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Newspaper

Middletown Journal

Location

Middletown, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Mar 11, 1957

Page

2

Middletown School Board Set To Vote On 1957 Budget

The Middletown Board of Education will vote on permanent 1957 appropriations tonight at 7 in the high school office. A tentative budget of 3,590,868 covers operations and includes the 12 mill operating levy approved last November. Also on the agenda are transfer discussions for Madison Township and Blue Ball districts to Middletown, a six period day proposal for Lemon Monroe, proposed state bills, sale reaffirmation of Young Street school, and a schedule change. County funds of 100,000 are to be withdrawn from inactive to active in each bank to cover payrolls and expenses, not debt payments. about 500,000 in inactive funds remain.

Middletown Lemon-Monroe Ohio Joseph Woodruff Charles Jones Young Street Middletown High School Board John W. Wendel R. H. Smith Wendel First National Bank of First National Bank of Hamilton Smith Butler County Hugh Butler

Thieves Busy 4. Wheels, Tires Stolen From New Car In Garage

Middletown police received weekend reports of auto parts and small-item thefts. A 1957 car had four wheels and tires stolen after being jacked up on blocks. losses totaled about 273 dollars. Additional incidents included used tires, jewelry, a watch and a purse, with numerous individuals listed as victims.

Middletown Robert Parshall Young, Sr Parshall Thomas Service Sation Central

Probe Into Federal Job Growth Set For Wednesday

A House subcommittee will open a probe this Wednesday into Eisenhower era plans to add about 73,000 federal civilian payroll jobs by mid 1958. Current totals run around 2,375,000 with Agriculture Department staff projected to reach 101,530 by mid-1958, boosting overall federal employees to about 2,447,933.

Washington House Bureau of the Budget Agriculture Department

District 12 solo and ensemble meet at Miami University

More than 2 000 Southwestern Ohio high school musicians converge on the Miami University campus Saturday for the annual District 12 solo and ensemble competition. Qualifiers advance to the state finals in Columbus.

Oxford Ohio Miami University Columbus

Spanish naming rights allow flexible surname choices

In Spain a wife keeps her surname and a son may adopt the paternal or maternal name or use both. This reflects a traditional but evolving approach to surname inheritance within Spanish families.

Spain

Torch Sparks Cause Fire At Bob's Body Shop

Welding under a truck hood by Robert Gross sparked a fire totaling 100 dollars at Bob's Body Shop 2608 N Verity Pkwy Middletown. Firemen reported 25 dollars to the building and 75 dollars to the truck. Alarm at 11 43 a m. yesterday. No injuries reported.

Bob N. Verity Pkwy Middletown Robert Gross Company 4

Denison University to raise tuition and salaries

Granville Ohio Denison University will raise tuition by 75 a semester effective next fall increasing annual tuition from 650 to 800 President A Blair Knapp said The new salary scale will range from 4100 for instructors to 8100 for full professors to meet higher faculty pay policies

Granville Ohio Denison University A.blair Knapp Knapp

Juniors Lead Monroe Honor Roll At Local High School

Monroe High School lists 25 juniors on honor roll for the grading period. Sophomores total 24, seniors 23, freshmen 21, with named students across each class including Ed Blevins and Ruth Baird among juniors, Susan Boxwell among sophomores, and Carolyn Back among seniors.

Lemon- Monroe High School

School Men To Meet Lebanon Special

Warren County Schoolmasters' Club will meet at Carlisle High School on Thursday. Supt. Richard Watters of Waynesville, club president, announced a program arranged by Supt. E. S. Brannaman of Carlisle School.

Lebanon Warren County Schoolmasters’ Club Carlisle High School Richard Watters Waynesville E. S. Brannaman Carlisle School

Experts estimate average four inch paint brush has many filaments

Experts estimate that the average four inch paint brush contains about twenty thousand separate filaments.

Bull-Collision Injures Driver on Beckett Stillwell Road

Carl Reiss, 32, of Hamilton Rt. 5, suffered a fractured knee when his car struck a 1400 pound bull on Beckett Stillwell Road near Rt. 177. Reiss was admitted to Mercy Hospital in fair condition. The bull was injured and its owner Homer Beckett asked humane authorities to euthanize it.

