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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1959
Page
2
After delay the Ohio House may vote today on a bill raising workers compensation benefits from 40.25 to 54.25 weekly and boosting death benefits from 12 000 to 15 000 with 1 000 per dependent. Gov DiSalle backs a 49 weekly compromise.
An advertisement promotes Ostret Tonic Tablets for married couples over 40 claiming to restore vim vigor energy and steadier nerves. It touts high iron content and vitamin B with oyster liver beet ingredients and offers a 3 day trial for 69 cents and economy size savings.
Ohio Board of Education faces a wave of turnover with nine or ten seats up for election. Incumbents Loren Souers Esther Qurman and James Lavey plan not to run, while vacancies persist in the 21st District. Named incumbents Ames Beckford Payne Sims Spicer will seek re-election amid a reshaped slate.
Governor Michael V. DiSalle issued his third veto of the legislative session on the fair trade bill. He argued the measure attempts to fix prices at manufacturers levels and may conflict with constitutional protections of free enterprise. He questioned whether the plan would curb loss leaders without proper legal basis and warned against state interference in a free economy.
The report from Tilly Fields describes the Girl Scout Senior Roundup with folk dancing exhibitions and demonstrations. Scouts build fires cook meals and keep campsites clean. Each meal features a guest and nightly campfires unite sections of four patrols. Minnesota girls performed ghost stories while Pat Berry and Pam Linzie joked at dinner.
Kenneth and Keith Ingraham, 17, from Mooreland Oklahoma, are the sole male delegates among about 2000 Future Homemakers of America members at the national convention in Chicago. The twins report enjoying dates with several girls, drawing eyebrows from participants who rarely see boys in home economics classes.
Logan County reports a hailstorm Saturday night caused about 80,000 dollars in damage to nearly 2,000 acres of corn soybeans and oats. County agriculture agent J E Hofford provides the estimate.
Four Cuban servicemen hijacked a Fidel Castro air force C47 with 17 aboard and landed in Miami. They predicted more exiles as anti Castro groups grow in Camaguey. The fugitives, anti Communist supporters of ex air force chief Pedro Diaz Sanz, were paroled for asylum hearings. The pilot and 11 others returned to Havana.
A Rocky River Lakewood dock blast during a water ski outing injured five people. Robert Groff 22 Bay Village owner of the 17 foot boat and his wife Marilyn 21 along with Mary Jane Haselbusch 18 and Rita Ross older Cleveland residents were treated for second degree burns. Richard Ross 19 Rita's brother was treated and released. Edward Bunt 21 of Cleveland escaped injury. Lakewood police cited bilge fumes ignited when the motor started. Fire was quickly put out.
Mrs. William Casserlite told two police ambulancemen she did not know she was pregnant. Patrolmen George M. Hardy and John F. Essex helped deliver a 6% pound boy at 4 25 p.m. Monday. The mother and baby were in excellent condition at St. Luke's Hospital.
In Kyushu Japan heavy rains caused floods and landslides leaving nine dead and fourteen missing. Emergency crews reported up to sixteen inches of rainfall since Monday.
Former Cuban air force chief Maj. Pedro Luis Diaz Lani testifies in an open hearing on charges that Communists infiltrated Cuba’s armed forces. Diaz, once denounced by Fidel Castro as a traitor, has spoken of dissatisfaction with the revolution and fled to the United States after claiming Communists were taking over.
Washington reports that Soviet American exchange visits of scientists entertainers artists and industry experts may be extended for two years. Talks to extend the program to start next month with a signed first agreement 1958 nearing completion. In the first year 953 Americans toured the Soviet Union and 465 Soviet visitors joined 70 projects mainly in industry and science.
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