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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1954
Page
7
N J Lawler general manager of The Journal will give his annual luncheon address at the Manchester Hotel noon Tuesday. The 18th message will review 1953 events and offer 1954 predictions, with a wide radio audience on WPFB and a large local turnout expected. Reservations are due Monday.
President Eisenhower urged Congress to pass a large tax revision aimed at reducing revenue about 1.215 billion dollars next year and then limiting further cuts. The plan would rewrite a “haphazard” tax system, ease burdens for many and spur business growth, while keeping current rate cuts in place for now. It also proposes extending excise and corporate tax rates, shifting filing deadlines from March 15 to April 15, and adding deductions for medical expenses child care for working widows and dependents, plus cuts on dividend taxes and a new single parent allowance.
A Columbus fire truck rushing to a false sprinkler alarm collided with a car driven by Mrs James H Shepherd. Fifteen year old Emilie June Shepherd was killed. Mrs Shepherd and 16 year old passenger James Reid were injured.
A private contractor building utility poles in Hamilton was warned to cover excavations after a six year old boy nearly drowned in a water-filled pit. Dennis Grantham, 14, spotted the boy’s head and pulled him to safety as Bobby Carlton, son of Mr and Mrs Phil Carlton, reportedly fell in while hunting for a cat. The pit was about four feet wide at the top.
Jess Landis, superintendent of Eaton water works for two years, submitted his resignation effective midnight. The move followed a village council reading of a proposed ordinance lowering his salary from 4,800 to 3,320 annually and tying all department heads to the same scale. The measure also raised other Board of Public Affairs employees to the police fire and street department levels. Landis, hired two years ago after retiring as manager of Dayton Power and Light, had no successor named.
Mr and Mrs Ben Thirkield of Middletown and Franklin have arrived in Washington DC where they will stay several weeks before sailing to Helsinki Finland. Thirkield a former newspaper man and naval officer is to be US consul in Helsinki after serving as consul at Johannesburg. Their children Phoebe 11 and Ren A 4 accompanied them, arriving in Boston after leaving Genoa Italy Jan 7 aboard the Excalibur. D D Thirkield a Sorg Paper Co veteran plans to fly to DC to visit.
Vital statistics note births to several families yesterday and today. Mrs. Howard Sorrell and Mr. Wilmer Hunter welcomed daughters while Mr. Delbert Sharrett and Mr. Ed Jess Watkins had a girl and a boy respectively.
In The Hospital Mrs Leon Caskey Reynolds Ave surgical Rotors Burnette Trenton surgical Miss Rita Brunette Franklin Route 1 surgical Vernon Jones Stanley St medical Ernie Carroll son of Mr and Mrs Trulen Carroll Granada Ave medical Mrs Ruth Weaver South Main St medical Benjamin Flack son of Mr and Mrs Edward Flack Excello Carolyn Armstrong daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Armstrong Garfield St medical Mrs John Stiles Sora Lane median Mrs Pearl Mcintosh West Middletown Route 1 medical DISMISSED Walter Roberts Granada Ave William C Lockard Yankee Rd Richard Grand Glenmore Dr Boyce Gresham son of Mr and Mrs Tracis Gresham Hamilton Edward Deaton West Middletown Route 1
Montgomery County authorities widened their search for Ruth Audrey Woods a 19 year old Dayton girl who slipped through an open gate of the county workhouse and escaped last night. She was serving a 185 day sentence for intoxication resisting arrest and pointing a firearm.
Packard Electric division of General Motors plans a new copper red mill on an 18 acre tract north of Warren, Ohio. The plant cost is not announced as GM expands nationwide. The note mentions traditional charcoal and modern by products from wood heating and retorts.
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