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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1958
Page
12
A parked car owned by Franklin Glick of American Express was entered Friday morning while he was inside a branch office. Blank money orders and an adding machine were in the rear trunk. the car was recovered late Saturday with the certificates and machine missing.
Middletown parks host Hobbies and Pets Week with a dog show at Sunset Park on Thursday at 7 p.m. Dogs must be three months old. event co sponsored by the Middletown Dog Training Club and Parks and Recreation. Movie nights, teen swimming, and a Friday Sunset dance accompany the week’s activities. weather may affect attendance.
A tornado like gust lifted a 116 by 6 foot barn from its foundation near Belfast in Hillsboro Ohio Friday evening, tearing it apart and throwing main sections about 90 yards away. Owner Richard Young watched as the structure was lifted into the air and parts of the roof landed a half mile distant. Nearby buildings were shifted from their foundations as well.
Art Leneman writes of aliens in the Ellis Island of animals as zoos and game farms ship heat sufferers like giraffes and okapis to the Clifton quarantine station. Donors and the law create delays and bills as beasts await permits, heat barns, and court outcomes amid a small menagerie of stories.
Cleveland police reported the theft of 87,000 dollars in negotiable American Express money orders from a company salesman's car. The American Express Co delayed details for over 24 hours while they prepared a serial number list of the stolen blank money orders.
The Clifton Station costs the U S Agriculture Department about 40000 annually to operate and remains the country’s only permanent animal quarantine facility. A Pacific Coast substation handles large ship ments from the Orient while a temporary setup near Miami Airport quarantines imports from South America.
Gilbert Braden, 34, father of 12, was shot and killed at Edward Gifford’s home in Pittsburg Junction. Gifford, 25, was held for investigation after the Friday night shooting, allegedly using a .22 caliber rifle.
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