Franklin Worker Killed In Dayton Tank Blast
In Dayton a tank explosion at Air Reduction Sales Company killed two men, Franklin resident Jack E. Hagwood 21 and Sylvester Mattheis 49 of Dayton. Hagwood’s body was hurled 40 feet, Dan Mattheis’ 12 feet, plant engine room wrecked, windows rattled a mile away. One other worker Clarence Callihan escaped injury despite being flung onto a loading dock. Hagwood survived by his widow Anna M and two children, with funeral arrangements set.
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Franklin
Franklin Area
Air Reduction Sales Company
Dayton
Jack E. Hagwood
Crane’s Run
Sylvester (Whitey) Mattheis
Hagwood
Mattheis
Matthews
Clarence Callihan
Crane’s Run Rd
Paul
Calligan
JL. O. Geiger
Haywood
Anna M
Jackie E., Jr
Linda Sue
William C. Hagwood
West Carrollton
Patricia Ann
Kenneth C
Germantown
Carl R
William T. Ginter
Moraine City
Broug
Hunt Goes On For Body Of Boy Feared Drowned
In Warren County efforts to recover 16 year old Foster youth Harold Gray who drowned while swimming a lake near Grandin Road between Kings Mills and Hopkinsville. His cousin Harry Hensley 16 attempted to save him but the 25 foot deep water defeated them. Fire departments state patrol and local officials worked through the night and resumed in the morning with authorities at the scene. parents could not be identified due to no telephone service.
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Lebanon
Foster
Harold Gray
Grandin Rd
Kings Mills
Hopkinsville
Warren County
Harry Hensley
Hensley
Gray
J. E. Schutter
Norwood
Loveland
Mason
H. E. Voelker
H. M. Williams
Gerald W. Couden
Six Middletown nurses to graduate tonight
Commencement exercises for six graduates from Middletown Hospital School of Nursing will be held tonight at 8 30 in Roosevelt Junior High School auditorium. The Rev Gaston Foote of Grace Methodist Church Dayton will deliver the commencement address. Logan Johnston, president of the Board of Trustees, will present diplomas. The six graduates are Betty Jane Nickell and Mary Hendricks Middletown Nancy Zehring Patricia Balderson Dowrey Dayton Jean Trues dell West Middletown and Doris Weik Hamilton.
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Middletown Hospital School of Nursing
Roosevelt Junior High School
Gaston Foote
Dayton
Grace Methodist Church
Logan Johnston
Board of
Trustees
Middletown Hospital
Sidney C. McCammon
Church of the Ascension
First Evangelical United Brethren Church
McCammon
E. R. Turner
Moe Cammon
Betty Jane Nickell
Mary Hendricks
Middletown
Nancy Zehring
Patricia Balderson Dowrey
Jean Truesdell
West Middletown
Doris Weik
Hamilton
Rev R Russell Sprinkle Returns to Mission in China
Former Middleton resident Rev R Russell Sprinkle released from Communist custody in China has resumed duties at the Kwangsi mission in Wu chow Diocese. Maryknoll officials report his return follows inconsistent reports of arrest or detention. Sprinkle, born in Hamilton, aided American airmen during wartime and helped convert thousands in 1950. His family in Franklin says no direct word since January.
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R. Russell Sprinkle
China
Kwangsi
Maryknoll
N. Y
Father Sprinkle
Hamilton
Middletown
Kweiping
Jerry J. Sprinkle
Franklin
Sprinkle
Edwin J. Moffett
Newark
N.J
Wuchow
Martha Sprinkle
Champion Paper and Fibre Company
Donald Sprinkle
Small U.S. Firms On Trail Of Middle East's Oil Riches
Independent American oil companies form Aminoil to explore the neutral zone between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. After a year of seismograph work and surface dynamite tests, they aim to cover the 2,200 square mile concession by August and begin drilling in hopes of Middle East oil production by smaller firms.
