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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1957
Page
5
Howard Tibbs and his wife Sarah were in a car that allegedly exploded in Oxford on Monday. Initial reports said minor injuries, but Sarah Tibbs sustained a broken leg, crushed foot, and severe injuries requiring surgery at Mercy Hospital.
Philadelphia detectives investigated whether an unidentified nude boy found in a vacant lot may be Steven Craig Damman, a Long Island abducted child from 1955. The victim, between four and six, had blue eyes and a scar, with bruising on the head and body, and was reportedly slain.
Farmers who retired land from surplus crops under the soil bank last year chose cash payments over crops. The program aimed to cut government cash outlay and reduce surpluses, but of $246,043,000 earned, only $4,374,000 was taken as crops, mainly for livestock feed where feed was tight.
The United States today paroled former Col Chiyoshi Shimoda of Japan who had served a one year sentence for war crimes.
William J. Ryan 79 a Middletown native and longtime Dayton resident died yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital Dayton after a week of illness. He managed the dining rooms at the U. S. Hotel 1900 1916 and later led the Manchester Hotel plus Diet cafeterias at Middletown High School and Armco. Surviving are two sons Edwin and Harold of Dayton a daughter Ruth Dennis of Zanesville and brother Vincent Pat Ryan of Middletown. Requiem High Mass is Friday at Corpus Christi Church Dayton with Calvary Cemetery Middletown burial. Local arrangements by McCoy Leffler Funeral Home.
Thirteen people were injured and rushed to hospitals after a northbound Ohio Bus Line Co bus collided with a scrap dealer’s truck on Paddock road and Elm drive. The bus, which caught fire, was extinguished quickly. driver Ray Traverse freed himself and helped 32 passengers escape.
Cornelius C. Mahan Sr., 76, a Centerville farmer and Dayton native, died Monday after a yearlong illness at his Nutt and Clyo roads home. Survived by wife Elizabeth four daughters two sons a sister Mrs. Anna Marstal Springboro 33 grandchildren six great grandchildren. Services 8:45 a m Friday Westbrook Funeral Home Dayton Requiem High Mass 9:30 a m at Church of the Incar nation Calvary Cemetery Dayton.
Police said escaping fumes from an vented gas water heater and a gar heating unit apparently caused the deaths of Raymond Steele 81 a retired grocer and his wife Ida 90 in their home in Zanesville Tuesday.
Two Middletown youths received minor injuries when a car failed to stop at a stop sign at Jackson Lane and Burbank Avenue last night. Driver Arthur Fuller, 16, suffered arm, knee and ear abrasions. passenger Linda Vandervoort, 15, had knee and elbow injuries. The vehicle slid across the intersection, broke a utility pole, and extensive auto damage occurred. Both youths were treated and released from Middletown Hospital around 11:10 p.m.
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