Warrant Signed In Brass Parts Theft
Russell Fox pleaded guilty then arraigned in Municipal Court this morning and was held for the Butler County grand jury under $2,500 bond. Fox, 27, of 3013 Ottawa St., faced grand larceny charges for allegedly stealing brass and bronze valued at $400 from the Shuttle Bros storage yard on Clark Street. Police linked the case to a six month spree totaling about $20,000 in brass parts. A second suspect remained at large as Dayton and Middletown officers recovered $3,000 to $4,000 worth of machined parts at the Franklin Iron & Paper Stock Co in Dayton. Fox, a former Shuttle employee, previously admitted stealing copper tubing from Sorg Paper Co. and selling it in Cincinnati. Detectives Crout led the investigation with surveillance by Wolgamot and Frisby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Fox
Butler County
Ottawa St
Shattle Bros
Clark Street
J. F E. Hartford
Fox
Dayton
Middletown
Franklin Iron & Paper Stock Co
Cincinnati
Eugene Wolgamot
Garfield Street
Wolgamot
Shattle
Sorg Paper Co
Paul Frisby
Shuttle Yard
Roy Crout
Bond Issue for Tren ton Local School District on May Ballot
The Tren ton Local School District bond proposal of 204 000 dollars was approved for the May primary ballot by the Board of Elections. It requires 60 percent approval and amounts to 2.27 mills. Special ballots will be sent to voters in Trenton Village North Trenton Village South Madison South and Clair East. A Morgan Township School District levy of 1.11 mills was also approved for May, expected to raise 38 000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Trenton
Board of Elections
Trenton Village
Madison South
Clair East
Morgan Township
Scarlet Fever Cases Rise in Jackson County
Jackson Ohio Dr B J Allison health commissioner reports a small epidemic with 27 scarlet fever cases since the year began, far above 1955's six. He warns many cases may go unreported due to misrecognition or reluctance to report, noting fever vomiting sore throat and a fine red rash as symptoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Ohio
B. J. Allison
Jackson County
Allison
War Mothers Are Honored By Legion
Eighty members of Middletown War Mothers chapter were honored by Post 238 legionnaires at a luncheon marking the group's 35th anniversary. A service resolution for Middletown War Mothers was presented to chapter president Mrs. Willie Pieratt by Legion Post 218, with comments from City Commission Chairman Francis Carmody, Mark Walke of Armco Steel, and A. H. Walker of the Dayton VA Center. Attendees included past presidents Mrs. William Gillespie and Mrs. Catherine Bolton among others, plus several Gold Star and World War I mothers. Roy Fitzgerald entertained after. Mrs. Elizabeth Carter was welcomed as a new chapter member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
War Mothers
Post 238 Legionnaires
Dayton VA Center
William Gillespie
Catherine Bolton
Frank Chapman
Joe Neu
Eva Schwall
Catherine Peech
Bertha Riggs
Arthur Stubbs
Edmond Flisher
Roy Smith
Sam Clark
Gold Star
Roy Fitzgerald
Elizabeth Carter
MES Debaters Selected for Practice Speech Tourney
Middletown High School will send debaters and judges to Fairmont High School Dayton for a last practice event this Saturday February 25. Participants include Sam McAdow Jean Reeves Carencay Coker and Jack Taylor A debate along with extempers Sara Strodtbeck Jane Richardson David Ballard Bob Colliver and Mike McLaughlin and declamation entrants Rose Robinson Barbara Coffman Marilyn Kemp Linda Swift Wesley Jones Marcia Brooks Jim Spindler Judy Tewart Mike Aronoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown High School
Fairmont High School
Dayton
Sam McAdow
Jean Reeves
Carencay Coker
Jack Taylor
Bob Hudson
Peggy Brooks
David Bessell
Dick Wendt
Sara Strodtbeck
Jane Richardson
David Ballard
Bob Colliver
Mike McLaughlin
Rose Robinson
Barbara Coffman
Marilyn Kemp
Linda Swift
Paul Gates
Wesley Jones
Marcia Brooks
Jim Spindler
Judy Tewart
Mike Aronoff
John Akerman
Florence Powell
Priscilla Johnson
Harry Aronoff
Mary Ann Brehany
MHS
Glendale
Stolen Money From Apartment on Central Avenue
