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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1959
Page
8
Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn will receive Muskingum College's first distinguished merit award at the 114th commencement in New Concord Ohio. Glenn a former Muskingum junior and Cambridge native earned 59 combat missions in the Pacific and shot down three MIGs during Korea.
John C Eckstein age 21 a senior at Ohio State University drowned Friday after swimming with campus friends in a farm pond north of Powell Delaware county Ohio police reported Eckstein was swept away in the pond while wading near the water. His body was recovered later in the pond and the death was reported as an accidental drowning.
The Court of Military Appeals sustains the desertion conviction of Army Private Howard M. Holder 31 of Athens Ohio. He was captured by the FBI in Empire Louisiana last September and found guilty of deserting his tank battalion in Germany two years earlier. He received bad conduct discharge two years hard labor and loss of pay and allowances. Defense argued FBI arresting agent did not read Holder his rights before questioning as required by military law.
The Atomic Energy Commission announced completion of contracts for a nuclear plant at Piqua Ohio with Atomics International and the city. The project cost is estimated at 14.1 million dollars overall, including research design and operation, with completion expected by October 1961 and government title to reactor and fuel.
Franklin County judge Kenneth L. Sater will decide on Arthur Lee Cole’s sanity Tuesday after three psychiatrists testified he is mentally ill. If found sane, Gov DiSalle must decide on death penalty. Cole faces execution June 12 for the 1957 killing of Eino Toivola.
Police say Frenzetta Turner shot and killed Mrs. Millie Ann Harrison and wounded Miss Marian Whiteside and George Gison during a duel at Harrison's home. Turner leaped from a second floor porch and claimed Harrison fired first. Whiteside is in critical condition.
A Columbus schoolboy's drawing of America the Beautiful includes the flag map purple mountains and sea to shining sea. He adds a fruited plane in one corner covered with red and yellow balls, calling it the fruited plane as his teacher questions the patriotic image.
Crown Point Indiana Ray Smith of Defiance Ohio faces reckless homicide charges for the deaths of Mary L. Wilson 57 and Jimmy Parker 9 both from Gary Indiana. Police say Smith said sun glare blinded him and he did not see a stop sign at the junction of Ind 2 and US 41 five miles southwest of Lowell in the incident.
In Perth Amboy New Jersey Shane ONeill son of Eugene ONeill was jailed after a $50 fine for a disorderly conduct conviction could not be paid. Creswell Bowen editor of Madison Avenue Magazine and co author of The Curse of the Misbegotten sent the payment by money order to the Municipal Court.
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