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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1957
Page
2
Middletown Hospital will offer free Salk polio shots to staff, announced administrator Walter A Mischley. Employees must register by Friday, injections to start next week, with doctors favoring vaccine access via family doctors where possible.
Three youths, Brown J. Smith 78 Arnold Lee Haddix 18 and Willis Howard 22, were captured after an attempted burglary at the Benner filing station near Boston Indiana. Prosecutor Bert Keller Jr. said the trio faces second degree burglary charges. The men allegedly pried open a rear window after a ladder was used. They were arrested by Boston marshal Benner and deputy Wagner. The stolen items included candy cigarettes and $4.50 from the register. Juvenile authorities note prior records for all three.
A new Maple Park adult recreation session begins tonight at 8 at Maple Park School. Square dancing under Roy Stutz and copper enameling under T. O. McDonald will be offered as part of the third program in the Parks and Recreation adult series led by Miss Joan Wilson.
James Stanley Rogers of Hamilton and Harold Lee Isaacs of Middletown were sentenced to indefinite terms in the Ohio State Reformatory after pleading guilty to breaking and entering the Berridge Jewelry Store theft. Readily seized items include 18 watches valued at 956 dollars and 11 rings valued at 351 dollars.
Virgil Root, 53, a Wayne Township school board veteran of 20 years, collapsed and died likely of a heart attack while attending a Republican party meeting at Seven Mile School. He lived on Thomas Road, farmed 32 years, and served on the Miltonville Cemetery board and Butler County Farm Bureau. survived by his wife Margie, four children including Darrell and three daughters, two brothers, a sister, and eight grandchildren. Funeral set for 2 p.m. Thursday at Campbell Funeral Home in Hamilton. burial Miltonville Cemetery. calling hours after 4 p.m. Wednesday.
No serious injuries were reported after three minor accidents yesterday in Middletown. At 9th Avenue and Yankee Road a parked car owned by Gloria Lawrence and a car driven by Ernest J Driever of Cincinnati were involved with no damage. the Lawrence vehicle’s driver allegedly left the scene. In front of 3800 Central Ave a collision between cars driven by Robert Lantis and Stanley Caldwell caused $85 damage. A third crash in the 1000 block of 1st Avenue involving Walter M McMahon and Robert Davis resulted in $35 damage.
Girton Dean Girton Middletown Safety Council director will discuss Eisenhower's Back the Attack program at Legion Post 218's monthly meeting tomorrow night. A safety film Officer Halli brand will be shown. Commander Ed Windsor will open the session at 8 p.m. at the Legion Home.
Middletown held an Academy Awards style safety banquet with Ohio Bell Telephone Co. and Shartie Division of Black Clawson winning two Oscars for top safety records in 1956. Recipients included J Richard Miller for Ohio Bell and T J McGraw for Shartie Division. Foremen and executives from 40 firms also received awards.
Police report milk was taken from the porch of 1111 Liberty Ave the Jesse Lairson residence several days last week as police learned yesterday.
A Middletown man Raymond L. White denied knowing Frank Sumpter charged with armed robbery and kidnapping in the Sealtest Dairy Co. holdup. Sumpter, Newport Kentucky, was brought back for trial after FBI arrest last week. Dallman and his wife were hostage during the office safe raid. Sumpter faced extradition to Hamilton as White faced Municipal Court arraignment.
Russell McCarty a 40 year old Armco East Works employee lost two toes and part of another when a scrap jammed while he freed it. The injury occurred in the temper mill around 1 a.m. during a scrap shear operation and he was to undergo surgery at Middletown Hospital.
A teenage boy, described as small built and wearing a tobacco hat and dark coat, grabbed a 84 year old Middletown woman on Woodlawn Avenue and threatened to kill her with a pocket knife if she moved. Police at 6 50 p m searched Young Street area but could not locate the suspect.
Public Service Director C. A. Boeke announced a partial closure of the north side of Central Avenue west of Sutphin Street tomorrow for underground work tied to the Park Place Branch addition of the First National Bank of Middletown. Westbound traffic will be diverted to Sutphin Street with no left turns for eastbound traffic during construction. Through eastbound traffic remains unaffected.
John D. Blackford argues that the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man undergird a government of the people. He cites rights and equality before the law, warns against totalitarian and Communist threats, and urges self examination during Brotherhood Week to promote harmony among America’s diverse races and creeds.
International speaker and tour conductor Miss Irene Meyers will address Lafayette Lodge 37 as part of the 93rd Pythianium anniversary. she tours for General Electric women and has led 33 industrial women groups. Ohio Grand Chancelor Harry Gast and Hobart Wilson attend. dinner at 7 p.m. at Castle Hall with The Four Sharps quartet and Eiza Abraham leading singing.
The written form of examinations likely remained unfamiliar in schools and colleges until 1702 when Trinity College Cambridge England first adopted it.
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