Hamilton Beckett-Stillwell Road Carl Reiss Hamilton Rt. 5 Mercy Hospital Richard Metcalfe Emmett Jackson Reiss Homer Beckett Stillwell-Beckett Rd Beckett

Draft Board seeks 17 missing registrants across multiple addresses

Local Selective Service Board 10 reports17 registrants have moved from listed addresses and cannot be located. Clerk Mrs Lillian D Sebald requests relatives or friends to notify the board of missing individuals including Morrison Collinsworth Phillips Horn Napier Walton Williams Ashcraft Perkins Wilson Sargent Moore Williams Windsor Haines.Winstead Bryant Guthrie Jr and others with last known locations in Buffalo Hamilton and related routes.

Selective Service Local Board 10 Lillian D. Sebald Kenneth Lee Morrison Manhattan St Victor J. Collinsworth Rufus St South Mounted Willie James Phillips Baltimore St Claude Horn Jr W. Central Ave Floyd Napier 1St Ave George M. Walton Jr Fleming Rd Olen J. Williams Fairmount Ave Eugene Centers Lafayette St Ishmael Worth Ashcraft Middletown Calvin Perkins Hickory St Buffalo N. Y Sadie Claxton William Price Wilson Eg St Franz Chester Sargent Granada

Adventists To Attend Day-ton Regional Welfare Council

Mrs Mable Ward leader of the local Seventh day Adventist Health and Welfare group and others will attend a Dayton regional council on welfare activities. Spencer Burrows state director will chair the one day council. Sixteen churches comprise the Southwestern Federation with Mrs Ward as secretary. Election of officers will be held at the Dayton meeting.

Mable Ward Seventh-day Adventist Health and Welfare Mary Goodwin Phylis Diver Clara Lancaster Sadie Tomes Frieda Mossman Alice Caldwell Lillian Hall Dayton Spencer Burrows Adventists Ward Dayton i

Police Briefs Recover Stolen Car. Several DUI Arrests

Detectives Douglas Farrett and Harold Gray recovered a stolen car owned by William Coyle on Main Street and Central Avenue, later found at 1st Avenue and S Broad Street. Eli Taylor, 24, was arrested for driving while intoxicated and no license. Norman Taylor, 24, faced charges of permitting an intoxicated driver and an unlicensed operator. Lester Ballard, 20, was arrested for careless driving and an anti-noise ordinance violation.

Douglas Farrett Harold Gray William Coyle Clinton St Main Street Central Avenue 1St Avenue S. Broad Street Eli Taylor Goldman Ave Norman Taylor Brentwood St Mmen Woodlawn Avenue Moore Street Lester Ballard U.S. 25 Alamo Road Harold Tarter Mason Oxford State Rd S. Sutphin Street Sherman Avenue Walter Powell 18Th Ave James Allen N. Main St Lewis Handley Dayton Flora Adams Grand Ave N. Verity Parkway Columbia Avenue Alice Arbuckle S. Main St Yankee Road 4Th Avenue

Teen Discharged After Hand Cut At City Hospital

Jo Ann Ashcraft a 16 year old of Cranewood Dr Trenton was discharged after treatment for a hand cut suffered when a bottle broke on Leshee Street at Middletown Hospital.

Jo Ann Ashcraft Cranewood Dr Trenton Middletown Hospital Leshee Street

Man Saved From Death Under Train In New Miami

Clarence Reese 32 of Trenton Rt 1 was pulled from beneath a slow moving Pennsylvania Railroad freight by bystander Garber 1174 Kemper Rd Cincinnati as he walked or fell into the Augspurger Avenue crossing. Reese is in good condition at Mercy Hospital with a head injury.

Hamilton Clarence Reese Trenton Rt. 1 New Miami Reese Mercy Hospital Augspurger Avenue Garber Kemper Rd Cinnati

Scout Directors Meet Tomorrow

The Middletown Area Girl Scout Council board will meet tomorrow at 9 30 a.m. in the Girl Scout club room with Mrs Wade Ex in charge. In a separate note meeting in the Civic Association library tonight at 7, Girl Scout District 2 members will have a business session conducted by Mrs George Mehl.