Police investigated a burglary at the Oscar Sprinkles apartment 1338 Central Ave. entry was gained via an unlocked front door on the third floor. About 26 dollars total was stolen, including six from a billfold and twenty in change. The billfold was found but the cash remained missing. Patrolman Wilford Palmer led the investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Sprinkles
Central Ave
Fourth Man Arrested in Middletown Narcotics Case
Police in Middletown jailed Charlies Clifford Byrd 21 of Dayton after detectives placed him on a narcotics possession warrant. Byrd, linked to a Saturday raid, was paroled from Mansfield Reformatory for breaking and entering. Other Dayton suspects bound over to the Butler County grand jury on narcotics charges with bonds set at 25,000 each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Dayton
Charlies
Clifford Byrd
Rowland Ave
James Howerton
Roy Crout
Byrd
Ohio State Reformatory
Mansfield
Harold H. Walker
Curtis
Big June
Tear Gas Fails To Flush Van Who Hid In Warehouse
City police pursued a thief who broke into Cohen Bros warehouse at 1723 Woodlawn Ave. After an officer fired a shotgun at the suspect and tear gas failed to flush him out, firemen aided in the search but the man remained unseen by mid morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cohen Bros
Woodlawn Ave
Eugene Wolgamot
Wolgamot
Jefferson PTA Hears Johnson on School Guidance Program
Jefferson School PTA members heard Lawrence Johnson, director, discuss the district guidance program, now in its early state-wide implementation since 1945. The program covers grades one through eight with achievement, intelligence, and vocational aptitude tests. Johnson urged diversified study and entertainment beyond television, noting critical ages seven to 13. The group donated 100 to the Memorial Scholarship Fund of the Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers and pledged to add more later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson School Pta
Lawrence Johnson
Johnson
Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers
Red Shells Hit Quemoy in Mainland Clash
Communist Chinese guns on the mainland fired 102 shells at Quemoy this afternoon, the Nationalist Chinese Central News Agency reported. Nationalist guns replied and silenced the Red artillery, with two civilian homes on the Nationalist side destroyed in the exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taipei
Formosa
Quemoy
Fenwick Names Ellen Kennedy Top Homemaker
Ellen Kennedy daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis T Kenney 3103 Hampton Dr has been named Fenwick High School Betty Crocker Homemaker Of Tomorrow following a written exam testing senior girls homemaking knowledge and attitudes She advances to the state competition for All American Homemaker Of Tomorrow with a 1500 scholarship state runner up receives 500 The national winner will be chosen April 12 at the American Table banquet in Philadelphia More than 100000 in scholarships are awarded through General Mills contest Miss Kenney will get a gold pin and the high school a Betty Crocker cook book
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Kenney
Louis T. Kenney
Hampton Dr
Fenwick High School
Betty Crocker
Philadelphia
Miss Kenney
Kiwanis Hear Talk By Local Psychologist
Daryl G. Severin a Gardner Beard and Carton Co. psychologist spoke at the Kiwanis luncheon on the psychologist role in employe selection market research radio and television program popularity and military personnel issues. A nationally known speaker will highlight the ladies night on March 13 as announced. H. C. Christofferson and a delegation from the Oxford Kiwanis Club delivered the traveling gavel to the Middletown club during the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daryl G. Severin
Gardner Beard
Police Briefs on DUI Arrests and Theft Report
Clyde Ross and Walter Carpenter were arrested for driving under the influence. Ross was nabbed at Clinton Street and Verity Parkway, Carpenter on Ohio 4 by state patrols. Kenneth Pigg was arrested for intoxication and resisting arrest after a confrontation on Canal Street and treated for scalp cuts. Officer Palmer reportedly used a nightstick. David Swisher reported theft of two fender skirts and two hubcaps from his car on Wednesday.
