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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1960
Page
2
Cleveland police campaign targets elderly jaywalkers by warning relatives and driving them home. Officers report hundreds of tickets issued and note sixteen of twenty three city traffic fatalities this year were pedestrians, mostly seniors.
A pedestrian struck on Route 42 in Mason around 4 p m suffered back and facial injuries. Elizabeth Duball of 1010 Reading Rd Mason was admitted to Mercy Hospital in Hamilton after being struck by an unidentified auto that fled the scene. She was transported by the Mason Life Squad.
George V. Hinkel 77 of %33 Hamilton-Trenton Rd. died at Mercy Hospital Hamilton after two weeks as patient. Survived by wife Mary two sons Everett and Ray three daughters and 11 grandchildren. Services at St Peter Lutheran Church with burial in its cemetery. Leslie Patrick father of two Williamsdale residents died Tuesday in Mt Mary Hospital Hazard. Cremation or viewings listed in Hindman Kentucky.
Mrs Cora B Kilgore 63 of 1206 Campbell Ave and Rev H C Schiering 7 Cleveland services set. Dr Carl F Schreiber 73 Yale German authority dies after long illness. Gen Brice P Disque 81 WWI Army commander dies in New York.
The Rosebud Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Clarence Oliver, 919 Eighth Ave, Friday at 8 p.m.
More than 1,000 Negro students planned a mass boycott at Alabama State College in Montgomery after nine students were expelled for participating in anti segregation demonstrations. The unrest spread to Tampa and Nashville as NAACP actions and university orders raised tensions in the civil rights drive.
New York AP report says Wall Street broker Frank B. Haderer confessed to stealing about $270000 from Walston and Co over eight years by altering IBM transaction cards to divert cash for stock purchases and personal use. He faced forgery and grand larceny charges after investigation by the district attorney’s office.
Two elderly women died when their car was struck by a freight train during a heavy snowstorm south of Springfield Ohio. Marie West 60 and Mary Alice Shope 83 both of Clifton were identified. The crash happened about 12 miles south at the US 42 Selma Road intersection with the Pennsylvania Railroad main line where US 42 has continuous blinkers but Selma Road is unguarded.
Police recovered Theodore C. Clark 64 of Woodville from his car after it ran off U S 68 into trees two miles north of Springfield Ohio An autopsy was ordered as officials consider natural causes for the death
Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce launches a community protection program within the business practice committee. Through the National Better Business Bureau affiliation, it offers monthly bulletins on fraud schemes and bad promotions and monitors going out of business sales to shield Middletown.
Nineteen applications for the Hamilton city manager post were received as the council begins screening candidates. The deadline is March 15 and Acting City Manager Howard F. Wilson may apply. Salary is set at 6500 dollars. The five top applicants will be interviewed, aiming to fill the job by April 15.
A lit cigarette dropped on a bed started a fire causing 1500 dollars damage to the home of Curtis Neff at 714 East Second Street. Firemen reported occupants left the premises about 15 minutes before the blaze began. the home is owned by Mrs. S J Black of 223 Maple Street.
AP reports 63 people killed in a Pusan chemical plant blaze, with 59 women among the dead and around 300 workers trapped on the second floor when the fire erupted Wednesday. The toll rose as more bodies were recovered from the rubble.
Lisbon Ohio AP report says Harrel M. Smith nine years old of East Liverpool died in a Wednesday two car crash on US 90 five miles south of Lisbon. Police investigated the wreck and identified the vehicles involved.
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