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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1962
Page
2
A four alarm blaze at Windsor Village shopping center in Indianapolis killed Oscar Benson 66 and injured eight other people while destroying five buildings. Fire crews worked six hours before the fire was briefly declared under control. Emergency lighting and a laundromat station treated smoke inhalation among responders. damage estimated up to 1 million.
Charles Wirtley 35 of 29 S First St Trenton died at 6 15 am at Middletown Hospital after one day as a patient He was born and raised in Butler County a retired farmer His wife Bessie Mae died in 1959 Surviving are three sons Walter Germantown Rt 1 Robert Jacksonburg Road and Howard Reily a daughter Esther Beiser Cincinnati two grandchildren and two great grandchildren Services 2 pm Friday at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home burial in Milnoville Cemetery Friends may call Thursday 2 5 and 7 9 pm
Frederick W. Robitzer, 59, formerly of Waynesville, died Sunday of a heart attack in Boontown New Jersey. Survived by his wife Bernice, his step-mother Mrs. Jessie Robitzer of Lebanon, and a sister Mrs. Roy Johnson of Wilton Connecticut. Services set for 10 a.m. Thursday at Oswald Memorial Home with burial at Miami Cemetery Corwin. Friends may call 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow.
Ray Earl Crim, 40, of 211 East St Seven Mile. Willie Saylor, 75, of Somerset Kentucky. Mrs Catherine Conner, 98, of 434 S Froot St Hamilton. Lester C Drake, 74, of 112 W Spring St Oxford. Services set for 2 p.m tomorrow for Crim and Saylor, 1 p.m for Conner, and services today for Drake.
In Baltimore Carlyle Barton Sr. 76, former Johns Hopkins University board president and trustee emeritus, died after a long illness. In Madrid the Duchess of Santana 82, sister of the late Duke of Alba and former Spanish ambassador to London, died after a long illness.
A B58 jet bomber from Carswell Air Force Base crashed on Monday during a night training flight, killing Capt Robert E. Harter 34 Capt D W Jones 29 and Lt James T McKenzie 23. The delta-wing aircraft swerved on takeoff collapsed through a fence and exploded.
Dr Carney Landis head of the psychology department at the New York State Psychiatric Institute died at Harkness Pavilion. A Columbia University professor emeritus he pioneered quantitative methods in mental illness study and wrote several books including Studies in Dynamics of Behavior and Sex in Development. Born in West Alexandria Ohio he studied at Carnegie Tech and Ohio State with further work at Dartmouth and Minnesota.
Warren County Sheriff continues a search for 35 year old ex serviceman Gillon Jackson missing from Lebanon since Friday. He left for work at Frigidaire in Dayton and may suffer memory loss. He is 5 ft 10, 165 pounds with blond hair and a blue jacket, driving a 1952 blue Chevrolet pickup, license 4N1262.
An Illinois man Raymond C. Abbott 30 Blue Island faces second degree manslaughter charges in the death of Air Force Lt. Dale Lee Sypherd 24 Norristown Pa. Abbott posted 1000 bond in Preble County Common Pleas Court and 500 bond in Eaton Municipal Court where he is charged with passing a vehicle without an assured clear distance. Sheriff says Abbott attempted to pass a semi trailer causing Sypherd to swerve into the truck leading to the fatal collision five miles northwest of Eaton.
Mariano de Yturralde y Orbegoso, 57, Spanish ambassador to the United States for 18 months, died Monday from pulmonary complications and peritonitis following surgery last Thursday, the Spanish embassy reported.
Three prisoners escaped from the Miami County Jail in Troy after prying a vent screen and crawling to the roof. Charles Hewitt suffered broken ankles and remained in the area as Robert Broderick and Horace Patton, both sought, fled after dragging Hewitt to a garage.
The rank of Esquire will be conferred by Lafayette Lodge 37 at its regular meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m. Noah Lambert master of work will conduct the ceremony with Mike Phillips in charge of the meeting.
Ohio Governor Michel V. DiSalle faced a GOP broadside from Senate Majority Leader C Stanley Yyechem and House Speaker Roger Cloud who charged he had manufactured a political issue. They argued his plan would raise state spending and tax burdens, citing past budgets and commitments. DiSalle defended record spending as proof of GOP control creating larger expenditures and challenged Rhodes to propose real reductions in operating costs.
A West Middletown man was fined S50 and ordered to attend four sessions of traffic school for careless driving by Munimist Judge J. T. Lamyrd. The case began March 8.
A yellowish slot car or vehicle was noted in connection with an incident in Nanking. No further details on persons or organizations are provided.
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