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Middletown Journal

Location

Middletown, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Mar 17, 1954

Page

12

Eisenhower Too Timid Barkley Says in Jackson

Former Vice President Alben Barkley told a Jefferson Jackson Day gathering in Jackson Mississippi that if Eisenhower had been as timid in Europe as in the White House the war would have been lost. He urged the President to implement words with action and warned farmers will retaliate politically. Barkley blamed McCarthy and Jenner for premeditated falsehoods during the 1952 campaign and defended twenty years of Democratic rule.

Jackson Miss Alben Barkley Eisenhower Europe White House Ginner McCarthy Wis Jenner Wisconsin Indiana Treaso Barkley

Robber Takes Cash Dentist Holds Teeth in Cleveland

Mrs. Rose Hovan was robbed and the money was recovered by police but turned over to the county prosecutor as evidence. Delays in the trial left her without the funds to pay a $265 dental bill, and a dentist allegedly kept her lower teeth after a readjustment. A summons ordered the dentist to explain why he held the teeth. The dentist questioned the timing of payment and urged Mrs. Hovan to pay.

Cleveland P Rose Hovan Bernard J. Conway

Peterson's Ointment Relief for Piles Ad

Millions have found relief from itching and discomfort using Peterson's Ointment and its cooling soothing formula. A user testimonial claims itching and sun relief and better sleep after application. Available for 45¢ and 5¢ at all druggists with a money back guarantee.

Peterson T. Peterson

Dillon is sentenced for tax evasion linked to Truman ally

Paul Dillon, 76, a St. Louis attorney and former Truman campaign manager, was found guilty of attempting to evade 1950-51 income taxes. Sentencing is set for Monday. he faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each of two counts. Dillon remained free on bond. He said he did not testify because at 76 “they can't hurt you.”

ST. Louis Paul Dillon Truman Dillon

Real Estate Transfers in Middletown and Nearby Areas

A long list of property transfers recorded in Middletown and surrounding areas shows many parcels changing hands between private buyers, corporations, and public entities. Notable entries include Victor Slezak acquiring pt lot 2476 for $6.05, City of Middletown receiving Jes Container Corp. parcels 7624-6-74 for 8000 with no tax, and Miami University transferring Oxford lot 730 for $1.65. Other transfers cover Buena Vista, Meadow Hills, Slade Pleasant View, Paul Heights, Sunny View, New Miami, and more, with prices ranging from no tax to thousands of dollars and multiple buyers including individuals, banks, and school boards. The records also reflect easement transfers to City of Hamilton and multiple educational or municipal entities.

Everett Burns Minnie Ferguson Fred Slezak Victor Slezak Roger Williams Harold Wray Jes Container Corp City of Middletown Benjamin Hivick Jr Edna Parshall Joseph McDermott Martha McDermott Sawyer Const. Co Alan Stevens Crouch Milford Ogos Buena Vista Kathryn Jones Edwards Meadow Hills John Hicks Edna Smith Hicks Manor The Pres. and Trustees of Miami U James Woodworth Oxford Alfred McIntosh Pearl MacIntosh Frank Butsch Clarence Harwood Slade Pleasant View Aloysius Paul Charles Hilton Paul Heights Jane Hileman Edwin Schiller Ry Heights Ralph Kolb Amos Wilson Sunny View Charles Conley Barne New Miami Ed Morris Alma Lancaster Lindale Harris, Hawthorne Clarence Johns Taulbee’s City of

Mom Beats Daughter To Death in Spring City

Police said 21 year old Phyllis Seeley confessed to beating her 9 month old daughter to death after claiming she was mad. She allegedly struck the child with a hammer, knotted a necktie around the neck, and pressed the head against a wall. An older daughter was unharmed. Seeley surrendered via taxi with police escort.

Spring City John Hanebury Phyllis Seeley Dawn Hanebury

Mary A. Berryman obituary in Middletown Ohio

Mrs. Mary Ann Berryman age 88 of 3112 Omaha St died at 2 p.m. Tuesday after a four year illness at Middletown Hospital. Native of Owensville Kentucky she lived in Middletown since 1907 coming from Frenchburg. She was a charter member of the Middletown American War Mothers GAR and First Church of God. Her husband William and she observed their 52nd wedding anniversary last October. Surviving are the husband a daughter Thelma Mull of West Middletown two sons Hershel and Leland Boorman both of Dayton ten grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Funeral services will be Friday at 10:30 a.m. at Mc Coy Leffler Funeral Home with burial in Springboro Cemetery. Family receives friends Thursday 3–5 and 7–9 p.m.

