Break-in at Del Layne Firm on Fourth and Main
A burglary reported at the Del Layne firm on Fourth and Main last night left the offices ransacked. No valuables appeared to be missing. break-in occurred after the offices closed yesterday afternoon.
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1963
Page
2
A burglary reported at the Del Layne firm on Fourth and Main last night left the offices ransacked. No valuables appeared to be missing. break-in occurred after the offices closed yesterday afternoon.
In Marietta Georgia Cecelia Lois Dolan born three months premature weighed 2 pounds 2 ounces then 1 pound 10 ounces. Doctors gave less than one chance in ten she would live. After 85 days she is a 5 pound 10 ounce healthy baby. Her parents Hubert and Eula Dolan Jr were separated at birth due to work. they kept in touch as Cecelia Lois beat the odds and became a hospital favorite.
David W. Peacock 73 of Seventh Avenue formerly operator of a Mobil station died at noon yesterday at the Veterans Hospital in Cincinnati after two weeks’ hospital stay and years of ill health. Survived by wife Emily Hohl Peacock three daughters Mrs. Carl Reed Mrs. Jack Bick Cincinnati and Mrs. Robert Lackens Franklin eight grandchildren. Funeral 11 a.m. Friday Witt Goode Kelsh Funeral Home Oakley Square Cincinnati Burial Rest Cemetery. Friends may call tomorrow 4 to 9 p.m. A Masonic service tomorrow 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mrs Mary A Treadway 64 of 1326 Woodlawn Ave died at 10 20 am yesterday at Middletown Hospital where she had been a patient since Dec 30 after six months illness. Born in Carlisle Kentucky she lived in Middletown 43 years. Survived by husband Carl three sons Allen and Robert of Middletown William of Tulsa Oklahoma a brother Sherman Scott of West Middletown two half brothers Frank Scott of Paris Kentucky Russell Scott of Cincinnati and four grandchildren. Services 2 pm Friday at Mccoy Leffler Funeral Home conducted by Rev William O Calvert. Burial Woodside Cemetery. Funeral home hours 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm tomorrow.
The postponed Sunday closing report by City Manager Charles W. Thompson will be given at tonight's city commission session. The agenda includes a contract with H C Nutting Co for test borings on water tower sites and an ordinance to buy land in West Middletown for airport hazard rights. Also on the docket is a traffic report for Fulton Lane and Central Avenue. The Marietta College boat house, built in 1929, houses crew equipment and uses locally produced stones weighing about two and a half tons each.
Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dalton Jr. died at Grandview Hospital Dayton ten hours after birth. Graveside services held this morning at Miltonville Cemetery. Survived by parents and four sisters Cathy and Mrs. Frank Dalton Sr. of Franklin. maternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Al Viox of Red Lion. Arrangements by Eaton Funeral Home. Other obituaries noted for F. Byron Painter and Robert P. Schurger with private or Friday services.
Cardinal Gibbons of Franklin owner of Gibby’s Tavern at 323 Charles Street Middletown and patient at Middletown Hospital recovering from a heart attack received a Kentucky Colonel commission yesterday. The presentation was made in his hospital room by his brother Bernard Gibbons of Ross Street. The instrument was arranged with Gov. Bert Combs of Kentucky in October 1961 aided by Joe Clark Jr. of Danville and Mayes Barker of Danville.
Segasta Wilson and Bert Perk ins Jr were re elected president and vice president of the Armco Center board of directors at the annual dinner meeting held at the center in Minnesota Street and Lafayette Avenue. The leaders were chosen for the third year running. The meeting highlighted a master plan to develop 8 to 10 acres of unused center land with picnic tables shelters roads walkways and landscaping. John Coleman, park committee chairman, outlined the long range plan.
Peace Corps tests will be held Saturday morning at the Hamilton Post Office in southwestern Ohio. Civic service examiner Robert Garrett said tests will be offered again on March 23 and June 8.
London AP report says William Cardinal Godfrey, Roman Catholic primate of England and Wales, died yesterday of a heart attack at age 73. He led Westminster since 1956 and became a cardinal in 1958 after suffering a mild heart attack Saturday. A medical bulletin notes he died following a second heart attack.
An old style advertisement promotes Doan's Pills for bladder irritation restless nights backache and muscular pains. It says the product soothes bladder irritations provides fast pain relief and acts as a mild diuretic through the kidneys. It encourages buying the large size for convenience and notes 60 years of use.
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