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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1956
Page
3
Mrs Olive Kelly 40 of Vine Street West Middletown died this morning at Middletown Hospital. She was the wife of Ira Kelly. Arrangements are incomplete at the McCoy Leffler Funeral Home.
Ray Harrison aged 68 dies at home after a long illness from lung cancer. He was a member of the Lebanon Elks Lodge. Survived by wife Inez two brothers Marcy and Harrell Harrison both of Lebanon a half brother and three half-sisters. Services at Oswald Funeral Home Friday with burial at Miami Cemetery Corwin.
Edward Folenius 83 of 527 Sycamore Street services 2 p.m. today Brown Dawson Funeral Home. Helena Bonner 97 formerly of Hamilton requiem High Mass 9 30 a m Friday St Stephen Church. Gertrude Leib 80 575 Harrison Ave services 10 a m Friday Webb Funeral Home. Mary Elizabeth James 47 Middletown Rt 1 services 2 p m Friday Proeschel Funeral Home.
CHICAGO Alvin Bro, 62, missionary educator and former Shimer College president, served as State Department attache in Korea 1940 55 and Chinese mission work, died yesterday. PRESCOTT William E. Sandy, ex Reynolds Tobacco vice president and central Kentucky manager, died yesterday. KANSAS CITY Robert M. Shelton Jr., 61, headed a theater chain across six states and was a former newspaper man, born in Mexico Missouri.
The Maritime Safety Board reports a Russian patrol boat chased and apparently captured a 2 ton Japanese fishing boat and its crew of 10 near the Kurile Islands.
Los Angeles rules King the five month old African lion must leave town after biting Miss Sylvia Thorne of the Animal Regulation Dept. Owner John Shinners presented the cub to prove it will mature into a gentle movie lion. The lion licked the commissioner and nipped Miss Thorne, who was treated for a minor leg abrasion. King must depart within 15 days.
A 11th Butler County Regional Safety Conference in Hamilton stressed attitude as central to accident prevention. Dr. Murray Banks urged self analysis on happiness and balance, while A C Felty and George Campbell urged driver mindset changes. Miss Marian Telford outlined school safety programs and local officials planned further talks.
Harold Teats a 44 year old of 3113 Mohawk Street was fined 25 dollars and costs for intoxication and fleeing the scene after an accident on Yankee Road south of Middletown. The judge suspended 20 dollars of each fine if he pays for damages within 30 days and avoids further charges in a year. He pleaded guilty to both charges.
The Rev. Alvin Kershaw of Holye Episcopal Church in Oxford tells the Men's Club of First Presbyterian that jazz is not merely a teen fad but a universal art reflecting inner feelings. He cites three reasons for jazz as art and notes its global understanding. The group votes to fund youth work in Thailand and to support a Youth Retreat building.
City job data show New York leads manufacturing in the region, with higher total compared to Philadelphia Cleveland and Detroit combined, reflecting industrial scale and workforce size in the urban economy.
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