Budget Cuts Hit Police Fire Funds in City 1951 Plan
City Commissioners adopted emergency legislation funding Midletown operations for 1951 with a general fund of 552,626.47 and an overall ordinance total of 1,160,001.46. Fire Department and Police allocations were reduced by 33,559 and 8,679 respectively, while other departments saw smaller increases. Adjustments reflect department reorganization and new line items, with several petitions and upcoming surveys noted for streets, sidewalks, and downtown crosswalks.
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Middletown
City Commission
Division
Division of Treasury
Municii
Conservancy
Church of Mayfield
Starick
District Scout Meeting Tonight
The Griffith District holds a meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the First Methodist. Earl Klein serves as chairman with Cub Pack 6 and Troop 44 as hosts. Harvey Morgan earned a Bobcat, Mickey Eiler a Wolf badge and Gold Arrow, Chuck Bales and Charles Doughmen Wolf badges. Aaton Fields is cubmaster.
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Griffith
Earl Klein
Wallace Frayer
Dudley Inwood
Amanda
Harvey Morgan
Mickey Eiler
Chuck Bales
Charles Doughmen
Aaton Fields
Car Accident Injures Driver On Ohio 747 Embankment
Lee Chambers, 33, of sur, was injured when his car left the road and plunged 15 feet down an embankment on Ohio 747 north of Port Union. He was taken to Mercy Hospital for observation after deputies reported the steering mechanism jammed.
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Lee Chambers
Sur
Ohio
Port Union
Mercy Hostel
Obers
Louis Frits
At The Movies Evening Showings And Fragments
Listings reveal multiple film times across theaters including Friday matinee and evening slots. Notable titles include Gambling House Mad Wednesday Nagane Big Cage I’d Climb the Highest Mountain Mating Season with varied 1:30 4:20 7:50 9:55 pm starts, preserving venue cues and times.
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Nagane
Two Auto Accidents Cause $125 Damage In City
Police investigated two yesterday incidents. Wilbur Johnson, 27, of 609 Els was struck while parked on the east side of One Street by a driver who failed to stop. In a second collision in the 600 block of Young Street Lonnie Allen, 27, of 07 Young Street sustained $50 damage to his car driven by Allen.
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Wilbur Johnson
Johnson
Young St
Lonnie Allen
Alen
Arthur Burton
Seventy Scout Leaders Enroll In Basket Weaving Course
Approximately 70 leaders have signed up for the basket weaving class organized by the Middletown Girl Scout Council. The session will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. in the Civic Association auditorium, according to executive director Mrs. Garnet Church.
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Middletown
Girl Scout Council
Garnet Church
Civic Association
Middletown Fire Dept Sees First Call Since March 19
Fire chief William Fishbaugh reports six days without alarms as the department’s energy crew answered a call yesterday but found the victim dead on arrival. The text notes the department’s first emergency since March 19 and mentions an annual grain loss figure of 200,000,000 bushels.
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Middletown
William Fishbaugh
Enn Gyre
Dedicated Font Honors Two Late Church Members
Oakland Presbyterian Church to hold 10 30 a m service Sunday with dedication of a new baptismal font in memory of A L Foster former member and elder, and W O Billy Barnitz of the Oglesby Barnitz Bank. Sailors of Phoenicia sailed to Cornwall to trade for tin.
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Oakland Presbyterian Church
A. L. Foster
W. O
Billy) Barnitz
Oglesby- Barnitz Bank
Phoenicia
Cornwall
Two Enter Guilty Pleas To Charges Of Gambling
Two men, Willis McGlaughlin and James Sennet, pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to keeping rooms for gambling. Both waived reading of pleas. Judge Combs held decision until Saturday for a third similar case, Daily Iker. Police raids March 16 led to arrests at Main Street and West Central Avenue establishments. Evidence included chairs, tables, tax records, and a radio taken for repair.
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Willis McGlaughlin
Wilbraham Rd
James Sennet
Charlies St
Maxwell Finkelman
Alton H. Combs
Daily Iker
McKinley St
South Main St
Harold Dance
Columbus
Main St.reom
West Central Ave
McGloughlin
Sennet
Bernice Webb
Finkelman
Joseph Newkirk
John Fitzgerald
Joseph Albert
Judge Combe
School Board Offers City First Chance At Old Sites
School board pursues first crack for city on North and South school properties before auction. Board president Ross H Snyder chaired a Manchester Hotel noon meeting with Supt Wade E Miller and City Manager H W Starick. Buildings remain occupied until Taft School completion.
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Ong
Wade E Miller
Ity
H. W. Starick
Ross H. Snyder
Manchester Hotel
Taft School
OSU completes football coaching staff with Hess hire
Ohio State announced the addition of Portsmouth High School coach William Hess as varsity guard coach. Hess, 28, coached his first football season at Portsmouth last fall and earlier led Grandview High in 1948-49. A 1947 Ohio University graduate, he played for the Bobcats in 1941 1942 and 1946, with three Navy years in between.
