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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1963
Page
2
The Ohio River traffic jam near the Markland Dam in Indiana was to ease after the river dropped below 53.7 inches at 7 am, enabling the first towboat and barges to pass. About 50 towboats and 600 barges had stacked up for nearly three weeks awaiting sufficient drop in water level.
Mrs Susan Almon Bussard 90 died at home. Survived by a brother John two sisters Lillie Rider and Anna Curry and seven grandchildren. Burial Woodside Cemetery. Arrangements incomplete Riggs Funeral Home. Mrs Ely died Saturday in Middletown Hospital. Mrs Flo Rosa Davis 83 died at home. Survived by daughter Marie Wilson brother John Helf eight great grandchildren. Services Tuesday Riggs Funeral Home. Burial Woodside Cemetery. Memorial service White Shrine of Jerusalem chapter conduct.
Fred Lamar Combs 40 of 2001 South Ave Middletown died yesterday at Middletown Hospital after a year of declining health. A World War II veteran and Armco Steel press operator since 1945, he was born in Campton Kentucky and lived in Middletown 20 years. Survived by wife Arma a son William a stepson William Brewer four stepdaughters four sisters and two brothers. Services 2 PM Wednesday at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home with Rev Charles Foley and Rev Henry Howard. burial Woodside Cemetery.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 p m at the Market Funeral Home in Versailles for Mrs Minnie T Dell 69 of Versailles formerly of Middletown who died Thursday Burial will be in Versailles Cemetery.
Services for Mrs Katherine Ely aged 78 of 312 Franklin Street will be held at 2 p m tomorrow at the Riggs Funeral Home.
Virgil M. Davis 44 of 9383 Chamberlain Road Franklin died at 10:30 p m yesterday at Grandview Hospital Dayton after a heart attack Friday. He worked 22 years at Armco Steel Corp as a fabricating department inspector. Survived by wife Sarah and four children Ralph Herbert Barry. parents Beason and Davis of Springboro. four brothers and three sisters. Arrangements incomplete at Anglesby Funeral Home.
Mason-Grover C. Fox 78 died Saturday at his home 609 Western Ave. He was a retired Remington Arms shipping clerk. Survived by wife Rebecca two daughters Mrs. Mary Maxson Wilmington and Mrs. Elizabeth Camp Clarksville, and two sons James Connecticut and John Mason. Services 10 a m tomorrow Gillimore Funeral Home burial Rose Hill Cemetery. Home today after 4 pm.
Edwin Kurzynski 67 died Friday at his residence 255 S Mechanic St Lebanon. Survived by wife Ethel a daughter Naomi Kurzynski at home a son Donald of Greenville and two sisters Mrs Irene Bodenberz Cincinnati and Mrs Bertha Feist Memphis.
Obituaries note Holger Paulson longtime Fargo Forum editor dying at 75 after a lifelong newspaper career starting at 15 and leading the Forum from 1921 to 1957. Doris Stevens, 70, longtime equal rights advocate, died after a stroke weeks earlier. she was linked to Dudley Field Malone and Jonathan Mitchell. Dr. Clifford Erickson, 55, MSU provost and former dean of Education, died of a heart attack. Ernest C Leed, 71, diplomat who evacuated Americans from Russia in 1917 and Germany before WWII, died. John Z Means, 51, former international president of the quartet society, died in Manitowoc.
The obituary notes tomorrow service at Oswald Memorial Home and burial in Spring Grove Cemetery Cincinnati. Friends may call at the memorial home today after 4 p.m.
Thomas Henry Shankel 59 formerly of South Lebanon died Saturday at Clinton Memorial Hospital Wilmington survived by wife Ruth and two sisters Grace Little and Ruth Hammill of Lebanon with services tomorrow at South Lebanon Methodist Church and burial in South Lebanon Cemetery Adeline Bassett 84 of Oxford with services in Yellow Springs Ora K Wagner 76 of New Bremen services 10:30 a m tomorrow Helm R Reif 69 of Hamilton services today
Edwin Bobbitt of Middletown has been chosen as a class agent for Transylvania College Alumni Fund for 1963. D. P. Vandivier of Louisville announced the appointment. A 1935 Lexing ton graduate, Bobbitt is among 100 select alumni aiding the drive to raise $20 000 by June 30.
In Geneva the United States urged a six week maximum for each on site inspection to police a nuclear test with mutual extension possible. Ambassador Stelle pressed for details and called for a response from Soviet envoy Tsarapkin while stating inspections would include helicopter flights, visual and photographic checks, ground access, and entry to underground cavities with the host country accompanying the team.
The Associated Press reports seven traffic deaths from weekend accidents across Ohio along with three children and two adults killed in Columbus and Warren house fires. A near-Tiffin train collision and other mishaps raised the toll to twelve, including a Meigs County drowning and an electrocution near Cincinnati. Delores Russell jailed for contributing to neglect in the Columbus case.
Reports list multiple deaths and injuries across Ohio: a freight train collision near Tiffin injures two teens Ray Brockschmidt and Rose Ann Tiell. Mrs. Ethel Wente falls to cause fatal injuries in Cincinnati. Timothy Mark Fredrick drowns in Shade River Meigs County. a Columbus fire claims Joseph Russell and his brothers Peter and Alvin. L B Hill and Farline Caffie die in Warren fire. Donald Wardack electrocuted near Sugar Grove while kite flying.
In the Soviet Republic of Kazakh five cabinet ministers were dismissed on Premier Khrushchev’s orders amid widening corruption charges and a drop in grain harvest blamed on dishonesty and government bungling.
Admiral George W. Anderson says the Navy tracked about 20 Soviet submarines in the Cuban quarantine last October and would have sunk any missile-carrying sub if needed. He adds no evidence of submarines with missiles near or in the hemisphere.
An eighth grade meeting at Trenton High School will discuss registration of 90 pupils entering the freshman class next September. A general session for faculty, pupils, and parents will be in the cafeteria at 7 p.m. followed by separate room discussions and course sign ups for the next school year.
An Oxford man Edward Kennedy, 46, of 2421 Scott Road, is charged with driving while intoxicated resisting arrest and assault and battery after allegedly striking Officer Boyd Furginson at Main and F streets. Furginson was treated at Mercury Hospital for head face and leg injuries and Kennedy is to be arraigned in Municipal Court tomorrow.
William R. Everett a Lemon Monroe High School math teacher receives a full tuition and lab fees grant to attend a summer National Science Foundation Institute in mathematics at the University of Oklahoma June 3 to August 10. He holds a Bachelors from Wittenberg and a Masters from Illinois. He has NSF study credits from Illinois and Cincinnati. public hearing notice follows.
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