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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1957
Page
7
Fire officials say a spontaneous ignition sparked a blaze at Design Fabricators Inc at Manhattan Street. Estimated total damage 31500 with 25000 to contents and 6500 to the two story building. reconstruction to begin today.
Franz Josef Strauss warned that defending West Germany without atomic weapons would be military madness. He said atomic armament of the new German army could be renounced only if additional American and British units are stationed in West Germany and equipped with atomic weapons.
Obituaries for Joseph Rolland Carpenter 64 of Middletown and others list services, burial, and homes. Walter R Hook 82 Ethel Bowser 72 Arthur Settlemyer 26 Josephine Brown 79 Charles Eisel 77 and Alonzo Meehling 74 also noted with service times locations and funeral homes across Hamilton Oxford and nearby towns.
SAN MARINO Calif Frank A Banks 74 former Reclamation Bureau official who was widely known as the Father of the Grand Coulee Dam died Saturday He lived in Coulee Dam Washington near the dam he helped build Also noted Berian Gerhart Ziller 45 secretary of the ruling Communist Party Central Committee took his life Saturday according to Neues Deutschland East Germany.
The Board of Education holds a special session at 7 30 p m to consider plans for Sherman School auditorium gymnasium expansion and a Taft School addition change order. Harold Geetz Jr will present Sherman plans. The Taft change order concerns foundation revisions after a deep cinder bed was found on site for the six room wing in Mex.
Stone aged 66, a leading importer of cultured pearls and pioneer of the cultured pearl industry in the United States and Orient, died Saturday. He was born in Davenport, Iowa, and associated with Carmel, California. Retired Navy Captain John Marie Creighton, 66, who served on Fleet Adm Chester Nimitz staff during World War II, died yesterday in Leavenworth, Kansas, after 36 years in the Navy.
A lighthearted note on friends who delay picking up the check. The piece pokes fun at those who stall until responsibility lands on someone else, celebrating the humorous art of dodging the bill.
NuTone Inc announces top executive reshuffles as it dedicates two new buildings expanding the Cincinnati plant by 60 000 square feet. Founder J Ralph Corbett relinquishes the presidency to become chairman of the board E Herbert Bladh rises to president and Frank A Knapp becomes vice president and GM. New facilities will house enlarged advertising and accounting and automatic equipment for range hood fans.
Mrs. Earl Howard is identified as the afternoon son of Mrs. Cleve Roberts in Sunbury. The article notes Florida’s tidal shoreline is 3,751 statute miles.
Patrolman Harold Hinnley pursued a stolen car on a wild 860 mile an hour chase through Cincinnati and Mt. Healthy. The two vehicles collided injuring four occupants including Miss Barbara Warren a four year old girl who was trapped and freed before the car caught fire. Others hurt were Mrs. Ann McKinley 23 Earl Richey 26 and William Lambert 26. The driver fled on foot.
Ravenna police detained seven youths after a Saturday brawl in front of the Jay Teen Club. Those seven face Municipal Court arraignment for disturbing the peace by threatening violence while 19 others were sent to juvenile authorities. Knives clubs and other weapons were seized from the group. No injuries reported.
Glen Goodwin aged 28 died at General Hospital from injuries after a Saturday car crash in Cincinnati. Police said he lost control of his vehicle and slammed into a concrete wall. Goodwin’s 5 year old son Davis sustained serious injuries.
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