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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1953
Page
1
Government data show November living costs fell three tenths of a percent to 115 percent of the 1947-49 average, easing inflation after a long rise. A sharp 1.4 percent drop in food prices drove the decline, though December prices may edge higher.
State Auditor James A. Rhodes said funds to survey a 300 mile north south turnpike between Cincinnati and Conneaut may be released soon. The Ohio Turnpike Commission has just awarded final contracts for its east west turnpike.
At Panmunjom the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission ruled explanations ended. 22 Americans 1 Briton and 327 South Koreans stayed with the Reds after loudspeakers urged return home. 250 South Koreans interviewed chose Communists. 17 Americans remained inside the compound.
Richmond police overpowered in a hotel room the final two of 13 long term convicts who escaped from the Southern Michigan Prison last Saturday. Capt. John Rizio said the men admitted to being Roman Usiondek, 37, a psychopathic killer, and Robert Dowling, 33, a burglar. They were cornered after their escape auto was spotted on a Richmond street and taken to the city jail for questioning.
Hollywood AP Lou Costello remains upbeat about Christmas as he recovers from a serious Oct 29 collapse. Despite multiple prior illnesses and studio plans to replace him, Costello decorates his Sherman Oaks home with elaborate Christmas displays for children and plans a midnight gift ritual with family and close friends.
In Baltimore St. Alphonsus School held a Christmas party without Santa Claus. Monsignor Louis Olendels told 240 children that Santa is a mythical figure and urged focus on Christ and St. Nicholas as gifts’ origin. Some clergy in Indiana criticized the stance in a conflicting editorial.
Richard Looser 34, director of an amateur theater group in Grass Valley California, died in an accident while setting a stage gallows for a play. Deputy Coroner Brattin said a break away slip knot failed, causing Looser to strangle as he stood on a box.
Eu gene Adkins, 30, of Hamilton Ohio, admits payroll robbery of a Cincinnati department store last July 6 and a Dayton store last week. Police found 3851.38 on him and 27900 in ten dollar bills hidden at his home as he explains the motive to reopen his ruined television repair business.
The Agriculture Department found no widespread above normal profits by beef processors or distributors in the past two years. Secretary Benson initiated the inquiry after complaints prices did not fall with cattle prices in 1952 53. The Bureau of Agriculture Economics noted generally stable retail margins and only scattered instances of very low or very wide margins in lower grade beef.
Panama's National Assembly unanimously approved a government bill banning Communist organizations and barring Communists and sympathizers from public office. The measure awaits signature from President Jose Antonio Remon to become law.
U S officials study Russia's note and plan to send a new message welcoming talks on atomic issues. Dulles and Molotov may meet at Berlin or exchange through ambassadors as secret talks could begin under the UN Disarmament Commission in late January. Key tasks include blueprinting the proposed international atomic agency and defining safeguards for peaceful uses.
Western diplomats in Vienna describe a new wave of Jewish persecutions aimed at stifling anti communist opposition. The Union of Communities in Austria protested to Hungary over a secret trial of three Hungarian Jewish leaders in Budapest and reports say others have been tried or jailed in Romania and Czechoslovakia. The officials named Bela Denes Henrik Galos and Abraham Kornitzer as leading Zionist figures among those scrutinized.
In Versailles the French Parliament votes for the 11th time without electing a president. Marcel-Edmond Naegelen gains 32 votes while Louis Jacquinot receives 338 of the 441 needed as political deadlock persists amid fog and ongoing party rifts.
In Deer Lodge Montana inmates at a Montana State Prison toy shop cut doll dresses sew patterns sand and paint toys to donate to 3500 needy children this Christmas season A prison toy shop overseen by Warden Fay O Burrell and contact outside helper Mrs Fern Baker draws support from civic groups stores and a truck line The all year project lifts morale and softens grim inmate expressions as they work to prepare toys for distribute to children.
The Weather Bureau doubted a White Christmas after predicting snow in Ohio. A cold wave arrived with a 35 mph wind in Columbus. Temperatures dropped from 53 to 24 as snow flurries occurred in parts of the state before clearing.
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