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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1960
Page
2
Butler County deputy treasurer Carl Wedekind announced the Middle Town office of taxes and assessments collected 2,305,372.27 for the first half of 1959. The amount exceeded the half-year due of 2,224,880, averaging 80,491.87 per return on taxable properties in Middletown Madison and Lemon townships.
Ohio State Auditor James A Rhodes projects tax increases will cost about 375 million dollars for the two-year period ending next June 30. By using receipts from the just-ended fiscal year and excluding public utility taxes, he includes a 120 million dollar gasoline tax rise and liquor price boosts. The four sources total more than 424 million last year, up over 85 million from the prior year, pushing the two-year rise to roughly 364.7 million dollars.
In conjunction with Franklin's quasi Sesquicentennial observance yesterday, three Middletown youths and a Peastown girl earned baton twirling awards. Candy Bailey won first place among nine year olds, Susie Goecke took seventh in the 12 year old division, and Debbie Mathis was fourth in her age group. all are pupils of Shirley Sandusky, renowned state champion twirler and Middletown High School student.
Carjax, Inc. at 20 S Broad St received a D-3A liquor permit extending closing time to 2:30 am. The Ohio Department of Liquor Control Director Richard C. Crouch announced the decision yesterday. The restaurant had been in a D4e classification and filed the new application last April for a town in north Holton.
Middletown general taxes amount to 1 633 859 63 with Lemon and Madison townships adding 299 811 94 and 229 880 57 in general tax receipts. Assessments total 141 820 across Middletown Madison and Lemon. County wide collections reach 6 227 969 in general taxes and assessments, a county record. Hamilton reports 2 389 703 89 in general taxes and 45 381 99 in assessments.
Hamiltonian Isaac Amburgey, 48, of Augspurger Road, was listed in poor condition at Mercy Hospital after a midday crash on Augspurger Road east of New Miami. He suffered internal injuries head contusions and abrasions when his car left the road veered into a ditch crossed the highway and slammed into a tree leaving the vehicle a total loss. State patrols said this was the only accident investigated yesterday by Post 9 up to 10:30 p.m.
At Fort Knox Kentucky 19 guns boomed in salute to Ohio Governor Mike DiSalle as he reviewed his state's National Guardsmen in summer training. DiSalle and his wife arrived Friday night from Glacier Park Montana with staff and later went to Columbus.
The Journal will not publish on Monday July 4 to allow employees to spend the holiday with families. Retail Merchants division offices will also be closed all day Monday. Store hours Tuesday will be noon to 830 PM.
Gene Fowler 70 famed newspaper man and writer died Saturday at his West Los Angeles home after a heart attack. Personal physician Dr Frank Nolan said he had been in good health recently and spoke of chest pains to his wife Agnes before the seizure. Fowler had visited his sons Gene Jr and Will earlier, with Will present at his death. He authored Good Night Sweet Prince and a Barrymore biography and was working on a new book about 1920s newspapermen.
Kenny Whisman, 31, was killed by a 12 gauge shotgun blast during a domestic quarrel at his home 44 Walnut St Hollywood Addition around 8 last night. His wife Louise, 30, is held on second degree murder charges after stating she loaded and fired the weapon while the couple quarreled for days.
Two bike riding youngsters suffered minor scrapes and bruises in collisions with cars on city streets yesterday. Jimmie Barbour 11 and Kenny Wallace 9 did not need hospital care. Barbour was clipped by a car door opened by Glen Short, bruising his right leg. Wallace struck by a turned car door on Shaler Street, injuring left leg and elbow but not requiring hospital treatment. Other accidents involved two cars near 3121 Tytus Ave and on N Main Street with total damages of 125 and 80 dollars.
Middletown's National Guard troops concluded a two week summer training at Camp Perry. Battery A 1st Gun Battalion 174th Artillery led by 1st Lt Richard A Van Wootten Jr joined 28 other units in field exercises near Lake Erie. About 1600 men traveled by convoy to the northern Ohio reservation June 18 for firing ranges bivouacs and weekly drill accessibility.
London AP reports Aneurin Bevan, No. 2 Labour figure, pronounced critically ill after a sudden turn for the worse at his country home where he had been convalescing since a major abdominal operation last December. He is 62. The ailment’s nature was not disclosed. The article notes the first cotton mill for cloth manufacture opened in 1814 in Waltham Massachusetts.
Lee G South 82 of 623 Wilson St died Saturday at a Hamilton convalescent home where he lived since February He was a retired machinist formerly with the P Lorillard company He was a Darke County native Survived by wife Sallie Sims South two sons Grover and Franklin both of Middletown one sister Emma Gordon Oak Park IL three grandchildren and three great grandchildren Funeral services at 2 pm Tuesday at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home with Rev lifford E Stearns officiating Burial in Lebanon Cemetery Friends may call Monday 3 to 6 and 7 to 9 pm at the funeral home
Carrie E Wertz 88 of 5770 Union Rd Franklin Rt 1 died at 12 10 p m Saturday at Zartman Rest Home Franklin after three days of illness widow of Albert E Wertz who died in 1948 native of Middletown daughter of Adam and Caroline Drayer survived by son R A Wertz and three grandchildren service 2 p m Tuesday at Wilson Memorial Home Rev Robert Ward officiating burial Woodside Cemetery no visitations
In Dayton Ohio a three year old boy Ray Ulimer Jr. was killed instantly at an east Dayton intersection when he ran into an oncoming car. The driver was not injured.
The Associated Press reports 16 deaths on Ohio highways as weekend crash figures mount. A multi-vehicle collision near Wellington claimed four Medina County youths, while other incidents include drownings and a fatal cable accident. The toll, likely to grow during the holiday period, reflects an alarming national trend in traffic fatalities.
A roundup lists numerous fatalities across Ohio and nearby states from Friday and Saturday incidents. Debo rah Sue Criswell a Cincinnati three year old struck by a car. Aloysius Cordonnier eighteen near New Carlisle killed in a two car crash. Walter Zimmerman twenty one of Lodl and others in collisions, drownings, or train incidents. Niehttime totals include fifteen traffic deaths, eleven boating fatalities, twenty seven drownings and nineteen misc for a national toll of two hundred eight. Non traffic deaths include two month old Dennis Walker in Dayton and two Ky men who drowned near Lake Vesuvius.
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