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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1958
Page
3
Eight Cub packs join to stage a Saturday circus at the Armory on S Main Street. Side shows feature a snake charmer bearded lady bula dancer and more with a main show at 7 pm including Indians horses dogs clowns and seals. Wallace Frayer leads the effort with Herbert Daniels advising.
Directors of the Citizens Building Loan and Savings Assn announce a four percent per annum dividend for the last business period ending June. The declaration sets the annual rate and closes the financial year.
Charles Ernest Duke 63 of 437 E State St Trenton died at Middletown Hospital after six days as a patient in failing health a year and a half He retired in 1957 as a roller in Armco Steel Corp hot strip mill after 37 years of service Surviving are his wife a stepson a brother two sisters and two grandchildren Services 2 p m Thursday at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home Burial Miltonville Cemetery Funeral home hours 3 5 and 9 9 p m Wednesday Also listed are services for infant Michael Allen Goin son of Mr and Mrs William Goin burial Woodside Cemetery stillborn Sunday at Middletown Hospital
Funeral services for Harry Peters of 813 10th Ave. will be at 2 p m Wednesday at Mc Coy Leffler Funeral Home with Rev H C Grunewald officiating. Burial follows at Woodside Cemetery. Visitation today 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p m. Peters retired in September 1957 as a mechanical engineer at Raymond Bay Co after 32 years of service. He died yesterday morning at Middletown Hospital.
Mrs Frances Ruth Bailey 64 of 122 N East St died Saturday at home Burial in Lebanon Cemetery will follow a 2 p.m. service tomorrow at Oswald Funeral Home in Lebanon.
Buddy Brunner aged 79 is to be interred at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Proeschel Funeral Home. Albert E. Pickens aged 53 of 479 Blackburn Ave Fairfield has services at 2 a.m. Wednesday at Webb Funeral Home. Mrs Mandy Jane Reece aged 69 of 208 Rambo Harris Homes will be laid to rest at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Brown Dawson Funeral Home.
Roger Bacon, famed for pioneering the magnifying glass, is credited as the first to propose artificial assistance for people with impaired sight, marking an early step in optical aid development.
Bill Scott son of Mr and Mrs Russell Lawson 1611 Dix Rd has won a 500 annual four year renewable scholarship to Western Michigan University with summer employment in the paper industry. He earned it by a competitive exam taken March 28 and is Lemon Monroe High School senior and NHS president. He led in athletics and marching and concert bands.
John Pendergraff reported two rolls of fence wire stolen from his farm valued at 58 dollars. He said thieves rolled the fencing 300 yards to a nearby gravel pit area where it was loaded on a truck. Harold Burton reported a theft from a small bank containing about 100 dollars in cash and 25 silver dollars.
Mrs. Joe Brashier reported a television set was stolen from her residence at 2515 Oxford State Rd over the weekend.
B n ai B r Ith of Temple Beth Sholom sponsors an hour and a half program of recorded Jewish music at 8 p m Thursday on the temple lawn weather permitting Rabbi Harry A Roth announced selections express shepherd life of ancient Israel Hillel and Avi leya will be the artists recorded selections by Jan Peerce and Jack Konigsberg include music of Jewish year and Yiddish folk songs part of the program liturgical cantorial music and Israel Symphony pieces by Ernest Block artists Leibel Glantz Zazel Kwartin and Mordecai Hershman.
Hollywood AP Gloria Grahame seeks 100000 dollars from 20th Century Fox claiming the studio tried to force her into a minor bit role. The Oscar winner says the small part would harm her standing as an actress and she challenges the studio’s actions after their suit last November.
Cincinnati talks open as about 750 Lunkenheimer Valve Co. workers strike in a contract dispute. The union alleges the studio paid actress $12,330 in 1955 to appear in a film and she refused to perform, amid a cross-complaint against the studio as mediation continues.
Leonard W. Hall announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for New York governor. The Nassau County lawyer and former seven term legislator attacked Gov. Averell Harriman as lacking leadership while rival figures Nelson Rockefeller and Sen. Walter Mahoney were mentioned as potential contenders.
In Harlan Kentucky Mrs Sarah Dixon 75 witnessed a two car head on collision near her home in Hiram and minutes later died apparently of a heart attack. The drivers of the two cars escaped with minor injuries.
Monroe Grange schedules a Saturday strawberry festival from 5 to 8 p m at the Monroe Catholic Recreation Hall with a full dinner and strawberries in all forms. Chairwoman Mrs Robert Thompson says the event is open to the public.
Edwards California AP The Navy's F8U3 Crusader III fighter made its maiden flight in the Mojave Desert. Manufacturer Chance Vought called the test secret but said the plane could reach twice the speed of sound. The aircraft uses a push button automatic flight control system allowing the pilot to set climb rate speed and headings.
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