Butler County Grand Jury To Hear Abbott Evidence Wednesday
The Butler County Grand Jury will hear evidence Wednesday in the murder case involving Cyril Gordon and Mrs. Marie Abbott. If indictments are returned, trials could begin in July after a 20 day waiting period and lawyer selection. Subpoenas list 12 witnesses including Dr. Garret Boone, Sheriff Walke, and Mrs. Edith Abbott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler County Grand Jury
Abbott
Cyril Gordon
Marie Abbott
Paul Baden
Cutor
Charles Walke
Mark Duerr
Louis Fritz
Eugene Derickson
Harry Schwab
Edith Abbott
Lemon trustee named by board appoints William C. Miller
William C. Miller was named to fill a vacancy on the Lemon Township Board of Trustees by Justice of the Peace J. E. Jackson. Miller, of 3117 Manchester Rd., operates Miller's Repair Service and is a leader in the North Middletown group opposing a local annexation plan. He fills the unexpired term from Clark Weamer who leaves to become chief accountant at Armco Steel in Montrose, W. Va.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Miller
Lemon Township
Justice of the Peace
J. E. Jackson
Manchester Rd
Miller
North Middletown
Clark Weamer
Lowell Sr
Armco Steel Corporation
Montroal
W. Va
Armco
Weamer
VEW District Election Held by Veterans of Foreign Wars
Officers were elected for a two year term at the Fourth District meeting of the Veterans of Foreign Wars held in Norwood yesterday. Elected: Judge Joseph Brueggeman of Cincinnati as commander. Russell Hull of Hamilton as senior vice commander. Everett Rigdoh and Ray Ramsey of Middletown as junior vice commander and quartermaster. Dr. Robert Mansefield of Cincinnati as surgeon. Elmer Hunsinger of Cincinnati as judge advocate. A large delegation from the local post and auxiliaries attended.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Norwood
Joseph Brueggeman
Cincinnati
Russell Hull
Hamilton
Everett Rigdoh
Ray Ramsey
Middletown
Robert Mansefield
Elmer Hunsingger
Baccalaureate Services Held For 21 Nurses
A quiet ceremony at the First Methodist Church marked the baccalaureate for 21 Middletown Hospital school of nursing students. Rev. Kenneth S. Learey spoke on The Philosophy of Doing as Temple Chorus led by Mrs. Vivian Learey provided music. An informal reception followed and graduates were congratulated by friends and relatives before a Cincinnati ice show and dinner ahead of Wednesday graduation.
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Middletown Hospital School of Nursing
First Methodist Church
Kenneth S. Learey
Temple Chorus
Vivian Learey
Egee
My God
Cincinnati
Lad Electrocuted In Swimming Pool In Harrisburg
A 12 year old boy Clyde Peters of Harrisburg died from electric burns when a short circuit in an underground power line sent current through a steel pool ladder at the Gay Way pool. Another swimmer Rosemary Ritsch 11 was in the charged area and both sank. Two youths who helped rescue them were affected by the current and treated at the pool edge. Peters and Ritsch were taken to Polyclinic Hospital.
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Harrisburg
Winifield Yarnell
Yarnell
Clyde Peters
Rosemary
Ritsch
Peters Boy
Peter
Obituary for infant Robert Lee Robison
Robert Lee Robison five weeks old son of Mr and Mrs Dewey Robison of 2906 Yankee Rd died 830 p m Sunday at Middletown Hospital Born May 1 he had been seriously ill for ten days Besides his parents he is survived by one sister Linda Lou one brother Dewey Jr maternal grandmother Mrs Bessie Smith of Xenia and paternal grandfather Charles Robison of Middletown The family will receive friends after 7 p m Tuesday at the riggs Funeral Home Services will be conducted at 2 p m Wednesday from the funeral home Burial will be in Woodside Cemetery
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Robert Lee Robison
Dewey Robison
Yankee Rd
Middletown Hospital
Linda Lou
Dewey, Jr
Bessie Smith
Xenia
Charles Robison
Middletown
Riggs Funeral Home
Funeral Home
Woodside Cemetery
Edward Lord Rice Dies at 54 After City Stay
Edward Lord Rice 54 of 400 Young St died yesterday at Dayton Veterans Hospital at 10. He came from Frenchburg Ky and worked at the Raymond Bay Company before retiring in 1947. Survived by widow Ella two brothers John of Kessler W Va and William of Middletown four sisters Mrs Lennie Long Mrs Mary Steele of Middletown Mrs Nancy Mullins and Mrs Sally Simpkins of Kentucky. Funeral at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home Wednesday at 2 p m Rev H H Jung officiating. Friends after 4 p m Tuesday. Burial Soldiers Lot Woodside Cemetery Eagles to hold services 7 30 p m Tuesday at the funeral home.