Mary A. Berryman Mary Ann Berryman Omaha St Middletown Hospital Owensville Berryman Middletown Frenchburg Thelma Mull West Middletown Herschel Leland Boorman Dayton McCoy-Leffler Springboro

John D Morris World War I veteran dies in Wisconsin

John D Morris, 62, WWI veteran and former resident, died at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at Veterans Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Sister-in-law Mrs. Evelyn Mathers of 805 17th Ave. notified. Body to be shipped to Bailey Funeral Home. Survivors include Mrs. Mathers and four nieces and three nephews. Burial at Whidcide? Woodside Cemetery.

John D. Morris Veterans Hospital Madison Wis Evelyn Mathers 17Th Ave Bailey Funeral Home

Death of 7 Year Old James Schreiber

James Schreiber aged seven son of Mr and Mrs James Schreiber of 10 N Highview Rd Middletown died at Middletown Hospital at 8 50 am after a 15 month illness Survived by grandparents H G Frisch and Peter Schreiber Funeral arrangements are incomplete at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home.

James Schreiber N. Highview Rd Middletown Hospital H. G. Frisch Middletown Peter Schreiber McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home

Obituary notices for Cattolico and Jackson

Anthony Cattolico 75 of 287 Hamilton Mason Road served by St Veronica Church has services at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Clyde E Jackson 81 of 1715 Fairgrove Avenue, superintendent of Butler County fairgrounds, funeral services at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Griesmer Grim Funeral Home.

Anthony Cattolico Hamilton-Mason Rd St. Veronica Clyde E. Jackson Fairgrove Ave Butler County Fairgrounds Griesmer-Grim Funeral Home

Geiger Counters Probe Tokyo Fish Markets

Health authorities used Geiger counters in Tokyo markets to scan tuna and other fish after a trawler was exposed to fallout from atomic weapons tests in the Bikini Islands area. Most catch recovered but tuna prices dropped about 40 percent.

Tokyo Pacific Bikini Island

Judge Sentences Heir To 100 000

BALTIMORE The 1¢-year old heir to a $100,000 estate was sentenced to three months in the Maryland House of Correction yesterday for violating probation. Atwood H. Taylor, son of a clergyman, was picked up while driving his late-model high powered car. Last month he was convicted of stealing a 16-year-old car worth $95. He was given a three-month suspended sentence and put on probation for a year. One term of the probation barred him from driving any automobile.

Baltimore Maryland House of Correction Atwood H. Taylor

Man dies after 18 foot fall at Detroit Steel plant

PORTSMOUTH Ohio George M Potts 67 of nearby New Boston died yesterday from injuries suffered Friday when he fell 18 feet into a pit in the open hearth furnace department of the Portsmouth Division of the Detroit Steel Company The accident occurred at the plant prompting a safety inquiry and official statements about the incident

Portsmouth Ohio George M. Potts New Boston Detroit Steel Co

Pittsburgh Pastor To Talk At Church Council Dinner

Dr. Sherman Skinner of East Liberty Presbyterian Church will speak at the Middletown Council of Churches Spring Dinner on May 12 at the Manchester Hotel. The council announced dinner committees and participating churches including First Presbyterian and Calvary Methodist, with cooperating groups such as the Salvation Army and YMCA.

Pittsburgh Sherman Skinner East Liberty Presbyterian Church Middletown Council of Churches Manchester Hotel Russell Galloway Council Ernest Myers Howard Wilson Varree Cribbs Mark Walke Harlan Jarvis Sidney C. McCammon Church of Ascension John I. Parr First Baptist Church R. L. Robinson Union Baptist Church Ross A. Hill Millard Bechtel Wade E. Miller Jerome C. Schulz George S. Fletcher First Presbyterian Oakland Presbyterian United Presbyterian Blue Ball Presbyterian First Methodist Calvary Methodist Red Lion Methodist Bethel Ame First Baptist New Hope Baptist New Era Baptist Mt. Zion Union Baptist Second Baptist First Christian St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed First Evangelical United Brethren Pleasant Ridge Jacksonburg Maple Park First Church of the Brethren Zion Lutheran The Holiness Tabernacle of the Universe Middletown Council of Church Women Salvation Army Middletown Council of Youth YMCA

Tax Fight Centers on Blocking Income Tax Relief

Three Democratic leaders appealed to the nation via radio and TV after President Eisenhower spoke. Rayburn argued the GOP plan would favor the rich, offering little relief to the 80 percent earning under 5,000 dollars annually. He warned of a trickle-down philosophy and warned deficits and inflation from the GOP program.

Eisenhower House Sam Rayburn Texas Daniel A. Reed RNY Ways and Means Committee Sen George D-Ga Senate Rep. Cooper D-Tenn Ways and Means Cooper Rayburn

Parade of 100000 Irish in New York St Patrick Day

More than 100000 Irish march on 5th Avenue from 44th to 96th Street in honor of St Patrick. Mayor Robert Wagner leads and Bernard Butler of Dublin attends as guest of honor. Francis Cardinal Spellman and clergy review from St Patrick's Cathedral steps.

