Deaths And Funerals: Simmons 90
Samuel Clayton Simmons 90 of 1201 Calumet Ave died at Middletown Hospital after Feb 10 illness. Retired 1939 as custodian of Young Street school, longtime Middletown leader, wife Anna, children Hazel Kling Emma White Earl, siblings, grandchildren. Services Monday Riggs Funeral Home, burial Woodside Cemetery.
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Samuel Clayton Simmons
Calumet Ave
Middletown Hospital
Simmons
Old Young Street School
Middletown
Anna
First Methodist Church
Hazel Kling
Emma White
Blanchester
Earl of Hamilton
Howard
Fdison
Lester
Laurel
Ohio
Mary Simmons
Riggs Funeral Hom
Donald W. Cryer
Woodside Cemetery
Theresa Walker
Riggs
John C. Flowers
Mrs Amanda Brown 93 Dies in Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Mrs Amanda Jane Brown aged 93 mother of Robert L Brown died at 10 45 am yesterday at Jefferson Memorial Hospital Jefferson NY Survivors include husband E D Brown son Walter formerly of Middletown now in Spring Grove PA and four grandchildren Services set for 2 pm local time at Friendship Baptist Church Jefferson NC with burial in Jefferson Arrangements by Badger Funeral Home Jefferson
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Amanda Jane Brown
Robert L. Brown
Arlington Ave
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Jefferson, N. Y
E. D. Brown
Walter
Middletown
Spring Grove
Friendship Baptist Church
Jefferson
N. C
Badger Funeral Home
Susanna Engle Gechwandtner 90 Dies in Middletown
Mrs Susanna Engle Gechwandtner 90 died yesterday at 1 40 p m at her home 1209 Prospect Ave after two years of failing health and a five week serious illness. A Middletown resident since 1911 she came from Germany. Her husband Gustav died in 1939. Surviving are a daughter Mrs
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Susanna Engle Gechwandtner
Prospect Ave
Middletown
Germany
Gustav
Notable deaths mark week across multiple states
Otis Ferguson Glenn former U S senator from Illinois died aged 79 in Manister Mich Hayden Wood 76 composer of Roses of Picardy and other ballads died in London Lorin Pickering 70 organizer and first general manager of the North American Newspaper Alliance died in Palo Alto Calif Chester T Lane 53 former SEC counsel and foreign liquidation official died in New York Richard A Carroll 60 editor and author died in New York Albert L Wiles 71 former head of the Rubber Manufacturers Association died in New Rochelle N Y
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Manister
Mich
Otis Ferguson Glenn
U.S
Illinois
Glenn
Senate
Frank L. Smith
Mattoon
London
Hayden Wood
Wood
Palo Alto
Calif
Loring Pickering
North American Newspaper Alliance
Evening Bulletin
San Francisco
Cat Bulletin
New York
Chester T.lane
Lane
Securities Exchange Commission
Richard A Carroll
Fawcett Publications, Inc
Cambridge
Mass
New Rochelle
N.Y
Albert L. Wiles
The
Rubber Manufacturers Assn
Wiles
Association
Railroads’ Phone and Telegraph Lines Stretch Three Equators
Major U.S. railroads have laid wires for telephones and telegraphs that together could circle the globe three times at the equator, highlighting the vast length of communication lines supporting nationwide rail transport.
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United States
Crap Shooter Makes Point
MEMPHIS TENN One by one five of the six men accused of shooting claim innocence before City Court Judge Beverly Boushe. When George Drake spoke he muttered I guess Im the only one who was shooting The judge fined everyone else 11 for witnessing the first one man dice game in history.
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Memphis
Tenn
Oice
Beverly Boushe
George Drake
Veto Likely If House Passes Chicago Water Bill
The measure to let Chicago divert more Lake Michigan water advances toward House approval despite protests. Opponents warn it could jeopardize U S and Canadian shipping and hydroelectric projects, while supporters say the impact would be negligible. Eisenhower is expected to veto if it passes.
