Navy Marines join 50 mile hike craze nationwide
The 50 mile hike trend crosses coast to coast with military and White House staff joining in. First Sgt. Pryor Fair of Middletown, aged 35, started a radar base march near Miles City Montana but was ordered out for age. President Kennedy and General Shoup discuss Roosevelt 1908 order prompting the test for officers. Camp Lejeune hosts 20 captains and lieutenants carrying 24 pounds Tuesday. White House staff led by Press Secretary Salinger plan a C and O Canal towpath hike next Friday. Marine volunteers at Camp Pendleton beat the 20 hour mark by 4 hours 44 minutes. Great Lakes detachment plans Beaufort 50 mile hike. Some Leathernecks set a 15 hour 10 minute 50 mile mark at an air station gap.
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Armed Services
White House
Pierre Salinger
Pryor Fair
Middletown
Air Force
Kennedy
Marine Corps
David M. Shoup
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Camp Lejeune
N.C
Salinger
James F. MacLain
Harold C. Boehm
Great Lakes
Ill
Aeronca Credit Union Elects State Officers at Annual Meeting
Aeronca Employes Credit Union last night elected officers at the annual meeting in the firm cafeteria on German Town Road. William Schlotter was re elected president and George Werkley named vice president. Mrs. Leo Bertram elected secretary and Eugene Danner treasurer. The board declared a 4.2 percent dividend for 1962. Assets rose to over 325000 and membership to 500 plus. Ray Hermes urged continued progress and noted strong 1964 prospects for the Middletown Division. Three year board terms went to Werkley Linzie and Sandker. auditing chair went to Mrs. Billy Buehl with Paul Moore and George Irwin on the credit committee.
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Aeronca
Aeronca Employes Credit Union
Germantown Road
William Schlotter
George Werkley
Leo Bertram
Eugene Danner
Chester Frashier
Schlotter
Ray Hermes
Middletown
Aeronea
Hermes
Jack Linzie
Frank Sandker
Billy Buehl
Paul Moore
George Irwin
Woman Hurt In Accident On Rt 123 Near Lebanon
A 26-year-old local woman received minor cuts to her forehead after being thrown into a windshield in a two car crash on Rt 123 near Lebanon. Lasille Tye, 2310 Sherman Ave., was treated at Middletown Hospital after the passenger car driven by her husband Kenneth, 28, collided with Josephine H. Starkey’s auto on Lebanon Rt. 1 at 3:45 p.m. Tye suffered a head bump and hand lacerations but was not admitted. Deputies did not estimate vehicle damage.
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Rt. 123
Lebanon
Lasille Tye
Sherman Ave
Middletown Hospital
Kenneth
Josephine H. Starkey
Rt. 1
Romberg Favorites Live Again In Moon at Middletown High
Middletown High School presented Sigmund Romberg’s The New Moon last evening in the auditorium. Lead performances featured Bill Havemann as Robert and Janet Newby as Marianne with strong supporting turns by Sam Sato Bob Cornelia and others. Directors were Miss Helen Weinberger and Mrs Arlene Akerman with David Ballard as technical director and the orchestra led by William Betz.
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Middletown High School
Sigmund Romberg
New Orleans
Bill Havemann
Robert
Alexander
Sam Sato
Bob Cornelia
Phillipe
Janet Newby
Marianne
Havemann
Helen Weinberger
Arlene Akerman
David Ballard
William 9. Betz
City Firemen Contain Minor Auto Blaze on First Avenue
Firemen extinguished a small fire in an auto owned by Catherine Cast of 26 Church Street Monroe at 11 27 a m yesterday on First Avenue. Cause suspected as backfire. No damage. Fire crews also responded to a rubbish fire at 1309 Yankee Road yesterday at 6 40 p m.
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Catherine Cast
Church St
Monroe
First Avenue
Yankee Road
Bowman Brian Williams Placed In Clerkenwell Court
AP reports Brian R Williams 31 was marched to Clerkenwell Borough magistrates on a Saturday charged with possession of an offensive weapon a steel bow and arrows after bringing a bow and arrow into a 20th century garage job site in London The case evokes Agincourt with Henry V reference but concerns modern enforcement of weapon possession.
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London
Brian
Brian R. Williams
Henry V
Agincourt
Williams
Clerkenwell
Archer Williams Sentenced After Bow and Arrow Incident
Detective Sgt. Tebbutt testified Williams fired at garage manager Harry Bradley through glass with a bow and arrows after being fired. Williams pleaded guilty, insisting he is not violent, but Judge Frank Powell jailed him for three months.