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Edward Lord Rice
Dayton Veterans’ Hospital
Middletown
Frenchburg
Raymond Bay Company
Ella
John
Kessler
W. Va
William
Lennie Long
Mary Steele
Nancy Mullins
Sally Simpkins
Kentucky
McCoy-Leffler
H. H. Jung
Soldiers’ Lot
Woodside Cemetery
Eagles
Services for Mrs Crissie Hale Held at Funeral Home
Services for 42 year old Mrs. Crissie Hale of 3222 Yankee Rd will be held Tuesday at 2 p m at Mc Coy Leffler Funeral Home. She died by suicide after shooting herself in the bedroom. She was a Naz arene Church member in Trenton. Surviving are husband Milton three brothers Earl Estil and George of the city four sisters Lizzie Yocum Pearl Swartzel Grace Swartzel of Dayton and Willie Ethington of Independence Mo burial is in Woodside Cemetery.
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This City
Grace Swartzel
Dayton
Willie Ethington
Independence
Woodside Cemetery
New Pipeline To Area May Provide More Gas To Middletown
Texas Gas Transmission Corp announced plans to build a 26 inch 800 mile pipeline from Carthage Texas to Middletown at a cost of 79.3 million dollars. The line will add 275 million cubic feet daily to the Appalachian and eastern states and is to be partially in service by 1949 50 and fully by June 1 1950. Middletown Gas and Electric Service expects a larger daily gas share from East Ohio Fuel Gas and Ohio Fuel Company as the system expands and more deliveries are routed via Lebanon Ohio toward Cleveland.
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Middletown
Appalachian
AP Dispatch
Texas Gas
Texas Eastern
Lebanon
O. Texas Eastern
East Ohio Fuel Gas Company
East Ohio
Mixed Price Situation Noted In Steel Industry
The magazine Steel reports the industry cannot hold current steel price levels amid rising production costs. Some firms keep new lower prices, others delay, creating a mixed price situation and uncertainty about future conditions. Coal labor talks and potential mining suspensions loom, risking steel deliveries as mills run at high capacity and regional usage fluctuates.
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Steel
Federal Trade Commission
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
St. Louis
Chicago
State of Union and Saigon at local theaters
At the Movies Paramount shows State of Union with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn at 1 50 4 25 6 55 and 9 25 p m Monday and Tuesday. Strand presents Saigon with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake at 1 36 4 58 and 8 26 p m plus Girl Loves Boy with Eric Linden and Celelia Parker at 3 15 6 37 and 9 59 p m. Tuesday features Violence with Nancy Coleman and Michael O Shea at 1 29 4 01 6 33 and 9 05 p m and Partners of the Sunset with Jimmy Wakely and Cannonball Taylor at 2 46 5 18 7 50 and 10 22 p m.
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Alan Ladd
Veronica Lake
Eric Linden
Cecelia Parker
Nancy Coleman
Michael O'Shea
Jimmy Wakely
Warren Forms 10 Man Finance Study Committee
Warren mayor appoints a ten member panel to examine the city's financial needs. The committee will meet for the first time tomorrow night to discuss options and plan remedies for mounting fiscal pressures.
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Warren, CO
Warren
Brownies to Get Physical Exams for Summer Swim
Brownie Girl Scouts will have physical examinations in the Civic Association scout club room on Wednesday June 16 starting at 9 a.m. Doctors Mildred Snyder and Mildred White Gardiner will conduct the exams for intermediates and seniors. Swimming instruction begins Wednesday June 23 at 10 a.m. Miss Peggy Richardson expects 175 swimmers in June and July with instructors dividing beginners by ability at Sunset Pool.
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Brownie Girl Scouts
Scout Club
Civic Association
Sunset Pool
Peggy Richardson
Mildred Snyder
Mildred White Gardiner
FBI Agent To Address Middletown Sportsmen Meeting
FBI Special Agent James L. McGovern will be the principal speaker at the Middletown Sportsmen’s Club meeting Tuesday night at 7 30 p m. The program includes talks on the new rifle range road entrance widening and a summer sports shows plan. Non members may attend McGovern’s talk on Crime Detection by contacting a club member. McGovern, a New York City native, was admitted to the bar in 1941 after Fordham University and joined the FBI in November 1941, assigned to the Dayton office.
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James L. McGovern
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Middletown
McGovern
Mgovern
New York City
Safety film urged for Middleton drink driving dangers
Assistant Police Chief Thomas C. Carmody and Safety Council Director Paul E. Wilson urged Middletonians to view a 21 minute film on drunken driving. The movie to be shown Wednesday and Thursday at the Paramount Theater dramatically shows how a raise and promotion lead to a celebration that ends in an auto accident killing three persons and injuring another.
