Hamilton Prison Escapee Is Apprehended
Thomas Louis Wilson aged 37, an escapee from Hamilton County jail, was arrested at the Ohio Bus Lines station in Hamilton at 2 40 p m. Deputies traced him after a tip from Deputy Sheriff George Stang. Patrolmen listed his Dayton mother’s address and noted Wilson had been a trustee who walked away from the penitentiary last Tuesday afternoon.
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Hamilton
Ohio Penitentiary
Thomas Louis Wilson
Hamilton County
Wilson
Ohio Bus Lines
George Stang
Sheriff's Office
Ohio State Patrolmene
Columbus
Dayton
Penitentiary
Deaths And Funerals Retired Germantown Postmaster Dies
Clarence N emrick 73 of 11 N Plum St retired Germantown postmaster died unexpectedly at 4 pm yesterday at Brown VA Hospital Dayton after a 10 day stay. He served as postmaster 11 years and was active in Masonic groups and the Eighth Shrine. Surviving brothers Chester and Arthur Emrick. Requiem High Mass 9:30 am Tuesday at St John s Church burial Woodside Cemetery. Visitation 3-5 and 7-9 pm Monday at Schramm Funeral Home. Recitation 3:15 pm Monday.
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Germantown
Clarence Nemrick
Plum St
Brown VA Hospital
Dayton
Montgomery County
Emrick
Germantown Eub Church
Arthur Emrick
Cincinnati
John Arpp
Ers
Yugoslavia
Vertich
Bocio Elieff
Elieff
Neice
St John's Church
Woodside
Schramm Funeral
Frank Vertich 82, Middletown native, dies in Florida
Frank Vertich of 1701 Lafayette Ave. died at 2 30 p m Friday in Palmetto Beach Florida while visiting a brother. A Yugoslavian immigrant who arrived in 1906 and became a citizen in 1918, he was a retired carpenter and lifelong Middletown resident. Surviving are three brothers.
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Frank Vertich
Lafayette Ave
Middletown
Palmetto Beach
Fla
Michael
Yugoslavia
United States
Emery Charlton dies at 93 in Lebanon area funeral set
Emery Chariton 93 retired carpenter and farmer died at 5 am Saturday at the home of his son Charles Charlton in Waynesville Rt 2. He is survived by another son Frank of Rice Station Ky three brothers Sam John and Delmar and sister Mrs Alice Eltzroth. Funeral services 2 pm Tuesday at Stubbs Funeral Home with burial at Springboro Cemetery. Friends may call Monday afternoon and evening.
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Lebanon
Emery Chariton
Charles Charlton
Waynesville
Frank
Rice Station
Sam
Fairborn
John
Delmar
Loveland
Alice Eltzroth
Stubbs
Springboro
Girl Arrested On Auto Charge
Police arrested 19 year old Judy Lowe of 4001 Vannest Ave on a stolen car warrant tied to her mother in law Mrs Rose Lowe who reported the 1952 model car taken from her garage Friday evening The girl returned home yesterday and was released under 500 bond for a Municipal Court appearance tomorrow.
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Judy Lowe
Vannest Ave
Rose Lowe
Lowe
Graham Layer Named President of Middletown Shrine Club
E. Graham Layer of 607 Florence Street becomes president of the Middletown Shrine Club succeeding Hal Stevens. Layer and other officers will be installed in the second week of March, with Fred Ziegler as vice president Charlies Hansel re elected secretary treasurer and Wilbur Allison as assistant secretary treasurer.
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E. Graham Layer
Florence Street
Middletown
Seventh Auto List In Danger Says Police Chief
Police Chief Joseph Blackmore says he is grateful for the Journal's practice begun six weeks ago of listing license tags on autos due for impounding for delinquent traffic tickets. The seventh straight Sunday features 44 vehicles in the MZ series and aims to clear unpaid tickets and reduce towing fees. Another list will conclude the project next week.