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John Tebbutt
Williams
Tebbutt
Harry Bradley
Bradley
Archer
Agincourt
Henry
Frank Powell
Obituary for Mrs Arthie Birchfield 52 Franklin resident
Mrs Arthie Birchfield 52 of 3308 Pennyroyal Road Franklin died yesterday at Middletown Hospital after six months of declining health She was a Full Gospel Tabernacle member Survivors include her husband William a daughter Mrs James Lewis Middletown a son William A Paulding Ohio five sisters and one brother Visitation times are listed with burial at Woodhill Cemetery Franklin Services will be at the Full Gospel Tabernacle with Rev C H Rothwell officiating
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Arthie Birchfield
Pennyroyal Road
Franklin
Middletown Hospital
Birchfield
Ft. Wayne Ind
Middletown
Full Gospel Tabernacle
William
James Lewis
William A. Paulding
Ohio
Elsie Thomas
Tucson
Ariz
Martha Patrick
Detroit
Mich
Irene Butler
Monroe
Clayton Thomas
Arzi
Joseph R. Baker & Sons
C. H. Rothwell
Woodhill Cemetery
Mrs Alice Leasure 89 dies after six weeks in hospital
Mrs Alice Leasure aged 89 of 900 Kensington Street Middletown died last night at Middletown Hospital after six weeks of hospitalization. She resided here since 1911. husband Newton died in 1915. Survived by three daughters Betty Annetta and Mrs Vernon Ellison of Pompano Beach Fla. two sons William Middletown and Charles of Pompano Beach. six grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. McCoy Leffler Funeral Home handling arrangements.
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Alice Leasure
Kensington St
Middletown Hospital
Newton
Betty Leasure
Annetta Leasure
Vernon Ellison
Pompano Beach
Fla
William
Middletown
Charles
McCoy - Leffler Funeral Home
Man Nabbed After Crash
Willie Mack Harvey age 40 of 1117 S Verity Parkway was arrested by city police after noon yesterday on a charge of fleeing the scene of an accident following a two car crash on Curtis Street at 12 25. Police arrested him at 1 09 p.m. investigators believe he may have struck an auto owned by James Simmons 406 Curtis St causing 90 dollars damage to the Simmons car. Other accidents yesterday involved Earl Reed Simpson 3801 Manchester Road and Raymond Martin 1025 Columbia Ave at 12 05 p.m. in an alley near Manchester Street. Martin was cited for parking in an alley. James Reed 3002 Sherman Ave and Claire B Hendrix of Clarksville Grand Avenue at 1 15 p.m. total damage 59 dollars.
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Willie Mack Harvey
S. Verity Parkway
Curtis Street
Harvey
James Simmons
Curtis St
Simmons
Earl Reed Simpson
Manchester Road
Raymond Martin
Columbia Ave
Manchester Street
Martin
James Reed
Sherman Ave
Claire B. Hendrix
Clarksville
Grand Avenue
Bondsman Shot Down In Robbery
In Portsmouth Virginia a private barbed wire guarded club was invaded by four or five gunmen. They robbed members and killed Meyer Jacobson a 57 year old bail bondsman from Portsmouth with a 9mm German pistol. The bandits fled in a stolen car after midnight as investigators noted Jacobson had resisted robberies before. State police said he likely died because he resisted.
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Portsmouth
Meyer Jacobson
Nansemond County
Jacobson
H. L. Mundie
Police Briefs Highlight Local Arrests and Thefts
Carl Mulendore, 66, of 301 Charles Sr musters charges of menace and threat and assault and battery after a claim by his wife Della Mulendore, 62. Ed Portsmouth reports a purse theft from a Kroger shopping cart on Stevens Avenue. Garland Hammonds reports his car stolen from the Waite Street and Wodlawn Avenue corner yesterday.
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Carl W. Mulendore
Charles Sr
Della
ED Portsmouth
Armco Drive
Kroger
Stevens Avenue
Garland Hammonds
Harmond Drive
Franklin
Waite Street
Woodlawn Avenue
Thieves Steel Cash From Three Machines At Buick Dealership
An undetermined amount of cash was stolen from three vending machines during a break-in at Guyler Buick on Ver ity Parkway early yesterday morning.
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Guyler Buick
Verity Parkway
Immigrant Occupations in U S Since 1947
A study shows about one in three arriving immigrants to the United States since 1947 possessed a professional technical or skilled background. The data highlight the strong representation of qualified workers among postwar migrants and implications for labor markets and integration.
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United Sates
Hearts Corrected Pressure Tank Saves Babies in Boston
Boston surgeons using a submarine like chamber with oxygen pressures to 55 psi repaired failing infant hearts once deemed inoperable. Four infants underwent surgery. two discharged, one died from unrelated complications, another from heart failure within eight hours. Leads Dr. Robert Gross and Dr. William Bernhard at Children’s Hospital Harvard Medical School.
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Boston
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Robert &. Gross
William E. Ladd
Harvard Medical School
Children’s Hospital
Wiliam F. Bernhard
Harvard
First Mercury stamp issued near Glenn flight date
The Project Mercury four cent stamp was issued on February 20 1962 within minutes after Lt Col John H Glenn Jr completed his orbital flight making it the first stamp offered for sale almost simultaneously with the event it memorialized.
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John H. Glenn, Jr
Firemen Aid Man After Reported Attack at Home
Firemen assisted 70 year old Brumagen at 1100 Young St after an attack at his residence. He was given oxygen at 10 06 a m and transported to Hughes Memorial Hospital in Hamilton with breathing difficulties.
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Forest Brumagen
Young St
Hughes Memorial Hospital
Hamilton
Emergecy Squad
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Richard Galloway
M. Beaunoir
Terry Starkey
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Dan Danner
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Pokey
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Steve
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RCA Victor
Zenith
Broad St
Nvi
Valentine
Bilsingers Candy
Peck
South Main
R. C. Augsberger
U.S
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Park St
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