Wildcat Strike Halts NYC Trains From Albany to Buffalo
A wildcat conductors strike on the New York Central line between Albany and Buffalo halted several trains including the eastbound Ohio State Limited, Twentieth Century, Wolverine, Montreal Limited and Commodore Vanderbilt. The action began at 4 am and was later ordered ended. officials cited no clear cause but suspected layoffs anger.
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New York
New York Central Railroad
Buffalo
New York Central
Ohio State Limited
Albany
N.Y
Divison
National Union
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Rochester
N. Y
Nyc
Twentieth Century
Wolverine
Chicago
Montreal
South Shore Limited
Boston
Middletown
Cincinnati
Ohio State Patrol Academy Graduates 30 Cadets
Thirty cadets completed a 14 week program at the Ohio State Highway Patrol Academy in Columbus and will be assigned to posts including Post 9 on Rt. 4 south of Middletown and Dayton Post. Wayne E. Henry of London led among graduates. Total strength reaches 671 of 700 authorized. 60 at Ohio Turnpike duty not counted.
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Ohio State Highway Patrol Academy
Columbus
Rt. 4
Middletown
Wayne E. Henry
London
John R. Anderson Jr
Toledo
Dayton
Leonard B. Bakies
Carey
Greenville
Academy
Inland Middletown Safety Council Tours Inland Container Plant
Inland Safety Council members toured the Inland Container Corp. plant yesterday. Robert Mann discussed safety suggestions and received commendations for observed safety measures. Dean Girton outlined plans for the Butler County Safety Conference March 3 4 and the Industrial Awards banquet February 10. A pedestrian safety awareness program was reviewed in the traffic division led by Vice President Harry James with Pil Edward Lykins Lt James Combs and William Long named to the committee.
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Middletown Safety Council
Inland Container Corp
Robert Mann
Safety Council
Dean Girton
Butler County
Council
Harry James
Edward Lykins
James Combs
William Long
What You Should Know About Cemetery Lots
Article urges preplanning burial arrangements with six key checks and practical notes on cemetery types. It emphasizes deciding early to relieve survivors and explains commonly offered options. The February Reader's Digest feature profiles guidance on cemetery purchases and endowment considerations.
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Reader's Digest
Swift One Minute Court Clears Docket In Middletown
In a brief session Judge J. T. Lamb disposed of three intoxication cases, forfeiting bonds totaling 150 dollars. Two paternity hearings were scheduled to follow the regular Friday morning criminal session.
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Middletown
J. T. Lamb
ITOPS Prepare Member Drive at Colony Meeting
ITOPS discussed a February and March membership drive during the Colony meeting last night with prizes for winners. Betty Craft reported plans for the national advisory board meeting in March and the national convention in Louisville in April.
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Betty Craft
Louisville
Craft
Dorothy Montgomery
Betty Rahm
Adelaide Gray
Frankie Jones
Frankie Jones, Membershp
Vera Mullins
Pearl
Luella Ebright
Ways and Means
Mary Ellen Thomas
Elma Williamson
Community Church Food Events Planned This Weekend
Mrs Anna Washington sponsors a chitterling supper and fish fry at Friendship Baptist Church at 3 p.m. today. Mrs Nina Groves hosts a fellowship meeting at Phillips Chapel CME Church at 3 30 p.m. The Young Peoples Progressive Club holds a fish fry and chitterling dinner at 3 p.m. Saturday at Bethel AME Church.
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Anna Washington
Friendship Baptist Church
Nina Groves
Phillips Chapel
CME
The
Young Peoples Progressive Club
Bethel Ame
Little Profit In Big Climbs At Kolbe Paint Co
A burglar in Cincinnati scaled a six foot fence at Kolbe Paint Co then climbed four floors on a fire escape. He broke a window to enter stole from a cash register and failed to hammer a second floor door. He made multiple trips for 60 cents in loot.
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Cincinnati
Kolbe Paint Co
Ministers Plan Role In Week for All America City
The Middletown Council of Churches executive board met at First Christian Church. Rev. Edwin Bobbitt presided as chairman and Rev. G Walter Weber led the Community and Civic Committee proposing All-America City Week events February 2 to 8. Brotherhood Week plans named B nai B rith to head services. Inter-Church Activities will host Good Friday services with Reformation Sunday on October 26. Youth Rally set for Sunday at First EUB Church with 1 dollar registration for juniors and seniors. Annual meeting scheduled April 24 at First Methodist with Dr. Harold Monroe as speaker.
