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Middletown Journal

Location

Middletown, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jul 08, 1960

Page

3

Ford plants shut as strike hits compact car production

Production at Ford plants faltered after United Auto Workers Local 420 struck Lorain Ohio and other sites delaying four compact car assembly lines. The Lorain plant and others including Kansas City San Jose Metuchen faced closures with 3,500 engine workers laid off Brook Park and 750 at Lima engines. Union and Ford resumed talks after a 42 hour session with no immediate resolution.

Compact Car United Auto Workers Union Local 420 Lorain Ohio Kansas Kansas City San Jose Calif Metuchen N. J Ford Brook Park Lima 429

Penn Railroad Nonoperating Workers Strike Planned

A strike of nonoperating Pennsylvania Railroad workers is set to begin at midnight July 2 or soon after. TWU president Michael J. Quill said a definite date would be announced, with hopes operating employes won’t cross picket lines. The action targets 13 eastern and midwestern states plus DC, involving car cleaners, oilers, mechanics, and repairers in 4 locals. Demands include scope rule, banning outside maintenance contracts, and wage boosts of 35 cents an hour. Nonoperating pay ranges from 2.17 to 2.65 hourly.

NEW York Pennsylvania Railroad Michael J. Juill Transport Workers Union TWU Quill Pensylvania Pennsylvania Midwestern District of Columbia

Dinner At St Marys Draws160 Attendees At Lakeview Site

About 160 people attended the St Marys church picnic appreciation dinner in the St Marys school cafeteria. Picnic receipts will fund the new church auditorium as committee chairmen reported and sub officers spoke. The leading ticket sales team was captained by Robert Clark, reaching 206 percent. a men of St Marys trip to Cincinnati was planned for August with 45 attendees.

St. Mary's School St. Mary's Church Jans Guyler Don Goodman St. Mary's Roy Fossier Cincinnati

Camp for Crippled Children Sings Up Attendees

Applications are open for a crippled children's camp at Camp Campbell Gard from August 15 to 21. Interested individuals may contact the Butler County Society for Crippled Children and Adults at 405 Rentschler Building in Hamilton or call toll free via the operator at Enterprise 8431. The camp is sponsored by the Society and the Rotary clubs of Middletown and Hamilton.

Camp Campbell Gard Butler County Society For Crippled Children and Adults Rentschler Bldg Hamilton Enterprise 8431 Rotary Clubs of Middletown

Ohio Agencies to Publish Radioactivity Reports

Public reports on radioactivity data from Ohio Atomic Energy Commission facilities will be issued quarterly and filed with the Ohio Department of Health. The four sites include Goodyear in Pike County, Evendale GE, Fernald NL, and Miamisburg Monsanto. Reports show levels well below safety limits, with data on soil, background radiation, fallout, and nearby streams.

Columbus Ohio Atomic Energy Commission AEC Ohio Department of Health Pike County Goodyear Atomic Corp Evendale General Electric Co Fernaldi National Lead Co Miamisburg Monsanto Chemical Co National Committee of Radiation Protection

Crash Kills Youth in Ohio Collision

Ronnie Ricketts aged 17 of Rushsylvania was killed in a January 1959 to March 1960 crash at the Intersection of Ohio 117 and a county road in northern Logan County.

Bellefontaine Ohio Ronnie Ricketts Rushsylvania Logan County

YMCA Rubberneck trips schedule girls to Hueston Woods

Students will join a Monday YMCA bus trip to Hueston Woods near Oxford for lake swimming hiking and camp activities. Boys tour Ohio Bell Telephone Co in Dayton on Tuesday with a 9 30 am departure from the Y and return at noon. Registration deadline is tomorrow with buses leaving at 9:30 am and returning at 3:00 pm for girls and 9:00 am to noon for boys. Future trips include WLW farm at Mason for girls July 1 and Crosley Field Cincinnati St Louis game for boys July 23.

Hueston Woods Oxford Ohio Bell Telephone Co Dayton WLW Everybody's Farm Mason Crosley Field Cincinnati St. Louis

Deaths And Funerals Mrs Myrtle Johns Dies At 79

Mrs Myrtle May Johns 79 of 102 Shafer St died at 6 a m at Middletown Hospital from a heart attack while running to a fire at 11 McKinley St on June 2 She was born in Lebanon and lived in Middletown six years She was EUB Church member widow of William F who died in 1958 Surviving are three daughters a stepdaughter a brother nine grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren Services 10 a m Monday at Riggs Funeral Home with Rev Clifford Stearns officiating Burial in Woodside Cemetery Friends may call Sunday 2-5 and 7-9 p m The child born yesterday died at 10 05 a m at Middletown Hospital Surviving are parents a brother a sister maternal and paternal grandparents all of Middletown Arrangements by Wilson Memorial Home

Myrtle May Johns Shafer St Middletown Hospital McKinley St Johns Lebanon Middletown EUB William F Ada Smith John Davis Roy Fouts Ara Mangus Jumbus Leslie Drake Riggs Funeral Home Clifford Stearns Woodside Cemetery Richard Linkins Paul Bergdal Middletown Hopital Michael Sue Ellen E. L. Hawkins Tom Linkins Wilson Memorial Home

Infant Linkins Graveside Services Noted for Patricia Ann

Graveside services are announced for Patricia Ann Linkins infant daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Linkins. The ceremony will be held at the local cemetery with extended family in attendance. Further details were not available in the notice.

Linkins Patricia Ann Linkins

AF Calls Off Plane Search

In Bodo Norway AP reports the U S Air Force abandoned its search at midnight for a reconnaissance RB47 and its six crew over the Arctic Sea. The plane vanished last Friday on return to Britain after an electromagnetic mapping mission. A spokesman said 14 search planes had not made a positive sighting.

Bodo Norway U.S. Air Force Arctic Sea Britain

James Ragen 93 Dies at Baker Rest Home

James Ragen aged 93 died at 4 15 am today at the Baker Rest Home after leaving a Cooper's Alley furnished room three years ago. A former Inland Container Corp. employee from 1929 to 1938 he was born in Nashville Tennessee. Survived by a son William of Rocky Ford Cole arrangements are incomplete at Riggs Funeral Home.

James Ragen Baker Rest Home Cooper's Alley Ragen Thhe Inland Container Corp Nashville Tenn William Rocky Ford Cole Riggs Funeral Home

Deaths in brief in Burlington and Pittsburgh

Dr. Hugh H. Bennett, 79, longtime soil official and former chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, died Thursday in Burlington. Paul F. Jones, 55, Pittsburgh’s first Black councilman elected in 1954, died Thursday of a heart attack on the eve of his Los Angeles trip as Pennsylvania delegate at large to the Democratic National Convention.

Burlington N.C Hugh H. Bennett US. Bureau of Soils U.S. Soil Conservation Service Pittsburgh Paul F. Jones Los Angeles Pennsylvania

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