YMCA Approves 140,590 Budget for 1953 54
The YMCA board approved a tentative budget of 140,590 for 1953 54 after finance committee recommendation. Income includes 30,600 from contributions and 109,990 from dues and fees. The increase over current 132,000 is due to salaries, full time positions, insurance, retirement, and maintenance costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YMCA
Ymca Board of Directors
Civic Association Board of Governors
Civic Association
D. E. Reichelderfer
Finance Committee
Highway official must testify in truckers suit
Federal Judge Mell G. Underwood ordered Harold Cohen, former executive secretary of the state highway department, to testify in a suit by trucking interests against the Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference. The deposition was set for Columbus but postponed. a new date will be arranged. The case accuses railroads of conspiring to push truckers from interstate freight hauling.
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Columbus
Ohio
Mell G. Underwood
Harold Cohen
State Highway Department
Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference
Underwood
Cohen
Parking Meter Vote Sought in Eaton Poll
Local realtor Cletus O Ressler began a petition drive to place the question of keeping Eaton parking meters on the November 3 1953 general election ballot. He seeks 61 signatures and aims for several hundred before submitting to Village Clerk June Plummer 40 days prior to the election.
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Eaton
Cletus O. Ressler
Ressler
Vilage
June Plummer
Man 84 Breaks Hip In Fall From Ladder At Home
An 84 year old Middletonian William Zecher of Middletown Route 3 was listed in fairly good condition at Middletown Hospital after a fall from a stepladder at his home. He sustained a fractured left hip and received emergency treatment at 6:35 p.m. A 50-year old Fairmount Avenue woman was wounded on the left side below the heart by a personal safety related bullet Monday and is described as in satisfactory condition. Buddy Shrout, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elzie Shrout of 1219 Reynolds Ave., is reported in satisfactory condition after a brain concussion and skull fracture from a fall from a second-story window Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Wiliam Zecher
Fairmount Avenue
Luther
Buddy" Shrout
Elzie Shrout
Reynolds Ave
Showgirl Found Dead In New York
In New York a nude and bloodstained body of Florence Forsberg, a chorus singer in the Broadway show Wonderful Town, was found in her West Side apartment. Police say she was beaten and stabbed with throat marks. A suicide note by Lester Johnson, 25, linked to the scene, says I killed Florence Forsberg. Johnson killed himself nearby with a rifle. Forsberg’s address was 34 West 69th Street.
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New York
West Side
Florence Forsberg
Lester Johnson
W. 69Th St
Central Park
Jerome de Crosse
Roosevelt Hospital
Rosa
Winter Garden offers musical version of My Sister Helen
Police report a New York couple scene with a murder and stabbing. Johnson shot himself in the bedroom at 7:15 AM with a rifle under his body. his mother and sister heard the shot. Miss Forsberg, about 25, was stabbed in the chest and abdomen in her apartment. No weapon found and motive unclear. First U.S. natural gas well was drilled at Fredonia in 1821, town lit by gas in 1825.
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Ylind Russell
Winter Garden
Hileen
Johnson
James B. Leggett
U. S
Fredonia
N. Y
Postoffice Goes Modern in Columbus Suburb
Upper Arlington residents will buy stamps and receive service from a drive in postoffice. Motorists park near speakers and give orders by microphone while a loudspeaker describes the Columbus Red Birds game. Service matches traditional postoffice offerings.
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Columbus
Ohio
Upper Arlington
Columbus Red Birds
Lawmaker Missed Pay Day Denies Heirs Cash Now
Washington The House accounts committee shelved a resolution to pay 6305.42 to the estate of James Hazlett of Philadelphia who died in 1940 after resigning in 1927. Hazlett did not draw pay as Congress did not meet then and he reportedly would not sign an advance receipt.
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Washington
House Accounts Committee
Congress
James Hazlett
Philadelphia
Hazlett
Accounts Committee
Armstrong Named Manager of Tower Service Station
H. L. Doc Armstrong has been appointed manager of the Tower Service Station at Verity Parkway and Columbia Avenue. A Middletown man, Armstrong brings extensive trucking industry experience and previously ran his own service station before becoming Middletown representative for Tower. The Tower station is one of 15 units in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L
Doc) Armstrong
Tower
Verity Parkway
Columbia Avenue
Middletown
Armstrong
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Ralph C. Knight
Walter Emrick
Armco
Follmer Paving Company
Hamilton
Shirley Davis
Ymca Women and Girls
Don Osborne
Miss Davis
Margaret Thomas
Lodema Erbacher
Homestead Inn
Homestean
Homestead
Crawford ST
O&b
Yd Central Branch
Oglesby-Barnitz Bank & Trust CO
Jeso
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Seersucker
Coats
Cord
Corner Main & Central
Raes
Pune
Gol
Joseph Chenier
Barranquilla
Colombia
National Geographic Society
Eaton Vote
B. L. Dawson & CO
Clark St
Ol Burner
Winkler
Yankee Road
Rogers
Gee
Cos
Eemennerer i
Meneiy
Werth
Leng
Pete & Con
Fee
AVA
Faye
Bae Ee Ek
Mediuf
Ly Ak Sebodrn
Ae Ouxi
Fety St . Neel Safe
Absheil
Peng Wet
Tentral Ave
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