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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1956
Page
2
Board approves tentative budget calling for a 11 4 mill levy if finalized, to cover a general fund of 3 363 151 and potential bond consideration for a new building. Repairs and site improvements rise, contingency grows, and staff raises mark the draft budget amid revenue shifts and carryovers.
A standing-room-only school board meeting heard 19 residents from the Goldman-Highlands protest the transfer of their children from Wilson to Sherman. The board will study the petition signed by 183 residents but the transfer stands absent further action.
Firemen answered a still alarm at 5:09 p.m. on Crawford Street for a wiring fire causing no damage. An emergency unit responded at 6:50 p.m. to Canal Street to assist Cora Lee Gregory, 24, who was ill and taken to Middletown Hospital by Baker ambulance.
ACQUI Italy Don Luigi Schiavetta a young priest received a five month suspended sentence for building a road to his aged village. Nine other members of his committee of the road were found guilty of aiding him. Schiavetta, pastor at Ciglione, organized landowners to grant access and pressed on after refusals.
Colored News reports Middletown and Dayton pupils of Mrs. Marietta Jamerson will give a piano recital at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. James Baptist Church in Franklin. A worship service is slated for 7 p.m. tomorrow at Friendship Baptist Church, followed by the regular prayer service. Rev. William Reynolds of the Church of God on Lincoln Avenue will lead services at Friendship Baptist Church Friday evening.
Itinerant cocoanut pickers in Malaya employ trained monkeys to climb tall palms and pluck coconuts. The animals are controlled by leashes as they assist in the harvest.
Ohio Attorney General C William ONeill ruled the state board of education may withhold state funds from districts that permit segregation. He tied the term law to constitutional equal protection and required due process in decisions, noting the board had rejected a motion to form a segregation investigations committee in Cleveland.
A 23 year old Middleton man told police he was pistol whipped by a night watchman at the Hasty Tasty Drive-In on Main Street. Talmadge Thomson of 3708 Tytus Avenue was treated and discharged from Middletown Hospital after a 1 54 a m incident. He had a small cut over the left eye and warned the watchman had threatened to kill him. No further bar details available.
Middletown Post Office will join downtown offices in Wednesday afternoon closings. Windows shut at noon while mail deliveries and box collections continue. stamp vending machine remains in lobby. Saturday closures unchanged, says Postmaster L Morton Taylor.
Officers arrested Frank Hummel at home on an assault and battery charge. Mrs. Leroy Mills reported two hubcaps stolen from her car. State patrolmen arrested Garry Collinsworth on a false affidavit for a driver's license. James Kuhn reported the loss of his billfold containing $19 and papers.
State patrolmen arrested Albert Kokoski, 23, of West Middletown Route 1, early today on Ohio 63 for careless driving.
Randell Coning said Orville Gross and Holt Goodpaster of 918 Beech St Middletown were ordered to stop an auto scrap yard on Franklin Trenton Road after being denied a zoning certificate by the county zoning board of appeals on May 14 and will be arraigned before Squire Albert Bolling.
William E. August of Kinston was found guilty of second degree manslaughter in Common Pleas Court and placed on five years probation for a fatal collision on U S 127 near Seven Mile that killed John W. Williamson. He must pay $500 to the widow and $25 weekly until an insurance settlement arrives, and is barred from pleasure driving for a year. Francis Sargent of West Middletown was found guilty of driving while intoxicated, fined $200 plus costs, jailed three days, and banned from pleasure driving for six months.
Middleton police cited Melvin DeMaris after a two car crash in the 3000 block of Tampton Place at 6 p.m yesterday. No injuries reported. DeMaris, 39, followed too closely after his vehicle struck Kay Kenney, 16, causing $300 in damage.
Paramount shows Leather Saint and Bho wani Junction at 1 20 4 50 8 25 and 2 45 6 20 9 50 p m Tuesday. Trapeze on Wed with multiple screenings. Strand presents Walk a Crooked Mile Country Girl. Way screens Overexposed and Hot Blood. Colonial Flags She Wolf Doctor at Sea. Dixie Cruise In features Yellow Mountain Benny Goodman Story with listed times.
Vice President Richard Nixon departs Ankara after talks with President Celal Bayar and Prime Minister Adnan Menderes on the world situation and Soviet tactics. He plans a three hour refueling stop at Majorca before continuing to Washington. The trip included visits to the Philippines South Vietnam Formosa Thailand and Pakistan.
The Middletown Planning Commission will hold a public hearing August 13 on the 560 acre tract annexed in May 1955 east of Breiel Boulevard and extending to Henrick Drive. Areas include Curryer Plains Gross Subdivision Middletown Ranch Homes Tullis Heights and Marshall Road.
A Roanoke Merchants Association member cites a schoolboy essay on the importance of fathers noting that fathers are important persons. Without them there would not be many of us kids around. The piece reflects local interest in family and community values. Some older stars in the universe reach 200 million degrees in temperature.
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