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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1962
Page
2
A former Hamilton man, Orvie Wyatt, 37, robbed a Detroit bank of $19.00 with a companion. He was wounded in a gun battle with police outside Detroit and died later in a hospital. The companion's status was not disclosed.
A early morning crash on State Rt 1 left Robert L. Johnson with facial injuries and Robert Chalmers dead after a chase that began with a bank robbery at the National Bank of Wyandotte. The gunmen fired, were cornered, and died amid a police shootout in Taylor and Southgate townships. In a separate Rt 27 crash, four Indiana residents and a Oxford girl were injured when their car collided with a house. The driver Dorothy Owens and passenger Judith Wing were admitted to McCullough Hyde Hospital with back and internal injuries respectively. others suffered lacerations. The investigation continues.
A three car collision on Grand Avenue left Walter A Hees’s car totally damaged and John H Hilton Jr.’s car with $600 in damages. Sutphin Sr allegedly rammed a waiting car, claimed a momentary blackout, and caused the crash involving Terraleen L Jordan. Hilton and Hees reported chest and neck pains. Hees cited for assured clear distance.
Hamilton Butler County Commissioners approved the appointment of Francis Kosebud, 481 Ridgelawn Ave, as county planner director effective July 1. Kosebud, previously with Ladislas Segoe and Associates in Cincinnati and a former county planning director, will earn 7300 dollars annually with about half saved by ending outside consultant contracts.
Morris Hollingsworth suffered a left arm injury when his southbound car veered on Rt 130 old Oxford Road, struck a culvert, and rolled. Driver Jessie Melure was cited for reckless operation. Earlier, Emanuel Jackson escaped injury when his eastbound car drifted and struck the Tren ton bridge end. sheriff noted possible drowsiness.
Parkerburg, West Virginia reports a fatal drowning in the Ohio River just below Vienna where steelworker Jones about 40 and his daughter Karen Sue 11 drowned while swimming. The boy James 8 was with them when Karen stepped into a deep hole and the father perished in attempting a rescue.
News haulers at The Middletown Journal voted 10 to 4 yesterday against representation by the Middletown Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union No. 235. The election was conducted by the Cincinnati district office of the NLRB. AFL-VIO
Fire officials blamed cigarettes for small blazes at three homes. Finley Jones at 1714 LaFayette Ave reported 2 pm damage from a cigarette left in an overstuffed living room chair. Clifford Richarison at 4408 Miller Road faced 11 47 pm stove fire causing about 50 dollars in damage. 1701 Park Drive saw a fire in a closet due to rags and papers with plaster holes from children. Sylvia Taube at 919 Beech St recovered after a late night attack and was taken to hospital with emergency squad aid.
Washington reports the United States has fired its 15th nuclear explosion in the Pacific Test series. The device, dropped from a plane, is described as intermediate range with a yield between 20 000 and 1 000 000 tons of TNT. It occurred Friday near Christmas Island around 1 am. most tests were air drops.
HONOLULU AP reports 71 Seabees have arrived in northern Thailand near Udorn to construct a tent city for 2000 American troops. Navy says it is first Seabee deployment into a combat zone since the Korean War.
Tokyo AP report says the 6,000-ton Koyo Maru survey ship found no increased radioactive fallout in air in the Pacific. The Yomiuri Shimbun cited the findings as limited to air contamination and noted no review of water or marine life.
Chicago grain prices show mixed moves with corn and soybeans strengthening. Wheat, oats, and rye display modest shifts while corn July and soybeans near 2.30 to 2.45 per bushel ranges amid fluctuating quotes.
The Garfield Neighborhood Association will meet at 830 p Tuesday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Filmer Sheppard reported to sheriffs deputies that $235 worth of articles including an electric saw a cement ton and a power mower were stolen from his garage yesterday. James Roach reported that someone removed the front door of his tavern at 2703 S Main St sometime Friday night. A nearby restaurant owner at 2711 S Main St said thieves forced the door Friday night and stole $2 in change from a cigarette machine.
Middletown motorists logged their 1000th traffic accident yesterday, the earliest date this milestone has been reached. Louise Poteet and Donald Burgess faced minor damage on Eighth Avenue at 6:30 p.m. no citations issued.
Middletown plans a broad summer session for grades 7-12 at Middletown High School and elementary campuses Wildwood Taft Oneida. Courses include Driver Training Economics Health Personal Typing English General Science and more with remedial reading arithmetic and speech therapy offered at various sites and times.
Police report details two separate daytime robberies in a local clothing store dressing room where a man and a woman lost 37 and 51 dollars from wallets and purses. A separate incident describes James Calvis robbed of 350 dollars near Mulberry Alley by three assailants. one suspect wore a red shirt and straw hat.
Vacation Bible School opens Monday at 9 am in the First Church of God at 4 Crawford Street. Sessions run weekdays 9 to 11:30 through June 22 for children ages 4 to 11 with the theme My Bible and I. Miss Betty Fuller directs. Chartered buses serve Route 1 and Route 2 to pick up children along specified streets and bring them to the church.
A German businessman Olaf Mueller, 25, from Hamburg, reportedly kidnapped ten weeks earlier by communist guerrillas near Saigon, has reached Saigon in apparently good condition despite malaria. The German embassy did not disclose release details.
W J O'Brien 84 former Middletown resident and longtime The Middletown Journal composing room head died in St Petersburg Florida. He retired in 1950 and then worked in newspapers in Cincinnati and West Virginia before settling in St Petersburg. A Democrat active in state and national politics, he came from Urbana Ohio and was survived by his wife Lula Herold O'Brien and a brother Archie. Funeral services set for Monday in St Petersburg with burial at North Monroe Cemetery. Calls to funeral home tomorrow.
Airman Orville Robert Malone 21 formerly of Dayton died in a Navy plane crash near Munich Germany May F He had married Judy Cox weeks earlier in Franklin and had yet to establish a home with his bride Burial follows a graveside service with Navy Reserve grave rites at Miami Valley Memorial Garden near Centerville Friends may call Eaton Funeral Home Monday 4 to 8 pm He is survived by his mother five sisters and Donna Malone in Dayton References list relatives in Franklin Dayton Miamisburg and Dayton Ohio.
Ralph O Banford 43 of 3199 S Main St will have Masonic services at Schramm Funeral Home tomorrow at 730 pm and funeral at the home Monday at 1 am with burial in Woodside Cemetery. Friends may visit tomorrow 2–5 and 7–9 pm. He died yesterday at Middletown Hospital.
Merit Malott, 75, of Lebanor Ri 3, died at 235 p.m. yesterday at Middletown Hospital where he had resided since May 14. Born in Clermont County, he had lived in the area 20 years.
Services for Mrs Ann Blackburn Franklin aged 70 of Red Lion will be held at 2 pm Monday at Anglesby Funeral Home with Rev Harvey Fidler officiating. Burial will follow at Spring Bore Cemetery. Surviving relatives include a brother and other previously listed relatives.
Police described a strange report after a call to S Main Street to investigate a hanging object. Patrolman Henderson found an aging eight pound carp suspended from a tree likely tossed by a fisherman, not a tarp. The incident occurred near Windsor Avenue and drew a humorous, fishy police note.
Harold Higgins Swift longtime board chairman of Swift and Co from 1948 to 1955 and youngest son of the founder died Friday at age 77 after a 55 year career in the packing industry. He led the firm as a major industry executive and remained a prominent Chicago business figure.
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