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Joseph Blackmore
Journal
Blackmore
The
Middle town Aero-Modelers Plan Open Meeting
Model Plane Club invites local aviation enthusiasts to join an open meeting at 3 p.m. today in the Sports Bowl upstairs conference room. A color movie of last summer’s club activities and slides from the Smith Farm flying circle will be shown. Members should bring a prospective nonmember to support the Academy of Model Aeronautics membership drive.
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Middletown Aero-Modelers
Sports Bowl
Smith Farm Flying Circle
Academy of Model Aeronautcs
Police Briefs In City Court Bench Warrant Charged
Police report James Gray aged 3 of 1304 Young Street was picked up on a bench warrant from municipal court for failing to heed a court order to leave the bounty. Dan Fugate of 1602 Lafayette Avenue reported an outside aerial broken from his 1955 car.
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James Gray
Young St
Dan Fugate
Lafayette Ave
Miss Loretta Barker reports head strike at Verity Parkway
Miss Loretta Barker told police she was struck on the head by an unidentified woman at 2 S. Verity Parkway. Officers advised her to sign a warrant.
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Loretta Barker
Crescent Bird
S. Verity Parkway
Thunderbird windshield damaged after hair appointment
Mrs Harold Michael of Leland Court reported four BB holes in the right windshield of her 1960 Thunderbird. She told police she discovered the damage on returning from a hair appointment.
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Harold Michael
Leland Court
Three Motorists Cited In City Traffic Crashes
Three motorists were cited in four city accidents reported to police yesterday. Joy Bippus, 18, Hamilton, charged with failing to maintain an assured clear distance after her car hit a line of stopped traffic at S Verity Parkway and Yankee Road, causing a chain reaction. Emery Pallo, 17, of 220 Bellomonte Street, and Stanley Myers, 16, Hamilton, also involved. No injuries reported. Walling Gray, 84, and John King, 44, faced charges for distance violation and unsafe lane changes respectively after separate collisions on Central Avenue and Manchester Avenue. Damage totaled about 750 dollars across incidents. Minor crash at StreifThau lot caused light damage to two cars driven by Charles Hobbs, 57, and Thomas Strinko Jr., 4, with view obstruction from entering traffic cited.
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Joy Bippus
Hamilton
Bippus
S. Verity Parkway
Yankee Road
Emery Pallo
Bellomonte St
Stanley W. Myers
Walling W. Gray
Brentwood St
John W. King
Andrew St. Gray
Central Avenue
Charles Pierce Jr
Carryer Road
King
Manchester Avenue
Harold Curtis Paugh
South Ave
Streifthau
Charles Hobbs
Grand Ave
Thomas Strinko Jr
Middletown
Serviceman Paul Barnes Key Player In Airdrop To Niigata Island
Chief Warrant Officer Paul Barnes led the aerial delivery unit of the 7th Aerial Port Squadron in dropping 5,000 pounds of food and supplies over Niigata Airport on Sadoshima Island to feed snowbound Air Force and Coast Guard personnel. The Far East unit, noted as the only of its kind there, had packed and rigged supplies for five drops using a C-130 Hercules and a C-190 aircraft. Barnes, officer in charge, is a career officer and son of Mrs. Bessie Barnes of Middletown.
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Middletown
Air Force
Coast Guard
Paul Barnes
Niigata
Sadoshima Island
Japan
Barnes
7Th
315Th Air Division
Far East
Bessie Barnes
Brentwood St
Middletown Applicants Seek Two Liquor Permits
The Ohio Department of Liquor Control processes two applications from Middletown. George Turpin of Corner Cafe requests a new D-3A permit to sell liquor or wine until 2 30 a.m. at 1239 Central Ave. A transfer of a D-5 permit from Edwin C Murphy bankrupt to Florence H Minch of Murphy's Restaurant at 26 S Main St is also sought. The D-5 permits allow sale of beer wine or liquor until 2 30 a.m.