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Middletown Council of Churches
First Christian Quarch
Edwin Bobbitt
G. Walter Weber
Middletown
B'nai B'rith
William Calvert
Ralph Knight
Harold Grunewald
Christian Education
Sam Noblet
EUB
First Methodist Church
Harold Monroe
Ohio Christian Missionary Society
Damage Just $75 In 3 Fires Here
Two local fires yesterday caused total damage of 75 dollars. An overheated fryer at Roger Leonard home 709 15th Ave caused 50 dollars of damage. A second fire at Donald Osborne home 3306 Mc Gee Ave damaged 25 dollars of contents when a radio activated garage door opener overheated and transformer burned. Fire crews from 1 3 and the emergency squad responded to the 6 23 p m kitchen fire. Company 2 crews were called at 1 02 p m yesterday to the Osborne blaze.
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Roger Leonard
15Th Ave
Donald Osborne
McGee Ave
Firefighters Tackle Shop Blaze Causing 3450 in Damages
Three firemen responded to an alarm at 2 24 p m at Hounshell Body Shop 1405 Woodlawn Ave to find wood smoldering from a fire yesterday morning causing 3450 damage. The afternoon fire was extinguished with no damage reported.
Art Reiff Enters May Primary For Butler County Commissioner
Arthur Reiff of Hamilton announces candidacy for county commissioner in the May primary. He cites petitions with over 1000 signatures alleging excessive spending and notes his eight-year prior tenure ended with a narrow 1956 defeat to Ross Snyder.
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Hamilton
Arthur ‘Reiff
Hamilton-Mason Rd
Butler County
Reiff
Ross Snyder
Middletown
Snyder
Ben
van Gorden
Gordon Augspurger
Augspurger
Arthur
Ray) Tilton
St. Clair Ave
Hamilton High School
Xavier University
Cincinnati
Help Available In Tax Reports Assistance For Vendors
Aid to vendors in making out their sales tax returns will be given in the Middletown office of the county treasurer by a sales tax examiner. Deadline for filing the forms is Jan 31. The examiner will be in the Middletown office Jan 27 through Jan 31. Deputy treasurer Carl Wedekind is on vacation and not expected back before mid February. The office reports it has sold 2,300 dog licenses and that close to 1,000 licenses were issued last Monday, the deadline for purchasing licenses.
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Middletown
Carl Wedekind
KP to Host District Confab at Lafayette Lodge
Knights of Pythias Lafayette Lodge 37 will host a district meeting Saturday at 8 p.m. in Castle Hall. Grand Chancellor Dale Stump of Columbus, Kenneth Hess, and other grand officers attend. James A. Cox and Michael P. Phillips were named knights. Work directed by Charles Witner and Noah Lambert. Lodge votes to join All-America City celebration.
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Lafayette Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Castle Hall
Dale Stump of
Columbus
Kenneth Hess
Pyrthian
James A. Cox
Michael P
Phillips
Charles Witner
Noah Lambert
Fred Keuthan
Theodore Thompson
Man Struck by Engine Near Hines Hills injures worker
Summit County deputies report a two unit diesel engine pulling one car passed over John Wychames 43 as he slept between Pennsylvania Railroad tracks near Hines Hills. He was taken to Green Cross Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls with head injuries.
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Akron
John Wychames
Hines Hills
Summit County
Wychames
Hudson Boys Farm
Green Cross Hospital
Cuyahoga Falls
Civil Defense Directors Map Ohio Survival Plan
Civil Defense leaders from major Ohio cities gathered to hear objectives for survival and continuity of government in a full emergency. Col. MacAfee outlined lines of succession and preservation of essential records while officials discussed operating from emergency facilities with full interagency cooperation. Governor ONeill could not attend due to illness.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cleveland
Akron
Canton
Youngstown
Steubenville
Dayton
Cincinnati
Toledo
Col. BE
C. MacAfee
Ohio Survival Project
Civil Defense I
George Owen
John L. Sullivan
Region Civil Defense
Leo M. Kreber
Ohio Civil Defense
William O'Neill
Crackpot Blamed Bomb Scare Closes Springfield School
Springfield Ohio authorities evacuated Hayward Junior High School housing 650 students after a bomb threat. Principal L G Ronemus coordinated with police. caller claimed to have planted a bomb and warned it would go off at 9 a.m. No device was found and classes were to resume pending results.
