occurred at Fleming Road and Charles Street during parking attempts. State Patrol reported additional accidents on Route 4 near LeSourdsville Lake and Route 25 north of Franklin involving multiple vehicles. conditions were described as slippery with drivers losing control.
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Sutphin St
Central Ave
Edwin Earhart
Florence Ave
Sutphin
William T. Lewis
Burton Rd
Minta Elam
Sheridan Duncil
Lylburn Rd
South Main St
Fleming Rd
Charles St
James Murphy
Auburn St
Alvin Kinney
Guethrie
Miss
Kinney
Murphy
LeSourdsville Lake
Kelly Clair
Woodlawn Ave
Moreton McGuire
Trenton
Melquire
Franklin
Robert C. Mohr
Dayton
Paul Hensson
Hamilton
Oe Robison
Ypsilanti
Robert Bankwalter
Fiie Ave
Kenneth Wilson
Japanese man attempts suicide repeatedly in botched plan
Hiroma sa Sato in northern Hokkaido tried fifteen times to die by cyanide hanging and trains. He piled railroad ties to derail a train aiming to be punished, but the attempt failed. The judge ruled him insane and he said he simply wanted a death sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Hiromasa Sato
Hokkaido
Sato
Warren County Grand Jury Indicts Robert Gray in Non-support
Robert Gray held in Warren County Jail on $1,000 bond after indictment by the Warren County Grand Jury for non support. He was captured in Marshal Kentucky by Sheriff Gerald W. Couden and awaits a hearing next week before Common Pleas Judge Alton F Brown.
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Lebanon
Robert Gray
Warren County Grand Jury
Marshal
Gerald W. Couden
Gray
Warren County
Common Pleas
Alton F Brown
Radio era raises demand for clock accuracy
Britannica notes that the spread of radio broadcasts with exact time has heightened public demand for precise clocks and watches, reflecting a shift toward reliability in timekeeping.
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Encylopedia Britannica
Church Free Taxi Service Boosts Attendance in Springfield
In Springfield Illinois the Stuart Street Christian Church began free taxi rides to Sunday services two weeks ago. Attendance rose by 59 each Sunday and offerings roughly cover cab costs. Reverend Donald Finley says the program will become permanent. One taxi firm provides discounted rides to the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield, Ill
Stuart Street
Happy Hour
Donald Finley
Finley
Escapee Returned to Orient Home by Deputies
Virgil Lunsford, an escapee from the Orient Home, was recaptured Friday by Deputies William Thomas and Richard Satterthwaite. He was found at the home of friends and returned to the institution.
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Lebanon
Orient
William Thomas
Richard Satterthwaite
Virgil Lunsford
Home of
Friends
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