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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1960
Page
3
New York AP report notes mixed steel market signals with positive auto orders and rising inventories but weak sales and no large car programs. Iron Age Magazine cites end of seasonal declines and potential recovery if retail demand holds, while flat rolled products show strength amid high steel inventories.
Michael Chronister, 17, of near Mansfield, is found dead after drowning in Pleasant Hill Reservoir near Perrysville on the Ashland Richland line. The piece notes the historic Great Plague of London caused 68 596 deaths in 1665.
A car stolen from the Lincoln Mercury body shop after a failed burglary at the Full Gospel Tabernacle was found abandoned at the Armco parking lot on Yankee Road and returned to Ernest L. Wilson of Greentree Road. Police say it was used as a getaway vehicle after the church safe attempt. Detected break-ins include beer from St Mary's picnic and jars of half dollars taken from John Cain's Franklin Street home.
A crash on U S 23 about 15 miles north of Portsmouth left two dead and five injured. Victims include Christine Bremmann and Peggy Thomas. The driver Hollis Brammann and his four children survived with serious injuries.
John Petty, 69, of Columbus, was killed Tuesday when his car collided with two trucks on Ohio 3 and 62, two miles west of Washington Court House. Three other men were injured.
Mrs Mattie Belle Brumfield 64 of 615 Wicoff St died of cancer at 1 26 a m at Middletown Hospital after a month there She was born in Lexington Ky and lived in Middletown since 1918 Surviving husband George sons Luther and Billy Middletown LeRoy Orlando sister Margaret Braden Hamilton brothers Forrest Dayton Nickels Hamilton and six grandchildren Services set for 2 p m Friday at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home burial Woodside Cemetery Call hours listed Also listed are Dye Dayton four brothers four sisters 15 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren with services at Girton Schmidt Memorial Home at 2 p m Friday officiated by Rev Alvin Ritts burial Mound Hill Cemetery Call hours tomorrow after 3 p m
Charles L Lindsey 76 retired farmer died yesterday at his home 907 Garfield St after two years of failing health Survived by wife Betty six sons Paul Frank Howard Charles Robert and Clyde all of Eaton and five daughters Katherine Wooley Gladyoa Garlitz Elsie Garlitz Sarah Moore and Betty, with others listed in the notice.
First National Bank of Middletown again wins Financial World merit award for its 1959 annual report The joint message by Calvin Verity and E W Barker highlights Middletown growth services and staff The report shows total resources of 52 421 592 29 and features The Flow of Money and What It Means to Middletown The bank cites past award years 1952 1958 and notes new 3 percent savings rate and loan growth
Services for Car I. Warner, former Monroe resident, were held at 2 30 p m today at W Mack Johnson Funeral Home Walnut Hills Cincinnati. Surviving are wife Anne a daughter Mrs Marjorie Ruff a son William B and a sister Miss Nell Warner of Monroe. He had lived at Far Hills Dr Cincinnati.
Obituaries note Celeste Whitaker 94 of 215 N C St to have services at 2 p m tomorrow at Griesmer Grim and Frank W Haase 90 of 664 Hoo ven Ave with services 9 30 a m tomorrow at St Ann Church clauses Kinsel 45 of Hamilton to have 10 a m service tomorrow Klaus
Saranac Lake New York John Lake a 56 year old announcer for the Amos and Andy radio show died Tuesday after an 11 year tuberculosis treatment. New York Leon A Swirbul 62 founder and president of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp died Tuesday night cancer. Detroit George E Heideman 61 Finnish consul in Michigan for 15 years died Monday night.
In Butler County Court Judge Fred B. Cramer sentenced Shelby Keller, 22, of 2218 Queen Ave, to the Ohio Penitentiary after pleading guilty to forgery. A former Mansfield reform school inmate, Keller forged the name on a $74 relief check stolen from a mailbox by Wilma Willoughby. Willoughby pleaded guilty to larceny and received probation.
The United Presbyterian Church in Oxford will be renamed Seminary United Presbyterian reflecting its past as Oxford Theological Seminary which operated from 1840 to 1857 before moving to Monmouth. Rev. Leslie Van Inwegen notes the historical link shapes the new designation.
Akron dispatch reports two traffic fatalities on Tuesday in Summit County. Meriynn Needham, 28, wife of WAKR newscaster Edgar Needham, died in a rain slick collision with a truck on the west side. Edgar Eckelburz, 71, of Barberton, was struck while walking near his home.
TRONTON Ohio AP a man Donald Fugene Darby 25 of Ashland Ky and an unidentified woman were struck by a passenger train as they walked a railroad trestle early today. Darby's body was found on the racks, the woman remains unidentified after being knocked off the trestle and found 100 feet below.
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