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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1958
Page
4
The Hornets Nest Concert Choir in Monroe will host a January 24 tribute to George Gershwin featuring a Susan Boxwell piano duo with Paul Bell. A Porgy and Bess medley and numbers like Lullaby of Birdland and Country Style highlight the hour-long show.
Richard Weldon Knapp 38 of Blanchester died in Cincinnati after his car rear ended a parked truck loaded with 33 000 pounds of steel He had been returning from Indianapolis where he worked and apparently fell asleep at the wheel The truck was in a well lighted area Production of pleasure boats in the United States rose from 2 440 000 in 1927 to over six million in 1957.
Raymond Oram of Middletown High School has been named top science student in the senior class and earns the Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award. He becomes eligible for Bausch & Lomb Science Scholarships totaling up to 9600 dollars over four years, with past scholars studying at the University of Rochester.
Junior class officers select committees for the Jun ior Senior Prom to be held May 30 in the Wade E Miller gym. Finance co chairmen are David Cox and Jim Liljestrand. Refreshments co chairs Linda Morris and Joe Kendall with Larry Bobbitt assist. Reservations by Robin Velte and Sidne Whitehead with Judy Thomas assist.
A Middletown Safety Council test named nine Fenwick finalists for Safest Driver. Seniors Mike Burney Derry Derivan Louie Huber and Jerry Davis plus juniors Bob Moorman George Wirsch Dan Yost Bill Ernst and Bob Ristane competed. Dan Yost won the title. Exams run on a tight schedule week of Jan. 20 with period changes and a flood repaired Room 101.
The Spanish government said 44 people including university students were arrested for allegedly trying to reconstitute the Communist Party in Spain. The director general of public security reported all confessed and await trial. Javier Pradera Cortazar, nephew of the ambassador to Damascus, is among the detainees, a known Falangist. Some detainees attended a World Youth Festival in Moscow last August.
Buffalo endured its heaviest snow of the season with a foot buried the city and suburbs to the south recording up to 18 inches. The U S Weather Bureau forecast 3 to 5 more inches across western New York before the storm eases later.
Naturalists note that the hyena erupts in a distinctive laugh only while searching for or consuming food, suggesting the vocalization signals appetite and hunting drive rather than general excitement.
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