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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1954
Page
8
The first Revolutionary tea party in America took place in Eden ton, North Carolina, on October 25, 1774, where townswomen pledged not to buy tea taxed with the Stamp Act. The horse breeding industry in the United States is valued at $200,000,000.
SAM DAWSON offers lighthearted New Year resolutions for various groups in 1954. Economists should avoid endless Russia dependence forecasts. auto makers should base prices on wheels as standard. consumers and workers should adapt to changing times, with restraint in ads and manners.
Secretary of State Ted W. Brown impounded ballots in four Manchester wards Adams County amid a court challenge to a councilman race. He also impounded all ballots in Trumbul and Ottawa counties for irregularities investigation. Ballots may be destroyed after January 3 unless not impounded.
A newly found natural uranium mineral named Umphoite has been located only in a Utah mine. It contains 48 percent uranium, higher than the typical pitch blend ore range of 30 to 65 percent.
James C. Hagerty President Eisenhower's press secretary listed the year’s key White House items. Inauguration Korea armistice Congress cuts Truman budget, foreign policy growth, and Eisenhower's December atomic materials pool proposal were highlighted. He also teased the January 7 State of the Union as a forthcoming strong story.
An estate inventory filed in Probate Court shows former state legislator Carl L. Braun left assets worth 398,500. Braun, who died June 22 at age 88, was linked to H. Braun and Sons Co, a family druggist and physicians’ supply business.
Airman Robert K. Dearth son of LeRoy and Mrs Dearth of Dayton is stationed at Chateanaux France with the 73rd Air Wing and is the first University of Maryland student there to earn the dean's list one of only two in France to do so. He maintained straight A grades and last June represented his base at a World Retreat of Churches in Geneva Switzerland. Previously he attended Miami Jacobs College in Dayton majoring in accounting and plans CPA work after discharge. John Woodfin Jr 25 whose father lives at 1315 Garfield St was promoted to corporal while serving with the Army in Japan. Woodfin belongs to the 1st Cavalry Division's 5th.
Regiment member Woodfin entered the Army in April 1951 and completed basic training at Fort Bliss Texas. He arrived overseas in February 1982. The 1st Cavalry, in the Far East since World War II, rushed to Korea in early fighting and saw heavy action before returning to Japan late in 1951 for security duty.
Sam Rayburn of Texas served as Speaker of the U S House of Representatives longer than any other person in U S history, a record noted in contemporaneous reports.
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