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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1956
Page
2
About 731 Middletown school system employees will gain raises averaging 13.6 percent over 1957 and 1958 under new schedules approved by the Board of Education. The package includes teaching, administrative, non teaching staff and nurses, with totals estimated at $377 294 for 1957 1958 and $682 900 in 1957 from the operating levy.
Christmas festivities underway at the YMCA with a Hi Y and Y Teen caroling session at 6 30 tonight a Gar field Gra Y party at 3 15 p m and Wilson s Gra Y party at 8 45 a m tomorrow The schedule continues Saturday for Boys and Girls in various grade groups plus Amanda high school basketball league games and ping pong tournament opening terms.
Two pedestrians were slightly hurt in separate crashes yesterday. Joe Berman, 7, suffered knee abrasions after stepping into a car at Edgewood Street and Arlington Avenue. Jerry Norvel, 16, refused treatment after being struck on N Verity Parkway. A separate hit-skip damaged a Norvel car, with total damage listed at 900 dollars. A two-car collision on Tytus Avenue near Illinois Avenue caused no injuries, with 700 dollars damage to one car and 200 to the other. Additional incidents on Manchester Avenue and Columbia Avenue involved minor damages to vehicles and a fire hydrant.
Lee Banks 18 of West Middletown was bound over to Greene County Grand Jury in Xenia Municipal Court after pleading guilty to auto theft. He and three Middletown youths aged 17 and 16 allegedly stole Francis Wingle’s car on Smith Avenue, then another car of a Spring Valley resident before being captured in Urbana. Two youths are in juvenile custody. the remaining will face a juvenile court auto theft proceeding Friday.
Warren County records a third fatality in four days as John F. Newell, 46, of Pleasant Plain, crashes his car into the 14th Baltimore & Ohio eastbound train at Rossberg Road crossing in rain and fog. Newell, a millwright from Cincinnati, dies instantly. car demolished, train damage undetermined. Body sent to Hannah Funeral Home Blanchester. funeral plans incomplete.
Mrs. Kenneth Lovely aged 57 of Hamilton Road Middletown fractured her right elbow in a fall near her home yesterday. She received treatment at Middletown Hospital.
City firemen responded to two calls last night with no fire damage. At 10:36 p.m. they found a pile of leaves burning outside Logan Johnson's home at 2705 McGee Ave. Earlier, at 7:23 p.m., Companies 1 3 and the ladder unit were dispatched to Central Avenue and Canal Street for a false alarm.
Funeral services are set for Mrs. Julia Welbourne of 170 W Ridgeway Centerville at 2 p m at Centerville Methodist Church. She died at Middletown Hospital after a brief cancer illness and her body will aid Memorial Center cancer research per arrangements made in October while under Memorial physicians care. Surviving are husband William W two children Porter 9 Todd 3 mother Nellie Bowman Cincinnati two brothers Lowell Porter Dallas and Wayne Porter Cincinnati. Flowers collected will be donated to the American Cancer Society. Cremation will follow.
Deputies report a burglary at the Mayfield Restaurant on Carolina Avenue 2037, with loot including 70 dollars in nickels, 30 cartons of cigarettes, 10 cases of canned beer, four necklace sets, two 12 glass jelly cartons, and various kitchen items. Entry came through a smashed rear door, discovered by a waitress the next morning. proprietor Eugene Doughman and deputies Loren Gustin and James Davis investigated.
Rainy weather delays Middletown Christmas caroling originally set for tonight. Capt. Jack Clark reported the event will proceed Saturday night if conditions allow, with about 30 Middletown Civil Boys' Choir members and Optimist Club sponsorship. Fire Station 1 and 3 will display Christmas lights and a tree as plans shift to 6:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday.
An illuminated 150 watt bulb ignited a display window pants when the trousers toppled onto the light. A window washer quickly doused the blaze with a bucket of water as Christmas shoppers watched.
Niigata Japan residents reported radioactive rise after a supposed December 14 blast. Niigata University Professor Hironobu Watanage cautioned current readings show increased radioactivity, attributed to an explosion in the Soviet Union.
Nearly 300 Armco supervisors attended Middletown Works annual Christmas party in the Manchester Hoe last night. Guests included 25 retired veterans with over 30 years of service, Armco president R. L. Gray and other executives. G. D. Tranter spoke, Ralph Wright acted as toastmaster, and Slim King with Freddie Langdon’s Home town boys provided 45 minutes of musical entertainment. Art Sanderson chaired the entertainment committee.
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