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Ohio Department of Liquor Control
Columbus
Middletown
George Turpin
Central Ave
Edwin C. Murphy
S. Main Street
Florence H. Minch
Murphy's Restaurant
Reward Offered For Nazi Doctor
A 20 000 mark reward was offered for the capture of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor at Auschwitz allegedly involved in lethal injections of children and orders to gas thousands of gypsies. He was believed to be in Argentina after Eichmann's capture, then reported to have fled to Brazil.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Josef Mengele
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Latin America
Mengele
Auschwitz
Argentina
Adolf Eichmann
Brazil
Long Cave Misidentified as Himalayan Tunnel
An Australian expedition explored Observatory Hill cave once thought to stretch 40 miles to Tibet. They found the cave only eighty feet deep, debunking the long held belief of a vast deep tunnel through the range.
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Darjeeling
India
Observatory Hill
Himalayas
Tibet
Unemployed Workers Strike Over Relief Pay in Ohio
Two Hubbard Township men led about 35 relief workers on a protest against the 1.50 hourly wage for road and outdoor relief jobs in Mahoning Valley. Welfare director W. S. Wike denied any organized strike, saying the two men act alone and that no union rates or cash pay are planned. The group seeks 50 cents daily transportation, proper clothing, and to halt compulsory work-off relief legislation in Ohio.
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Mahoning Valley
Wike
Sharline
Mahoning County
Landis
Smith
Ohio
Woman Hurt In Two-Car Crash At 122 And 25
A two car crash at the intersection of Ohio 122 and old U.S. 25 east of Middletown injured a Middletown woman Florence M. Aranyos 29 of Spencer Lane. She suffered chin lacerations and was treated by a doctor. Ronn Evans 19 of Lakeview Franklin was not hurt. A West Middletown youth 16 year old David Reider of Middletown Eaton Pike suffered a broken leg and other injuries when his car left the highway, demolished a fence and turned over. He was admitted to Middletown Hospital after being taken there by Shramm ambulance.
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Ohio 122
U.S. 25
Middletown
Florence M. Aranyos
Spencer Lane
Ronn Evans
Lakeview
Franklin
West Middletown
David Reider
Middletown Hospital
Ohio 73
Jacksonburg
Reider
Middletown-Eaton Pike
Shramm
Farmers at Rotary hear talks on Food and Drug Act
Middletown area farmers are invited as special guests of the Rotary Club at a Tuesday noon meeting in the Manchester Hotel. Prof James Woodworth of Miami University will discuss his studies on the administration of the Federal Food and Drug Act.
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Middletown
Rotary Club
Manchester Hotel
James Woodworth
Miami University
Insurgent challenge to Castro faces limited Cuban backing
Dispatch from Havana reports insurgent bands in the Escambray Mountains and scattered areas pose no clear threat to Fidel Castro's control. Government militiamen face confusion and shortages while authorities seize suspected anti-Castro elements in Santiago Guantanamo. Rebels rely on determination and hoped external support amid limited trained forces.
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Havana
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Escambray
Las Villas
Santiago
Santiago- Guantanamo
Castro
Guantanamo City
Escambrays
Eight Youngsters Win With Baton in Brookville Contest
Eight area youngsters earned top places at a USTA baton twirling event in Brookville. Germantown sisters Vicki Lynn Selby and Terri Lee Selby led with firsts in the beginners and advanced 10 year old divisions, Terri also placing second in strutting. Shirley Kay Sandusky students also shone with multiple honors. Candy Bayey and Dessie Harsh won in the intermediate division, with Vicki Fowler and Carla Bryant taking third. Jay Evans and Stephanie Esselman also earned runner-up and third in the beginner ranks.
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Brookville
Germantown
Vicki Lynn Selby
Terri Lee Selby
Terri
Shirley Kay Sandusky
Candy Ba|ey
Dessie Harsh
Vicki Fowler
Thirty six class at vhs will plan reunion
A 1996 Middle town High School class meeting will be held next Sunday February 26 at the Manchester Hotel at 2 p m to launch plans for the class twenty third anniversary reunion. All local class members are invited to attend.
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Middletown High School
Manchester
Llass
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