Roadblock Nabs Youths After Dairy Bar Robbery
Three youths including a 22 year old Dayton man and Germantown brothers, ages 16 and 17, were nabbed by a Middletown police roadblock at 5:45 am after fleeing Gene's Dairy Bar. A chase from Germantown via Rt 725 and 123 led to Middletown where detectives Gray Barrett and Sgt Brewer recovered candy, $100 cash, $50 in kitchenware and burglar tools from their car. The dairy bar break in damaged a jukebox and an cigarette machine. suspects are jailed in Montgomery County.
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N. Verity Parkway
Germantown Road
Dayton
Germantown
Middletown
Don Buzzard
Ohio
Gene
Con
Fiee Enemas
Rt. 123
Franklin
Rt. 73
Harold Gray
Douglas Barrett
William Brewer
Montgomery County
Montgomery County Sheriff's Deputies
Resolution Tribute To Roudebush
Ohio General Assembly memorializes W. P. Roudebush late Miami University business manager who served 45 years helping grow the university to 5 000 students and 60 buildings. Resolution credits his role in forming the Inter University Council and notes deliveries to his widow Dorothy Roudebush daughter Mrs Raymond D Bourne son Warren T Roudebush in Washington and grandson Tom Roudebush a Miami junior.
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Oxford
Ohio General Assembly
W. P. Roudebush
Miami University
Inter-University Council
Ohio
Dorothy Roudebush
Raymond D. Bourne
Warren T. Roudebush
Washington, D. C
Tom Roudebush
Miami
Minor fires reported at two locations
Children blamed for a shed fire caused by matches. $5 damage to junk-filled shed used by Adam Penson and owned by T. P. Maffett. Firemen responded at 6 17 p m. Earlier at 5 01 a m yesterday they checked a waste basket fire from a short circuit at 1219 Baltimore St with no damage.
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Adam Penson
T. P. Maffett
Baltimore St
T. L. Curley
Fifteen Women Register for Girl Scout Leadership Training
Fifteen women have registered for a new leadership training series opening Thursday. Classes run 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each Thursday at Franklin Methodist Church with instructors Mrs. Charles Bailey and Mrs. William Johnston. Additional registrations accepted until Thursday at the Scout office, Mrs. Johnston.
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Franklin Methodist Church
Charles Bailey
William F. Johnston
Ba Scout
Johnston
Civitan Club to View Safety Film at Manchester Hotel
The Civitan Club will screen a color-sound safety film during the luncheon at the Manchester Hotel. Thomas Ortman presents the movie, with Ed Barker serving as March's program chairman.
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Civitan Club
Manchester
Thomas Ortman
Ed Barker
Burg Youth Cited After $1,000 Crash
Franklin Special report details a $1,000 three car collision on N River Street near Van Horn Street Saturday. No injuries. Roger Korn 18 of Miamisburg was arrested for reckless operation after speeding and crashing into Emery Kidwell 51 and a parked Lloyd Perkins auto. Over $300 damage to each vehicle.
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Lloyd Perkins
N. River St
Rains Strike South Texas Drought Area With Showers
Heavy rains and hail fell across drought hit South Texas over the weekend. Karnes County received over an inch of rain stalling traffic on U S Highway 59 between Goliad and Beeville. A brief 1.10 inch downpour drenched Karnes County communities as a 60 mile hail belt stretched from west of Corpus Christi to George West.
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Dallas
South Texas
Karnes
U.S. Highway 59
Goliad
Beeville
Cout Wi
Karnes Unty
Corpus Christi
George West
Tex
Franklin Fire Loss Increases In Two House Blaze
A Saturday fire on Shaker Road destroyed a two room Bodine home owned by William Hurt and caused about $50 damage to Hurt’s nearby house. Total damage estimated at $3,550. No occupants were home. Heat from flames six feet away singed Hurt’s south side.
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Franklin
Shaker Road
William Hurt
Hurt
Richard Bodine
Bodine
Mrs Grace Coolidge In Serious Condition In Hospital
Mrs Grace Coolidge widow of President Calvin Coolidge, 78, was described as serious at Cooley Dickinson Hospital Northampton Mass. She entered Monday with cardiac and kidney failure, while quietly supporting a local school for the deaf and her Boston Red Sox. Her husband died 24 years ago.
