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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1956
Page
14
The Committee for Economic Development urges shared costs for agricultural readjustments, limits on overproduction, and income stabilization. It calls for flexible price supports, land retirement, rural industrialization, and targeted credit and training while opposing rigid price supports and export dumping.
The first in a series of union Lenten services is set for tomorrow night at the Evangelical and Reformed Church with Rev. Clarence Gephart delivering the sermon. Subsequent Thursdays will be at the EUB Church with Rev. W. J. Fox, March 1 at the Methodist Church with a guest minister, and March 8 at the Universalist Church. Pepettes girls in blue and white will boost the local team in its county tournament.
Franklin special edition notes Americanism Month observed as the American Legion Auxiliary plans a round-table discussion next Monday at 8 p.m. at the American Legion Home led by Mrs. Warner Conover. Plans include sending area girls to Buckeye State with no limit. Social committee members are listed. Also, Mrs Garnet Ramaggi hosts Franklin Garden Club on North River Street Tuesday Feb 21 at 2 p.m. Roll call will name a state flower. Mrs Roger Shaffer to present highway program with film. PAT Club met at Central and Central Annex Schools with a Girl Scout Leadership film and a Q and A. Membership drive winners named Edith Mathias and Cora Cairn. Refreshments by a committee. Mrs Henry Bishop recovering in hospital. Canasta luncheon attended by Mrs Paul Stoutenborough and Mrs Elbert Stanton at Shrine Club in Dayton.
Greg Holbrook a Hamilton attorney and Butler County Democratic chair was sworn in as a member of the Butler County Board of Elections by Secretary of State Ted W Brown at the Sheraton-Gibson Hotel in Cincinnati. Attending were Harry Grevey and J Earl Gray. Holbrook assumes the post March 1 replacing George Brandhoff. Grevey remains the other Democratic member with Republicans Martin A Coyle and James Shollenbarger.
SAN GABRIEL Calif Mayor George Smith said he received a letter from Amos Irwin of Pond Calif stating he was fined $10 in 1922 for a traffic violation while riding a motorcycle. Irwin paid $85 down with a promise to pay $5 later and sent a $10 money order to cover the remaining balance and interest.
Gilbert Roland filed a 950000 damage suit in Santa Monica Superior Court against Mondgram Productions and Alli Ar Usts Productions. He alleges the television reissue of The Cisco Kid films, retitled Chico and Pablo, damaged his acting status and future TV chances.
Lafayette Lodge 37 marks the Knights of Pythias 92nd founding anniversary with an annual dinner at the lodge hall tomorrow night. Rev. Charles Lovell will be guest speaker, with performances by Richard Monroe Joyce Ingram Buddy Medley and the Rangerettes Loretta Thompson. Commander Larry White will host as master of ceremonies. Grand lodge officers, wives and widows attend. Committee chairs include Walling Gray Noah Lambert John Winkelman and Elza Abraham.
In Carson City Nevada two Democratic lawmakers Maude Frazier and Hazel Denton distributed candy to male colleagues causing smiles and jest. Stan Irwin of Clark County moved to have the act interpreted as a proposal, and Frazier quickly seconded the motion.
Dr. Paul Dudley White, the Boston heart specialist who announced President Eisenhower's heart condition, will appear on a closed circuit TV program tonight. Six physicians will discuss a phase of heart disease, beamed to medical gatherings in 52 major cities from the New England Medical Center. The program is not viewable in homes.
Time magazine predicts Gov. Frank Lausche may enter state or national politics. If Stevenson falters, Lausche could land a spot on the presidential ticket. he remains reluctant, saying he will not seek office. A friend notes he is gently signaling availability without overt action.
A landslide of rocks and mud from a hill above U S 52 near the Coal Grove Ashland Ky bridge wrecked a gas station and blocked traffic. No injuries were reported. The slide, caused by wet weather, threatened nearby railroad tracks on the Ohio side of the bridge.
The Ohio Vegetable and Potato Growers Assn opposes price supports or subsidies and fights diverted farm acreage entering nonquota crops like vegetables. The group adopted a resolution asking Congress to require diverted acreage be used for soil conserving practices at its annual meeting in Cleveland.
Oklahoma City Detective Lt Walt Turner listens as a woman claims she is followed by police using radar waves. She says the doctor doesn’t believe her and asks if Turner has seen his mom lately. The exchange highlights a paranoid communication about surveillance.
The British Foreign Office declared a mysterious Cairo letter does not show Donald Maclean received U S documents or engaged in espionage. Officials noted the 1951 letter, found in the British Embassy library, originated in the United States and was not about Maclean. Washington also said U S authorities were reviewing the matter as Maclean had recently disappeared after being recalled from Cairo.
Albert Combs aged 36 of 1506 Columbia Ave and George Harris aged 47 of 506 18th Ave were each fined 200 dollars sentenced to three days in city jail and had their driving rights suspended for one year in Municipal Court today for driving while under the influence of alcohol.
Clarke New Agent Named In Butler County Robert E. Wilson a Pickaway County native has been recommended for the Butler County agriculture agent post pending approval by Ohio State University trustees Wilson succeeds Robert Copp who resigned Jan 31 to join Prudential as a mortgage loan inspector Copp served since 1954 and Wilson has been Clarke County associate agent since 1954 He is OSU graduate 1951 married with three children and has guided 4 H and adult agriculture programs locally through the Clarke County extension staff turnover continues with current staff Leona Markel Mrs and Donald Burk handling 4 H and adult programs respectively
An Oklahoma City man claiming to be a deaf mute was arrested on a vagrancy complaint after talking his way into houses. He carried a card stating he was employed deaf mute needing help for his family and grew angry when one resident refused assistance. Patrolman Connell recounted the incident.
Delphos Ohio reports former Toledo mayor and gubernatorial hopeful Michael V. DiSalle outlines the Toledo plan of labor management relations at the Chamber of Commerce dinner. He calls for a single standard of justice and says cooperation between labor and management can reduce strike risk and benefit production.
In Canton Ohio most city department offices display hallway signs. Auditor Joe Du Bar, a professional sign painter, lacks an identification ecard for his office.
HOLLYWOOD The Animal Regulation Commission has told John Skinners he may not keep King a 20 month old African lion in his apartment. Skinners 26 who plans to be a lion tamer was told to stop strolling around the block with the lion on a leash. At home he has his own bed but on cold nights he usually climbs in with me.
In University, Mississippi, Religious Emphasis Week speakers canceled over a segregation dispute. The university dropped Alvin Kershaw from speaking on religious drama and replaced events with three days of 50 minutes of silent prayer and meditation after many out of state and Oxford ministers pulled out.
Houston opens the Western Hemisphere's first monorail pilot line of 970 feet with tests declared successful by Marell Goodell president of Monoral Inc The company plans to manufacture the skyway in Houston and finance construction on a lease purchase basis. the only other suspended monorail was a 51 year old German system.
A false alarm prompted Fire Companies 1 and 3 to respond at 12 20 p m to the intersection of 8th Avenue and Lincoln Street. The incident ended without casualties or damage.
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