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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1952
Page
6
Mr and Mrs Harry Mercer marked their thirty fifth wedding anniversary with an open house at their Fleming Road home. A large 35 displayed at the doorway signaled the party to guests during yesterday's event.
Mr and Mrs Norval Diver of Middletown Hamilton Road hosted a holiday open house yesterday afternoon. About thirty guests called during the event.
The Episcopal Guild Tea Dance reservations deadline has been extended to Wednesday morning. Call Mrs Ames Gardner for tickets or Miss Shari Kah for reservations. The dance starts New Year’s Day from 4 30 to 9 with the Saum Brothers orchestra from Dayton. Supper will be served.
The Women's Society of World Service of the Jacksonburg EUB Church will meet Wednesday afternoon in the church social rooms.
Two men will report to Selective Service Board 10 January 6 for transportation to Cincinnati for their armed forces physical examinations, board chairman J. Wylie Mitchell said. Previously Mitchell disclosed five men will report for induction on the morning of January 15.
Hamilton police charged Roscoe Thomas 25 of 814 South Seventh Street with armed robbery in a Christmas Day stickup at the Rossville Inn on Main Street. Detectives say Thomas signed a confession admitting a 1 a.m. robbery that netted $204.30 in cash. He was arrested in a cafe here Saturday night.
Miss Mary Margaret McLaughlin and James Christopher Kitson wed at Holy Trinity Church in a high nuptial Mass performed by Monsignor James F. McNary. The couple, of Middletown and Hartford, plan a Nassau Bahama honeymoon and will reside in Tucson Arizona.
Reed A Shaw of Pittsburgh returned home after holidays with his mother Mrs E A Shaw in Central Ave. Christmas dinner guests included George Haymond and son David in Cincinnati, Herschel Shaw and Carrie Haymond of Muncie. Carl J Weinman died in Champaign prompting a return by Lewis Weinman and wife. Various families visited relatives in Portland Indiana Louisville Columbus St Petersburg and New York City over the season.
Members of Selective Service Board 10 meet in a routine session as chairman J Wylie Mitchell notes concern over 5 A reclassifications cards returned due to address changes. He explains men reaching 26 are reclassified and urges timely registration at 18 to avoid delays.
New York returns show church rolls rose to 2,715,825 nationwide in 1952, marking a record high and a 2.74 percent increase from the previous year. The annual yearbook released yesterday details the rise across parishes and regions.
Two hundred guests attended the Daughters of Penelope Holiday Ball at the Manchester Hotel. Miss Georgia Comminos was selected to represent Middletown at the May Festival, chosen by judges Mrs. F. E. Troutvine Jr. and Roy Patterson from a group including Miss Irene Baguzedes and others.
Airman Daniel J. Enxing, 19, of Middletown, was appointed to the U S Military Academy at West Point by Congressman Paul F Schenck. Enxing, a Middletown High School 1950 graduate, served in the Air Force and trained at Lackland Brooks Scott AFBs radio school before possible academy entry in July 1953.
Fire companies responded to a 12:30 a m alarm at the Armco East Side Plant where a crane spark set fire to paper boxes. Earlier, Naegele Auer Printing and other locations generated smoke or odor reports as crews investigated furnaces and alleys.
An American immigration inspector aboard the Queen Mary from New York has screened half of the 1,246 crew for Communist ties and reports finding none.
Twenty four violators arrested by state highway patrols were fined for traffic offenses. Mayor Thomas Linn led the magistrates with multiple yellow line violations and speeding fines. others include James Duncan, Cecil Nolan, Walter McCarthy, Tommy White, Rudolph Svarda, Kelsie Wright, Alvin Farley, and several more across Detroit, Flint, Dayton, and Cincinnati with fines ranging from 10 to 30 dollars and costs.
M Sgt Al Walters, Middletown Army Air Force recruiter, received two belated Christmas enlistees on Friday. William R Combs of Middletown Route 1 and Joseph C Watkins of 3008 Andrew St both 17-year-olds joined for four years. Walters now has five enlistees this December and needs five more to hit a quota of ten.
William Hayes 38 of Dayton and William Davis 23 of Middletown each fined $10 and costs by Squire Albert Bolling for yellow line violations and stop sign offenses. Arthur Lewis 26 of Middletown also fined $10 and costs for a yellow line violation.
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