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Washington
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Ohio
Great Lakes
Eisenhower
House
Senate
Thomas J. O'Brien
D-Ill
Illinois Waterway
U.S
Divorce Filed by 17th Wife of Ding Dong Daddy
Francis H. Van Wie's 17th wife, June Puckett Van Wie, 73, filed for divorce in Sacramento. They wed in Lodi on June 15, 1957, and Van Wie disappeared about a year later. He is known as the Ding Dong Daddy of the Dear Line and has served time for bigamy in San Quentin and Los Angeles.
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Sacramento
Calif
Francis H. van Wie
June Puckett van Wie
Lodi
van Wie
San Francisco
San Quentin
Los Angeles
Three Area Students Appear In Shakespeare Comedy
OXFORD Special Three Miami University students from southwestern Ohio appear in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor which opened last night and runs tonight and Saturday. David Ballard Middletown plays Justice Shallow. James Sorrell Hamilton acts as Page. James Wilcher Oxford Meigsburg plays Simple the servant.
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Simple Justice
David Bellard
Middletown
Justice Shallow
James Wilder
Miamisburg
Simple
Oxford
Benton Hall
Miami University
Southwestern Ohio
David Lee Ballard
Morris Ballard
Bundy
Ballard
James H. Sorrell
C. A. Sorrell
E. River Road
Hamilton
Sorrell
Page
James Wilcher
College of Arts & Science
George Wilcher
Pearl Street
Meamisburg
Wilch
Two Injured In Rt 747 Wreck Near Rt 129
Hamilton special report says two people were hurt in a truck car crash on Route 747 one mile south of Route 129. Gene Atkins 31 of Cincinnati driver of the northbound auto had a fractured left arm and was admitted to Mercy Hospital. Shir ley Hatton 15 of Mount Sterling Ky a truck passenger was treated for knee abrasions and dismissed. Jerry McIntosh of Mount Sterling Ky the truck driver was sunhurt.
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Atkins Detroit (Ap
Leon W. Hart
U.S. Dist
Frank A. Picard
Hartent
National Bank of Detroit
Ill Nude Bill Could Face House Committee
Jefferson City Missouri. Speaker Richard H Ichord weighs which committee should hear a bill to outlaw nudism The Appropriations Committee favors the bill because it deals in figures Ichord says he would send it to a mental health committee but the House lacks one
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Jefferson City
Richard H. Ichord
Missouri
House Committee
Appropriations Committee
Ichord
House
Farmers' Production Said Ten Years Ahead
Columbus Ohio AP Roy Battles assistant to the master of the National Grange says it will be ten years before domestic and foreign demand for farm products catches up with U S farmers production abilities He told the annual meeting of the Producers Livestock Alan here Thursday that it also might be ten years before farmers start receiving adequate incomes.
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Columbus, Ohio
Roy Battles
National Grange
U.S
Foreign Cars Pampered At Philadelphia Wash
A Philadelphia car wash advertises exclusivity with a sign claiming foreign cars are washed only in imported water, highlighting heightened snob appeal for upscale vehicles.
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Philadelphia
Ford Foundation to Offer Two Million Ford Shares
The Ford Foundation plans a public sale of two million shares of Ford Motor Co stock worth over 110 million dollars at current prices. Sale price will depend on NYSE prices just before release. Ford closed at 55.37, up 0.62. The foundation owns 36,132,239 Ford shares, donated by Henry and Edsel Ford.
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Washington
Ford Motor Co
Ford Foundation
Ford
New York Stock Exchange
New York
Henry and
Edsel Ford
Old-fashioned chicken dinner at Second Baptist Church
The Altar Guild sponsors an old-fashioned chicken dinner at Second Baptist Church on 9th Ave. Serving begins at noon tomorrow.
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Altar Guild
Second Baptist Church
9Th Ave
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S.C. Simmons
Gus Frederick Sauer
Morey Ave
St. Mary
Nellie Edna Kochendarfer
Franklin St
Proeschel
Samuel C. Simmons
Mrs
Amanda Brown
Jarmco, Jr. Achievement
N. Broad, Middletown
the Bake Shop
Ding Dong
Chromspun
Harmony House
Sears
Gillen-Crow
Foundation
the Securities and Excange Commission
Colored News
Reeves, Inc. Jewelers
Reba
Arthur Godfrey
Middletown News Agency
Columbia Ave
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