Trains Roll Through City as Rail Strike Ends
Passenger service resumes in Middletown with the Ohio State Limited at 4 41 p m and other NYC trains returning to original schedules. Freight activity redeploys staff as 130 idle cars near Fleming Road are cleared and ships resume to normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NYC
Middletown
Charles Street
Ohio State Limited
Dayton
Columbus
Cleveland
Buffalo
Syracuse
Boston
F. J. Zink
Zink
L. A. Champ
Springfield
Cincinnati Mercury
Mercury
J. A. Ryan
Fleming Road
Middletown High Band Honors At School Assembly
Middletown High School’s band held a regular assembly performance and distributed 14 awards from Director Joe B. Franklin for Band Camp activities. Janet Moyer and Bob Baker won best camper prizes. cabins earned best cabin awards. The program included a pops concert excerpt and a clarinet quartet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Joe B. Franklin
Franklin
Janet Moyer
Bob Baker
Dorothy Hoover
Shirley Neville
Pat Hoiton
Coralie Weikel
Joan Helsinger
Phyllis Solter
Bill Boyd
Jack Hammond
Larry Gingerich
Jack Whitehead
Clayton Hursh
At The Movies Listings Paramount Strand
Paramount shows The Sellout at 1 15 4 10 7 15 and 10 15 pm It s A Big Country at 2 35 5 40 and 6 45 pm Strand presents Startiff at 1 18 4 45 and 8 15 pm Rachel And The Stranger at 3 05 6 40 and 10 09 pm
Three Sworn As Citizens In Middletown Court
Middletown gained three new citizens in a class of eight who passed examinations and were sworn by Judge P. P. Boll in Common Pleas Court. Citizens are Barbara Hayden of 1617 Oberon Dr England Czeslaw Witkowski of Micler Rd Route 2 Poland and Ann lore Ferguson of 1813 Highland St from Germany. The examiner was Henry Beziat of Cincinnati.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
P. P. Boll
Common Pleas Court
Barbara Hayden
Oberon Dr
England
Czeslaw Witkowski
Micler Rd
Route 2
Poland
Annalore Ferguson
Highland St
Germany
Henry Beziat
Cincinnati
Quirina Cabinet Seeks Mobilization Bill for Congress
President Elpidio Quirina and his Cabinet approved by yesterday to present a mobilization measure to Congress due to critical world conditions. The move signals broad government action amid international tension and economic instability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Elpidio Quirina
Philippines Congress
Riley Used Pen Name Benjamin F Johnsen
Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley once wrote under the alias Benjamin F. Johnsen expanding his published identity beyond Riley. The biographical note highlights this lesser known pseudonym used during his literary career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Whitcomb Riley
Hoosier
Benjamin F. Johnsen
Color Up Bugs Kids And Win A Prize Contest Start Sunday
A Bugs Bunny coloring contest sponsored by the Middletown Journal opens Sunday with three Bugs drawings to be published March 16 23 and 30 Contest prizes total 12 5 3 and five 1s with rules allowing under 12 entrants excluding relatives of the newspaper. Entries must be postmarked by midnight April 1 and winners announced April 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown Journal
Bugs
Middletwn Journal
Middletown
Warm Weather Returns to Middletown Ohio
Middletown Ohio braces for warmer conditions after a period of blustery winds and frost ridden skies. Thursday will bring clouds and wind with a chance of rain in the afternoon while today’s outlook shows sun and a high near 44. Tonight should stay fair and not very cold with a low around 32 to 36.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Ohio
Area Small Loan Menu Will Attend District Dinner
Wilbur Seliman, manager of the City Loan and Savings Co for Hamilton and chairman of District Four of the Ohio Association of Small Loan Companies, will oversee arrangements for the district's public relations dinner Thursday at the Hotel Lexington in Cincinnati. District Four covers Butler, Warren, Clinton, Hamilton, Clermont, Brown and Highland counties. Officials from Middletown will attend. Maj. Norman Imrie of Columbus will speak on America For Me. Two hundred twenty five associates and guests from seven southern Ohio counties will attend.
