City Extends Water to Wildwood Golf Club Outside City Limits
City officials authorize Wildwood Golf Club to tap the Thorn Hill water main, with revocation possible if pressure drops for Thorn Hill customers. The move marks the first beyond city limits since February 17 policy on new hookups amid stalled county contract talks.
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Wildwood
Water Department
Wildwood Golf Club
Thornill
Thorn Hill
Golf
Butler County Board of Commissioners
Middletown CTA Leader Chosen for NEA Convention
Clyde Yocom Roosevelt Junior High School instructor and Middletown Class Room Teachers Assn. president will represent the local CTA as a delegate at the six day NEA convention in New York. About 20 000 educators will attend with speakers including Dulles, Hammarskjold, Wagner, Brownell, Bunche, Mrs Roosevelt, Kirk, and Early.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Yocom
Roosevelt Junior High
Middletown Classroom Teachers Assn
National Education Assn
New York
NEA
Yocom
Superior Ave
CTA
John Foster Dulles
Dag Hammarskjold
The
Robert R. Wagner
Samuel M. Brownell
U. S
Ralph Bunche
Eleanor Roosevelt
Grayson Kirk
Columbia University
William A. Early
NEA Presiden
UN General Assembly
Middletown
Housing loan insured after permit renewal pledge
The Housing Administration approved loan insurance for a Middletown housing development in Douglas Park after confirming that Middletown permit renewal was addressed. Kramer accelerated FHA’s request to speed the project. The measure also covers a July 4 fireworks display by the Junior Chamber and July 10 celebration at Armco Colored Community Center. Eight Middletown Park Board employees were confirmed: Earnest Myers Mack Maffett Patty Kincaid Monte Whitehead Ronald Pratt Paul Willis Jack Rnoads and Robert McLaughlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Armco Colored Community Center
Middletown Park Board
Earnest Myers
Mack Maffett
Patty Kincaid
Monte Whitehead
Ronald Pratt
Paul Willis
Jack Rnoads
Robert McLaughlin
Real Cool Boys Picnic Ends With Ice House Visit
Patrolmen Webb and Back answered a 7 31 p m call about boys breaking into the Sealtest Dairy ice house on Park Street. The site was found unlocked and four youths were inside eating ice before being sent home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landon Webb
Alfred Back
Park Street
Light Day For Fines In Court
Three defendants appeared before Judge J T Lamb in Municipal Court and were fined a total of 60 dollars plus costs for disorderly conduct and related charges. Charles Surgenor was fined 25 dollars with costs suspended if he keeps away from the complainant Viola Deaton. Lawrence Miller received 25 dollars and costs on drunkenness with fleeing the scene dismissed. Wiley Carmichael Sr. was fined 10 dollars and costs for failure to obey a police officer with the fine suspended. Dismissed were trespassing charges against Allie Morgan and failure to provide against John Reed for lack of evidence.
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J. T. Lamb
Charles Surgenor
Young St
Viola Deaton
Wiley Carmichael Sr
Hill Ave
Lamb
Allie Morgan Sr
18Th Ave
John Reed
9Th Ave
LeRoy Hardeman
Prowler Call Yields No Suspects. Woman Reports Door Attempt
Police answered a prowler call at 602 14th Ave but found no suspects. A woman said someone tried to enter through a back door. William C. Tibbs, 26, of 1723 Fleming Rd, was arrested for driving while intoxicated. John Cain, 68, of 17 Franklin St, says he was bitten on both hands by a dog yesterday. Vera Eggleston of Germantown Rt. 1 reported hubcaps worth 18 dollars stolen from her car parked in the Aeronca lot.
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14Th Ave
William C. Tibbs
Fleming Rd
John Cain
Franklin St
Vera Eggleston
Germantown Rt. 1
Aeronca
Golden Agers Picnic At Lake Park Reported
Forty three members of the Golden Age Club enjoyed a Lake Park picnic with transportation by Ortman Stewart Transportation Co. Watermelons were supplied by Middletown Ice and Coal Co. The group rode park facilities before a picnic lunch. They plan a meeting next Wednesday at 1 30 p.m. at the Civic Association.
