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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1957
Page
7
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Mrs Frances Werth found three diamond rings valued at 3000 dollars sent to her bra attached to a laundry item. Detectives Gillen and Vincitore inspected 200 clothing bundles at Consolidated Laundry in West New York before locating the rings intact. Laundry manager Claus Kardell said the rings were cleaned with the afternoon wash and would be pressed today with no extra charge.
Hillsboro Ohio completes integration at Washington School opening new facility. Since last September Negro and white pupils shared Webster. Lincoln had remained all Negro until Webster and Washington were built. A two year court fight followed as the school board resisted immediate integration despite NAACP support. federal courts and higher courts weighed in before the program proceeded.
Ronald Collis 21 of Sharonville received a 0 day sentence in the Cincinnati Workhouse after pleading guilty to petit larceny for stealing a large book of premium stamps valued at 25 from Bunnell's Service Station. Police recovered the stamp book inside his jacket and found additional stamp books in his car.
High school students at Middletown Fenwick and Lemon-Monroe schools received application blanks Monday for the 1957 W. W. Sebald Self-Reliance Awards competition. Middletown Junior Chamber administers the awards, distributed the applications and collected them Jan. 16. Posters and revised booklets were issued to seniors. During the monthly meeting Thursday the Jaycees will view a film on the awards and discuss this year's program. The Sebald Awards totaling 1,000 in cash prizes are presented yearly to four outstanding senior boys and four girls who have demonstrated the most self-reliance during high school.
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