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Northampton
Mass
Grace Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
Cooley Dickinson ‘Hospital
Long Hunt In Hit Skip Ended in Columbus Death
Police arrested 27 year old Andrew Edwards of Columbus after an anonymous tip. He faces preliminary hearings on hit skip death of 67 year old Ella Galvin struck while crossing a downtown street on Christmas Eve 1955. Edwards says he knew he hit something and the death has bothered him. Authorities say Galvin crossed against the signal. Edwards faces hit skip driving with up to six months in jail and a $200 fine.
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Columbus
Ohio
Andrew Edwards
Ella Galvin
Edwards
Galvin
Café Proprietor Freed On Bond
Nelson Dennis, 60, owner of First Avenue Grill, was arrested on a charge of assault with intent to kill filed by his wife Mildred after she was hit with a bottle at Middletown Hospital. He was released on 1000 bond and to be arraigned next Monday at 1 30 p.m. The incident left Mildred with scalp lacerations.
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Nelson Dennis
Elwood St
First Avenue Grill
1St Ave
Dennis
Mildred
Middletown Hospital
Mama Gabor On Honeymoon With Third Husband
New York Jolie Gabor mother of the famed Gabor sisters is honeymooning with her third husband Edmond de Szigethy a 47 year old Hungarian refugee. The couple wed in a civil ceremony and plan to start a textile business soon.
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New York
Jolie Gabor
Gabor
Jolie
Edmond de Szigethy
de Szigethy
Man's Body Hunted In Fire's Ashes
In St. Joseph Missouri police and firemen search for Walter Haber 67 missing after a blaze destroyed the Jerome Hotel and a nearby restaurant. Forty five occupants escaped in night attire. cause and losses remain undetermined.
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ST. Joseph
Walter Haber
Jerome Hotel
Haber
Miller to Address School Section of Safety Parley
Retired schools official Wade E. Miller now with Miller Insurance Agency will speak at the Butler County Safety Conference’s school section. The first sectional safety parley meets tonight at Verity Hall for the women and home division.
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Wade EF. Miller
Miller Insurance Agency
Butler County Safety Conference
Verity Hall
Standafer
Central School
Taft School
Miller
Middletown Safety Council
Lester Dickey
Hamilton Public Schools
Wylie Mitchell
Armco
Ray Taylor
Hamilton Schools
Firemen Use 116 Taxis to Reach Detroit Blaze
Detroit firemen responded to a two story fire with four alarms, arriving by 116 taxicabs as all trucks were in use. Fire Chief Edward J. Blohm estimated damage at $50,000. The blaze continued as a new shift arrived at 8 a.m. Taxi costs for the city were not yet totaled.
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Detroit
Edward J. Blohm
Dentist Named In $5,000 Suit
Joseph F E Gividen of 2015 Van Ave files a $5,000 damages suit in Butler County Common Pleas Court against Dr. C J Barton of Castell Building. He alleges on April 20 1956 during a tooth extraction Barton broke the tip of an instrument and failed to remove a metal fragment left in Gividen's jawbone forcing him to miss work and require another operation to remove the piece.
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Joseph FE. Gividen
van Ave
Butler County Common Pleas Court
C. JG. Barton
Castell
Gividen
Dr. Barton
Chicago Celebrates 120th Birthday Milestone
Chicago marks its 120th birthday as the city reflects on its charter date of March 4 1837. From a 10 square mile area it expanded to over 213 square miles with an estimated population near four million.
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Chicago
Garfield Heights student dies after gym bar fall
James P. Jarzyn, 18, a Garfield Heights High student, died from neck and spine injuries after slipping from a 6 foot high bar during a school gym activity Friday. A gym instructor witnessed the accident.
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Cleveland
James P. Jarzyn
Garfield Heights High
Jarzyn
Girl Scout Committee Plans Awards Ceremony
Middletown Area Girl Scout Council kicks off awards planning with a meeting of the curved bar committee led by Mrs E J Sebald at 9 a.m. at the Girl Scout office. The awards ceremony is set for April 30. A field committee meeting led by Mrs Kenneth Jones follows at 12 30 p m to review troop and neighborhood progress reports.
