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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1957
Page
11
Iowa paratrooper Pfc. Wayne H. Flugum, 23, Leeland, suffocated while entangled in static lines during a routine airborne exercise at Fort Bragg. He remained suspended for about three hours as crew tried to free him before the craft landed.
Elizabeth Harvey 79 of Springdale killed crossing Springfield Pike. Driver Charles McKibbern 41 of Bellevue Ky faces Hamilton County traffic fatality tally at 47. Survived by nephew Fred Deloume Mason. Services 2 p.m. tomorrow Springdale Presbyterian Church. Gallimore Funeral Home Mason in charge. George F Showalter 88 Eaton died at home. Deacon 40 years Church of the Brethren. Survived by wife Bertha, daughter Mable Rexrode, brother Homer Eaton. Services 2:30 p.m. Friday Church of the Brethren. Burial Mound Hill Cemetery. Girton Schmidt Funeral Home handling arrangements.
John A. Jack Sr. aged 66 of Woodlawn Avenue died yesterday in Washington D C where he resided. He is survived by eight grandchildren. Services will be held in Washington.
William Bene Mason 76 a Mason resident and retired farmer died at home. Survived by wife Josephine three daughters Adaline Furbee Loretta Meisman Delores Conover and three sons HarryElmer and Joseph Bene fourteen grandchildren. Requiem High Mass 9 am Friday at St Susanna Church burial Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Friends may call Gallimore Funeral Home.
Mrs Laura Brown 72 of 219 Sherman St Greenville dies yesterday at Wayne Hospital Greenville. Survived by husband C V Brown two daughters a brother Herschal Null near Eaton another sister Mrs Albert Wheeler Farmersville five grandchildren five great grandchildren. Burial Spring Lawn Cemetery New Paris. Calling hours after 4 p m tomorrow at Miller Funeral Home.
Franklin Floyd Ward 50 former water works employee found dead at his home 734 Abney Lane awaiting coroner ruling. Survived by mother two daughters two brothers and a sister. Multiple other obituaries list services in Hamilton Oxford and surrounding areas with various funeral homes and church rites.
Three firms continue coverage of Reed Glass Co. issues. Mulcahy cites an $8,500 annual claims manager. Massachusetts officials say a routine triply inspection found nothing illegal. Reed Glass faces claims of withholding wages and pension contributions, with a trustee now administering the firm. Howard Woods says funds were withheld but not treated as part of pay.
A very strong earthquake shook Vigan in northwest Luzon Island early today. The tremor split the ground in several places and toppled part of the cathedral belfry. No immediate casualties reported.
New York report says 53 year old scamencer Jimmy Dorsey died of cancer at Doctors Hospital after a January operation for a lung growth. He was divorced and survived by his mother, a daughter, and a sister. Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey formed a famous musical team and had a long career with numerous hits.
Jerry Lee Harrington 21 of Dayton held to grand jury under 2500 bond for traffic death of Albert Coward 62 of Sellersburg Ind. Coward fatally injured at Fairgrove Avenue near the fairgrounds after Harrington said he glanced in rear view mirror and saw the victim in the roadway.
A 78 year-old dentist from Fort Wayne Indiana Dr Elmer Ellsworth Hanks was found asphyxiated in a hunting cabin at Gould City Michigan Monday night by brothers Wallace and Waldo May of Hicksville Ohio who were staying there They believe he died from fumes from a cooling unit.
John A. Gay, on trial in Elyria for marijuana possession and sale, testified he gave marijuana cigarettes to a state liquor agent during an investigation. He said the agent, Donald Van Horn, thanked him for cooperation in obtaining the cigarettes last January to aid the narcotics inquiry.
Dehydration from extreme heat has caused nine child deaths and thirty two hospitalizations over three days in Ciudad Alemán and two nearby towns in the Papaloapan River Valley Veracruz state. Temperatures exceeded 111 degrees.
Middletown city employees can get free chest X rays when the Butler County Tuberculosis and Health Assn mobile unit parks near the City Building on Arpp Lane next Tuesday. X rays offered from 9 to 11 30 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. at the Arpp Lane entrance.
A historical note records the Grand Canyon National Park covering 56 square miles. This detail highlights the park’s substantial boundaries within the region.
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