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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1950
Page
2
Aeronca prints its six month report showing production of the 3.5 bazooka at about 70 per day with potential to expand. The company credits investors and local support for saving the firm and enabling new commercial production and government orders. Employment rose from 220 to 448 with payroll near 1.5 million for the year.
Middletown Local Draft Board No 10 reported 41 additional names to undergo pre induction physicals as 26 of last week’s 69 called men had status changes. The local quota remains 64, with most likely call in late summer or early fall.
The Joffe Furniture Company will relocate from 1363 Central to 1607 Central Ave once a new mercantile building is erected on the razed Collett residence site. The one story, 60 by 160 foot structure at about 30000 dollars will be leased by First Avenue Realty Company. B D Morgan builder. plans by an architect. Dave Finkelman arranged the deal. J D Sawyer of B F Sawyer Realty says the current site remains unleased.
Paramount shows The Damned Don't Cry with Joan Crawford and David Brian at 3:30 5:30 7:40 9:45 p.m. Friday features A titled Stranger with John Miles and Patricia White at 7:10 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. Also Sheriff’s Daughter with Anne Baxter and Dan Talley at 1:15 4:00 7:10 6:10 p.m. Strand airs Letter To Three Wives with Jeanne Crain Linda Darnell Ann Southern and Kirk Douglas at 1:15 4:45 8:15 p.m. Also Canon City with Scott Brady and Jeff Corey at 3:00 6:30 10:00 p.m. Friday Pinky with Jeanne Crain Ethel Barrymore and William Lundigan at 2:40 6:05 9:30 p.m. Also Lightning Bill Carson at 1:35 5:00 8:25 p.m.
Middletown YMCA Boys Work Committee heard that a Kiwanis member from Lake Worth Florida learned of the local bicycle court through friends here and may launch a similar program there. The group also viewed Ter Braak films from Green Lake Wisconsin and Camp Hook, plus footage from I Am An American Day. Present were William Brooks chairman Louis Brown Joseph Gividen and B D Morgan.
Dr J Kelley James, 82 and dean of Delaware County physicians, died at his home yesterday after retiring in 1946 following fifty years of medical practice. He was born in Ripley Ohio.
The budget committee of the Middletown Civic Association's Executive Committee meets this afternoon to review 23 agency budgets for 1951. Director Tom Venable says overall requests are somewhat lower than 1949, with a week to scan and a plan to reconvene next week for report, recommendations, and possible changes, aiming for final approval by early fall by the association's board.
Ohio Power Company announced completion of excavation for a 132000 volt switching station four miles southeast of Hillsboro to tie into the transformer station at Trenton. The station becomes the northern end of a new line extending through Highland County to Trenton and Portsmouth, with plans to connect south to a Kentucky Utilities line at Maysville, crossing the Ohio River near Aberdeen, at an estimated cost of 285000 dollars.
C. G. Grist, a Middletown real estate man, was appointed by Gov. Lausche to the state board of real estate examiners for a term ending June 30 1953. He succeeds Clarence Roudebush of Dayton. Crist has been a chamber member YMCA Lutheran Church Council and former president of the Middletown Board of Education and Middletown Real Estate Board. He has run a real estate agency in Middletown since 1904.
R H Snyder says a Lima firm representative from Thomas McLaughlin will present proposed South School plans to the board. The board may approve disapprove or require changes and then advertise for bids if approved. Budget action also expected at the meeting.
Ohio State Grange officers will confer the sixth degree on fifth degree members at a special meeting Tuesday August 1 at Otterbein Home field house near Lebanon. The event is one of six held this week and next with officers from 12 counties participating. Dinner for state officers deputies and wives at Mason Grange Hall at 6 pm requires reservations with Ralph Melampy, event chairman.
The body of Paul Turner Johns a 27 year old ROTC cadet from Lytle near Lebanon was recovered from the Atlantic off Buckroe Beach Virginia after attempting to swim to shore from a diving platform. He trained at Langley Field VA and will be returned to McClure Funeral Home Waynesville. He is survived by a sister Vivien Routsong of Yellow Springs Ohio and his mother Margie Johns of Cincinnati.
Detectives report break ins at two business buildings with $85 seized from desks. At Gallaher Drug Company on Broad Street and Central Avenue $60 vanished from the Armco Employes Independent Federation desk. Dr C T Deller and Hancock Beauty Salon doors showed pry marks. Valen Building front of Inspection Bureau Inc forced with a pry bar, $25 taken from Virginia Collinsworth's office, 15 cents from Glamour Beauty Shop coin bank. Other offices entered with no loss. police note locked lobby doors. Additional tampering reported at Sheriff Goslin Roofing office after midnight. Pool concession stand cash register cover pried, gum and caramels stolen. Pearl handled knife taken.
Four Middletown Democrats were named members of a registration committee by Britton Kendrick, president of the Middletown Democratic Club, at a meeting of club officers last night. They are Frank Dobrozsi, Charles Lukey, Thomas Galeese and George Averdick. William Mull, club vice-president, was named a member of the advisory committee. Also attending was Mrs. Eleanor Oswald, president of the Middletown Women's Democratic Club, who gave a short talk.
HAMILTON The Champion Paper and Fibre Company board met in Hamilton and elected Reuben B. Robertson as chairman. The presidency will be filled by Reuben B. Robertson Jr., who serves as executive vice president. The firm traces mergers from 1935 and 1946 elevating Robertson Sr. to president.
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