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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1961
Page
2
New Orleans eyes a festive Mardi Gras finale as six parades roll through the city. Zulu opens with a wild route, Rex stages a four hour procession, and Comus winds up the celebrations. Lawrence Moore Williams serves as Rex with queen Virginia Wayne Borah.
A banquet marks the 97th anniversary of the Knights of Pythias Lafayette Lodge 37 with grand lodge officers as guests. The event in Castle Hall Thursday starts at 6 30 p m. William Denham will MC, Perle Whitehead of Cincinnati Boy Scouts of America will speak, with singing led by Fiza Abraham and Mrs Charles Bolton. The Rev Clifford Stearns offers invocation and closing prayer.
LA police officer, directing traffic, was grazed by a car that ripped his pants. The driver, a woman, stopped 12 blocks away and apologized as the officer retrieved his dignity. The report notes LADF vigilance against similar incidents.
Jethro McQuinn, 18, of 203% Win ona Drive, bound to Butler County grand jury on burglary and larceny at the Variety Store, 536 Crawford St., Jan. 23. He pleaded guilty at a Sunday arrest and awaits preliminary hearing. bond set at 2500 by Municipal Judge J T Lamb. Police say he and five juveniles tied to the break in. loot valued at 20 dollars, including 6.50 in cash and cigars, and he is also tied to a soft drink machine break on Tytus Avenue. He remains jailed for investigation.
Geraldine Carter 24, of 27251 Plymouth St, Mayfield, has been missing since Thursday. Her father Leo Dirksen told city police that her ex husband may have forced her to accompany him on a trip. Local authorities investigate the possible abduction and seek information from the public.
Three people were slightly injured in two crashes involving city buses yesterday. Damage totaled 1250 dollars. In one incident at Grand Avenue and 4th Street a bus rear-ended by a car driven by Robert H. Dickerson injured Gerald Remley and Juanita Stott. A separate three-vehicle crash at Central Avenue and Baltimore Street involved Mrs. Gertrude Newkirk and bus driver Dorsie Helton, with bus–car impacts and a second rear-end collision. Police charged Dickerson and Helton with assured clear distance violations. Welch was charged with failure to yield at a stop sign. Damages varied from 45 to 500 dollars.
Rose E Bennett 87 died yesterday at the home of her daughter Mrs. Ralph W Alvis wife of the Lebanon Correctional Institution superintendent She was a Muskingum native Also surviving are two other daughters Mrs Clifford Harmon Hubbard and Mrs Elmus Moore Frazeysburg Services set for 2 p m Thursday at Frazeysburg with burial there Local arrangements by Oswald Funeral Home
Funeral services for Mrs Bertha Colvin 82 of 218 W Summers St will be at 10 am tomorrow at Girton Schmidt Funeral Home with burial in Moung Hill Cemetery She died Sunday at Governor Harris Rest Home A Eaton seamstress for years there are no immediate survivors Friends may call today
Mrs Hazel V Haug 66 of 110 Boys Ave Franklin died at 6 40 am yesterday at Central Nursing Home Dayton after a long illness Surviving are her husband Er nest a sister Mrs Edna Ridenour of Dayton and a brother Otho Gephart of Franklin Funeral services Thursday at Eaton Funeral Home with Elder Eldon Hutchison officiating Burial will be in Mount Pleasant Cemetery Peasttown Home tomorrow from 4 to 9 pm
Frank C. Miller, 80, retired interior decorator, died at his home on W Math Street. Survived by wife Margaret. Services set for 2 p.m. Thursday at Oswald Funeral Home, burial in Lebanon Cemetery. Friends may call tomorrow afternoon and evening at the funeral home.
