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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1953
Page
13
The Associated Press notes rising costs at the grocery level as beef and pork prices jump in wholesale markets due to reduced marketing and drought effects. Retail prices may rise with shortages in several weeks. vegetables and fruit also climb while some items drop in price.
Seven Ohio ties are among the 183 major communities to get improved mail service starting next day. Akron Canton Columbus Dayton Springfield Toledo and Youngstown will have extended service and later mail collection, says Postmaster General.
A long list of real estate transfers is recorded, naming multiple buyers and sellers such as Middletown and Madison City entities. Property details include lots and acres with prices ranging from 55 cents to 11,200 dollars, reflecting widespread activity and numerous parcels including Daman Park, Lemon area, Skidmore Subdivision, and Hanover. Names include T J Strinko, Robert Emanuel, Margaret Winglewich, Joseph Kovacs, Elizabeth Day, Paul Day, David Armbruster, C E Kinser, Earl Hon, Russell Whitley, Ernest Back, Rebecca Fielder, Fred Messer, Catherine Selby, Charles Maze, Perry Whallon, Walter Bates, H M Page, Henry Cotting, Dorothy Yocum, Grace Brown, Madison City, Amer Building and L, Oglesby-Barnitz Bank, West Side Fed L and L, German Town Fed S and L, Branden Millikin, Liberty, Midlothian F, and others.
In Sacramento California a mother robin nests in the framework of a kiddies ride at Land Park. As the little airplanes spin the nest and bird are carried by the ride. The robin drops food to her young and returns to feed again delaying the flight until the bird finishes feeding.
TOKYOW The Navy said the U S destroyer Blue bum collided with one or more whales en route to a Pacific island. Memphis Missouri resident Gomme Wagner said a red stain appeared where the ship hit a school of whales as two whales thrashed nearby. The destroyer suffered no damage. Fontana dam near Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina stands 480 feet high.
Randall Butterfield George Kampschaefer Jr and Gerald Long earned Ensign commissions at Navy officer candidate school graduation in Newport Rhode Island. About 850 students completed four months of training and will be assigned to ships for duties. Also Geo Shackelford and 149 others received commissions in Navy Supply Civil Engineering and Medical Service Corps. Pvt Thomas C Smith joined the 3rd Infantry Division in Korea after basic at Fort Knox. Charles Manning finished 16 weeks of preflight training at Pensacola Florida and is stationed at Whiting Field for basic flying.
Joseph Campbell, treasurer of Columbia University in New York City, was named to the Atomic Energy Commission by President Eisenhower. It is Eisenhower's second appointment to the five member panel, with Lewis Strauss named as chairman succeeding Gordon Dean.
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