First Baby of 1954 Brightens Middletown Day
Andre Walker, Middletown’s first 1954 entrant in the world’s wild sweepstakes, spent his fifth day amid photographer bulbs and diaper changes. The son of Mr and Mrs Henry Joseph Walker of 1601 Hudson Ave, Andre’s sister Loraine and brother Henry Zon watched as the camera prepared. Born New Year’s Day at 12:22 am weighing 7 pounds 13 ounces, he was named the city’s New Year’s baby. Gifts promised by Armco Steel Corp and local residents include blankets, layette items, a playpen, shots, photos, a chair, milk, a stroller, baby bunting, and ice cream. The family noted they expected him on November 27, making the 1954 arrival a humorous early miscue.
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Andre Walker
Middletown
Henry Joseph Walker
Hudson Ave
Andre
Journal
Bill Veith
Loraine
Henry Zon
Walker
Armco Steel Corp
Six Drivers Grounded By Judge Riley
Franklin report states Municipal Court Judge J. T. Riley suspended licenses for six drivers with terms from six months to two years. Names include Vivian Bodkin, Raymond Davis, Robert E. Johnson, Fred Green, Jack Edward Wolfbarger, and William Brewer, with fines and costs for reckless operation and related offenses. Additional drivers and fines were listed for speeding, failure to observe stop signs, and other violations.
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Franklin
J. T. Riley
Vivian Bodkin
Raymond Davis
South Lebanon
Robert E. Johnson
Fred Green
Jack Edward Wolfbarger
Germantown
William Brewer
West Middletown
Oakley Smith
Miamisburg
Cris Belt
Cincinnati
Jimmy Combs
Town
Dallas Alcorn
Joe Aanneman
Dayton
Bondee
Clifford Miller
Frank Making
West Carrollton
Gary Collinsworth
Middletown
Christine Bard
Paul Lawson
Donovan's Brain and Diamond Queen at Paramount
At The Movies shows Donovan's Brain at Paramount 1 15 4 10 7 15 10 15 and Diamond Queen at 2 45 P50 8 50 p m Diamond Queen plays alongside Donovan's Brain. Eye Witness and It Happens Every Thursday headline Strand listings with showtimes 1 30 4 45 3 20 6 40 and 10 00 p m plus a 65 top price.
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Paramount
Donovan
Eye Witness
Western Proxy In Busy Week At Western College
A busy week is planned for President Herrick B. Young of Western College with an informal reception for students and local veterans, meetings with alumnae executives, trustees discussions on international law policies, and weekend entertaining for trustees and visitors.
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Oxford
Herrick B. Young
Western College
Dent
Westen College
Bruce Ramsey
Young
the and
Underpass Bid Date May Be Fixed Tonight
City Commission meets at 7 45 tonight to consider underpass plans and specifications and set the bid opening date. New commissioners Denham and Sanderson will select a chairman with Carmody expected to be re elected. annexation papers for the Armco blast furnace area are filed. tax rate of 24 50 is due for final action alongside a billiard hall permit and Porter Poster Service renewal applications.
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Commission
Carmody
Neibar-Shafer Street
City Commission
City
William Denham
Arthur Sanderson
Ross A. Hill
Armco
Secretary of State
Columbus
State
Butler County Recorder
Annexaa
Colum
Budget Commission
Central Ave
Polio Drive Still Limps in Butler County
The 1954 polio fund drive remains weak with $303.24 raised in three days, about one third of the $908.28 raised in the same period a year earlier. Knights of Columbus workers operated a booth at Central Avenue and Broad Street, chaired by Charles Reuthe of the county NFIP chapter. Tomorrow Sertoma will supply workers.
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Knights of Columbus
Central Avenue
Broad Street
Charles Reuthe
Butler County
National Foundation For
Colored Infantile Paralysis Committee
Sertoma
Cafe Owner Faces Board Over Liquor Violation
Louie Rudd owner of Lucky Shop Cafe faces a State Board of Liquor Control hearing at 9:30 a.m. January 2 in the Hamilton County courthouse Cincinnati to determine if D-1 and D-2 permits should be revoked. A notice from police Chief Joseph Blackmore states wine and beer above 3.2 percent was on the premises on November 15. Phipps, 29, of 2719 Yankee Rd., bound over to the Butler County grand jury on burglary and larceny charges after a November 15 conviction. he was fined $50 and costs for the alleged liquor law violation.
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Louie Rudd
Lucky Shop
State Board of Liquor Control
Hamilton County
Cincinnati
Joseph Blackmore
Ie Phipps
Yankee Rd
Butler County Grand Jury
Squire Lammie Bailey
Phipps
MiddletownDrivers Fined in Hamilton Court
Hamilton special report: Judge Frank F. Wessel fines Kenneth Thomas 26 of 1513 Lawn Ave for reckless driving with five day license suspension and 35 dollars. Henry Hale Jr. 18 of 2309 Erie Ave pays 40 dollars for speeding with five day suspension. Harry Hoter 50 of Trenton fined 20 dollars for speeding. Horace Danson 32 of Camden fined 100 dollars with six month license suspension and a suspended three day jail term.
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Hamilton
Horace Danson
Camden
Lausche To Meet Ohio Prosecutors In Columbus
Telegrams to members of the Prosecuting Attorneys Assn of Ohio announce a special meeting in Columbus Thursday January 14 with Governor Lausche and Frank J Lausche. The governors aim is to enlist prosecutors support for traffic safety committee work.