New York Sons of Erin 5Th Avenue St Patrick 44Th 96Th Street Robert F. Wagner Bernard Butler Dublin Francis Cardinal Spellman St. Patrick's Cathedral

Union Appeals Violence Fine in Ohio Strike Case

The CIO United Auto Workers union appeals a $50,000 violence fine from a November Columbus protest at North American Aviation. Half the fine was suspended after Imposition by Common Pleas Judge Joseph M. Harter.

Columbus Ohio Cio-United Auto Workers Union North American Aviation, Inc Court of Appeals Common Pleas Joseph M. Harter

Moonshining Up 63 Percent Says Industry VP

Thomas J. Donovan of New York vice president of Licensed Beverage Industries Inc spoke in Baltimore last night declaring that moonshining has risen 63 percent over the past eight years.

Baltimore Thomas J. Donovan New York Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc

Patrolmen Flying Low in Arizona Take Belts as Safety

Phoenix Arizona air safety update reports patrol cars fitted with seat belts to improve crash survival. Supt Greg O Hathaway says belts give better protection in a crash and are installed as a precaution.

Phoenix Ariz Arizona Greg O. Hathaway

Local Socials and War Era Note Cards

Trenton social list reports visiting relatives from Mrs Allen Selby to Uncle Al's Show at WC PO-TV. A stork shower honors Mrs Urban Davis with 36 guests at Mrs Clarence Kelley's home. multiple prize winners named. The piece notes a birthday dinner for Mrs C H Moore and a historical line about Mad Anthony Wayne’s march with meat driven for his forces during the Ohio Indian campaign.

Allen Selby Jack Greenfield Willard Johnson Charles Hartman John Pieratt James Forsythe Roy Smallwood Wcpo-Tv Uncle al Urban Davis Clarence Kelley George Hasselbaugh Robert Douglass Marion Murphy Raymond Willes Vestel Patton Edgar Edwards Blue Ball Allie Fisher Harry Nuss Monroe George R. Dome Middletown Carl Ennis Wilson Estes B. E. Mikesell Arthur Reed Albert Moore C. H. Moore Anthony Wayne Ohio Country

Cincinnati Market Report Hogs Cattle Sheep Prices

Porks 3 300 head active barrows and gilts 15 higher than Tuesday. Choice 170 225 lb 26.00, 225 240 lb 25.75, 240 260 lb 25.25, 260 300 lb 24 25. Sows scarce steady. Hogs 300 600 lb mostly 16.50, few 16.50. Cattle calves 250, steers yearlings and heifers steady, cows uneven but steady. Bulls 14 16. Good to low choice 700 1050 lb steers yearlings 19 22, utility 14 18, canners 11 13. Beef cows 12 13.50, young 14, cutters 9 11.5, low canners 8 8.5. Bulls 14 16. Dealers slow to weak, some sales 100 lower. Choice 21 26, few 27, commercial 14 20, cull 8 13, mostly 10. Sheep 100 not enough receipts. Good to choice wooled lambs 23 24, good 4 7.

Cincinnati USDA

Wholesale Poultry Prices From Dayton Produce

Wholesale poultry rates show paying prices for live and dressed birds. Hens five pounds and over priced near 26 to 39 cents per pound depending on type, with old and young rabbits listed separately. Leghorns and roosters priced with Grade A whites and browns around 46 to 48 cents per pound, produced by the Production Association.

W.R Medeedoreene Hennery Rusesceseson Csesseeree Production Association

Cincinnati Produce Prices and Pea Production Note

Cincinnati produces price listings for eggs poultry butter and potatoes with grade ranges and current receipts. Florida New Jersey and Ohio lead pea production in that order.

Florida New Jersey Ohio

Heekin Jr Elected President of Heekin Can Co

Albert E. Heekin Jr., grandson of the founder, was yesterday elected president of Heekin Can Co. of Cincinnati. Heekin becomes the fifth family member to hold the post since the company was founded 53 years ago.

Cincinnati Albert E. Heekin Jr Heekin Can Co Heekin

Jefferson Lodge Meeting and Obituary Notices

Jefferson Lodge No 10 F and A M meets Monday March 22 at 615 pm Lost and found items listed Monuments by Dodds Monuments Verity Pkwy and 14th Ave across from Woodside Cemetery Funeral notices for Carl W Albright Mary Ann Berryman Joseph Walter Helm Jessie Gordon Jones John D Morris Flora O Beck with services and interments at local homes and cemeteries Interments at Springboro Gratis Gettysburg and Woodside referenced Bureaucratic and cemetery details included for Middletown area.

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