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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1949
Page
11
The piece urges hobbyist gardeners to specialize rather than generalize. It highlights roles from rose fanciers to seed producers, grafting oddities, and landscape planning, noting specialization deepens knowledge and enjoyment and makes gardening a year round, absorbing pursuit.
Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper pursues charges of incredible mismanagement by Atomic Energy Commission head David Lilienthal as the Senate House committee probes. GOP allies fret over Iowa’s pivotal race, warning the Democrats could weaponize the issue to influence the 1950 midterm landscape and control of the Senate.
A nominating committee was formed to prepare a 24 member delegate list for district and state American Legion conventions this summer. The panel will propose nominees at the June 15 meeting chaired by J D Sawyer with members W W Bowman Arthur Albaugh John Weber and William Niblock. The Fourth District meet is July 10 in Hamilton. Ohio Department meeting is August 6 7 and 8 in Columbus and the national convention is in Philadelphia in September.
Almost 100 SPEBSQSA members from three states gathered at the Gas land Electric Building to honor L A Pomeroy on his transfer to Armco Steel New York office. The event featured greetings from chapters in Cincinnati Dayton Lebanon Hamilton Connersville Richmond and Peoria with recognitions for Pomeroy and local leaders. The Closeaires, top Ohio Southwestern Pennsylvania winners, prepare to compete at Buffalo alongside other leading quartets with regional fans joining the trip.
Los Angeles AP reports comedian Frank Fay returned with a roadshow version of his hit Harvey. His first wife Gladys Buchanan Fay filed a $56,530 alimony suit claiming he has not paid $75 weekly since their 1925 divorce.
Beverly Hills, AP. Actress Lila Leeds to stand trial for being drunk in an automobile. Bail set at 100 dollars as she faces June 30 start. Leeds, listed as 21 but claiming 17, had license suspended after wrecking two cars. She pled for leniency claiming she will behave.
HOLLYWOOD AP Paul ette Goddard wins Mexican divorce from actor Burgess Meredith final today. Greg Bautzer says decree entered last Friday and becomes final today after representation in Cuernavaca. Goddard returned from Mexico Monday. It is the third marriage for both. they separated months ago. An adult can take in almost a gallon of air in one deep breath.
In Chicago the River side Golf Club’s 12th hole goose, once despondent after a dog killed her mate and eggs failed, now presides over a brood of goslings. Rival committees swapped eggs and live goslings, prompting a joint celebration as the goose thrives and golfers cheer the revived water-hole mascot.
Mil ton Babich, 19, faces first degree murder charges for the fatal shooting of Patricia Birmingham, 16, as he pleads innocent after delays. He admits firing the shot on February 19 while attempting to scare her into silence about his bride’s sister.
Civitan clubs heard MSgt Norman V Mieth speak on army changes while a Milwaukee murder case loomed. Kathleen Miles, age 17, was pregnant and eloped with Milton Babich to Kalamazoo. Babich later told police the shooting was accidental as investigators searched for Patricia Babich body in the Milwaukee River tied to a concrete block. Babich remained jailed after honeymooning, with legal delays and court maneuvers filling the headlines as the Civitan meeting proceeded.
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