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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1971
Page
6
About 40 guards for the first shift did not show up in protest over overtime distribution. A spokesman noted sick pay benefits are treated as a discrimination edge. Six guards planned talks with Warden Cardwell while the third shift of 70 guards remained on duty amid wages, relations, and brutality concerns.
Eugene V. Schalk, 58, died Saturday in a gasoline explosion at his 408 Belle Ave. home. Services set for Tuesday at 10 am at Brown-Dawson Funeral Home with burial at Rose Hill Memorial Park. Neighbors aided evacuation but flames prevented entry. firemen reported minor damage. Survived by wife Evelyn.
Dobie Hagins won the Pinewood Derby for Cub Scout Pack 63 at Wildwood School this weekend. Bill Borland took second and Tony Farrow third. Ten winners included Hagins, Randy Tunnel, Gary Hines and Doug Lynch. Cub master Claude Martin inducted John Cope and awards were presented to Danny Martin, Joey Alexander, Jeff Sabo and Jeff Abell.
Pfc. Dino Shumacher, 19, from Altoona Pennsylvania, waded into mud at an artillery camp near Mai Loc on the Laos border as monsoon rains turned the area into Mud Loc. Despite attempts by buddies and Montagnard children, only after a patch of dry ground, a rope, and American military effort was he freed.
Highway patrolmen from Lebanon Post 83 and local Post 9 investigated 16 accidents yesterday blaming road conditions. Each post handled eight incidents. Lebanon noted minor injuries with no hospital treatment. Post 9 logged a minor injury crash at 8 55 a m on Ohio 73 four tenths of a mile east of Trenton. Deborah L Johnson 18 of 1710 Carolina St drove out of control and struck two metal sign posts. Her daughter Wendi age one suffered minor injuries but was not treated.
Carryout beer permits have been issued to three businesses near Middletown by the Ohio Department of Liquor Control. Kenneth Combs operates Kennys Carry Out at 2018 Cincinnati Dayton Road Lemon Township. Carl and Hazel Gabbard run Gabbards Grocery at 6651 Cincinnati Dayton Road Liberty Township Rt. 1. Cletus Ross Hurley operates Hurleys Mobile at 440 Middletown Eaton Road Madison Township.
Industry Week reports broad hedging of steel as a possible summer strike looms. Mills push production and recall furloughed workers as demand rises, with raw steel output near record highs since last July. Scrap prices climb as demand strengthens for steelmaking materials.
Ohio traffic deaths over the weekend reached 14 as drivers clashed with tractors highway dividers utility poles and pedestrians. The toll from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday was below the 1971 weekend average of 18. The year’s weekend toll now stands at 69 with Greene Montgomery Delaware Darke and Portage counties recording single fatality crashes that accounted for nearly half of Sunday’s deaths.
Cincinnati AP USDA cattle market notes strong to 25 higher on best cattle with some 50 higher on select items. Cows steady to 50 higher, bulls steady. Steers 900-1100 lb yield grade 2-3 29.50-31.00. good 26.50-29.00. Holstein 1100 lb 24.50-25.50. Heifers 700-950 lb yield grade 2-3 27.75-28.50. Two lots of unspecified types noted.
Ohio buyers and packing plants report egg prices delivered to Columbus markets. The bulletin notes case lots of 530 or more and includes consumer grades alongside U S grades for reporting purposes.
Carton sizes Large Medium Small A priced at 48 44 30 33 with sales to retailers in major Ohio cities. Deliveries show Large A white 45 50 mostly 45 48, medium 43 46 mostly 43 49. Poultry hens at Ohio farms selling 4.50 to 5.00 with majority at 5. Potatoes range 4.00 to 6.00.
The first systematic weather observations in the United States are attributed to Reverend John Campanius Holm, chaplain of a settlement near present day Wilmington, Delaware, who began making regular observations just 24 years after the Plymouth Rock landing in 1620.
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