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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1952
Page
3
Zoo officials report four doors missing? Actually: chimpanzees afflicted by a contagious illness affecting multiple enclosure residents. A gorilla is listed in critical condition as staff quarantine sections and monitor symptoms.
Zoo director Fletcher Reynolds said the chimpanzees showed symptoms like intestinal influenza while the zoo’s prized gorilla remains invaluable. The chimps are valued over $600 each.
The U S Air Force ferries 20 F84 jets from Travis AFB California to Hickam Field Hawaii in 5 hours 29 minutes for a record over water flight. A 9 000 mile journey from Turner AFB Albany Georgia began Saturday with first squadron completing the 2 408 mile leg. The second and third squadrons follow today and tomorrow en route to Japan.
The greatest snow fall in New York City occurred December 26 and 27, 1947, with 25.8 inches of snow dumped in a 24 hour period.
Butler County recorder Earl R. Hogan releases a yearly snapshot covering July 1951 to June 1952. Deeds total 6,524, mortgage activity rises with 6,613 new mortgages valued at $37.53 million, while cancellations reach 4,432 totaling $20.85 million.
The Middletown Civic Association seeks court authority to sell The Haven at 1406 Garfield St. The sale would benefit the estate of Henry Rusche who died June 20 and left his widow Clara Rusche. Executor H. D. Dell is named. estate value not yet determined.
Frank W Wright of Princeton Park and Martha Seward Wright compete on Hamilton Route 8 with details limited to the reported names and location.
Cleveland dispatch notes Steel magazine warns that a prolonged steel strike will strain users as inventories dwindle. Production delays hit expansions, with U S Steel delaying Morrisville plant construction by four to five months and steel bars and plates hardest to obtain.
In Chicago at the Republican National Convention Governor Alfred E. Driscoll reports his 14 year old son Peter was rushed to a hospital last night with fears he may have polio. The family had come from New Jersey after a Governors Conference in Houston. Polio's epidemic risk had been rising in Texas.
Libyan health ministry reports a typhus outbreak across Cyrenaica with over 80 cases in four weeks. Districts from Agedabia to Tobruk are affected as authorities mobilize vaccination and sanitation efforts.
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