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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1954
Page
5
Steel production fell to 74 percent of capacity last week, the second drop after a summer decline. Steel magazine notes the industry expects a spring rebound as orders normalize and mills finish January work ahead of schedule. Finished steel prices averaged $113.91 per net ton with scrap at $29.17 per gross ton.
Mrs Emma Jo Johnson married Jack Wengert after he helped uncover evidence leading to her pardon for a murder she was later deemed not to have committed. She had been convicted in 1951 of second degree murder in the death of her former landlady Mrs Jane Jones and was released after the Nevada Board of Pardons and Paroles granted clemency.
Scandinavian Airlines Gorm Viking Super-Cloudmaster completed a 6000 mile test polar flight from Los Angeles to Stockholm 40 minutes early. The flight via Edmonton Churchill Frobisher Bay and Greenland signals possible Scandinavia to Los Angeles service by May 1 pending Canada and US accords.
Tokyo based Asa hi, Japan's largest daily with a six million circulation, celebrated its 75th anniversary by giving cash bonuses and stock gifts to 7,000 employees. Bonuses averaged 2,000 yen. shares valued at 100 yen each, not market traded. Employees with 1-4 years service received three shares. longer service earned about one share per year.
Warren County Sheriff Richard Satterthwaite partners with the state highway patrol and local police to curb speeding and reckless driving after 24 county fatalities in 1953, a record high. Aiming for zero crashes in 1954, the effort includes night patrols, stricter headlight rules, school bus violations enforcement, and ready accident investigation.
Police and officials of the American Savings Bank ponder the case of a burglar who climbed to a fourth floor window on 42nd Street, triggered a bank alarm, and took nothing. No clues emerged as to motive or method.
Five foxes were trapped in the Ridgeville area while 16 or more were sighted but escaped. The event, with proceeds funding Ridgeville Church, drew limited participation. Hunters meet at the Warren County fairgrounds at 9 a.m. with planned drives around Lebanon. lunch will be served by Herb Younker.
Thomas F. Duff of Middletown Ohio has been appointed Executor of the estate of Florence Lytle Duff deceased late of Lemon Township Butler County Ohio Creditors must file claims within four months or be barred Dated December 30 1953 Judge Harry F Walsh Probate Thomas H Stubbs Attorney Publication January 11 18 25
STAN MEISLER reviews Maurice Evans as Richard II in a television adaptation chosen to support wartime propaganda themes. Evans captures the king’s flawed grandeur, but TV's close camera and limited stage feel dull at times. The piece argues the drama’s strength lies in its poetry rather than its action.
Radio tonight features Mimi Ben zell with Gordon Mac Rae in Music in the Air at 8, suspense with Robert Cummings at 8, Brian Sullivan on Howard Barlow at 8:30, Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain in People Will Talk at 9, Ja scha Heifetz at 9, and Vaughn Monroe at 10. Tomorrow includes IRS talk at 10:30. Television offers Dixieland Limited at 7, Mr Peepers and Dennis Day Show at 9, Badge 714 at 10:30, Montgomery Presents at 9:30, Boxing Rex Layne vs Tommy Jackson at 10, Studio One at 10, and Young and Willing at 11:45.
A sanitized listing shows daily radio program blocks with times and station tags. Programs include News Music and talk segments across WKRC WLW WMOH WPFB WSAI WMOR and others, plus late night shows like Rosemary and Aunt Jenny and genre hours on various stations.
Ruth O'Dell 33, wife of cowboy TV actor Dave O'Dell, died on arrival after a head on collision in Los Angeles. Dave O'Dell hospitalized with serious injuries. John Ritchie 27, driver of the other car, had minor cuts and was not hospitalized. He was not held.
The Albuquerque Journal notes the 1950 to 1960 census shows New Mexico gaining about 61 thousand people while Arizona rises 145 thousand. The paper quips that it “sure looks like a lot of folks overshot.”
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