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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1960
Page
11
Associated Press analyst William L. Ryan reports from Moscow that long time communists see higher U.S. living standards and doubt Khrushchev’s assurances. The piece, the first of five unsorted articles, appears on Page 4.
Two people remained in fair condition at Middletown Hospital after severe head injuries from falls yesterday afternoon. Donald Price 4 foster son of Ralph Brown fractured his skull in Rochester Ohio. Paul Faries 33 of 4205 Lisa Street suffered a possible skull fracture falling from a horse at the Silver Spur Riding Club West Middletown. Four others injured include Bertha Wagner 57 knocked down by a swinging door at St Mary's Church and Lorene Mullins 43 who fractured her left wrist hanging drapes. Jacqueline Willhoff 2 fractured her left wrist from a swing fall. Eugene Lantz Jr 26 fractured his right index finger after being hit by a ball at Barnitz Park.
John L. Doty reported being rolled at Leo's Store at 3:45 a.m. Sunday losing a watch billfold and 1.50. A quiet burglar entered Curly Milton’s home at 1009 Belvidere Ave through a front window and took a billfold with 10 then exited a back window. Property worth an undetermined amount was stolen from Louis T. Rossi’s home at 11 Red Bud Dr as rear door was jimmed between 10:20 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. yesterday.
A cash register stolen last Thursday from the Rebel Inn at 2000 Yankee Rd was recovered on a farm south of town. Deputies found the register and a 200-pound safe with about $850 inside the inn, plus five cases of whiskey and other items totaling $1,800. The burglary occurred through a window in the east men’s toilet.
New York AP report says more foreign students studied in the United States in 1959 60 than ever before with 48 496 visitors, the largest foreign student population in the world, per the Institute of International Education.
Plans outline a July 9 to 16 visit for 69 students from 24 countries touring the United States under the American Field Service. The group will be housed by local families under League of Women Voters sponsorship, with events at Brown's Run Country Club and talks by Middletown leaders. They arrive by Greyhound buses at Roosevelt Junior High School and visit Washington D C and New York City before returning home. General chairwoman is Mrs. Howard Cromwell. nest families coordinators are Mrs. George Nardin and Mrs. Fenton Hall.
A partial Middletown Board of Education will meet at 7:30 at Middletown High School headquarters to review salaries for administrative and non certified staff and assignments for administrative personnel. The session will consider a second Doty House class, bids to convert the former shop into admin offices, and workbooks for schools including a local Middletown Workbook. It also covers cafeteria remodeling into a music room, blacktop at Amanda Junior High, painting at Middletown High gym, and a Spring Hill School sewer assessment.
Janet Fox of Waynesville sustained a fractured vertebra and temporary paralysis after a bale wagon start pitched her from a tractor baler in a hayfield. She was listed in satisfactory condition at Miami Valley Hospital Dayton after being brought there by her father Morris Fox.
Mrs. Pearl M. Graham Warren County recorder is in satisfactory condition at Miami Valley Hospital Dayton after a fall at her home on Saturday. She suffered a fractured hip and is the widow of former Warren County Sheriff Beebe Graham.
Alan Spears son of Mr and Mrs Don Spears of 2526 Wildwood Rd will attend the Great Lakes Regional Skating Meet in Pontiac Michigan on July 2 following a third place finish at the Ohio State Skating Meet in Elyria. He skates for Roller Haven Ring and won juvenile freestyle at the state event. He studies under James Phillabaum.
Two Middletown residents faced arraignment before Judge Fred B. Cramer on indictments from the Butler County grand jury. Wilma Willoughby and Shelby Keller pleaded not guilty to larceny and forgery charges, with Ferguson set for July 6 hearing. Ronald McMonigle pleaded not guilty to unarmed robbery. Others failed to appear or were charged with narcotics procurement.
Planning Director Walter Newman will present studies revising the city master plan at the 7:30 p.m. meeting today in the City Building. The department is mapping land use citywide and preparing zoning recommendations and master plan provisions. Also on the agenda are three subdivision plats including a Webster Street vacation north of Vine Street and sidewalk requirements.
Four Fenwick High School seniors Susan Ritter Marilyn Mandzak Mary Ann Gibboney and Greta Fiessinger are taking part in a two week journalism and yearbook workshop at the University of Detroit. The students are listed with their parents and home addresses in this brief report.
The Rev. H. C. Grunewald marked a five year pastoral term at St. Pauls Evangelical and Reformed Thuren and the 11th anniversary of his ordination. He also joined a service for his father’s ordination anniversary and 26 years as pastor of St. Johns Dayton. Since July 1955, St. Pauls added a 50000 expansion, redecorations, a new organ, and a memorial chapel.
Two drivers were badly hurt and a third person injured when a southbound car driven by Charles Lang collided with a northbound car driven by Albert Hartman on U S 27 near Coblinsville in Butler County. Lang was thrown into a ditch, Hartman suffered facial cuts and rib fractures, and Lang, Hartman, and Mrs Janie Hartman were treated at Mercy Hospital Hamilton in serious to fair condition. A second accident on Judy Drive in Middletown Park injured Edward Reynolds and James Spivey. Deputies report Reynolds and Spivey sustained arm injuries and mouth cuts after their car skidded and hit a fence Friday night.
Park officials warn boat owners at Hueston Woods and Acton Lake to use proper night lights per Ohio regulations. District Park Manager Kenneth Hayes Jr notes several near accidents and says warnings will be issued this week with potential arrests after the Fourth of July. Red and green front lights and a rear white light are required on motor boats. canoes and rowboats need a white light.
AP reports Joseph Kasavubu sworn in as the Congo's first national president. Leaders choose Republic of Congo as the country's name after independence, though a neighbor across the Congo River also uses the name.
Four city crashes prompted police to cite two motorists and seek two hit and run drivers. William A. Peacock of 113 N Sutphin St was charged for leaving the scene after colliding with James Jones’s car on Columbia Avenue. Ronald I Ricenour of Germantown Rt 1 received a citation for unsafe lane change on S Main Street near First Avenue, damaging Robert M Dunn’s car at 618 Cleveland St. Initial damage estimates place Jones’s car at $100.
Police report two hit-skip crashes in the city. At 821 Yankee Road a 1953 white Buick struck a parked car and fled, injuring owner Robert L. Sorrell, 24. Near Crawford Street a 1955 or 56 Mercury struck Frank Earach, 47, at 323 North Broad Street after turning from Wayne Street, with damage about $100.Arthur Saylor, a city bus driver, witnessed the Crawford crash. The struck vehicle belonged to Earach.
A Jacksonville garage operator tried to quench an engine fire by firing a pistol into a stalled station wagon's gas tank. The shot ignited gasoline spurting from the tank and set the car ablaze, destroying the vehicle.
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