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Middletown Area
Girl Scout Council
E. J. Sebald
Girl Scout
Kenneth Jones
String Quartet On Oneida's Program
The Miami University string quartet will perform at Tomorrow night's Oneida School PTO meeting. Refreshments follow the event, which begins at 7 30 p m in the school auditorium.
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Oneida
Miami University
Iomorrow
Oneida School Pto
Those Forty Begs Easter Season Reflection
A reflective piece urges embracing Easter’s path from midweek to Easter Day. It cites John 20 17 and The Shep Herd verses, portraying Christ’s forty days and urging readers to live his way through word and deed toward sweeter peace of mind during the Easter season.
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Jerusalem
Former Mayor Observes Quiet 90th Birthday in Oxford
Oxford’s former mayor Robert J. Todd turned 90 with a quiet day including a Sun dinner in Collinsville with sister-in-law and husband Charles Williamson. He led city affairs during 1940 46, began public life after 400 years of teaching, and plans to retire from painting houses soon as a widower since 1937. His son Clifford died in the 1918 flu epidemic.
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Oxford
Robert J. Todd
Collinsville
Todd
Charles Williamson
Clifford
Pretty Bird Killed In Coop
In Middletown a peacock valued at 75 dollars was killed in its backyard coop. Mrs. R. B. Parker reported to police that two likely dogs in the neighborhood may be responsible.
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Middletown
R. B. Parker
Alamo,Rd
Peacock
Fire Damages Tenant Home On Farm Near Hamilton
A chimney spark caused a major blaze at the Mary C. Rentschler farm east of Hamilton destroying the roof. Firemen from Hamilton and Fairfield Townships fought flames as neighbors crowded the scene. Damage to the home estimated at 6500 for structure and 1000 for contents. No injuries. A separate barn on Hattie Jones’s farm burned with 500 bales of alfalfa hay. children playing with matches suspected. Units from New Miami Overpeck Trenton Seven Mile Williamsdale Liberty and Fairfield Township assisted.
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Mary C. Rentschler
Millikin Rd
Hamton
Taylor Spurlock
Rentschler
Spurlock
Hamilton Company
Fairfield Townsship
Hattie Jones
Wayne-Madison Road
Woodsdale
Sewer Confab Set Tonight In North Middletown
Passers of petitions to create a new sanitary sewer district in North Middletown plan an organization meeting at 7 30 p m in the City Building. City Manager Charles W Thompson says two petitions are on file, one for Countryside subdivision and another signed by residents on Scott Street Tytus Glencoe and Jewell avenues. Countryside petition reportedly has 80 percent signing.
Orleans Jammed For Mardi Gras
New Orleans welcomed a packed Mardi Gras eve as Proteus the sea god character again ruled carnival city. Hotels and motels reported capacity crowds and about 1 000 visitors in 54 Pullman cars parked at the union passenger terminal with railroad yards full.
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New Orleans
Proteus
Union
City Groups Meet Tonight for Planning Discussion
A joint meeting of the City Commission Middletown School Board Middletown Planning Commission and the Middletown Park Board will be held at 7 30 p m today in the City Building. Chairman Francis Carmody said the session will discuss planning matters affecting all four bodies.
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City Commission
Middletown School Board
Middletown Planning Commission
Middletown Park Board
Francis Carmody
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Don
Roudebush
South
Texas
Mrs. Coolidge
Wesley Jones
Middletown High
University of Kentucky
Lexington
Mama Gabor
Manchester Hotel
Davie Guy Powers
Louis R. Walter
Methodist Church
Don C. Osborne
C. C. Fracker
Hamilton Safety Council
Fall
Schramm Funeral Home
Clark ST
Young Street
Edison School
C. W. Young
First Ave
Girl Scout Committee
John
Orleans
Watch and Jewelry Repair
Rogers 2
N. Main
House of Chrome
Hard
South Main
Ege
Erisper
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