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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1964
Page
2
The article recalls Feb 20 1962 when John Glenn orbited Earth aboard Friendship 7. It notes public jubilation and Glenns calm courage after manual control, his career from New Concord to Houston and the Apollo era, and his planned retirement after 22 years in the Marine Corps.
A new Butler County Restaurant Association adopts a constitution and by laws. Directors include William Carter Margaret Cornett Hans Kuehlthau Juanita Horne Stan A Todd Robert Tann Harriet Lutz Pearl Rinegar and Clarence Meyer. Officers elected Carter president Cornett first vice president Horne second vice president Kuehthau secretary Lutz treasurer.
Eugene Blevins reports two license plates missing from his car yesterday. Howard Dakins claims a pellet gun valued at 20 dollars was taken from his home. John R. Sparks reports a wheel and tire stolen from his truck at Middletown Hospital yesterday.
Obituary notes Raymond Dewey Honaker 64 formerly of Middletown died yesterday in Brevard County Florida He worked for Raymond Bay Co 1934 1957 and retired to Florida He was born in Brown County a World War II veteran and is survived only by his sister Dorothy Honaker of Excello Arrangements are incomplete at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home Other Butler County deaths Edward H Hyde 77 300 W Vine St Oxford services 2 pm tomorrow Marshall Smith William R Brown 27 Scotts Bluff Nebraska formerly Hamilton services 10 am tomorrow Frank Duffield 83 314 Dick Ave Hamilton services 10 am tomorrow infant daughter of Mr and Mrs John Rogers 135 S B St Hamilton services today Rose Hill Memorial Park
Arnold B. Keller 83 retired International Harvester Co executive died after a long illness in Hopkinsville Kentucky. Dr Arthur A. Desjardins 79 Mayo Clinic official and Hodgkins disease researcher died in Damariscotta Maine. Mrs S Blair Luckie 102 Swarthmore pioneer suffragist who joined Susan B Anthony in 1891 died Wednesday.
Howard Bartlett led Cub Scout Pack 63 as C. B. Walker district commissioner presented the pack charter at Wildwood School. Awards were given to Greg Hart Mike Harrison David Halderman Mike Chafin Mike Sherman Timmy Barker Joe White and Bobby Creath. Mrs. Charles Carver serves as den mother.
Authorities investigated a general alarm blaze that destroyed a three story structure housing Sports, Inc. in Mansfield Ohio. Damages were unofficially pegged at 75000 dollars as investigators said the fire started in packed shipment boxes.
Ohio health director Dr. Emmett W. Arnold reports 1963 births fell two percent to about 213000 from 217465 in 1962. Marriages rose six percent to 71000, divorces up three percent to 24000, and deaths climbed two percent to 97000.
Lor Ann Land sues comedian Jerry Lewis in Los Angeles Superior Court for 1 million dollars claiming he made slanderous statements in Hedda Hopper's column dated January 29, 1963. Land says she has sued Lewis once, on January 21, for plagiarism and breach of contract.
The operator of an unlicensed nursery home in Inglewood pled guilty to manslaughter in the death of a 10 month old boarder. Theodore Wittenberg 29 said he squeezed the crying infant on New Year’s Day and felt something pop. Autopsy found a ruptured liver. The boy was son of Marilyn Bailey of Bellflower. Wittenberg faces sentencing in Superior Court Feb. 13.
Thom as Jenkins a 24 year old Warren man was stabbed to death early today in what the Sheriff s Office believes was a fight near North River Road Four men were being held for questioning at press time
The House moves to replace the 1912 Great Seal by adding Alaska and Hawaii as 59 stars and changing star points to five. The new seal will depict the Capitol’s east front and the statue of freedom atop the dome, replacing the 1830 view.
Honolulu AP reports a week long missing air cargo flight search costing over 1.5 million dollars. The C124 Globemaster with eight crew and one passenger vanished during a 2300 mile wake island to Honolulu route on January 1. Air Force Coast Guard Civil Air Patrol aircraft logged 4000 flight hours across 600000 square miles. Two Navy ships and a Coast Guard surface vessel joined the search.
State Auditor Roger W. Tracy said Ohio motor vehicle registrations may reach five million by year end 1963. Total units registered through December 31, 1963 were 4,854,627, up 192,370 from a year earlier. License revenues totaled 81,411,146, up 2,669,535 with passenger car registrations at 3,885,893, up 140,738 and revenues at 37,785,497, up 1,374,960.
President Johnson a World War II Silver Star veteran and commander in chief of all armed services is reported to be considering resigning his commission as a Navy commander due to potential conflict with his duties. The AP dispatch notes this as a matter under contemplation and not a final decision.
In Cairo 13 Arab states pledged to silence internal propaganda and focus on Israel, agreeing to strengthen military posture and push a joint water plan. They announced a second summit in Alexandria in August while opposing Israel's Jordan River diversions and Sea of Galilee withdrawals.
RECORD IS EVEN DELHI NY AP The Delaware County Sheriff Wendell A Young annual report lists missing persons as two reported and two found, reflecting no net change in missing cases for the period.
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