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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1961
Page
2
Mrs Woodrow Wilson aged 89 is gravely ill with a respiratory infection and complications. The physician said she has been ill for three weeks, grew worse recently, and is now slightly improved at her Washington home where she and former President Wilson lived after 1921.
In Columbus the Christmas weekend traffic death toll rose to 23, with 10 drivers 10 passengers and 3 pedestrians among the victims. Gov DiSalle’s report notes excessive speed in seven deaths left of center in three cases and failure to yield in none. one drunk driver is listed among causes. State Highway Safety Director J Grant Keys warns that 22 more may die during the next New Year holiday period.
The sun emits energy at an enormous power level described as half a million billion horsepower. This immense output highlights the star’s energetic performance and its distant, radiant influence on the solar system.
James Bryant Jr., 62, of 1228 Young St., died at 8 25 a m at Middletown Hospital after six months illness. A janitor at Armco Steel Corp. for 38 years, he was a deacon at Tried Stone Baptist Church. Surviving wife Oriole. sons Tytus, Cleve land, John, St Elmo. daughters Miriam Burden, Mable Atkins, Mable Payne. brothers Choice, Ira, Dixon, Clifford. sister Ola Mae McKinney. 32 grandchildren. Arrangements incomplete at Bailey Funeral Home. burial in Union Cemetery. Memorial Home callers 7 to 9 tonight.
An honorary guard from Wright Patterson AFB will conduct full military rites for M Sgt James Herbert Caldwell age 47 at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Mc Coy Leffler Funeral Home. Burial follows at North Cemetery Monroe. Friends may visit today 7 to 9 p.m. Caldwell died Friday at George AFB Victorville Calif.
William Chapman 74 of Jeffersonville Ky died yesterday at Mary Childs Hospital Mt Sterling Ky after a heart attack three weeks ago. Survived by wife Emma who died in 1939 and daughters Mrs George A Fletcher Mrs Ray Jett and Mrs Shirley Oldfield and son William all of Jeffersonville Ky. 12 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Services 1:30 p.m. Friday at Antioch Church Mt Sterling with burial Oldfield Cemetery. Friends may call Mitchell Funeral Home Mt Sterling.
Jonathan Roy Freeze 76 of 2701 McGee Ave retired Armco plant manager died Christmas at his Hollywood Florida winter home. Services at 10 a.m. Saturday at Wilson Memorial Home with Dr Donald Cryer officiating burial in Woodside Cemetery. Calling hours Friday 3–5 and 7–9. He belonged to First Methodist Church and Lincoln Lodge 693 F and AM.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lottie Urton, 69 Lebannon Rt. 1, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Oswald Memorial Home. She died at 4:15 p.m. yesterday at Miami Hospital in Dayton. Survived by one daughter, Mrs. J. D. Horner, Lebanon Rt. 1, and a granddaughter.
Four obituaries listing Mrs Belle E Busch 74 at Ram bo Harris Apartments with 11 am service. Mrs Helen Birdsong 66 at 1050 Symmes Road and Trinity Episcopal Church 10 am tomorrow. Mrs Christine Armstrong 79 at 821 Weller Ave with 10 am Friday Cahill. Clifton Hamilton 59 at 932 Cleveland Ave with 10 am tomorrow West Side Baptist Church.
In Boston Reinhold du denberg 78 noted electrical engineer who invented the electron microscope died after a brief illness He retired from Harvard University in 1952 In New York Dr Otto Loewi 88 Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956 died Monday He was research professor of pharmacology at NYU School of Medicine for the prize for chemical transmission of nervous system In Old Saybrook Conn Walter Drew 88 longtime attorney for the National Erectors Association died Monday He also served as counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers
PASADENA AP Ann Collins 65 of New York once known as Ann Wheaton died Monday from a cerebral hemorrhage. Her Broadway career began at age eight in Peter Pan with Maud Adams and she retired in 1924. ATLANTA AP Dr John Jeter Hurt 88 former Union University president Jackson Tenn died Tuesday after decades of Baptist Church service.
Miss Virginia Heinlein 58, native of Bridgeport Ohio and head of Vassar College drama department since 1942, died Monday night at Vassar Hospital. In Cincinnati, Charles W. Dupuis 85, former Cincinnati Central Trust Co board chairman and founder of the College of Commerce, died Tuesday with funeral planned for Thursday.
Seven temperature records were set in Jacksonville this month with six heat records and a 25 degree drop on December 26 marking the coldest day on record. The prior record low of 3 degrees was established in 1906.
A man with a gun belt robbed the Oakley Fifth Third Union Trust Co branch and took about $4,000. Police captured suspect Elijah Caudill of Hazard Kentucky within two hours, with money and gun found on him. It was Cincinnati’s first bank robbery since 1950.
Frank Balcar of St. Clairsville Ohio and eight passengers including three sons escaped a belly landing at Greater Pittsburgh Airport after reporting a gear malfunction. He circled Wheeling and Pittsburgh airports to burn fuel before touching down on a new runway. Only the propeller bent and wing flaps dented amid a 1500 foot skid.
Cary Smith a 28 year old Lima man pleaded innocent to second degree murder and posted 25 000 bond after a roadblock arrest in Cincinnati He is charged in the fatal Lima shooting of Eddie Doe also 28 Doe allegedly fired first during an air party argument and was killed early Sunday momentum and details remain under investigation
Miss Edna Benjamin, a bank teller, received a note directing her to place money in a paper sack and not to sound an alarm for five minutes. Police rapid reaction included blockades at all bridges to Kentucky and county patrols sealing main highways out of Cincinnati.
New York AP reports Chrysler displayed an experimental turbine driven automobile and signaled potential limited customer trials next year. Robert Anderson notes that further tests costs and consumer reaction could lead to volume production. The turbine engine claims far fewer parts and no oil changes with gasoline as likely fuel.
Speculation circled around mass production within five years if tests succeed. Chrysler announced booklets on the car would be available at all dealers shortly after the new year. George Huebner Jr, executive engineer, said the trend already exists and they would not be here without belief. The gas turbine runs on any fuel.
Mrs. Aud rey Graves, 36, of Cleveland was shot and killed in front of her four children Tuesday night. Police sought her estranged husband Waller for questioning as they investigated the fatal shooting in Cleveland.
John Palmer, 50, of Springfield, died Tuesday from suspected carbon monoxide fumes. Three others were overcome and treated at City Hospital.
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