Francis Carmody Signs 150 Bonds for Airport Improvements
Francis Carmody chaired a bond issue approval last night signing 150 times for a 90000 dollar airport improvement. Part of the funds already aided grading and runway lighting with the Civil Aeronautics Administration paying half the grading bill. The bonds, approved after a 1945 voter rejection, finance further airport work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission
Francis Carmody
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Two Auto Crashes Hurt Two in City
Two persons sustained injuries and two city houses were damaged in separate auto accidents last night. Floyd Miller, 16, and Norman Drury, 17, were treated for knee injuries at Middletown Hospital after cars crashed near Jackson Street and Eighteenth Avenue. A porch at 837 Eighteenth Avenue was damaged when a car with a dead battery struck it. A second incident at Lafayette and Finley damaged a parked vehicle and struck a house corner. Total damage estimated at several hundred dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Miller
State St
Norman Drury
Armco Dr
Miller
Jackson St
Middletown Hospital
Eddie Hooks
Eighteenth Ave
Lafayette Ave
Finley St
Charles Harvey
Charles Thier
Girl Scout Council Discusses Move to Association Type
The Middletown Council of Girl Scouts schedules a 7:30 p m Monday session at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension to explain the shift from a traditional council to an association type. Leaders troop committee members neighborhood chairmen from Monroe Blue Ball Wilson Mayfield Sherman Lincoln Presbyterian and Episcopal areas will attend along with steering committee members Mrs George Leighton Mrs Andrew E Roper and Mrs Dorothy Davison. The change aims for completion by September 1 with additional neighborhood meetings planned soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
George Leighton
Andrew E. Roper
Dorothy Davison
Ingwersen
Middletown Hi Y Clubs Plan Evening Meeting and Dance
Five Hi Y clubs of Middletown High School will meet at 7 15 p m tonight in the YMCA boys department. A program of moving pictures follows the business session. Brank boys work secretary said. The Hi Y clubs will hold a record dance Friday from 9 to midnight open to junior and senior high students.
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Middletown High School
YMCA
Arryter Brank
Boys’ Work
Efficiency of Lumber Yield in Forest to Mill Process
In ordinary practice only one third of a tree becomes usable lumber. The remaining two thirds stay in the forest as tops, limbs, high stumps, or poor logs or go to the sawmill as sawdust and waste.
Middletown approves 1952 budget with charter funded uplift
City Commissioners adopt a total municipal budget of 1,663,220.79 dollars, up from 1951 by 503,219.33 amid charter amendment income and new permanent improvement funds. The plan adds a Public Service director post, highway and street upgrades, and expanded police and fire allocations while forecasting further midyear needs.
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H. W. Starick
Public Service
Starick
Middletown
Police Department
Bureau of Fire Inspection
Public Service Post
City Commission
Park Board
Water cutoff affects two areas this Saturday in city
Maintenance foreman Robert Mettler says the water works valve checking will shut off water at intervals starting at 8 a.m. in two districts. First: Girard just Curtis to Baltimore, and Young from Girard to Fairmount. Second: Curtis from First to Fairmount, Fairmount from Curtis to Garfield, Garfield from First to Woodlawn, and Richmond from Fairmount to Fairfield. He calls the disruption regrettable but necessary for system operation.
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Robert Mettler
Girard
Curtis
Baltimore St
Young
Fairmount Ave
Curtis St
First
Fairmount
Garfield
Woodlawn Ave
Richmond
Fairfield
Mettler
Water Works
Cool spring outlook in Middletown Ohio forecast
Weathermen report cool conditions through Friday in Middletown Ohio with fair skies tonight and a low around 32. Friday will be cloudy with temperatures staying in the cool range and today’s high near 46. Yesterday’s temps ranged from 34 at 9 am to 48 at 4 pm, with today’s low at 36.
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Middletown
Ohio
General Tire Hit By Labor Trouble
AKRON Ohio labor disputes shutter the General Tire & Rubber Co factory as about 1500 workers walk out unauthorized. A separate 200 office workers strike at B F Goodrich hampers production. Gerald Kendall of CIO United Rubber Workers Local 9 urged a return to work.
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Akron
General Tire & Rubber Co
B. F. Goodrich Co
General
Gerald Kendall
CIO United Rubber Workers Local 9
Air Force shuttles aid to snowbound Japanese village
In Tokyo an Air Force helicopter completed 10 supply runs delivering 4000 tons of rice to Fudai Cho, aiding 1400 villagers cut off by snow. Lt. Robert Dunlap of Utica Ohio piloted the mission, with some residents reportedly without food for three days.
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Tokyo
Air Force
Robert Dunlap
Utica
Ohio
Fudai - Cho
Six-day-old Cox born with two teeth puzzles dentist dad
To Keep Pop Busy CORPUS CHRISTI Texas six day old John Cox is the joy of his dentist dad’s heart. He was born with two teeth upper cuspids Navy Lt. JG Lee Cox said it would not be unusual if the teeth were lovers but he had not seen a case like this in 15 years of practice.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
John Cox
Navy
JG Lee Cox
Movie Show Times at Paramount and Strand
Paramount shows Honey Child at 1 25 4 50 8 20 p m Wild Blue Yonder at 3 00 6 25 9 45 p m Strand screens Last Outpost at 1 30 4 40 7 55 p m Appointment With Danger at 3 05 6 20 9 35 p m Friday Borneo at 1 15 3 50 6 35 9 20 pm Con grillo at 2 20 5 05 7 50 10 30 p m
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Paramount
Borneo
Spring brings injuries from baseball bats in Middletown
Middletown Hospital treated three children for bat related injuries while playing outside and at home. Donna Sue Brown 6 suffered lip lacerations. David Ingram 5 had a right temple cut. Melanie Jane Webb 5 broke her right arm. Robert Wood 13 received a scalp laceration from a home basketball mishap. An industrial accident injured Arlie Fraley 21 who cut his left hand while at Sorg Paper Company.
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Middletown Hospital
Donna Sue Brown
Chester Brown
Garfield St
David Ingram
Otto
Box 45
West Middletown
Arlie Fraley
Columbia Ave
Sorg Paper Comepany
Tooting Troublemakers Nabbed After Horn Blasts
Police and deputies arrested two men found in a car at Sheridan Ave. intoxicated with six beer bottles and wine bottle seized as evidence. A construction worker from Maryland was found asleep at Verity Pkny, planning to rent a room after payday.
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Sheridan Ave
Loren Gustin
John Fitzgerald
South Verity Pkny
Maryland
Public Health Nurse Resigns from City Bureau
Mrs Alfred Schwing of 701 Fifth teenth Ave resigns as a staff nurse with the Bureau of Public Health Nursing effective March 31 to devote time to her family. She joined Civic Association agency in 1948 and will be replaced to avoid disruption. she is a Mercy Hospital School of Nursing graduate and former Middletown Hospital nurse.
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Alfred Schwing
Fifthteenth Ave
Bureau of Public Health Nursing
Laura Crist
Bureau
Civic Association
Schwing
Schwings
Mercy Hospital School of Nursing
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Starick S ‘Avs
By Elsa Simpson
Board of Health
Department of Public Services
Conservancy
George Howie
Cincinnati
Howie
Ralph Wolpert
Dayton
League of Women Voters
VFW
Middletown High
South Broad Street
Borden
Oleo
Weiners
RATH
Armour Star
Lea
Franks
Earl
NEW Hands
Central Ave
General Tire
Pop
Tooting
Union Sanitary
Dupont
Park and
2Nd Avenue
Central Avenue
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