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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1961
Page
2
The city warns drivers with overdue tickets that their cars may be towed from public spaces. Towing costs plus a 5 dollar impounding fee could total 12 dollars, with a 4 dollar tow charge plus 5 dollar impound, and notices advise visiting the Police Traffic Bureau in the City Building to settle debts. Some offenses date back to 1959.
In Brookston Indiana three children aged 12 13 and 8 were killed when their stalled car was struck by a Monon passenger train. A 16 year old boy Roger Logan was critically injured while a two year old girl Kathy Dearduff and a 14 year old girl Karen Logan escaped with the mother Vernon Dearduff and another girl surviving. The driver and two girls escaped unharmed.
Police arrested James FE Combs 25 of 120 Sycamore St on a pon sup warrant. Orville Carter 2719 Burbank Ave was picked up on abandoning a pregnant woman charge. Herschel Brown 40 of Fairs mount Ave reported a wallet loss of 75 to 100 dollars between Eldora Drive and Verity Parkway. Rose 70 of Aléth Avenue said two men robbed him of 110 dollars late Friday night in Eagle Alley. he gave no suspect description.
A claim notes that annual wrapping waste could yield a bag large enough to hold a city twice Detroit’s size. The remark highlights vast quantities of cellophane used in enclosing new motors and engines.
Mrs. Clare Easton, 37, of 308% S Main St, hospitalized with a broken left arm and four lacerations after a Penfield Avenue and Baltimore Street collision. Albert L. McCarty, 36, of 419 Tytus Ave, treated for a injured right hand. Damage totaled 1450, with 1000 to Easton’s 1960 car. Police cited two motorists for traffic violations and noted additional damage to other vehicles and a bicycle accident with a 12 year old rider.
In Eugene Oregon a violent wind gust ripped the roof off a suburban market Saturday afternoon. Three men attempting to secure the building were killed in the collapse. Police and emergency crews respond to the scene.
Frank Dobrozsi, a Buller County Democratic Executive Committee member, says he and Mrs. Dobrozsi will attend the January 20 inauguration of Joan Fitzgerald Kennedy as U S president. He has invitations for the ceremony the inaugural wall at 25 dollars per person and a Thursday gala costing 100 dollars. He recalls attending Roosevelt in 1937 and Truman in 1949.
Dr. Vincent W. Rivizzino, native of Wheeling West Virginia, opens a chiropody and foot surgery office at 131 South Broad Street. A graduate of Ohio College of Chiropody Cleveland he completed surgical internship at Cleveland Foot Clinic and studied at West Virginia University and West Liberty State College. He and his family live at 300 Grand Avenue.
A Franklin youth Albert Vaughn Junior aged 14 9148 Bertha Drive Franklin was jailed for investigation in a series of coin machine break ins. He was arrested Friday night by city detectives and Franklin police.
Archbishop Constantine Bohachevsky, spiritual head of 300000 Ukrainian Catholics in the United States, died Friday night in Philadelphia. He led the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in America guiding parishes and ethnic communities nationwide.
Veteran newsman Gunner Musselman of Circleville editor of the Galvin Wire Service told Miami University journalism students that aspiring writers should inject personality into their news and feature writing. He urged students to send longer letters home to please their parents and reinforce their craft.
Eleanor M. O'Fallon 72 of 228 S Main St died at 6 30 last night at home after a stroke and heart surgery in 1959. A Middletown Hospital nurse since 1929 she served in World War I and remained active in the American Legion Catholic Ladies of Columbia and Holy Trinity Rosary Society. Survived by sister Anna Stewart and brother John O Fallon and by many nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements at Schramm Funeral Home with Requiem High Mass at Holy Trinity Church and burial in Woodside Cemetery.
Police say a Friday night break in at Jacone's Glass Shop may have been an inside job. No forced entry signs observed and intruders possibly used a key. Cash amount pending company check. A changer at Union Sanitary Laundry was rifled again, with $149.50 in change taken Friday night.
In Brooklyn a feud between two street gangs exploded into a bloody battle leaving a 17 year old boy dead. Edward Spikes of the Stompers gang died after being stabbed and collapsing near his home. The street was littered with broken bottles knives and weapons.
Cincinnati based Fick-Reed Co. faces 4 unfair labor practice charges from the National Labor Relations Board arising from a strike by 100 members of Local 112 of the Allied Industrial Workers Union. NLRB says the firm provoked the strike, refused to bargain, and pressured union members to end it. A Feb 6 hearing is scheduled before a trial examiner.
Secretary of State Ted W. Brown reports 9,228 corporation charters issued in 1960 in Ohio, averaging over 25 per day including weekends and holidays. The total nearly matches the 1959 all time record of 9,321.
John Bennett a 23 year old from Youngstown escaped unharmed when his private Cessna 140 forced landed in a Deerfield Township wheat field ten miles southeast of Ravenna. Mechanical trouble choked off fuel forcing the landing. He valued the aircraft at about 2000 dollars.
The Ore & Coal Exchange reports coal loadings at Lake Erie ports totaled 39,963,532 tons in 1960, down from 40,073,899 tons in 1959 and up from 37,428,468 tons in 1958. The figures indicate a slight drop year over year with 1960 showing a small decrease.
In Lima Peru AP report planters in the Andean foothills who began tea growing early in the century have won top recognition by having their product accepted for regular trading on the London tea market.
Mrs. Sarah Rigg Miller 68 of 12035 Verity Pkwy died at Middletown Hospital at 5 35 p m Saturday after 10 days in care. A former president of the Ladies Auxiliary of VFW Post 3809 she was a Gold Star mother and honorary grand marshal in Memorial Day parades. She is survived by two daughters Mrs Wilda Lach of Newport Ky and Mrs Marguerite Palmer of Norwood three sons William Charles and Reuben Rigg all of Middletown one brother William Williams of Dayton six grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services 10 a m Tuesday at Riggs Funeral Home Rev Henry Howard officiating burial Woodside Cemetery Friends may call 2 5 and 7 9 p m Monday VFW Auxiliary services 7 30 p m Monday
Dr. Thomas Dooley, 33, known as the jungle doctor of Laos, is in New York for a spinal ailment and hospital attendants say he is doing well as of Saturday night.
Kennedy rejects exempting Peace Corps volunteers from the draft. Millikan report backs a test corps of several hundred, but says service would not exempt draftees. Kennedy has floated three years of service as an alternative to peacetime conscription.
Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor served as a pesthouse a quarantine station a military prison a gallows and a dump before its transformation into Liberty Island.
Carlisle High School selects Don England and Sue Hatfield as homecoming king and queen after secret vote. The crowning occurred before a varsity basketball game against Little Miami, with last year’s queen Marthe Armstrong officiating. The homecoming dance followed a 61 71 Carlisle victory.
Harvey A. Whetstone Jr., 31, of Lombard Illinois, checked into the Gibbons Hotel in downtown Dayton for a six to seven month stay to work on a scheduling study for the city transit firm Alexander Proudfoot Co. He was found dead in a tilted room around 2 a.m. with a head injury and no weapon located. A three man police team pursued clues as investigators learned little about a motive. The report also notes Whetstone was married with no children and adds a glossary note on terra cotta.
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