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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1961
Page
2
CHICAGO AP The nation's traffic fatalities for the first eleven months this year total 34,370, down from 34,700 in the same period in 1960, a one percent drop. The National Safety Council reports the accident death rate per 100 million miles traveled at 5.1, the lowest on record for any comparable span.
In New York at the ferry terminal several drab wooden phone booths were replaced with aluminum and glass models. Revenue at the site doubled after the upgrade, signaling a strong return on modernization.
CHICAGO AP Funeral services will be held today for Fowler B. McConnell 67 retired chairman of Sears Roebuck and Co and native of Upper Sandusky Ohio He died Wednesday night after several months illness He was a long time executive guiding Sears growth during which sales rose from 1 to 4 billion in his last year as chairman He attended the University of Chicago played football and baseball there in Amoss Stagg era He served in World War I as an infantry captain He leaves widow Lucille and four children Marilyn Black Judith Winnetka John N
Requiem High Mass will be sung at 9 a.m. tomorrow at St. Joseph Church for Robert H. Davis, 53, of 978 Columbia Road, killed in an Interstate 75 crash in Evendale. Burial will be in Fairhaven Cemetery. He founded American Loan & Finances Co. in 1946 and led the Ohio Consumers Loan Association, also headed American Primary Co. He bred show horses and led Sertoma Club's Plug Horse Derby fund drive. Also killed was Dorothy Flynn, 42, of Springdale, riding in the second car with Don as, 45, and their son Terry, 17, both seriously injured. Davis is survived by his wife Ruth, a son Robert Jr., and one grandchild. Bryant died Wednesday at Middletown Hospital.
James Bryant Jr., 62, of 1228 Young Street, will have services at 1 30 p.m. Tuesday at Tried Stone Baptist Church with Rev Herbert Hart officiating. Burial follows at Woodside Cemetery. Friends may call at the church Monday from 6 to 9 30 p.m. Arrangements by Bailey Funeral Home.
A Purdue University student is mentioned alongside Waukegan, Illinois and Fowler Jr in what appears to be a campus or local story, though details are sparse. The exact relation or event connecting these names is not provided in the readable text.
James W Wilkes age 85 died yesterday at his home 6869 Euclid Road Kenwood He was a former Leb anon resident and Mason for 3 years Survived by wife Hettie two sons James Jr Lansing Mich and Sherre of Kenwood a daughter Mrs Dorothy W Carr Oakridge Tenn three grandchildren and six great grandchildren Services set for 2 p m tomorrow at Johnson Son Funeral Home with burial in Leb anon Cemetery Friends may call this afternoon and evening
Funeral services were held for Christopher Vandergrift 72 of Hockessin Del brother of Mrs Colin Gardner of Colonial Hill He died Wednesday after a heart attack following two years of ill health He was a general contractor before retirement Survived by his wife two children and three sisters.
Obituaries note Mrs Lillie J Reiter 73 of 615 Millville Ave with services at 10 a m tomorrow and Conrad J Brickner 87 of 712 Hayes Ave with a Requiem High Mass at 9 30 am tomorrow at St Ann s Church.
Anastasia Reilly Buhl, 58, once a Ziegfeld Follies star, died of cancer in Grosse Pointe Michigan after retiring in 1927 and marrying T. D. Bull. Indiana Pa native Alex Stewart, 89, father of actor Jimmy Stewart, died after longtime hardware store work. Charles L. Maguire, 83, former Midwest executive and founder of Northland Oil Co., died in Wickenburg Arizona after a long illness. Katherine Coyle Finnegan, 84, wife of Rep Edward R. Finnegan, died in Chicago after months of illness.
Washington officials declined comment on Rep. L Mendel Rivers D S C assertion that the United States should invade Cuba and seek United Nations sanction, a remark that drew wide interest in diplomatic circles. Some diplomats view Fidel Castro as a menace to the Americas while noting the Cuba situation will not simply disappear.
A USAF F-993 Scorpion jet crashed into a sparsely populated residential area in Spokane killing two airmen aboard. First Lt. William G Anvil 26 of Farmington and Capt. Donald Repp 29 of LaCrosse were the pilot and radarman. A wing fuel tank hit a house starting a fire but occupants Mr and Mrs Dale Gill escaped serious injury. Cause of the crash is under investigation.
In New Orleans a Himalayan bear bit the tip of a 16 year old girl's right index finger after she climbed a three foot fence to feed the bear popcorn. Rose Marie Coppersmith was treated at a hospital and released. Other fingers were lacerated.
A note on Swahili proverb richness cites lines like Split water cannot be gathered up and If the cat's away the mouse will reign indicating common themes of efficiency and power dynamics in everyday speech.
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