Peters Carruthers Wins Two Scholarships This Week
Peter A. Carruthers, a former Middletown High School student, won a National Science Foundation predoctoral fellowship in Washington. He also received a $2,200 annual assistantship from California Tech and holds offers from Cornell and Carnegie Tech. Carruthers will graduate from Carnegie Tech in June with a bachelor and a master in nuclear physics. He is married to Jean Breitenbecher and they have a young child, with another on the way.
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Peter A
Pete” Carruthers
Middletown
National Science Foundation
Washington
Young Carruthers
M. E. Carruthers
Euclid Street
California Tech
NSF
Jwaies
Carruthers
Carnegie Tech
Jean i Breitenbecher
Cornell
Honest Man Pays Damage Letter Claims $11
STUART Okla A service station operator Carl Frasier said he received a letter from a customer who broke into his station early Tuesday morning and helped himself to gasoline. The unsigned note said the money was for the gasoline a broken window and a smashed lock.
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Stuart
Okla
Carl Frasier
Girl Struck By Auto Here
A seven year old Middletown girl was slightly injured after running into the path of a moving auto in the 1300 block of Central Avenue at 12 15 p m today. Deborah Roberts of 1225 Central Ave was taken to Middletown Hospital for a bump on the back. John Barr 58 of 1200 Parkview Ave drove east on Central when the girl ran from between two cars stopped in traffic into the front of the Barr auto. The driver was not held.
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Middletown
Central Avenue J
Deborah Roberts
Central Ave
Middletown Hospital
John Barr
Parkview Ave
Central
Man Jailed To Pay Fine
Harold Jackson aged 29 of 1513 Garfield St was fined 50 dollars plus costs by Acting Municipal Judge Robert Dell and ordered jailed to serve an old unpaid 12 dollar fine along with today s 50 dollar fine and 6 dollar court costs. Malcolm Smith 42 of Portland Ind was fined 10 dollars plus costs for speeding 68 mph in a 50 mph zone on N Verity Parkway. Three intoxication cases were disposed of.
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Harold Jackson
Garfield St
Robert Dell
Jackson
Butler County
Dell
J. T. Lamb
Malcolm Smith
Portland
Ind
N. Verity Parkway
Widow awarded $125000 in Ohio death verdict
Mrs. Dorothy Frady wins 125000 in damages from National Cylinder Gas Co and Mansfield Oxygen Acetylene Supply Co over the 1955 Cooper Bessemer plant explosion that killed her husband Marvin. The jury found the defendants liable for supplying oxygen instead of nitrogen, causing the engine test failure.
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Mount Vernon
Ohio
Dorothy Frady
Marvin
Cooper Bessemer i Corp
Common Pleas
National Cylinder Gas Co
Columbus
Mansfield Oxygen Acetelyne Supply Co
Frady
Na’ Cylinder and
Mansfield
Cooper Bessemer
Cooper Besseimer
Eight Old Timers Honored by Elks Here
The Elks Lodge elected eight life members for long service and meritorious work. David Jones received an honorary life membership and other honorees include Milton McLane Charles Fay Frank Brelsford Harry Johnson Nell C J Steller D O Fisher and Frank Simon. Officers nominated at the meeting include Dale Smith and William Reardon among others.
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Frank Simon
Francis Carmody
Exalted Rulers Assn
William Reardon
Lodge
Dale Smith
Roger Dillman
Donald Axford
Paul Foehl
John Roche
Clifford Kinsworthy
Robert Garris
Gary Baker
Ex Ohio convict faces 20 year term for child stealing
Robert Hemming age 53, a former Ohio inmate, pleaded guilty in San Diego Superior Court to taking 8 year old Larry Olsen from a beach and keeping him overnight at a motel. Hemming had been released from Ohio Penitentiary in December after a 10 year sentence for passing bad checks.
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San Diego
Calif
Robert Hemming
Ohio
Hemming
Larry Olsen
Ohio Penitentiary
Firefighters Overcome by Smoke in Akron Blaze
Fifteen Akron firefighters were knocked out by toxic smoke from an undetermined source in a downtown blaze at Schiff's building. Injured were treated at nearby hospitals with no serious injuries reported as smoke continued to fill the structure hours after the fire was believed out.
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Akron
Ohio
Eeach Schiff
Downtowen
Author Tells My Students Of Technique At Miami
James T. Farrell told Miami University students he writes with no fixed routine, works anytime, and relies on ideas from around him rather than waiting for inspiration. He emphasized letting characters develop naturally and the value of editors in shaping a work.
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Oxford
James T. Farrell
Miami University
Miami
Israel
Studs Lonigan
Danny O'Neill
Language Reach Expands as Chinese and Mongolian Dialects Grow
Language experts note growing use of Chinese language dialects and Mongolian speech across communities. Authorities report continued multiethnic education programs and cultural initiatives to support linguistic diversity and preservation.
House Appropriations Slashes Ike Budget by $517 Million
The House Appropriations Committee cut $516,993,300 from President Eisenhower’s $5,923,195,000 request for 18 agencies for the next fiscal year starting July 1. Major reductions hit Veterans Administration Civil Defense General Services Administration and several others with detailed cuts across Civil Service Commission Federal Communications Commission and more. If upheld, total cuts reach about $660 million from presidential requests to date.
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Washington
House
Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
Committee
Senate
Independent Offices
Veterans Administration
Civil Defense Administration
General Services Administration
Civil Service Commission
Federal Communications Commission
Midletown Hamilton Area Patrol Post Reports Smooth Traffic Day
State Patrol Post 9 covering Ohio 4 between Middletown and Hamilton reported no traffic mishaps on Wednesday. The last accident they logged was Tuesday afternoon, with no incidents reported up to 10 a.m. today.
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Middletown-Hamilton
State Patrol
Ohio 4
Middletown
Hamilton
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