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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1955
Page
2
The Shafer-Nei bar underpass faces concrete delays as cold weather halts pours. C A Boeke estimates two more days of work remain to finish center strip and east sidewalk, with 203 by 12.5 foot slab poured recently. Officials doubt completion before February 20 opening.
Middletown schools will add three classrooms next Monday or Tuesday in the remodeled Lincoln Field fieldhouse.103 pupils from the three second grade classes will move from the auditorium and kindergarten shop into the new rooms after final approvals. Principal Beryl Orr says the move will restore normal auditorium use and the building includes storage hall two rest rooms teacher rest room and intercommunication to the main school.
A new Barbers Independent Assn of Middletown forms to peg haircuts at about $1.25, replacing the dissolved Journeymen Barbers International Union. Al Jordan of Ideal Barber Shop says a proportional price might push the cost to about $1.85 per shave. The group seeks to unite all city shops and prepare a charter and member insurance plan with attorney Tom Stubbs.
Kansas City report that Harry S. Truman urged the National Conference of Christians and Jews to defend human rights at home and abroad. He warned suppression of freedom worldwide could undo civilization’s gains and said people of religious faith hold the power to resist tyranny.
George L. Laver, 60, stepped into the tavern in Bancroft Michigan and said he had swallowed cyanide. Staff urged him to leave, he collapsed outside and died at a Durand hospital. Coroner William Scarlett ruled the death a self inflicted cyanide poisoning.
Police report several unexploded bombs found in the past days across Costa Rica as authorities trace a possible plot set after the rebellion. Investigators have not identified any suspects or groups responsible.
Nearly 100 Oneida School PTO members chose Ellis Hall as president Kenneth Mann as vice president Mrs Clifford Green as secretary and Mrs Fred Neal as treasurer They plan an open house with Achievement Day on March 10 and membership cards priced at 50 cents annually
Barl Nixon aged 19 of 1801 Carolina Street was arraigned before Judge Fred B Cramer in Common Pleas Court on three counts of burglary and larceny. He pleaded guilty and received five years probation after a delay for pre sentence investigation. The thefts involved Mayfield School Tutt s Service Station and Forest Hills Country Club.
Another bi monthly square dance is set for tomorrow night at the YMCA. Ned Brady of Lawrenceburg Indiana will start calling at 8 30 p m and will conduct a pre dance instruction from 8 to 8 30.
Middletown suffers its worst blaze as Armco Steel East Works loses a warehouse to a $400000 fire. Capt Howard Gall the fire inspector links the fire to a defective blower motor attached to a heater. Sparks from the motor ignited excelsior. officials call it an unavoidable accident.
Paramount shows The Violent Men at 1 15 4 15 7 20 and 10 00 p.m. White Orchid at 2 50 5 50 and 9 50 p.m. Strand features Track of the Cat at 1 30 5 35 and 9 40 p.m. and Escape From Fort Bravo at 3 45 and 7 55 p.m. Saturday repeats Track of the Cat at 1 15 5 35 and 9 45 p.m. and Escape From Fort Bravo at 3 48 and 8 05 p.m.
A Kentucky base airman James G. Davis 21 of 1103 Columbia Ave was arrested at Fleming Road and Clark Street at 9 55 am and turned over to the FBI on a desertion charge. He said he fled because it was too cold to rise at 3 am and planned to return when weather warmed up. Davis had been missing two months and was released to Ft. Thomas military authorities.
Members of the Keely Dental Agent Society heard George Ith of the Red Cross speak on first aid and civil defense at the Hamilton YWCA. A Valentine’s party followed hosted by Mrs. Bunny Gambrel. Middletown members Donna Lester Nira Jon and Ann Arkill attended.
Charles C Hill of West Middleton reports a brown bill fold with about 38 dollars a driver license and car registration lost in the city yesterday. Jesse Music of 2010 Pearl Street says a fender skirt worth 10 dollars was stolen from his car. Roger Muncie of 1501 Highland Street reports a bicycle stolen from Roosevelt Junior High School yesterday.
Eight of ten auto mishaps reported to city police in the last 24 hours up to 9 a.m. occurred when rain sleet and snow pelted Middletown streets. No injuries were reported though several collisions caused hundreds in damage at Crawford Street Queen Avenue Verity Parkway and Yankee Road.
Two boys from Tucson, Arizona, aged 14 and 11, were found hungry and thirsty yesterday locked inside an empty freight car they had entered three days earlier. They believed they were in Newhall California, and deputies arranged a return trip back to Tucson.
George F. E. Bowling, 36, of 1100 Ruth Ave Dayton, was to face a second concealed weapon charge in municipal court after police found a loaded .38 caliber gun in his car at 2 45 am in the 1100 block of Central Avenue. He also faced a non support warrant from Butler County Juvenile Court. He previously received a $100 fine and costs with a suspended 30 day jail sentence for carrying a cocked .32 caliber automatic gun in January and was placed on six month probation.
Relph Phelps alleges D C Montgomery assaulted him at a farm for eggs. A Butler Common Pleas Court jury under Judge Fred B. Cramer dismissed the assault and battery charge yesterday.
Donors are urged for 15-year-old Bob Tinch of Franklin after severe blood loss from dental extractions. He has received eight pints and needs more blood at two to one replacement. ministers and hospital appeal for donors as his condition remains stable but critical.
An acetylene pipe leaked when an electric wire rubbed a pipe insulation and burned a hole in the line at Armco East Side Works. Firemen extinguished the blaze with no damage reported. Sparks rekindled the fire later and a second alarm found only burnt wood and no further damage. A separate waste fire near Coolidge Corp. at Enoch Drive and Wildwood Road caused no damage.
Willie Lee Lewis of Farmersville admitted failing to register for the selective service from February 4, 1949, to May 1, 1954, before U. S. Commissioner Charles W. Ozias. He was arrested by FBI agents and bond was set at $1,000.
Iran saved by United States aid was the claim of former Iranian official George Chilingar speaking at the Manchester Hotel noon Lions Club meeting. He said Soviet education and secret police fear suppresses family discipline and warned that retreat on Formosa would invite further losses for the United States.
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