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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1960
Page
13
The Heart Fund exceeded its Middletown goal as Roger Turrell reported. Local door to door total reached 4992.41 with mail contributions still arriving, and downtown booths by the First Presbyterian Church senior high class added 68.10. Turrell expected a final total near 5500.
Theodore Bud Mackey pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity before Judge John Kiracore after a grand jury indicted him for first degree murder in the fatal rifle homicide of his wife Josephine in their Sugar Valley home on January 12.
A Mardis Gras party will be hosted by the St Marys PTA in the school cafeteria from to 11 p.m. tomorrow with games prizes and refreshments. Dr and Mrs Clifford Fening will direct the event assisted by Dr and Mrs Jack Varney Mr and Mrs Paul Clifton Mr and Mrs Calvin Lloyd and Mr and Mrs Bud Lawson. A brief business meeting precedes the party.
A heavy snowfall turned Armco Park into a winter scene as 300 to 400 people sledded and skied on the slopes. The three inch accumulation, the deepest of the year, prompted youngsters and adults to enjoy revived Olympic spirit in Middletown.
Weekend sled riding injuries filled Middletown emergency rooms as 10 youngsters required treatment for bumps and bruises. Gwendolyn Tucker needed five stitches for a forehead cut at Armco Park. Collette Abner fractured her left arm on the way to the store. Other injuries include a wrist cut, a leg gash needing 35 stitches, and several arm and finger cuts from doors and a butcher knife incident.
Middletown Hospital negotiations with the Community Guild aim to invest the fund’s 1309 balance in hospital improvements. Formed in 1950 the guild honors friends and relatives through donations used for equipment and furnishings.
The Fire Department emergency squad assisted Ellis Deaton, 53, at 614 Cleveland St. on a run yesterday. No hospitalization was required.
A Butler County grand jury recalls tomorrow to review 71 cases from municipal and county courts. The Middletown traffic fatality case charges David Sam Rogers, 39, with second degree manslaughter in the October 10 death of Kathleen Hime, 12, on Yankee Road at Michigan Avenue, while passenger Sue Wenzel, 11, was injured. Other Middletown cases list checks and forgery charges against several defendants.
The mid winter conference of the Ohio auxiliary of the American Legion focused on national security civil defense and legislation. Representing Middletown were Eve West Vern McKinney Jess Borders Theodore Sarris and Alexander Gray national president. A banquet Saturday honored attendees. Dinner music came from Chillicothe VA Hospital patients and a band from the Soldiers and Sailors home in Xenia drew a standing ovation.
The city pond opens Tuesday at 4 a.m. permits are sold 7 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Then season closes Oct. 31. Pond stocked with rock bass and sunfish last fall. trout to be added weather permitting. 9,424 pounds of fish already in pond. 7,000 more to come. Family license $10, youth 14-18 $3. under 14 may fish with parents. daily fishing $1 for local anglers. Park director Tom Carlson notes hopes for a bigger year after 1959 drought.
August Brunsman secretary of the Dayton Process Engravers Inc will speak Thursday at the Middletown Fine Arts Center for the fifth Art in Industry Seminar. His talk on advertising and the graphic arts follows a career in sales and photography and includes a monograph on William Maxwell a Dayton area lecturer in advertising and graphic arts courses.
Two Middleton residents Ollie Lige and Cora Jean Phillips were treated at Middletown Hospital after an $800 crash on S Verity Parkway and 14th Avenue. Lige faced an ass't distance violation citation after losing control on wet pavement. Phillips suffered mouth cuts and neck injuries as a car passenger.
A rash of highway crashes over the weekend injured fifteen people across the county. Incidents included a fire at a service station on Rt. 4 near LeSourdsville, and a two car crash on Rt. 747 injuring Adell Burks and Doc C. Smith with a passenger from Smith’s car. Others suffered cuts, abrasions, or possible fractures. several drivers faced charges or injuries in various collisions on Rt. 63 and local roads.
A driver crashed into a gas pump at the Bi Lo on Route 4 south of Le Sourdsville causing a fire before fleeing. Fire crews from Liberty Township and Le Sourdsville put out the blaze with about $1,000 damage. Barbara Hackney, 27, suffered a head bump in the crash late Saturday night when her car, driven with husband James Hackney, 30, collided with Claud Vanover, 28, at Plymouth Avenue and Carolina Street in Mayfield. Deputies say vandals had removed the stop sign at the intersection.
Mrs. Marie Glass, 47, and three of her children were hurt when their auto skidded on ice along Port Union Road east of Seward Road. The car clipped a utility pole after a 90 foot slide and went another 250 feet before stopping. All were treated at Mercy Hospital with chest injuries for Mrs. Glass and abrasions for Shirley 20 Gail 13 and Wayne 10.
Sharon Park father Paul West, 28 months old had left side wounds after his son seized a kitchen knife West had just sharpened while watching television at 1741 Silver Street Ft Hamilton Hospital reports.
Police captured two juveniles aged 15 and 17 after a snowy foot race through West Middletown and Water Street. The break in at Moose Lodge 914 Central Ave netted $26.23 cash and small items. suspects hidden near a cash box at Turf Cafe.
Police recovered a car reported stolen Saturday from Richard Byrd at 2014 Tytus Ave. Other thefts include a 1953 model car with CJ 3, cash from vending at Redy's Market, Powers Auto Sales on Verity, sleds from Johnny iPresta and Mark Weir.
Yesterday officers arrested William E. Wilson 31 of 12 S Sutphin St at Yankee Road and Smith Avenue on a charge of driving while under the influence of alcohol.
State Auditor James A. Rhodes reports third quarter disbursements from the state foundation program. Middletown gets 167,554.67, Hamilton 232,999.62, Franklin 152,590.51, Eaton 32,850.93, Butler County 404,280.78, Preble 225,698.01, Warren 305,134.03, with 37,488,629.06 for operations and 2,144,677 for transportation. An additional 2,400,000 will be spent when available.
Mrs. Lais Lewis and Robert Johnson will discuss the relationship of home and school at the Wildwood PTO meeting tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. The Wildwood Girl Scout Troop will provide babysitting, and second grade mothers will host and serve refreshments.
Nashville Tennessee report shows the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board shipped fourteen million eight hundred forty seven thousand pieces of literature to churches and members last year, a 7.7 percent increase from the previous year. The organization employs one thousand three hundred thirty seven people.
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