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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1959
Page
2
Carl Thomas outlines a program to provide speech therapy aids for students across schools. The plan emphasizes accessible resources, early intervention, and classroom integration to support communication skills and academic progress for diverse learners.
Miss Mary Ann Brehany informed the Board of Education last night that state aid to Middleton public schools for speech and hearing therapy will total 5800 dollars this year if minimum requirements are met. A key rule limits therapists to six school buildings, a constraint the district may face with new Wildwood School opening in September. Brehany supervises the department with James E. Mack and Donald Bennie assisting.
Miss Brehany notes Middletown will add 19 schools to the special education program. The district faces a 297 children currently helped by three therapists and a waiting list of 157 due to a state cap of 100 cases per therapist. Emphasis remains on aiding organic handicaps and early screening in third grade with periodic rescreenings and state checks.
The Heart Fund drive netted 4173.83 over the weekend, down from 4908.61 last year, with Middletown proper only. Harold Agee notes outlying townships and missing donors will push totals higher as about 700 volunteers pursued a 7000 goal through wider area coverage.
Mrs. Alta Million of Trenton won the grand prize at the Middletown Auto Show, a week’s Florida trip for two to be hosted at the Mercury Motel in Miami Beach. Paul Moore of Franklin won the second prize, a TV set, as about 3,000 attended the event at the National Guard Armory.
PORTSMOUTH Ohio AP The personal secretary to the late President Warren G Harding died here Monday He was 95 year old Charles E Hard Also former editor of the Portsmouth Morning Sun and at one time postmaster here
In Middletown High School cafe teria a candlelit rite saw 74 new members joined the Junior Classical League. Robed students offered apples to the high priest as seeds were cast into a fire symbolizing dedication to Latin achievement. Miss Veda McCray supervised with officers Robin Velte Sidne Whitehead Kay Yocum Mike Kahney and Penny Winslow.
A wet pavement collision at Baltimore Street and Penfield Avenue injured Edgar Lykins and led to a juvenile citation for John Vanderhaar. Lykins, 29, was treated at Middletown Hospital for facial cuts and shoulder and abdomen pain. Vanderhaar, 17, was cited for failure to yield at a stop sign. Vehicle damage was estimated at $600 for Lykins and $10 for the truck.
Dr Lester Sontag of Antioch College is ill and will miss the Lincoln School Assn meeting. Miss Beryl Orr announced that Dr Jerome Kagan of Antioch will speak in his place on personality development and juvenile delinquency. The meeting is set for 1 p.m. in the school auditorium.
Warren Ohio Ray mond A Thurman age 52 died Monday at Trumbull Memorial Hospital from injuries suffered in the January 23 explosion at the Republic Steel Corp plant in Warren.
City Manager Charles W Thompson announced that all broken tiles in the North Middletown sanitary sewer have been replaced. Subcontractor Tony Vietlli & Son of Detroit is ready to proceed with the sewer main on Jewell Street after odds and ends are cleared. A 30 inch vitrified tile section with a concrete casing will be installed.
Annie Ruth Reddin of 1307 Baltimore Street was found guilty yesterday of making threats of menace by telephone to Eva McCoy of 904 Lake Avenue Franklin on February 18. Judge J T Lamb suspended a $100 fine and ordered Reddin to stay away from McCoy, her home, and McCoy's husband. Lula Blanche Estes of 1328 Manchester Road forfeited a $25 bond on a charge of intoxication.
A tractor trailer loaded with sheet steel overturned into a ditch on Ohio 122 east of Michael Road near West Middletown about 12:30 a.m. Driver Thomas M. Hardesty, 33, of 3800 Tytus Ave., escaped injury as about $3,000 worth of steel spilled. A southbound auto driven by Norman Casson, 20, of City View Heights, Hamilton, lost control on U.S. 27 at Shadynook around 4:50 p.m. Monday, damaging a mailbox and a tree. Casson and his wife Gloria escaped injury.
Delbert R. Hanks, scout executive of the Miami Valley Council in Dayton, will speak at the Mound Builders Area Boy Scout Council leaders recognition dinner at the Manchester Hotel. E. H. Bindley will present two silver beavers for outstanding service to boyhood, with Roundup, training, and veteran awards also to be given. Participants include Robert L. Davidson, John Bachus, and Donald Skinner.
The state health mobile X ray unit is in Franklin offering free chest X rays today. In cooperation with the County Board of Health and the Warren County Tuberculosis and Health Assn the unit operates from 1 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. It was closed yesterday for Washington's Birthday.
Police stopped three youths last night and seized a dog choker chain from a 16 year old Middletown boy found on Manchester Avenue and Broad Street at 7 10 pm. He was cited to appear before juvenile authorities and taken home. Two other youths had no weapons. Authorities had met with parents last Thursday to curb trouble near schools and gang activity following a protection racket in the East End and a major street fight. Chief Blackmore said officers will keep patrolling gathering places to prevent trouble before it starts.
Reservations remain for the YMCA girls skating party at Cincinnati Garden. Eight spots open as Dick Hundley notes. girls depart by chartered bus at noon Saturday. Register by Thursday. cost 2 dollars with skates rented or 1.50 if bringing own skates.
Thefts were reported from several residents including George Wilson 244 Yankee Rd Clyde Peters 3104 Ohio Ave and Steve Shyers 128 N Main St. Vandals damaged a radio antenna at William Lawwill 318 Vanderveer St and a kitchen window at Joe Peck 1213 Reynolds Ave with a BB gun. Cars of Dosha Collins 1402 Plum Ave and Grant Gabbard Dayton were also damaged. Leonard Wells 34 416 Park was arrested on a Warren County warrant for failure to provide. Three more stolen cars were recovered: Walter Beatty 2900 Grand Ave a vehicle found in Sutphin Street vicinity Herbert Wade 213 Garfield St and a Mr Hammond of Armco Drainage Metal Products Inc found at Leibee Street and Casper Avenue.
Gen Mark W. Clark retired president of The Citadel was elected Monday as a director of Dayton Rubber Co in Dayton Ohio. Clark led Allied forces in Italy in World War I and held senior posts in the U S military.
The Holiness Tab ernacle revival runs into its third week after originally being slated for two weeks. Speaker Rev. Abraham Swanson from the Church of God in Christ in Cincinnati delivers sermons.
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