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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1965
Page
2
Two undergraduates at the Middletown Miami University center are among five students with straight A averages for the past semester. The list includes Betty J. Hadley of Elmo Place and Evelyn J. Harrison of Baltimore Street.
Franklin police say Dennis Howard of 32 E Fourth St lost control on Union Road and struck Ada Nock of 726 Union Road in front of the Neck home at 7 18 p m. Total damage to both cars was 750 dollars. Howard faces a charge of failing to keep an assured clear distance.
Articles of Incorporation filed with Ohio Secretary of State for Middle town Campus Bookstore Inc. Incorporators are Louis B McCallay Richard A Wilmer and Robert B Crooke with Robert E Rogers as agent Papers filed by Wilmer Wilmer attorneys The bookstore to be located at the Sunset Street branch of the First National Bank now under construction.
Virgil Judd of Columbus remains at large after he and two fellow inmates jumped a fence at the Lebanon Correctional Institution farm Friday morning. Miklewski of Cleveland was recaptured within a mile of the facility, while Dan Johnson of Cincinnati was later captured in Shaker Swamp near the farm.
Eight major steel companies including U S Steel and Bethlehem Steel were fined 50 000 each after pleading no contest to antitrust charges over price fixing in the carbon sheet steel market. The action by Federal Judge Edward Weinfeld caps a probe into secret hotel room meetings that raised prices on auto bodies appliances and other goods.
Police report a 14 year old, Stanley Otis, treated for bruises after crashing a soap box derby car at the raceway behind the Shopping Plaza yesterday afternoon. A 23 year old woman told police a man assaulted her at her Baltimore Street home at 12 30 a.m. yesterday.
Five dollars in cash and jewelry valued at forty five dollars were reported stolen from the David Cohn residence at 11 Shafer Street. The burglary was reported yesterday morning.
A head-on collision on Rt 4 near Rt 73 at 7 pm injured ten people. Michael Evans 18 of Monroe drove into Hattie Bailey 27 of Hamilton, causing both cars to spin out. Evans left of center and was cited. A year-old boy and nine others were treated at Middletown Hospital. Texas Fannin 427 Yankee Road admitted for observation.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. states Kennedy planned to replace Dean Rusk as secretary of state after the 1964 election. The Life magazine excerpt notes Kennedy hoped for a secretary like Robert McNamara to energize foreign policy, while Rusk is praised as a superb technician but an opaque leader.
A head-on collision in southeast Kentucky killed nine people, eight from one Eldridge family including six children, and seriously injured another. The Eldridge car, with ten aboard, hit a car driven by Philip Perkins of Chicago on Kentucky 217 about 13 miles south of Harlan. Trooper Lonnie Leach noted the Eldridge car was knocked back 11 feet and gave speed estimates only for the Eldridge vehicle.
In Pasadena AP reports Mariner 4 finished sending 21 Mars photos plus a 22nd partial image. Jet Propulsion Laboratory said data tape timestamped 12 36 33 p.m. PDT. The recorder was to switch tracks to replay all pictures starting with No 1. About ten percent of the 22nd image was captured and may be very dark. From image 19 onward the shots show Martian twilight.
A two-year-old boy was injured slightly after running into the side of a moving car. The incident occurred at Yankee Road and Smith Avenue at 11 40 am when Michael W Cox 7650 Heinkel Road darted into Pauline Bone 3232 Mohawk St driving the car which sustained no damage. Additional incidents reported include Cecil Karshner 71 and Otis Curtis 52 at Second Avenue and S Broad Street resulting in 375 damage with Karshner charged for driving left of center. Curtis Johnson 18 and Nancy L Bowermaster 54 at Germantown Road and N Verity Parkway caused more than 250 in damage with Bowermaster charged with distance. Loretta G Haney and Robert Churchman had an incident at S Main Street and Second Avenue with damage over 160 and Churchman charged with passing on the right.
Middletown police questioned two men after a 32 year old man said he was assaulted on Lincoln Street near Ninth Avenue at about 9 p.m. and robbed of 16 dollars. Fred Fletcher of 3114 Mohawk Street reported the incident.
About 30,000 spectators lined Hamilton streets for the 11th annual parade featuring more than 340 entries including a 1929 airplane, an antique motorcycle and a steam threshing machine. The 12 mile route ran through Hamilton and Fairfield and was sponsored by the Antique and Classic Car Club of Butler County. The event began in 1955 with 23 cars.
The Armco Girls' Association will hold a ground breaking ceremony at 11 30 am Monday for its Holiday House on a site west of Fenwick High School off Manchester Road at the old Armco Park entrance Logan T Johnston president of Armco and Edith Armitage president of the Armco Girls Association will turn the first shovelfuls of earth with Armco historic groundbreaking silver spade Members of the Armco Girls Association executive and building committees will attend along with Armco management and community guests.
Metropolitan Police chief Sir Joseph Simpson says London endured a crime year in 1964 with property stolen near 42 million dollars, up 3.5 million from 1963. Crimes totaled over 250 thousand, an 11 percent rise.
Rome reports a 1 percent fall in illiteracy over the past decade. Italy with a 50 million population now has 3.8 million illiterates, down from 5.5 million in 1955 when the population was 47.2 million.
Funeral services for Press Cole Jr. 33 of Dayton, victim in a stolen car hit and run, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at John A. Arpp Funeral Home. Burial at Highland Memorial Cemetery. Survivors include wife Joan, three daughters, parents, four brothers, two sisters. The car accident occurred at Infirmary and Derby Roads. Marilyn Sue Dennis, 19 of New Lebanon, also killed. James Chain of West Chester Presbyterian Church to officiate. Burial at Spring Hill Cemetery. Visitation Monday 4 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Howard E. Gorsuch 78, a retired farmer, died yesterday at Fort Hamilton Hospital after three months of illness. Survived by wife Anna, daughter Isabel Kidder of Cincinnati, son Allen Gorsuch of Mason, brother Leslie Gorsuch of Germantown, half-sister Mrs Leland Chapman of Bethany, and five grandchildren. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home led by the Rev.
Shaker Heights dealer David L. Blauschield sues Cleveland officials and seven companies claiming failure to enforce anti pollution ordinances. The Common Pleas Court must decide if a private citizen has a sufficient in terest to sue a city to force pollution action.
Funeral services are set for 10 a.m. Tuesday at Joseph R. Baker & Son Funeral Home with Rev. Edwin Bobbitt of the First Christian Church officiating. Burial will follow at Woodside Cemetery. Friends may call Monday from 2 to 7 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Mrs. Mae Smith died yesterday at Reinhheld Rest Home in Baltimore Ohio where she had stayed two years. She was the widow of Louis Smith formerly of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and Hebron Ohio. Surviving are two daughters Grace Layburn of Middletown and Dorothy Smith of Savannah Georgia, a son Marshall of Painted Post New York, seven grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.
In Cleveland Heights the Noble Road Presbyterian group joins Rev Murray Drysdale for a four day camp shakedown at an Ohio venue. After first aid instruction a canoe camping trip unfolds at Kipawa Preserve in Quebec. Three 10 day trips are planned this summer, two as Drysdale’s vacation and one approved by the congregation as personal service.
Scioto County Hospital Commission earned federal approval for a 930000 Hill Burton Act grant to back a 3 million bond issue and construct a new 154 bed hospital to replace Scioto Memorial Hospital in Portsmouth.
Middletown firemen were called to the rear of the Sears Roebuck Store at 25 S. Main St yesterday at 12 30 pm when faulty wiring ignited several boxes. There was no damage.
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