Scouts Camp In Rainy Woods For Annual Camporee
Twenty four Boy Scout leaders and 159 scouts from 29 patrols of 14 troops camped in the rainy Gilmore-Daermit farm woods in Warren County for the Mound Builders Area Council annual camporee. The event included a campfire honoring the late Pokey Griffith and veteran scoutmaster Charles Adams, with prize acts and nine patrols earning camping proficiency. Formal Sunday inspection was conducted by E J Goldschmidt and Robert Funston.
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Ray Woods
Gilmore-Daermit Farm
Warren County
James Martin
Mound Builders Area Council
James Buguzedes
Glen Rawling
Se Hyena Patrol
E. J. Goldschmidt
Robert Funston
Lutheran Parish Anniversary Held
The Lutheran parish marks its 25th anniversary with a sermon by Dr J A Dell urging thoughts on church treasures and free worship by assembly. A 2:30 pm pageant titled That He may incline our hearts unto Him followed, with community participants and a social hour in newly decorated rooms.
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J. A. Dell
R. C. Bogan
William Bergman
Charlotte Dell
Alice Hwee Ins
Ralph
Strike Called In Cincinnati By AFL Demand Pay Increase
AFL carriers and building laborers began a strike in Cincinnati to press for a 22 cent an hour wage hike. A contractors' committee spokesman said the strike would halt most new construction except small residential jobs. The union announced the action after a meeting with the committee.
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Cincinnati
AFL
Contractors’ Committee
Health Officials Attend Session in Columbus
Health Department sanitarians Dr L C Neer and staff joined a statewide Columbus meeting Friday. Speakers included F A Adams Minneapolis on environmental sanitation and Dr Pillote Akron on laboratory methods. Over 100 attendees heard that public health trends favor identifying individual cases and educating the public over mass immunization. John Otterbein and Robert McConaughy also attended.
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L. C. Neer
Health Department
Columbus
F. A. Adams
Minneapolis
Dr. Pillote
Akron Health Department
Department of State
John Otterbein
Robert McConaughy
Three Receive Scholarships To Conference
Three members of the Methodist Youth Fellowship Institute Gretchen Minnich Ben Roof Jr and Marilyn Day Sunday were awarded scholarships to the eight day session of the group at Chau tauqua which begins August 15. They were donated by Mr and Mrs Karl S Davis in memory of their son Karl Jr who was killed in the South Pacific during World War II. Also honored at the morning service were members of Children's Choir who had perfect attendance for one to three years. One at attendance rated pins while holders of two and three year records received wooden crosses to wear on vestments. Fresh oysters from waters which are not polluted can be eaten in all months though they are rather thin and stringy during the spawning season which is May June July and August in northern latitudes.
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Methodist Youth Fellowship Institute
Gretchen Minnich
Ben Roof, Jr
Marilyn Day
Chautauqua
Kenneth S. Learey
First Methodist Church
Karl S. Davis
Karl, Jr
South Pacific
Stronger U S China Bond Urged By Miami Speaker
Miami University during its 109th commencement heard China's ambassador Dr Wellington Koo urge a united front with the West to curb Communism in Asia and warn that China falling to communism would threaten democracy. He said Asia's fate hinges on preventing Communism with combined eastern and western effort. Also Rev Reuben Pieters delivered the baccalaureate sermon as five others received honorary degrees along with 601 degree candidates.
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Wellington Koo
Miami University
China
Asia
Europe
Koo
Reuben F. Pieters
First Presbyterian Church
Middletown
Pieters
Art students exhibit work at Lockmeyer Studio
Twenty four students under Miss Helen Lockmeyer of Highview Road displayed their artworks Saturday in the Lockmeyer Studio located in the American Trust Building. The current class finishes this week and a new class will begin on June 14. Lockmeyer, a portrait painter, conducts study in Room 306 of the American Trust Building.
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Helen Lockmeyer
Highview Rd
Lockmeyer
American Trust Building
Middletown grads hear foresight and call for lifelong learning
Fourteen Middletown students received degrees as Rev. Pieters urged graduates to plan for the future and live daily to build character. He warned that sowing wind yields whirlwind and stressed continual self-education beyond four college years.
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Eagle Hall
Edward L. Rice
McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home
Cecil W. Dane
W. Pres
Cecil Butts
W. Secy
Kroger
Roy Adams
Nancy Schuler
Lad
Robert L. Robison
Mrs. Crissie Hale
JOS. R. Baker and Sons Funeral Home
Luna
Arate Laan
Cleveland
Big Inch
Little Inch
Tennessee Gas Transmission Corporation
Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company
Paramount
Spencer Tracy
Katherine Hepburn
John J. Palmer
Nat'l
Bank
Phene
FBI
U. S.-China
Miami
Oxford
United States
Western Hemisphere
Butiifr
Ralston
Paint Store, Inc
N. Broad ST
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