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LeSourdsville Lake
Golden Age Club
Ortman-Stewart Transportation Co
Middletown Ice & Coal Co
Civic Association
Police Cite City Driver For Accident
A Middletown man Isaac Watkins 45 was cited in Traffic Court after a two car collision at Woodside and Garden Avenues at 12 38 p m yesterday. Watkins fled the scene and was arrested at City Building on a warrant charging fleeing the scene of an accident. The other vehicle driven by Robert Johnston 34 sustained $15 20 damage while the Watkins car incurred $10 damage. The report noted another incident as Lloyd Cronin 41 reported a left turn collision on Central Avenue with an unknown westbound car causing $25 damage.
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Middletown
Woodside
Garden Avenues
Isaac Watkins
Andrew Sr
Robert Johnston
Trenton Rt. 1
Watkins
Johnston
Johnston Auto
Lloyd Cronin
S. Main St
Central Avenue
Canal Street
Cronin
Traffic Light Guards School Crossing At Lincoln
The Shafer Street traffic light in front of Lincoln School is operating 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday all summer to help children cross Central Avenue. Lt. James Combs says it will stay on until fall when hours revert to school times. Police warn of a radar speed crackdown in the area with citations issued into Traffic Court for violators, especially late afternoons and evenings until 11 p.m.
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Central Avenue
Lincoln School
Shafer Street
James Combs
Seven Ohio Cities Praised For 1954 Traffic Safety Campaign
Seven Ohio cities including Cincinnati Youngstown Springfield Cuyahoga Falls Bexley Mayfield Heights and Elmwood Heights were named winners in the 1954 traffic safety campaign. Runnerups were Cleveland Dayton Lakewood Elyria Rocky River Fairborn and Westerville as 150 municipalities were judged on fatalities engineering enforcement courts school safety programs public information and safety organizations.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cincinnati
Youngstown
Springfield
Cuyahoga Falls
Bexey
Mayfield Heights
Elmwood Heights
Governor's Traffic Safety Committee
Department of Highway Safety
Department of Highways
Cleveland
Dayton
Lakewood
Elyria
Rocky River
Fairborn
Westerville
Man Sought After Exposure Incident Near Trinity Place
Police seek a man in a yellow T shirt who stopped a woman in the Trinity Place area and exposed himself early today. Detectives Janka and Hall checked the area at 12 05 a m but could not locate anyone matching the description.
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Trinity Place
Louis Janka
Coy Hall
Cleveland Attorney Nominated as U S District Judge
President Eisenhower named James C. Connell a Cleveland attorney and county judge to the U S District Court for Northern Ohio. Connell, a Republican born September 20, 1897, currently serves as a Cuyahoga County court of common pleas judge.
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Washington
Eisenhower
James C. Connell
Cleveland
U.S
Ohio
Connell
Court of Common Pleas
Cuyahoga County
Miss Connie Perkins Visits Then Leaves for New York City
Miss Perkins, after a month with Elder and Mrs. Bert Perkins on 18th Avenue, returns to Lincoln School of Nursing in New York City. She will visit relatives in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut before departure. A public program for the Second Baptist Church insurance rally is set for 3 30 p.m. Sunday with Rev James I Davis of Trinity Presbyterian Church Dayton and his choir. Mary Martin of Lockland speaks at Women's Day services at People's Friendship Baptist Church 1404 Garfield Street at 3 30 p.m. Rev P J Henry is pastor.