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U.S
Middle East
Kuwait
Persian Gulf
Saudi Arabia
Burghan
Kuwait Oil Company
Arabian American Oil Company
American Independent Oil Company
Aminoil
James MacPherson
Standard of New Jersey
Standard of California
The
Texas Company
Socony-Vacuum
Gulf Oil
Anglo- Iranian and
Iraq Petroleum Company
MacPherson
Sheikh Abdullah
U.S. State Department
Iran
Iraq
Reckless With Truth Boy Blames Teens After Break-In
A nine year old boy led police on a stretched tale of being forced by five older youths aged 16 to 17 to break into Fairbanks Fibre Box Company. He claimed the teens were killers and that he unlocked a door before escaping as Patrolman White arrived. Police noted he admitted breaking in but denied stealing anything. The incident occurred at 6 38 p m yesterday.
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Larry White
Fairbanks Fibre Box Company
Roy Crout
White
Garfield School
Young Cyclist Escapes Injury in Four Local Accidents
A nine year old boy was struck but uninjured at Centennial Ave and Verity Pkwy. Police said the youth’s father spoke with the driver and allowed them to leave. Four accidents were reported Saturday and Sunday with minor damage totals and no serious injuries.
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Jimmy Takach
Steve Takach
Centennial Ave
Verity
Tytus Ave
Verity Pkwy
Ralph W. Hoyer
Columbus
Floyd Lockard
Fleming Rd
Lockard
Correction on Albert Centers arrest address confusion
A resident says the address 49 given for Albert Centers during his arrest for intoxication and carrying concealed weapons is wrong. Centers reportedly gave 1806 Woodlawn Ave as his address, which is a grocery store, not his home. The Great Plains area remains the world’s most active tornado breeding ground.
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Albert Centers
Centers
Woodlawn Ave
Great Plains
The
VU. S
Lausche Expected to Sign Ohio Redistricting Bill This Week
Ohio awaits Governor Lausche signature to seal 23 congressional districts replacing 22 after a late session. The Senate approved unanimously and the House passed 99 19, with leaders to sign Wednesday before sending to Lausche who may sign veto or let it become law.
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Ohio
Lausche
99Th General Assembly
Butler
Montgomery
Senate
House
Congression
Bayonet Charge No Fun But West Middletown GI Leads It
Sergeant Eugene A. Singleton of West Middletown leads a bayonet charge with C Company 21st Regiment during a Chinese offensive. His squad fixed bayonets, charged uphill, and the Reds fled. Singleton enlisted in 1948. son of Hazel Coldiron.
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West Middletown
24Th Infantry Division
Korea
Sagt
Eugene A. Singleton
21St Regiment
Singleton
Army
George Stoker
Hazel Coldiron
Poasttown Rd
$68 Is Taken From Homes
Money was stolen from two homes over the weekend totaling $68. A fake phone call lured a woman from Elizabeth Kahne’s home at 19-A Veteran's Village. $43 in a billfold vanished. Ada Mikesell’s Curtis Street home yielded $25 from an top-drawer envelope as drawers were ransacked. No forced entry reported.
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Paul Fouts
Roy Crout
Elizabeth Kahne
Ada Mikesell
Curtis St
Middletown Woman Reports Assault After Abduction
A Middletown woman told police she was forced into a car by a man at 8 05 p m Saturday and driven miles out of the city. She described bruises welts and an eye swelling before he abandoned her and she returned home by taxi.
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Middletown
Three Go Wednesday For Army Induction
Draft Board 10 reported today that three men will leave for induction into the Army Wednesday morning. One is an out-of-town registrant. It is not the record low, but the next best. The record was set in 1948 when only one man was sent in one month.
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Draft Board 10
Army
At The Movies Showings This Week
Paramount screens Along The Great Divide Monday with several evening showings. Soldiers Three and Inside Straight play Tuesday with multiple times. Colonial features I Can Get It For You Wholesale Monday and 14 Hours Tuesday with multiple showings across the day.
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Paramount
Paradise term first used by Xenophon in Persian park
The word paradise originates from Xenophon the Greek historian and general, who used it to describe a Persian enclosed park or pleasure ground. The term later entered broader usage to denote garden like places of delight.
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Xenophon
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