Revised Garbage Rates For City Bills In 1959
City to mail first 1959 garbage bills Monday after Commission adopts rate hike raising domestic annual charge from 14 to 21 dollars. Quarterly payments rise to 46.5 dollars with no early-pay discount. Landfill and private hauler fees increase. general fund to cover sanitation debt. Donham opposed, citing fairness and utilities charge concerns.
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City Commission
Charles W. Thompson
Thompson
Francis Carmody
Virgil T. Clark
Donald M. Gose
Martin B. Miller
William W. Donham
Donham
Denham
General Fund
Clark
Prison Restaurant Serves Christmas Dinner for Five Prisoners
Clock j Restaurant at 1731 Tytus Ave provided a full Christmas dinner for five city jail inmates. The menu featured turkey with trimmings, mashed potatoes, gravy, salad, and ice cream. Coffee was brewed by Jailer Larry White, and each prisoner received a pack of cigarettes.
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Clock J
Tytus Ave
Santa Claus
Larry White
Police Briefs Thefts Reported Across City
Clothing valued at 250 from the car of Ted Vradelis at 217 Curtis Street and two hubcaps stolen from a car at 610 Cleveland Street were reported to police.
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Ted Vradelis
Curtis St
Cleveland St
Verity Parkway Christmas Crash Hurts Three
Three people were injured in a head on Verity Parkway collision near Mabelle Drive on Christmas day. Henry Gerhard, 34, was hospitalized with a possible skull fracture after his overturned car required extraction. Two others, Marion and Luna Horton, were treated and released for chest and hand injuries.
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N. Verity Parkway
Mabelle Drive
Henry Gerhard
Bryant S
Middletown Hospital
Marion Horsiton
Red Bud Dr
Luna Bell Horton
Gerhard
Horton
Verity Parkway
Two Hamilton men injured in highway crash east of U S 25
State patrolmen reported Charles R. Rader Jr., 21, and Jesse Hark Leroad, 20, were hurt when their car went out of control and struck a culvert on the LeSaudsville West Chester Road, east of U S 25. They were taken to Mercy Hospital in Hamilton. Rader had head and face lacerations while Leroad suffered broken ribs and a knee injury. The car was a total loss.
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Hamilton
LeSaudsville
West Chester
U.S. 25
Charles R. Rader Jr
Jesse Hark Leroad
Mercy Hospital
Rader
Leroad
Tangier Restaurant Fire Causes Major Akron Loss
A blaze that began in the Tangier Restaurant kitchen near downtown Akron caused over 100000 in damage. Flames from the stove area were fought by firefighters for 80 minutes before control was established. The first floor interior of the two story building was gutted.
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Akron, Ohio
Downton
Reds Working At Cross Purposes
In Budapest Hungary the official news agency reports two items. First the grape crop will yield about 26 million gallons more wine in 1959. Second outpatient wards for alcoholics have proven successful and two more will open in Budapest suburbs.
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Budapest
Hungary
Explorers Cancel Mid-Winter Scout Event
Scout Executive Russell L. Efker announced the mid winter Explorer Scout event in the Mound Building Area Council was cancelled due to a conflict with the Middletown Columbus Nort basketball game. Explorers from both districts were to attend the event.
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Russell L. Efker
Efker
Mound Building
Middletown Columbus
Fires and emergencies keep Middletown firefighters busy
Middletown firefighters answered a series of calls since Wednesday morning. A $35 blower motor fire at John Slamka's home on Centennial Avenue was blamed on a stuck motor. A $25 bedroom fire at Marie Ingram's home on Baltimore Street was possibly caused by children with matches and caused no contents damage. A rubbish fire behind Sharpe Division of the Black Clawson Co. on Clark Street caused no damage. Firemen aided locals including Charles Kr anter, who suffered a stroke at Tytus Avenue and Enoch Drive, and Charles McClain, ill on Cleveland Street. McClain was taken to Middletown Hospital.
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Middletown
John Slamka
Centennial Ave
Marie Ingram
Baltimore St
Black Claw‘son Co
Clark St
Charles Kranter
Princeon Ave
Tytus Avenue
Enoch Drive
Charles McClain
Cleveland St
Timothy Salley
Central Ave
McClain
Middletown Hospital
Juvenile Inmate Flees Christmas Dinner Detention
A 13 year old juvenile detention inmate fled a private home after stealing a pistol and ammunition during Christmas dinner. Police officer H E Lay of Belle Meade arrested him two hours later. the youth retained a .38 caliber pistol and 75 rounds of ammunition.
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Nashville, Tenn
Lewis Waldman
H. E. Lay
Belle Meade
Lay
Intruder Violates Home On Christmas Eve On 2nd Avenue
A 2nd Avenue woman reported a Christmas Eve break in by an intruder who asked for food then returned to force entry. He tried to remove her clothing before fleeing. description notes a gray suit and a right eye injury.
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2Nd Avenue
Hamilton hunter injured in farm shotgun accident
Jerry Thomas, 40, of 1841 Allstatter Ave., was struck by shotgun pellets while hunting rabbits Wednesday on a Bruner Road farm. Mitchell Lawson, 1144 Allstatter Ave., fired the gun. Thomas is in Fair condition at Fort Hamilton Hospital with pellets in his shoulder, leg, hand, and eye.
850 000 Suit Again Is Denied
A Butler County court denied a $50,000 damages claim by Mrs. Florence Cargill of Middletown for injuries to her son William 14 who was struck by Wendell A. Shelton’s car at Central Avenue and Canal Street The Ohio Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the ruling was announced Wednesday.
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Butler
Middletown
Ohio Supreme Court
Florence Cargill
Sth Ave
William
Wendell A. Shelton
Butler-Warren County Line
Central Avenue
Canal Street
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Tion
Frank Ludewig
Lorillard
Patiman
Dorothy Stacey
Charles St
Robert
Ross
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Verity
Germanytown Road
McCoy-Leffler
Access 1
George Salvers Sr
Hawthorne St
George Salyers Jr
Michael
Salyers
McKinley Forbes
Willbraham Rd
Harold Wages
Morgan Sr
Leander McCarthy
West Middletown
Noah Powers
Breil Dr
James Gambill
N. Broad St
Charles Street
Powers
Gambill
Chalmer Elam
Wayne Ave
Frank Wolner
Calumet Ave
Broad St
Elam
Herschel Barnhart
McGee Ave
Margaret Presley
Hamiltonians
Iirm
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Buster
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