Middletown to host second Old Fashioned Days this fall
The Retail Merchants Assn plans an Old Fashioned Days promotion in Middletown this fall led by Robert Bender and J Howard Smith. Details including dates in September to be set at the association meeting, with aims to replicate the 1955 success and past parades, weddings, dances, and festive downtown events.
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Middletown
Retail Merchants Assn
John C. Dillon
Merchants
Robert Bender
Central Store
Howard Smith
John Ros
Retail Assn
Bender
Smith
Three Firms to Tour Fresh Air Camp This Week
Aeronca Crystal Tissue and Mi ami Cabinet representatives will tour Fresh Air Camp this week led by Don Fris by chair of the Junior Chamber committee. The tours run through July 16 and will include nearly 20 local industries and groups with guides Howard Hill Don Maley Walter O Keefe Don Guillet and others from Armco Steel Corp and more. Visitors will lunch with 94 camp children and counselors and tour the camp site and buildings.
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Aeronca
Crystal Tissue
Miami
Don Frisby
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Jaycees Howard Hill
Don Maley
Gardner Beard & Carton Co
Walter O'Keefe
Coniinental Can Co
Don Guillet
Sorgith
Robert Leasure
Robert Francis
Don Ceir
Robert Lubberger
Armco Steel Corp
German Plans Homeland Trip Aboard Iceboat
Wolffer von Schwarzenfeld, a 24 year old German boat yard worker, sails home aboard a self designed iceboat from Miami. He left yesterday and expects 30 days to reach France before cruising to Hamburg then Munich. The two master craft features a central life raft and fuel cans for buoyancy. He carries 50 pounds of food and 15 gallons of water with navigation gear.
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Miami
Fla.p
Wolffer von Schwarzenfeld
France
Hamburg
Munich
Electron Identified as Fastest Known Particle
Observation notes the electron as the fastest known particle in the universe, reinforcing its role in numerous high energy processes and experimental physics studies.
Germs From Earth Survive Marslike Conditions
Three U.S. Air Force space medicine researchers reported seeds of life from Java Arizona and Texas withstood near zero to 95 degree swings in nitrogen atmospheres and minimal water. In jars simulating Martian conditions microbes thrived with moisture above one percent and some survived at two fifths of one percent, prompting thoughts on life beyond Earth.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
Mars
U.S. Air Force Space Medicine
Java
Painted Desert
Arizona
Texas
Air Force School of Aviation Medicine
San Antonio
Tex
International Mars Committee
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Hubertus Strughold
Air Force School
Strughold
Earth
John A. Kooistra Jr
Roland B. Mitchell
Grace Lutheran Church Breaks Race Barriers in Vacation Bible School
In Louisville 11 Black children joined a 39 white enrollment at Grace Lutheran Church vacation Bible classes, prompting swift church approval. The all-white church and its director welcomed the move, with no dropouts and no disturbances as Black enrollment stabilized around 17 to 20.
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Louisville
Grace Lutheran Church
Henry Kleckley
P. BE. Davis
The
Lutheran Church
Louisville Area
Mason-Dixon
Kleckley
Macon
Woman Mayor Urges Men to Wear Bright Clothes
Bridlington Mayor Mary Padgete tells a national conference that Britain needs men to wear brighter clothing. She suggests leaf green silk suits and kingfisher blue, rust red, and ruby red outfits for seasons. Carl Sumrie counters that few men will wear bright colors unless abroad or far from home.
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Bridlington
England
Mary Padgete
Britain
Carl Sumrie
Gambling Device Plant Claimed On Farm Near Bellefontaine
Logan County prosecutor Mary Abel called claims that gambling equipment found on a Russells Point area farm were planted ridiculous. About $5,000 in equipment was seized after a raid, Chief O E Tait denied knowledge and suggested planting. A temporary injunction barred further gambling and ordered removal of two telephones. no arrests or identify of the perpetrator(s) have been made.
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Bellefontaine
Ohio
Logan County
Mary Abel
Russells Point
O. E. Tait
Indian Lake
Abel Monday
Common Pleas Court
United Telephone Co
Robbers Loot Food Circus Freeze Stash of $800
Burglars broke through the Food Circus roof in Miami and stole $800 in cash from the freezer. Local police investigate the heist as the cash disappeared from the store's cold storage.
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Miami
Violence erupts at Dayton Lau Blower strike
New violence breaks out at the Lau Blower Co. plant in Dayton Ohio as two pickets go to the hospital with minor injuries. Police arrest five people after the incident. Local 4545 United Steelworkers began the wage dispute on May 1. seven pickets were arrested in a similar outbreak Friday.
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Dayton
Ofiora
Lau Blower Co
United Steelworkers Union
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