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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1963
Page
20
The annual retreat begins Monday with seniors juniors and sophomores in two morning conferences and one in the afternoon. Mass at 11 am each day with student body attending, Benediction after the last conference. Freshmen keep class schedule with a one day retreat Friday.
Fenwick High School will establish a Jets testing center under Sister Mary Roger to identify engineering talent through grades 9 to 12. Starting March 23 students pay $2 for a four part test covering verbal and numerical reasoning space and mechanical thinking, with results and a guide issued next month.
Thirteen East Germans including a border patrolman fled across the mined and barricaded Iron Curtain border into West Germany near Duderstadt. Twelve were from Boesekendorf, a border village, where 30 residents had previously escaped in a coordinated effort. The border patrolman, engaged to one of the escapees, guided the group through a mine free frontier path.
Antara News Agency reports Indonesia’s 1st Bukit Barisan Battalion sailed aboard a U S troop transport for duty with the United Nations in the Congo. Indonesia already has one infantry battalion stationed there.
Ali Saleheel Saadi deputy prime minister and interior minister said he and President Nasser reached a basis for cooperation between Iraq and the United Arab Republic during Saadi's visit to Cairo for the UAR’s fifth anniversary. Saadi led an Iraqi delegation and conferred with Nasser before leaving for Algeria.
Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware Ohio will hold a convocation to award honorary degrees to four figures with notable careers. Will Herberg Madison New Jersey, Madison a Drew University philosophy professor. Stanley S. Kresge Detroit Michigan president of the Kresge Foundation. Albert L Slack Defiance Ohio former Methodist pastor and district superintendent. Thurman Alexander Cambridge Ohio former Methodist pastor and Cambridge district superintendent. The note about Theodore Roosevelt’s White House pet collection appears as an additional line.
Elementary science fairs across 15 Middletown schools run March 10 to April 11 as the annual North Butler County Science Awards Fair is merged into the Ohio Junior Academy of Science at Miami University. Exhibits from grades 9–12 Middletown students may compete at Southwest Ohio District Science Day April 13 with State Day at Central State College April 26 for superior exhibits.
Seniors schedule a Washington trip for May 8 with an 1 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. start, visiting the Capitol, monuments, and historic sites. Swanettes announce an annual show May 3 and 4 themed Girls Girls Girls. Middiettes win 27 20 over Hamilton Garfield with JV 13 12. next game vs Wyoming. Western Ohio district for the National Forensic League held at Fairmont. qualifiers head to Houston in June. Thespian meeting at 7:30 for The Hourglass critique by Dan Danner.
General Francisco Franco will travel to Andralusia next week to tour regions hit by floods that left 16,000 homeless and destroyed crops for about 90,000 farmers. Damage estimated at 66 million dollars.
Coleman Smith qualified for the state speech district contest at Oakwood High in dramatic declamation titled Spartacus' Challenge to the Gladiators. Ron Tolson reached semifinals with Teahouse of the August Moon. Nine members join Select All-District Band at Miami University February 23 under Fred Walker conduct.
A tall chest measures 36 feet wide with five groups of drawers and a large matching mirror completes the setup.
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