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Wilbur Seliman
City Loan and Savings Company
Hamilton
Ohio Association of Small Loan Companies
Linton
Cincinnati
District Four
Butler
Warren
Clinton
Clermont
Brown
Highland Counties
Middletown
Maj
Norman Imrie
Columbus
Zanesville
Zanesville Signal and Times Recorder
America
Joan Company
Ohio
Miami Students Assist Butler County Health Inspectors
Thirty Miami University seniors join Butler County Health Department sanitarians on inspection trips through the county. They will accompany W L Duff and Robert Gifford to examine schools, restaurants, rest homes, camps and swimming pools, learning county health maintenance and clean lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami University
Butler County Health Department
H. A. Moore
Butler County
W.L. Duff
Robert Gifford
Health Department
W. H. Gregg
Miani
Southwest District
Ohio
County Health Department
The
Miami
Final Hearing Tonight for Ordinance To Lease South
City Commissioners will hear the third and final reading on leasing the South School building to the Catholic Diocese for a five year term at 6000 dollars annually. Some residents have proposed remodeling as veteran housing. others may protest tonight. The plan allows park ground use and covers extra property expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Starick
Central Ave
Ralph Wolpert Company
Arlington Knolls
Milton Rd
Thorn Hill
Wilson School
Starick
Easter Seal Sale Opens with $10000 Butler County goal
Tomorrow marks the start of the 1953 Easter Seal campaign in Butler County led by the Society for Crippled Children. Campaign chairmen say rising costs require a higher goal as more children are helped with braces medicines clinics and a cerebral palsy treatment center funded by civic contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler County Society For Crippled Children
Butler County
Fred Burk
Middletown
Burk
Aeronca Club Plans Meeting and Induction
The Aeronca Management Club will hold a 6 p.m. meeting at the Aeronca cafeteria with twelve members to be partially initiated by president F. J. Sandker. Inductees will be sworn in at the April 10 session, and speaker F. E. Merica will discuss Scientific Crime Detection and Prevention. Inductees include L. M. Profitt Troy Whitt G. M. Thaten Charles Cremeans Frank Lawson Frank Nee Orville Hollingsworth Gilbert Hagan Wilbur Fisher Howard Martin Burton Barber and Frank Fisher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aeronca Management Club
Aeronca
F. J. Sandker
Sandker
F. E. Merica
Merica Detective Bureau
Dayton
L. M. Profitt
Troy Whitt
G. M. Thaten
Charles Cremeans
Frank Lawson
Frank Nee
Orville Hollingsworth
Gilbert Hagan
Wilbur Fisher
Howard Martin
Burton Barber
Frank Fisher
Planning Schools To Be Miller Topic At City Meeting
Wade E. Miller Middletown superintendent will discuss City Planning and Its Relation To Public Schools at a March 17 Industry Education Committee meeting. The 6:30 p.m. session will be in the Manchester Hotel ballroom with Middletown Industrial Council as hosts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wade E. Miller
Middletown Public Schools
Industry Education Committee
Manchester Hotel
Middletown Industrial Council
Legion Post 218 Celebrates 32nd Birthday Event
Legion Post 218 the largest post in Ohio with 2300 members marks its 32nd birthday this Saturday at 6 30 p m in the Legion auditorium announced by post commander Ian McAdow A smorgasbord is planned Herb Spade's band will play with a Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America feature act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legion Post
Ohio
Legion Auditorium
Ian McAdow
Herb Spade
the Society For the Preservation and Encouragement of
Barber Shop
America
Crash at Baltimore Street and Hudson Avenue
Police reported a two car collision at 6 26 p m near Baltimore Street and Hudson Avenue causing property damage estimated at 75 dollars. Drivers Escue Broughton 39 of 911 Garden Street and James R Greene 23 of 2016 Hill Avenue were the listed parties with Broughton turning left as the other car attempted to pass.
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Baltimore St
Hudson Ave
Escue Broughton
Garden St
James R. Greene
Hill Ave
Broughton
Area Employment Stables At 13 470 In Middletown Firms
A January survey shows 13 470 people employed by 34 major Middletown firms, slight drop from November 1951. Heaviest losses in construction offset by gains in transportation equipment, with retail employment stable. Local firms expected 500 more workers by March, but layoffs in paper bag manufacturing may affect gains. Over 1000 jobseekers report February through March, with skilled construction and machine shop work in demand. Unemployment compensation averaged 7.12 weekly by March 1, lower than February and 1951 levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
P. F. Johnson
Ohio State Employment Center
Johnson
Deadline Near For Gardner Scholarships
Gardner Board and Carton Company offers scholarships to Middletown High School seniors. Two scholars receive 500 dollars annually for four years and may gain summer work to help pay college costs. Applications must be mailed by Saturday, March 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardner
Gardner Board and
Carton Company
Middletown High School
Check on Route 73 Nabs Two Truckers and Two Motorists
State patrol reports a three hour traffic check on Route 73 east of Middletown yielding two truck drivers and two motorists arrested and fined. Charles Alcorn of Dayton paid 34 dollars plus costs for an overloaded truck. Other fines included Louis Lowe 25 dollars and costs for vehicle offenses, Russell Coffey 15 dollars for Kentucky plates, and Hazel Myers 10 dollars for lacking a driver’s license.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Charles Alcorn
Dayton
Louis Lowe
Russell Coffey
East Fourth St
Franklin
Kentucky
Hazel V. Myers
Thirkield Ave
Squire Lammie Bailey
Roger Wilson
Warren Rivers
J. C. Brown
John Cromwell
Franklin Hopes For Annexation Of Outer Areas
The Franklin Planning Commission met to discuss annexing outlying territory and to plan an engineering survey for exact city boundary lines. Mayor James Rossman expressed confidence that northeastern areas will petition to join Franklin, as the new commission reviews code books and sets building restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
Franklin Planning Commission
James Rossman
Franklin City
Safety and Service
Jesse Hollingsworth
Roy Burroughs
Joe Baxter
Lloyd Ritz Sr
New Planning Commission
Four Local Men Enlist in Army Enlistment Staged
A Middletown man Malcolm Brennen and three Waynesville men Alice Carter Charles Morgan Jr and Don Rye were accepted yesterday by Army recruiters for two year enlistments. Brennen was chosen for Officer Candidate School after basic training at Ft Meade Maryland where the others began their basic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Kirby
Railway Express Agency
Charles St
Kirby
Middletown
Waynesville
Army
Ruther Gregory
Malcolm Brennen
Carolina St
Alice Carter
Charles Morgan, Jr
Don Rye
Ft. Meade
Brennen
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Peterson
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Stomac
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Dorit Miss
Rubinof
Violin
Rubinoff
Star News
Broad St
Sertoma
Wonder
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Streifthau
Doc
Catholic High
Butler County Commission
Coles Rd
Grand Ave
Aeronca Club
Planning
Web
Jesus Christ
Our Lord
Sun., P. M
Mon
Kingdom of God
Reorganized Church OF
Jesus Christ OF
Latter
Logan Ave
Middletown, Ohio
Fied
John E. Jordan
Franklin Route 1
H. W. Voelker
Walter R. Smith, Jr
Fleming Rd
Paul Hendrickson
American Medical Association
Clark ST
Dixie
Earl
NEW Hands
Idletown
Mother Nature
Nature
Michigan
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