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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1955
Page
2
Insurance men estimate more than 100000 dollars in windstorm damage across Middletown with roots and TV antennas most affected. Losses range from minor eaves troughs to barn roofs and plate glass breaks. many claims unresolved as insurers caution total costs may rise for weeks.
City Commission plans to tackle two deferred items including final plat of Marts Subdivision on Mossman Road and proposed traffic and parking rules for Garfield and Balti more streets. Also to receive filed contracts and invoices, and hear first reading of a pool rate ordinance.
Middletown schools personnel director Lawrence Johnson spoke to Central School PTO on differences among children. Mrs. Morris Ballard was elected treasurer, replacing Mrs. Herman Rekers who moved to another district. Sixth graders performed singing dancing and instrumental numbers. Refreshments were provided by Mrs. Marge Lehmkuhl Mrs. Elaine Meeks Mrs. Dorothy Kalbaugh and Fay Kalbaugh.
Members of the executive board of the Mound Builders Area Council of Boy Scouts will meet tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Civic Association library. George Harvey, president, will be in charge.
Fenwick Welfare meets at 8 p m at Fenwick High School to discuss junior senior prom plans and the May school festival as the main agenda item.
Middletown Jaycees host their 14th Bosses Night at the Manchester Hotel dining room with a yet unnamed honoree to receive the honorary life membership. W L McGrath, Williamson Heater Co. president and US rep to the International Labour Organization, will speak on ILO. Erle A Hanson of Gough Lamb Cleaners will deliver the greeting response. A social hour precedes the 7 p.m. dinner.
A two car crash at Moore Street and Sherman Avenue injured and damaged multiple properties. Mabel Hammonds 47 failed to stop at a sign, plowed into Kenneth Smith 19 sending his car into a yard and uprooting a tree. Smith received a speeding citation. Hammonds charged with failing to stop. Smith’s car totaled, Hammonds car $75 damage. Two sidewalk squares damaged, yard at 318 Moore St torn up. Shirley Comley 22 cited for following too closely after a car bus crash at Geloe and 4th Ave. Damaged totaled $700. Comley mouth injury, Stamper forehead injury. Additional minor city mishaps listed.
A woman identified as Bonnie Redd, 30, of 216 Park Street, was treated and released from Middletown Hospital after inhaling gas from a stove that went out. Fire department emergency units responded at 9 18 p m and she was taken to the hospital by Riggs ambulance.
Thomas Webb supervisory assistant and Ralph Ringgenberg mathematics teacher at McKinley Junior High will represent Middletown at the Ohio Educational Association Committee for the Improvement of Education meeting. Events run Friday and Saturday at Ohio State University Student Union Building in Columbus.
Local Red Cross fund drive reports 15 355 57 in contributions toward a 27 900 goal by month end. General Chairman Harold Calvin says all divisions are similar and progressing. Industrial Armco and Paper lead with 7 500 and 3 400 respectively while other sectors show smaller yields. Drive began earlier this month and targets employment contact communities.
The Rev. Harold H. Jung speaks on The Lord Looking Upon Us at the fifth Lenten service at St. Pauls Evangelical and Reformed Church at 7 30 tonight. Miss Becky Roof is guest soloist.
Russell Adkins of Curtis Street, 23, was found guilty of assault and battery by Butler Common Pleas Judge Fred B. Cramer. He received 90 days in the Cincinnati Workhouse and a $150 fine plus costs after pleading innocent to a rape with consent charge involving a 13 year old Middletown girl, and was found guilty of the lesser charge.
State patrolmen reported three separate mishaps early today. Virgil Lamb, 31, suffered forehead lacerations and bruises when his car left U S 25 and hit a tree near the Warren Montgomery line. Dewey Willis, 29, was cited for driving left of center after a two car crash at Rt 123 and Chautauqua Drive. A northbound semi trailer spilled nine one ton paper rolls into a ditch on Rt 747 near Hamilton County, injuring no one but damaging a fence.
A Middletown area case involved two boys aged 13 and 11 who stole two fishing rods and reels from a shed near the 27 Taxi Co. office Monday night. The gear was hidden in a garage at one boy’s home and recovered by juvenile authorities yesterday. The youths had prior minor trouble and did not get to use the equipment.
Civil service released March 3 grades for 39 police and fire personnel in six vacancies across police and fire divisions. Letters show each man’s test grade plus efficiency and seniority points. Appeals due by April 2. final grades and eligibility lists to be set then. Police had 29 exams. Fire included ten captains for the assistant chief post.
Monroe village council sets a special session for next Tuesday after no quorum appeared at last night's regular meeting. The session follows a public hearing on an ordinance to regulate subdivisions, with the hearing set to begin at 8 p.m.
Paramount screens Battle Cry at 1 15 3 50 6 30 and 9 15 p.m Wednesday and Thursday Strand presents Down Three Dark Streets at 1 30 4 40 and 7 55 p.m All the Brothers Were Valiant at 3 00 6 15 and 9 30 p.m Wednesday and Thursday
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