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Columbus
Ohio State
Portsmouth High Hoel
William Hess
Hess
Portsmouth
Grandview High
Ohio University
Bobcats
Navy
Air Force Starts New Rocket Tests at New Mexico Desert
The U.S. Air Force launched a 1 000 pound Sons rocket to 61 miles over the New Mexico desert in the first test of a new program. Officials said the experiments aim to uncover upper air processes and may advance aeronautical and weather control research. During the flight a release of sodium chloride occurred near the peak to study atmospheric sodium sources.
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Alas Torss
N. M
U. Air
Destroyer Finds Debris From Missing World War II Plane
A U S destroyer located part of a charred crate aboard the missing giant transport plane that vanished with 53 American airmen. The Bennet picked up debris about 600 miles southwest of Ireland and identified the piece as packing for a spare gasoline tank carried as cargo on the four engine Globemaster.
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London
U.S
U. S
Bennet
Ireland
Jap Treaty Draft Being Distributed
The State Department distributes a completed American draft of a Japanese peace treaty to 15 nations this week. Nations are asked to react and suggest changes. Officials hope formal negotiations may yield an agreed treaty draft within about three months.
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Washington
State Department
Indiana soldiers bonus deadline corrected to April 30
Indiana announces the last day to file claims for the soldiers bonus is April 30 not March 30. Veterans can obtain application blanks at the local Veterans Service Center in the Legion home per Director E A Lampe.
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Indiana
Veterans’ Service Center
Legion Home
E. A. Lampe
Longest Serving U.S. Representative Joseph Cannon
Illinois politician Joseph Cannon held the longest continuous tenure in the U.S. House, serving 46 years from 1873 to 1923 with two defeats in 1891 to 1893 and 1913 to 1915.
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Joseph Cannon
U.S
House of Representatives
Congress
Illinois
Beverly Hills Club Pledges to Cease Illegal Activity
Newport Kentucky AP report says Heverly Hills Country Club owners attorney Daniel W Davies assured Senator Kefauver the club will refrain from illegal activity and will reopen tomorrow night following the committee discussion. The pledge comes as part of the Kefauver hearings coverage and details the club’s stated compliance.
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Beverly Hills
Newport, KY
Kefauver
Heverly Hills Country Club
Daniel W. Davies
Fates Kefauver
Typhoid Mary Quarantined on East River Island
Mary Fallon known as Typhoid Mary. She was quarantined for life on an East River island after doctors found she carried typhoid despite personal immunity. Her role as a cook posed ongoing public health risks through food handling.
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Mary Fallon
East River
N. Y
YMCA Dinner Delegates Stay in China Aide View
At a YMCA annual dinner in the gymnasium 135 attendees heard that the YMCA will continue in China amid Chinese Communist and Chiang Kai-shek tensions. A speaker said the movement was native in origin and that Americans only assisted, with Communism seen as the lesser of two evils. The talk covered Far East political and economic developments and included notes on leaders, plaques, and awards.
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YMCA
China
Penge Gd
Strong
World Ro
Far East
Chiang Kai-shek
Korea
NSLI Dividend Checks to Be Mailed Soon
Hiram Fullen of VFW Miami Valley Post 3809 says the 1951 National Service Life Insurance dividends totaling eight million dollars will mail early next week with about 85 dollars per check. January anniversary holders go first, others follow in a two month schedule.
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National Service Life Insurance
Hiram Fullen
VFW
Miami Valley Post
Slaughterers Must Register In Cleveland
Slaughterers must register with the Office of Price Stabilization by April 1 at 1620 Euclid Avenue Cleveland to continue slaughtering livestock. District OPS Director Ben Stoner cautions registration must be with the Cleveland regional OPS, not Cincinnati. Unregistered slaughterers will be unable to slaughter livestock after April 1. Joseph H. Leissiger will offer information Thursday and Friday at 37 West Seventh Street Cincinnati. phone Dunbar 2200, line 387. The ancients called tin the devil among metals.
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OPS
Euclid Ave
Cleveland
Ben Stoner
Cincinnati
Joseph H. Leissiger
West Seventh St
Dunbar
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Alerd D. Miller
Cormmuntssioner
Miller
Safety Council
New Wilson School
Highview Rd
Kensington St
Francis Carmody
City Manager's Association
Association of Ohio Municipalities
R. A. Pochel
Russell Stabler
Ohio Highway Engineers
Doellmann’s
Tweedies
Famous Shoes
Selby
Style Eez
TRA Poise Shoes
Central Ave
First Ave
Verity Pkwy
Lakeside Inn
OSU
Air Force
Elmer Barker
Wet
Ss. McDonough
W. D. Vorhis
Wylie Mitchell
Kirk Surodtbeck
H. O. Sebald
Ralph Knight
Fletcher Brate
Federation of
Wom
En’s
Paul Hartman
World Service Physical Education
Ohio and West Virginia
Journal Carrier
Mary Etta
Henry
Auburn
Clayton, Jefferson
Tytus Sts
James Myers
Route No. 23
Elwood St
Edw. F. Myers
M. HM. S
Cincinnati University
Optimist
Journal Panthers
Tin
Diabolus Metallorum
Middletown Journal
Journal
R. C. Caudill
First Church of God
J. Herschel Caudill
Indianapolis, Ind
George W. Blackwell
R. C. Caudill, D. D
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