Mrs Ruth Crumbaker Roberts 66 of 814 N Broadway Dayton will have graveside services at 2 30 p m tomorrow at Mound Hill Cemetery Barnes Funeral Home is handling arrangements She died Sunday Surviving are her husband FE Hale and sister Mrs Mary K Rowe of Dayton
Services for Francis R. Stepp 69 of South Lebanon are at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Johnson and Johnson Funeral Home with burial in South Lebanon Cemetery. He died Sunday at home. A carpenter, he is survived by wife Mary two daughters Leona Gluckenstein and Wilma Ruhl and two sons Francis of Lebanon Norman of Dayton.
Edward Thompson 82 formerly of Camden died at 10 am yesterday at his home in Eaton. A grain elevator operator for years he lived in Eaton and Camden most of his life. Born in West Alexandria, his wife Sarah died in 1931. Surviving are daughters Mary Day Dayton Elizabeth Armstrong Camden Martha Benner Eaton. sons Otis Alley Eugene Camden James Eaton. sister Ida Lloyd Kenosha Wis.
An Oxford area MPATI demonstration meeting was postponed from February 25 to April 2 morning at Middletown Central School. J R Neill, area coordinator, informed members. The meeting aims to show committee members the classroom reception system for MPATI telecasts. Plans involve televising lectures from six states via airplane circling transmitters at 23,000 feet over north central Indiana.
One child was treated at Middle town Hospital yesterday. Thomas Sherrod 3 son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Sherrod 2205 Winton St received five stitches for lacerations on the right side of his head after jumping off a couch and hitting a rocker at home.
Pupils in grades four five and six of Taft School will stage a demonstration of the physical education program at a Taft School Association meeting at 7 30 Wednesday night. Physical education instructor Earl Mundell will speak.
Freddy Settles, 14, missing from 1210 Yankee Road since yesterday morning, described as 5 feet tall, 95 pounds with blue eyes and dark brown hair. Thefts include a $200 fur coat from Margaret Combs at 913 Centennial Ave, cash from a Dillman’s Market pop machine, and fluorescent fixtures and wire from a Reynolds Electric Co. project at the new Board of Education administration building site.
Evelyn L. Shelton of 8912 Franklin Madison Road Franklin, a bakery sales worker, filed for bankruptcy in U S District Court in Cincinnati listing debts of 1305 dollars and assets of 200 dollars.
The obituary notes grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Funeral services will be Thursday at the R. C. Nein and Sons Funeral Home with Rev. Christian Tirre officiating. Burial will follow at Fairmount Cemetery. The family will receive visitors tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m.
Infant Andrew Marcum son of Mr and Mrs Beverly Marcum of 1719 Ross Ave. services today. John W. Colligan Dean 58 of 316 N Ninth St. services 11 am Thursday. Mrs Anna Mae Richardson of 61 2312 Grand Blvd. services 2 pm Thursday at Pater Avenue Church of God.
Admiral Richmond Kelley Turner 75, famed for leading U S amphibious assaults in World War II across Tarawa Kwajalein Eniwetok Guam Saipan Iwo Jima Okinawa, died of a heart attack in Monterey California. A praised strategist, Turner earned the Navy Cross and three Distinguished Service Medals before Truman promoted him to full admiral.
The United Rubber Workers union calls an international policy committee meeting in Cleveland March 15-16 to set wage demands for talks with rubber companies. Contracts at major firms expire in April May and June. Reopenings already sent to Goodyear and Firestone. About 450 UAW locals expected.
Senator Stephen A. Young told Miami University audience that US action against Castro must be through the Organization of American States and not unilateral. He urged cooperation with hemisphere nations, defended Guantanamo lease, criticized secret treaties with Russia and China, and praised State Department diplomacy despite the U2 incident. He also mocked civil defense as a military reserves issue and noted Connell would not be named to the Federal Renegotiation Board.
In Miami area and southeast Florida, a convergence of hot and cold air disrupted microwave relay signals, blacking out TV programs and hindering telephone and teletype lines. Officials attributed the outage to atmospheric refraction with no wind. The disturbance began at 7:35 p.m. and ended near midnight, delaying lines from the North and affecting facsimile circuits and local broadcasts.
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