Armco Park Opening Set Saturday with 8 A.M. Start
Armco Park reopens this Saturday morning around 8 o’clock for Middletown residents and out of town visitors with permission, running through Labor Day. The park offers playgrounds, picnic tables, outdoor fireplaces, shelters, and special areas for children, with safety upgrades like new stop signs, marked crosswalks, and guardrails. Admission is free. rules limit speed to 15 mph, prohibit alcohol, and require sunset closing. Park officials thank Middletown residents for keeping the grounds clean and orderly.
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Armco Park
Armco Steel Corporation
Armco
Middletown
Fair warmup forecast for weekend in Dayton area
The weatherman predicts a weekend of fair weather and rising temperatures after today’s showers. Dayton received over an inch of rain on Thursday while Middletown saw lighter totals. Morning temperatures around 53 will climb to the mid 60s with a cool night near 50, then a warmer Saturday and Sunday with a five day outlook showing above normal lows and highs into midweek.
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Weather Bureau
Miami
Dayton
Middletown
Monpy Arsday
Memorial Day committee named at Legion Home meeting
Memorial observance volunteers were appointed at a Legion Home meeting led by Joe Cox. Appointees include Joe Schramm Ivary Cemetery Stanley Crist Wayne Smith Middletown Cemetery Cox Woodside Cem S Owings Crist Ben finance committee Mrs Fabing-Smith flowers Tom and William Carson station Mrs George S publicity. Meetings set for May 13 and 27 at 7 30 p.m. at the Lion Home.
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Legion Home
Joe Cox
Joe Schramm
Ivary Cemetery
Stanley Crist
Wayne Smith
Middletown Metery
Cox
Woodside Cem
S. Owings
Crist
Ben
Fabing-Smith
Flowers
Tom and William Carson
George S
Mary A. Harlan
Combs
Lucian Jones, Smith
M. Delaney
Charles Wells
Is Powell
Benn
Pat Ryan
Owings, Brown
J. Cox
Larry Ward
the Lion Home
Ohio announces large prison dormitory expansion plan
Ohio welfare director described a multi facility expansion including a $250000 dormitory at Lebanon honor camp, a $725000 dorm at London Prison, a $5 million second unit at Marion training school, a $1000 dormitory at Roseville camp, and a $1450000 building at Apple Creek State Hospital as part of the expansion.
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Ohio
Lebanon
London
John H. Lamneck
Mari
Marion Training School
Roseville Camp
Apple Creek State Hospital
Fined after Crash In Butler Hamilton Counties
State highway patrol reports Spivey 25 Middletown was fined 25 dollars plus costs for reckless driving after a rear collision on U S 25 near the Butler Hamilton county line at 10 25 p m. Howard Cromer 18 Route 1 was the northbound driver of the struck car. No injuries. A separate tractor trailer driven by Hobart Roberts 42 Flor ee Route 1 left the road four miles west of the Hamilton Warren city line at 7 45 p m crashing through a guard rail on Route 22 causing minor property damage.
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Mman
Spivey
Middletown
Thomas Linn
Monroe
U.S. 25
Butler - Hamilton County
Howard Cromer
Vile
Hobart Roberts
Floree
Trol
Hamilton-Warren City
Wester
Bennett Chapple Heads Campaign To Recruit Nurses
Bennett Chapple former Armco aide and civic leader accepted the chairmanship of a Middletown Hospital nurse recruitment drive for the fall class. He stressed the need for qualified personnel to operate the new hospital as funds and facilities exist. Hospital administrator William Bohman urged reaching the local nursing quota amid rising demand for nursing services nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennett Chapple
Armco
Middletown Hospital
Chapple
Middletown
William O. Bohman
Penney Co Signs Lease for 3-Story Central Verity Building
The J C Penney Company signs a long term lease for a new three story building at the northwest corner of Central Avenue and Verity Parkway. The 33 000 square foot store will feature a 50 by 60 foot balcony selling area and 50 foot frontage on Central Avenue. It replaces the former Gordon Theater site and is to join 65 Ohio Penney stores. Plans await local approvals. architects have sought Newark consent.
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J. C. Penney Company
Central Ave
Verity Parkway
Central Avenue
Gordon Theater
Mid-Gordon Company of
Cincinnati
Orville Corson
Newark
Penney Comany
Penney
Ohio
Jr Chamber To Brighten Trash Cans In Cleanup
The Junior Chamber of Commerce will paint trash cans tomorrow on Central Avenue as part of a city cleanup drive May 11 to 22. Henry Crouch chairs the paint-up effort with donations from local paint dealers and a painting truck. Twelve Jaycees are set to participate, cans refurbished by members years ago, and United Welding Company applauded for repairs. Signs announce the campaign. free curbside trash pickup starts at 8 a.m. Monday.
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
Central Avenue
Henry Crouch
Jaycees
Monay
Prom Jubilee Promoted At Local Meeting
Parents and friends of Middle town juniors and seniors meet tonight at 7 30 in the Civic Association auditorium to study the Prom Jubilee lure. The group has pledges and donations approaching 2500 with 100 gifts from the Lions Kiwanis and Circle Hi V. Funds aim to provide entertainment to lure prom-goers from Cincinnati and Kentucky night clubs and unsafe highways. The May 29 evening and May 30 morning program includes a prem plus movie premier motorcade name band dancing McGuire sisters breakfast.
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Middletown
Civic Association
Lions and Kiwanis Clubs
Circle Hi-V
Cincinnati
Kentucky
McGuire Sisters
Judge Okays Fund Transfer To Aid Oxford Roads
Common Pleas Judge Fred B. Cramer approved Oxford Township trustees request to move 10 000 from the general fund to the road and bridge fund for repairs. Trustees Hugh Finkbine George R. Tabor and Donald Douglass oversee the township finances with 27076.03 available before the transfer.
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Common Pleas
Fred B. Cramer
Oxford Township
General
Partan
Hugh Finkbine
George R. Tabor
Donald Douglass
New Lids On Traffic Men
Traffic Bureau men wear new white leather hats for uniform changes. Nine officers switch to the waterproof, easy cleaners caps while seven are motorcycle officers. The updated headgear aims to look snappy and improve visibility for motorists.
At The Movies Showtimes Friday and Saturday
Paramount presents The System at 1 35 4 50 and 8 05 p m Blue Gardenia at 3 05 6 20 and 9 35 p m Strand shows Man Betrayed at 1 45 5 00 and 8 15 p m Horizons West at 3 20 6 35 and 9 50 p m Friday nights and Man Betrayed again 1 15 4 55 8 40 p m Horizons West 2 45 6 30 and 10 15 p m Saturday
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Paramount
the System
Blue Gardenia
Horizons West
Ruling Cuts Police and Fire Holiday Time Off
City manager H W Starick says police and firemen will receive four paid holidays per year instead of six, aligning with a 1952 personnel policy. Memorial and Independence Days falling on Saturdays are not holidays for municipal workers. Police protest seven day schedules and overtime without compensation, while Starick notes complaints from other workers prompted the cut.
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H. W. Starick
City Ager
Tarick
Mittees
Division of Fire Police
Starick
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Lebanon Uison
Lily Wouay
James C. Penney
Kemmerer
Wyo
Oxford Roads
Ross
Iremen
Sumner
Croge
Marona Red Cross
Childrens
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