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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1959
Page
5
A three man team robbed Weaver's Jewelry in Chillicothe Ohio of ten thousand dollars worth of diamond rings on Tuesday. Two men distracted clerks while the third looted the display as Mrs Young and Mrs Grooms were engaged. Police noted the rings had just been insured that day.
An 18 year old girl driving a car struck and killed four year old Timothy Lowing as he darted onto a divided highway near his parents trailer home in Canton. The driver said she could not stop in time.
Ohio legislators in Columbus nearing a possible end to the session after Senate approval of two new state departments and a reorganization of the Racing Commission. A key fight centers on a school subsidy bill and workers' compensation benefits with a conference likely to decide the outcome.
Mrs Elizabeth Temmen 2% 1920 Sheffield St treated at Middletown Hospital for knee and neck abrasions after the car she rode in was rear ended by a vehicle driven by Penny Stamper 212 Batsey Dr stopped at North Avenue and Shafer Street Stamper cited to court police put combined property damage at 450 dollars
A 26 year old Pacific laborer Edward D Heaston was buried when a 16 foot sewer ditch collapsed in Ellisville Missouri on Tuesday. Two coworkers escaped Clem Garner of St Louis pulled Marvin E Rickard of Glencoe to safety while rescue workers reached Heaston after an hour but could not save him.
Eighty Steelworkers Union members in Cincinnati voted to end a five week strike and return to work at Vulcan Manufacturing Co. They accepted a company contract offer, with details withheld by union business agent Harvey Boland. Under the aid agreement workers’ pay averaged $2.45 per hour.
Dale E Marshall aged 15 months died after being electrocuted Tuesday while playing beneath his mother's sewing machine in Frost Ohio.
A proposed constitutional amendment to let metropolitan areas handle water and sewer services failed in the House on a 90 to 36 vote after Senate changes. Revival of the measure was expected today as supporters push to place it on next November’s ballot.
Irene Taylor, 18, is allowed to marry Douglas Campbell 21 after her father’s written consent is found in the wreckage of the Taylors home where her parents were killed when a gum tree toppled during a storm. Irene plans to wed Saturday at St Faith’s church after funeral services for her parents.
A 10 year old boy Leslie McGuire of Winchester Kentucky drowned in the Miami River in Dayton Ohio while wading with his 12 year old cousin Harold Taulbee. The incident occurred when Leslie stepped from a ledge into about 14 feet of water where he was visiting his uncle.
A Findlay woman Mrs. Herbert Bender aged 35 died at Lima Memorial Hospital from injuries she suffered in a two car collision in Findlay a week earlier. She had been brought to the hospital for surgery.
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