Middletown Area Tthe Civic Association Library Girl Scout District 2 George Mehl

Thief Takes Hair Clippers From Barber Shop

A thief broke into Randy's Barber Shop at 116 a St on Saturday night and stole a new pair of hair clippers valued at 23.18 and three bottles of hair tonic at 1.25 each totaling 26.93. Randolph Ash the proprietor told Det. Ed Poling that the front door was entered by smashing the glass.

Randy Randolph Ash Ed Poling

Dietician Named At Hospital In Middletown

Mrs. Shirley Stamm of Miamisburg, longtime dietician at St. Elizabeth Hospital Dayton for 12 years, is named head dietician at Middletown Hospital. She was assistant dietician here three years ago and begins duties today. A graduate of Ohio State University, she interned at Miami Valley Hospital. She is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the Dayton Dietetic Association.

Shirley Stamm Miamisburg St. Elizabeth Hospital Dayton Middletown Hospital Ad Mischley Stamm Ohio State University Miami Valley Hospital American Dietetic Assn Dayton Dietetic Assn

Mrs. Suhs Breaks Hip In Tumble

A 70-year-old Middletown resident, Mrs. G. Harold Suhs of 2709 Milton Rd, sustained a broken left hip after a fall down basement steps at home. She was admitted to Middletown Hospital in satisfactory condition along with three others injured in separate home accidents yesterday.

Middletown Middletown Hospital G. Harold Suhs Milton Rd

Local injuries reported after fall incidents

Injuries included one year old Suzetta Quinn with a left thigh fracture treated in the emergency ward. Fifteen year old Donna Tague suffered a deep gash in her left thumb needing twenty nine stitches after a glass door incident. Five year old Donald Gregory Sharrett sustained a five future cut from a board falling on his head.

Suzetta Quinn James Quinn Walnut St Donna Tague Harrison Tague Pennyroyal Road Franklin Donald Gregory Sharrett James F. Sharrett Keister Road

Middletown Man Cited In Crash

Hamilton police cited L. V. Kindred, 26, after a collision at Main and D streets left him with minor injuries and facing charges of reckless driving and no operator's license. Elmer Davidson, 23, was involved in the other vehicle. Vogt, 29, injured in a separate crash, was admitted to Mercy Hospital with nose and arm fractures plus chest and leg injuries after colliding with a railroad locomotive near Sth and Highe.

Hamilton Middletown L. V. Kindred Young St Elmer Davidson Wayne Avé Main D Streets John H. Vogt Mason Rd Mercy Hospital Vogt Pennsylvania Railroad Sth

Three Injured Slightly in Rt. 73 Collision

Three persons were slightly injured in a three car crash on Ohio 73 near Access 3 Saturday night. Morse Blair 32 Middletown Rt. 2 head cuts Wanda Stapleton 17 Frank lin Rt. 1 left hip bruises and forehead abrasions Fern Moore 24 90 Elm St Germantown slight injuries. Blair cited for failure to yield right of way.

Ohio 73 Middletown Hospital Morse Blair Middletown Rt Vannest Avenue Wanda Stapleton Franklin Rt Fern Moore Elm St Germantown Blair Stapleton Girl James Graham Jewell Ave Graham Stapleton McCoy-Leffler Ambuce

Girl Scout Banquet Planned by Middletown Leaders

Plans for a banquet to honor Senior Girl Scout leaders were reviewed by the Middletown Area Girl Scout Council. The event is set for 6 p.m. April 12 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church on Broad Street with reservations due April 3 to Robin Velte of Troop 71.

Middletown Area Greenville

Pathologist Williams Named to Fellowship at CAP

Dr. Robert R. Williams of Middle town Hospital has been elected to fellowship in the College of American Pathologists. He is certified in anatomical and clinical pathology and is among about 500 chosen from roughly 20,000 practicing pathologists nationwide. Fellowship requires ten years of training and three years of college membership.

Robert R. Williams Middletown Hospital College of American Pathologists Williams

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