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Clyde Ross
River St
Franklin
Walter B. Carpenter
Jewell Ave
Ross
Clinton Street
Verity Parkway
Carpenter
Ohio 4
Kenneth Pigg
N. Main St
Canal Street
Pigg
Middletown Hospital
Wilford Palmer
David Swisher
Sherman Ave
Night double feature at Paramount Strand Colonial Dixie
At Paramount and Strand theatres Friday and Saturday multiple Westerns and dramas show. Paramount offers Night of the Hunter and Last Frontier with repeated showtimes. Strand adds Chief Crazy Horse and Apache Ambush. Colonial screens Last of the Desperados and There's Always Tomorrow. Dixie Cruise In presents This Is My Love and Passion through the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crazy Horse
Love
Nevada to remove Frances Willard Day school rule
Carson City lawmakers moved to repeal a 1919 law requiring schools to observe Frances Willard Day on September 28 for instruction on the benefits of prohibition. The Assembly voted unanimously to delete the provision, with the Senate expected to approve next.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carson City
Nev
Frances Willard
Nevada
State Senate
Man Beaten Buried After Body Dump In Ohio River
IRONTON Ohio February report says Kenneth Smith 25 and Don Neal 20 of South Point confessed to beating itinerant Marion Hall 47 to death. They dumped the body in the Ohio River and recovered it days later for burial in a lonely field after Hall was listed missing February 14.
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Ironton
Ohio
Lawrence County
Carl E. Rose
Kenneth Smith
Don Neal
South Point
Here
U.S 52
Marion Hall
Smith
Neal
Rose
Hal
Hall
Franklin Wreck Hurts Daytonian
A Dayton man sustained minor head cuts in a collision on the Clearcreek Bridge on S Main Street. Lloyd Holt 28 Franklin Rt 2 received medical treatment. cars driven by Roscoe Holt 23 and Earl Marion Banks 22 collided when Holt swerved left of center, with damage to both autos estimated at 120 dollars.
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Franklin
Dayton
Clearcreek
S. Main Street
Lloyd Holt
Franklin Rt. 2
Roscoe Holt
Franklin Rt 2
Earl Marion Banks
Olive Ave
Holt
False Alarm Answers Fire Units Responding To 6th Avenue
A false alarm sent firemen from Companies 1 and 3 to 6th Avenue and Yankee Road at 7 48 p m yesterday.
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6Th Avenue
Yankee Road
It Was On My Way Judge Driver Misses Safety Class
A Trenton man, Bob Boring, 19, failed to appear at the third traffic school session after a reckless driving conviction. He was arrested for failure to yield to a pedestrian after a 7:25 p.m. collision at Central Avenue and Clinton Street, injuring Phillip Palazola, 76. Palazola was treated and released from Middletown Hospital. Police noted Boring blamed not seeing the pedestrian until just before impact. Additional local crashes occurred on Central Avenue Sutphin Street Reynolds Avenue and Charles Street Van Avenue with minor damage reported.
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Trenton
Bob Boring
Baltimore St
Central Avenue
Clinton Street
Boring
Phillip Palazola
Church St
Middletown
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General Merchandise
Legion
MES
Ohio University
Athens
California
Jefferson Pta
Dale Carnegie
Patrick B. McGinnis
New York, New Haven & Hartford
R. R. CO
Calind
Manchester
The
Leadership Institute
Cinn
Gillen-Crow Drug Stores
Sebald Oil Co
Curtis & Girard
NNTE
Spebsosa
Aeronca Management Club
Fenwick
Ellen Kennedy
Paramount
Franklin Wreck
Daytonian
Buster
Palazola
Baker Ambulance
Jack Margerum
Fairmount Ave
Sutphin Street
Andrew Stagmyer
Taylor Ave
Marie Long
Kenwood Dr
Reynolds Avenue
Alexander Collins
19Th Ave
Martha Banks
Catalpa Dr
Charles Street
van Avenue
Josh
Buster Brown
Garte S Shoes
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