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Springfield
Ohio
Hayward Junior High School
L. G. Bonemus
Clifton Ave
Evang Stadium
Ronemus
Springfield High School
Nixon Named First Honorary Member of Junior Achievement
National JA honors Vice President Richard Nixon as the first honorary member of Junior Achievement Inc. A release from the Middletown JA office notes the honor was presented by national campaign chair George Alpert and Brian Boyer, launching a membership drive. Junior Achievement Week runs January 26 to February 1.
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Richard Nixon
Junior Achievement,Inc
Middletown
Junior Achievement
George Alpert
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co
Brian Boyer
Chicago
Aeronca Man Parley Speaker James Sorenson at Seventh Quality Conference
James Sorenson quality control manager at Aeronca Manufacturing Corp will be a panel speaker at the Seventh Annual Quality Control Conference tomorrow at the Netherland Hilton Hotel. He will discuss the mathematical theory of quality control. Sorenson, a graduate of Ohio State University and the University of Oregon, is active in ASQC as Salt Lake City section first chairman.
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James Sorenson
Aeronca Manufacturing Corp
Netherland Hilton Hotel
Ohio State University
University of Oregon
Sorenson
American Society For Quality Control
Salt Lake City
ASQC
One-Car Crash Injures Middleton Driver on Clark Street
At 2 20 a m a car driven by 24 year old Gerald Conover of 1226 S Verity Pkwy struck a tree on Clark Street near Vail Avenue after swerving to avoid a parked car. He suffered a forehead laceration and was treated at Middletown Hospital. Vehicle damage estimated at 400. Conover said he was blinded by oncoming traffic. He was dismissed after emergency care.
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Clark Street
Vail Avenue
Middletonian
Middletown
Gerald Conover
S. Verity Pkvy
Conover
Clark
Fuchs Leaves Pole for Real This Time
Dr. Vivian Fuchs and the Commonwealth expedition depart the South Pole after completing a 1,250 mile trek to Scott Base. A premature report of their leaving was corrected as the team was delayed by a blizzard and a party member was reported killed in the Crystal Springs area.
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Auckland
New Zealand
Vivian Fuchs
South Pole
Canton
Ohio
Scott Base
Crystal Springs
George Fridley
Cleveland
Auto Carrying 2 Tots Rolls Into Traffic
Franklin report: a car left with two children rolled down a ramp into traffic after the emergency brake was released. The vehicle struck a second car, causing minor damage to the first and $125 to the second. the children were unhurt and the mother faces an improper parking citation.
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Franklin
S. Main Street
Irene Smith
West Chester
Main Street
Raymond Patrick
Grand Ave
Middletown
Lebanon Club To Get Charter In January
John Dobrozsi of the Middle town Testmaster's Club said a new club is being chartered at Leban on and will receive its charter Jan. 30. Middletown members and wives will attend a Golden Lamb dinner at 6 30. Lloyd Noland named best speaker and Max Pemberton most improved. The meeting adjourned until Feb. 6. An eight week speechcraft course starts Feb. 13.
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John Dobrozsi
Middletown
Lebanon
Golden Lamb
Lloyd Noland
Max Pemberton
Niew
Police Briefs Report Stolen Car Recovered and Missing Person
John Combs and Paul Judd recovered a car stolen Jan. 16 from the 1700 block of Philadelphia Avenue. Robert Nickell reported his daughter Eileen Nickell 20 is missing from 5631 Meryton Place College Hill Cincinnati. A 16-year-old Middletown boy and a 14-year-old girl were arrested on Rt. 4 after the girl borrowed a car and did not return it. Both youths are held for juvenile authorities.
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Robert Nickell
Clark St
Eileen Nickell
Meryton
College Hill
Cincinnati
Middletown Area
Rt. 4
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