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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1961
Page
18
A late morning fire heavily damaged an insulated Gravel Co. facility at 2100 S. Main St. No injuries were reported. Firefighters from South Middletown and Middletown extinguished the three story blaze, which was difficult to reach. cause and damage estimate were not immediately available.
AP reports that non rerun programs surge this week with NBC crime drama Law and Years, ABC golf on Wide World of Sports, Moore Rinaldi boxing, NBC news with Toynbee Meet the Press guest, Dinah Shore guests, the TV Guide awards, Mystery Theatre on Perry Como, CBS auto race coverage and Walter Lippmann's world in CBS Reports.
Postmaster General J Edward Day, former Los Angeles insurer, proposes a one cent rise for first class and air mail with higher rates on other classes to eliminate the postal service deficit of about $900 million annually. He urges Congress to add $741 million yearly, saying the impact on the average citizen would be less than half a cent per day.
Plate glass mirrors were highly valued in colonial America. George Washington's mother noted her mirror in her will and bequeathed it to her son, illustrating the period’s prized domestic items.
USF officials refused to comment on Ernest Boger 16 a high school valedictorian who scored 492 of 495 on college entrance exams. Boger, who hoped to study chemical engineering at USF in Tampa, had received multiple scholarship offers including one to Fisk University but was advised against taking it due to his age.
John Robert Dobrozi, son of Mr and Mrs John Dobrozi Jr, was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Army Reserve at Xavier University Cincinnati. He completed degree requirements in September 1960 and entered the Army in January. he is now stationed at Fort Rucker Alabama.
Corine Swatzke, five, was fatally injured when struck by a car at a Saginaw intersection near her home on March 29 1960. She died later at a Saginaw hospital of head injuries.
Hugh Cabot of the Boston Cabots, longtime Fort Stockton and Marfa resident, tried bronc riding in Ojinaga Mexico this month to better capture cowboys and mounts. The painter earned a special award for effort and suffered two broken ribs, yet he gained a deeper understanding and respect for broncos.
Dennis T. Keene Jr. an Oak Park Illinois English major, found in a Delta Kappa Epsilon house third floor room with an M1 rifle nine loose rounds two loaded clips and brass knuckles after gunfire near UC Berkeley. He was booked for discharging firearms within city limits a misdemeanor and possession of an illegal weapon a felony.
In Bonn Chancellor Konrad Adenauer expressed optimism that progress toward disarmament could occur in the coming years following Kennedy and Khrushchev's meeting. He urged firmness and unity with the Western powers to advance the cause.
Hamilton Ohio plans a new course next year at Garfield and Tait high schools examining American capitalism versus other systems. Dr L L Dickey the school superintendent says the course will explain the fundamentals and advantages of the free enterprise system.
The screen star died of cancer on May 13 and left the bulk of his estate valued over $1 million to his widow Veronica. He provided for lifetime care of his mother and made several other bequests including $10,000 to the Motion Picture Relief Fund and $5,000 to his brother Arthur, nephew Howard Cooper, and niece Georgia Burton. He also left $1,000 to Our Lady of Gethsemane Abbey Louisville and named his daughter Maria, 23.
The head of the Communist party Gus Hall said the party will not comply with the US Supreme Court ruling requiring registration as an arm of a foreign power. He warned the decision asks the party to die by its own action and said officers prefer jail to exposing members.
Athens Ohio AP Paul Noble dean of Ohio University College of Commerce after a two month diet shed 34 pounds from 241 to 207 he celebrated with a pancake supper at a Kiwanis Club fund raiser where he learned he had won the door prize consisting of 32 packages of pancake mix and two bottles of syrup
CHICAGO AP Charles H. Percy industrialist and Republican leader says he will not oppose Sen Everett M Dirksen in the Illinois Republican primary next spring Percy 41 had been mentioned as a possible senatorial candidate Dirksen 65 serving his second Senate term has not officially announced his candidacy but is believed to seek reelection He served eight terms in the House before moving to the Senate in 1950
President Fulbert Youlou of Congo Brazzaville arrives in the United States for a formal state visit. A former Roman Catholic priest ordained in 1946, Youlou once served as a parish priest before entering politics and remains known as Abbe Youlou though he no longer officiates in church rites.
Cincinnati police sought to learn how Neal Reby a Texas prison escapee came to possess 000 worth of heroin found after doctors at General Hospital reported a small amount on his person. He and his brother Billie 44 were charged with petit larceny in Norwood after a gunshot injury and their capture.
Wilmington News Journal editor Thomas J. Hunter won an Air Force appreciation award at a Clinton County Base ceremony. Maj. Gen. W E Eubank praised the paper’s reporting for accuracy and for dispelling local rumors. The Strategic Air Command had been expanding the base for refueling aircraft but then dropped the project.
Partial OCR shows securities names such as Aeronca, Crystal Tissue, Sora Paper, First National Bank, and Sore Paper with scattered figures like 34 0001 and 90 S. The fragmentary text lacks clear transactions, dates, or outcomes.
USDA Cattle 300, calves 100, utility and commercial cows 15.00-17.00. Hogs 1,500 with barrows and gilts steady to 10 higher, sows steady to 25 lower. Barrows and gilts around 10 head No 1 and 2 200-220 lb 17.50. Sows No 1-3 300-400 lb 13.25-14.50. Boars steady 300 lb up mostly 11.50, near 200 12.00. Sheep 100 not enough receipts to establish trade.
Cincinnati AP reports farm prices after canning and grading. Eggs quoted by size range from jumbo 29 to 33 cents, large 26 to 32, medium 21 to 27, small 14 to 21, undergrades 0 to 12. Potatoes priced at 2.30 to 4.50 per hundredweight.
Chicago grain table shows Wheat on July contract near 1.87 in AP summary with prev high low and closing values. The brief line indicates little movement and single commodity focus.
The estate of Jeanne E. McDonald valued at about 1.6 million dollars will largely go to Harry Benson Reese of Wellston and Peggy Jane Ramer of Piqua as primary beneficiaries of a trust tied to her bulk estate. The widow of the McDonald Printing Co. president died Oct 11 with a will earmarking 200000 for the University of Cincinnati and 130000 for relatives and friends.
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