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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1964
Page
11
Dear readers offer practical garden tips including using old nylon stockings or pipe cleaners to support tomato vines and stapled plastic bags to shield developing fruit from insects. They also suggest waxed sandwich bags or gel bags for larger tomatoes and repurposing bags for kitchen storage to reduce clutter.
Nevada Governor Grant Sawyer denounces early TV calls of winners before polls close. He will form a committee of governors to address media practices after projects predicting Barry Goldwater’s California primary win reportedly influenced uncommitted voters. He argues results should be counted votes not projections.
In Marion Louisiana two unarmed deputy sheriffs and a hermit were killed in a gunfight during a theft probe at a school cafeteria. A third deputy, armed, shot Heard Nolan who lived alone in a one room shack. Deputy Glen Baron said Nolan yelled and began shooting.
London AP reports Queen Elizabeth II marked her 38th official birthday with the Trooping the Colour ceremony at Horse Guards Parade near Buckingham Palace. The 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards led today’s color, ahead of a planned Germany tour. tens of thousands gathered along the Mall. The queen’s actual birthday is April 21, with the official observance set in June due to English rain.
A short daily numerical puzzle promises a message by counting letters in your first name. If the count is six or more, subtract four before revealing the result.
Multiple probate notices from Butler County Ohio list executors administrators and dates for estates including Joseph S Evers George Knox Dorothy Wilkerson William Forkner Homer R Rich Regina Flynn. Appointments are announced by Probate Judge Harry F Walsh with local attorneys named.
The page blends astrological guidance for birthdays with estate notices and public bids. It notes favorable work and travel periods for 1964 1965, urges cautious judgment in Monday tasks, mentions birthdays October July and December, then lists probate appointments for Thelma Potter Bert Green Clyde Thomason Gilene Patton Samuel Powers and a county road project bid invitation in Butler County Ohio with June deadlines.
Highlights include 1933 Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act. Also on this date Columbus discovered Martinique in 1502 and the first Canadian Parliament opened in Ottawa in 1841. Truman spoke of a forthcoming Big Three peace conference in 1945. Other entries note canonization of Mother Frances Cabrini in 194? and political pivots involving McCarthy, Adlai Stevenson, and Ngo Dinh Diem.
TV highlights list schedules from CH channels across Grand Blanc Michigan. Highlights include Buick Open Golf coverage at Warwick Hills and film and series lineup featuring Defenders Asphalt Jungle Hollywood Palace Gunsmoke and Dodge City with various guest stars and plots.
Lt. Col John Glenn has recovered enough to work in his yard and walk the neighborhood though still has dizzy spells. Cmdr Alan Shepard Jr. remains affected, with slight hearing loss and dizziness gone, able to fly only as a passenger.
Nine persons were killed and seven injured in a northern Afghanistan coal mine blast. Rescue workers cleared debris and pumped air as authorities feared more miners trapped. about seventy workers were in the mine at the time and the final number of those trapped remained unknown.
East German Communist leader Walter Ulbricht returned from Moscow with a new friendship treaty with the Soviet Union. Premier Khrushchev called the pact very important though Western observers doubted it would alter Germany's postwar status. A Washington communique by President Johnson and West German Chancellor Erhard said the treaty does not change Soviet duties toward East Germany or Berlin.
Butler County Commissioners announce Contract No. 4996 bids to seal various tons with inspection in Hamilton Ohio. Bids open June 23 1964. Bond five percent required. Proceedings led by President Wm. R. Stitsinger and Clerk R. Masiar with full authority to reject any or all bids.
Chicago police say Willy James Council aged 19 and James Jackson aged 14 confessed to fatally beating 49 year old C. J. Cowart during a robbery that yielded 25 cents. Cowart died after the Tuesday assault.
The page lists missing items including a Zenith portable radio lost at Smith Park and a red and white Halfty bicycle with serial CH00R716. It also records several obituaries and funeral details for residents of Middletown and surrounding areas with names such as Allen, Bryan, Feerer, Hembree, Medley, and their service arrangements, dates, and locations.
Classified listing featuring Mulford's Home of a Million Plants in Lebanon offering flowers and get well bouquets. Includes Peck's Flower Shop in Main Street GA, mushroom compost, cut flowers, topsoil, and tomato stakes from Paullin Saw Mill in Trenton plus a Blue Grass sod listing with contact numbers.
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