Navy recruit Lowell Fultz completes training
News of Servicemen Lowell Fultz, 19, fireman, recently completed Navy pre commissioning training at Little Creek Va., and has been transferred to LST 1160 at Bath, Maine. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Coursey Fultz of 2207 Oxford Rd. Fultz enlisted Oct. 20, 1952 and took boat training at Bainbridge, Md.
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Lowell Fultz
Little Creek
LST
Bathe
Maine
Coursey Fultz
Oxford Rd
Fultz
Bainbridge
Damage Heavy None Hurt In Two Accidents
Two area highway crashes caused extensive property damage with no injuries. Richard B. Gray, 36, of Franklin, was arrested for reckless operation after his tractor trailer rammed a parked trailer on Ohio 127 north of Seven Mile. A car driven by Robert A. Schnedel, 29, of Cincinnati, overturned near a stopped school bus on Ohio 48 north of Lebanon.
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State High Way Patrol
Richard B. Gray
Tribble Ave
Franklin
Ohio 127
Seven Mile
Melvin 8. Berlier
Sunman
Ind
Rt. 2
Gray
Robert A. Schnedel
Broadlawn Circle
Cincinnati
Schnedel
Ohio
Lebanon
Police Briefs: Car Window Break-In and Missing Man
Wilbur Gregory of 1016 Jackson St reports a right front car window broken while parked near Middletown High School gym. Officers respond to a reported injured man at 320 Crawford St who had left before arrival. He may have a broken arm after stopping at a Logan Ave grocery. Thomas Robbins of 1511 Fairfield reported a lost leather billfold containing about $13, driver’s license and other papers sometime Sunday.
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Wilbur Gregory
Jackson St
Middletown High School
Crawford St
Logan Avenue
Crawford Street
Thomas Robbins
Fairfield
Pesteetey
Starick declines Cincinnati city manager post
Herbert W. Starick, Dayton city manager, said he will not apply for Cincinnati’s vacant city manager job despite being considered for it. He grew up in Cincinnati, attended local schools, and graduated from the University of Cincinnati. Starick, formerly Middletown’s manager, was Dayton’s manager since November 1.
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Dayton
Herbert W. Starick
Cincinnati
Starick
Middletown
Dayton Post
Cincinnati Post
Wilbur Kellogg
U.S
George W. Koch
Cincinnati Council
University of Cincinnati
Fifteen Firms Bid For Hospital New Wing
Fifteen construction companies submitted bids to Don Dazey for the first portion of a two million dollar hospital project. Bids for the new wing were nearly identical in price. Start date will depend on contractor plans and weather, with a March start hoped.
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Don Dazey
Middletown Hospital Building Committee
Dazey
Hospital Board of Trustees
F. H. McGraw
Messer
Swan
Knowlton
H. W. Miller
Peaker
Charles H. Shook
Clemmer
George Sheaf
B. G. Davis
Ferro
Severe-Williams
Steinle
Snow Creates No Emergency
City services ran normally as light snow did not require city trucks. Public Services Director C. W. Boeke said crews remained on standby but were not needed. one crew was briefly alerted at 4 am Monday, but no snow clearing or sanding was required.
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C. W. Boeke
Public Services
Boeke
14-Year-Old Girl Arrested as Adult for Disorderly Conduct
A Moorehead Kentucky girl who claimed she was 21 when arrested on disorderly conduct was found to be 14. Judge J T Lamb sent her to juvenile court after authorities learned her real age. She was jailed in lieu of a $25 fine after an arrest at Central Avenue and Broad Street.
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Juvenile Court
J. T. Lamb
Moorehead
Central Avenue
Broad Street
Marines Report 14 Enlist From Area In December and January
Marine Cops recruiting officials announce fourteen area men enlisted in the Marines during December and January. Additional Air Force and Army enlistments are reported by local officers, with names and addresses of enlistees from Middletown Hamilton and surrounding areas. Several recruits will undergo basic training in San Diego and Lackland, while others head to Fort Knox for Army processing.
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Marion McCollum
Butler County Marine Recruiting Station Today
al Walters
San Diego
Calif
Vern E. Wilson
Germantown Rd
Richard R. Moon
Garfield St
Air Force
Lackland Air Force Base
Tex
Ft. Knox
Fred R. Curtis
Lebanon
John W. Bradley
Hudson St
Ellis C. Ballard
Thir
Four Youths Unhurt As Car Leaves Road
Germantown patrol cited Dick Hutchens of Gratis for reckless operation after his car sped off Creek Road and plunged down a 50 foot dam apron into Twin Creek. Four occupants Ward Denlinger Gloria Hendrickson Mary Lou Miller Hutchens escaped uninjured as the vehicle lodged in the creek bed and workers lifted it out with a chain.
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Germantown
Dick Hutchens
Gratis
Creek Road
Twin Creek
Ward Leon Denlinger
Gloria Hendrickson
Neff
Middletown Sets Record Low Tuberculosis Death Toll in 1953
Dr. L C Neer Middletown health commissioner reports 1953 preliminary health stats show only one tuberculosis death, polio down to one daswell, 11 diphtheria? cases in 1953. The city also records lowest infant mortality with 12 deaths and no maternal deaths, few venereal disease cases, and a tuberculosis death rate near three per 100000 versus national 16.
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Middletown
L. C. Neer
Neer
Eskimos Know How to Build Snow Houses
A small group of Eskimos possess the rare skill to construct snow houses, using traditional methods passed down through generations. Local observers note their expertise appears tied to seasonal patterns and regional climate.
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Lausche
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Walters
East End
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Bopks
Central Branch
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