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Connie Perkins
Bert Perkins
18Th Avenue
Lincoln School of Nursing
New York City
Miss Perkins
New Jersey
New York
Connecticut
Second Baptist Church
Verity Parkway
James I. Davis
Trinity Prebyterian Church of
Dayton
Rollen H. Hans
Mary Martin
Lockland
People's Friendship Baptist Church
Garfield St
P. J. Henry
Girls Assembly 13 Barbecue Friday on Mrs Mack Lawn
Lily of the Valley Chapter 55 P. H. A. sponsors a barbecue social Friday at 7 30 p m on the lawn of Mrs William Mack mother advisor at 923 8th Ave.
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Girls Assembly
Lily of the Valley Chapter
William Mack
8Th Ave
Cape Cod Canal Stands As World’s Widest Waterway
The Cape Cod canal in Massachusetts is described as the widest artificial waterway in the world at 40 feet wide.
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Cape Cod Canal
Massachusetts
Local business seeks traffic study on shopping center plan
Middletown business leader Richard Crow requests an expert traffic study amid opposition to a $300,000 Highview Road and Central Avenue shopping center. Residents led by Robert Sant argue hazards to Wilson School children. Crow cites Middletown Safety Council and police leaders for an authoritative opinion.
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Highview Road
Central Avenue
Richard Crow
Gillen-Crow Pharmacies, Inc
Middletown
Francis Crmody
Howard Kramer
Safety Council
Robert T. Sant
Central Ave
City Commission
Planning Commission
Sant
Wilson School
Crowe
YMCA Leaders hail teens as responsible citizens at congress
At the seventh National Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y Congress in Miami University five nations' adult YMCA workers declared high school juniors and seniors no longer addled-escents. They cited American youth's willingness to take on responsibility and participate, while Dr. Amos L. Boren urged youth to use their hands for service and redemption in community efforts.
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Oxford
YMCA
Five Nations
Miami University
Italy
Germany
Egypt
Liberia
Congress
Boren
Shortest agenda on record heads to Middletown Board meeting
The Middletown Board of Education will hear a brief agenda at 7:30 p.m. in the Middletown High School meeting. Acting Superintendent Hugh Butler cites two resignations a teacher and a non teaching employee and a Lincoln School discussion. The board plans to manage Lincoln enrollment growth next fall and previously approved Lincoln Field remodeling for three extra classrooms.
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Board of Education
Middletown High School
Hugh Butler
Butler
Lincoln School
Lincoln
Lincoln Field
Mendel Takes Over Delicatessen Here
Benno Mendel becomes owner of Dave's Delicatessen at 1722 Central Ave. He previously ran a quality Used Furniture store on Central Ave. The deli will keep its current line and add home cooked foods with his wife assisting in the business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benno Mendel
Dave's
At The Movies Showings For Paramount And Strand
Paramount presents Free Man Save My Child at 1 45 5 10 and 8 30 p m Them shows at 3 10 6 30 and 9 45 p m Strand screens Thief of Venice at 1 30 4 40 and 7 55 p m Down Among the Sheltering Palms at 3 10 6 20 and 9 35 p m Friday San Antone at 1 30 4 55 and 8 25 p mMr Scout Master at 3 10 6 35 and 10 05 p m
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Paramount
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Golf Club
ED Edmiston
C. B. Stiles
William Denham
Wildwood Subdivision
Francis Carmody
Howard H. Kramer
Kramer
William O'Neill
O'Neill
Miami River
Ohio Department of Health
NEA Parley
City Com
Middletown Federal Savings and Loan Association
A. R. Morris
Mary E. Strodtbeck
Ial
Bologna
Wieners
Jaffa
Hart
Coffee Maxwell House
Campbell’s
Ic Sale
Redeem
Oxydol
Dobrozsp
Marc
Garfield
Eee
Lawrence Miller
Park St
Grimes Street
Lake Park
Colored News
Crow
City Planning Commission
Amos L. Boren
Indianapolis
Cit
Mendel
Delicatessen
Tay Tai
Uae
Tered
Callae Rahiene
Camera
Armel
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