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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1963
Page
2
Park Town in Cincinnati spans 122 acres as a private apartment complex built from a west end slum clearance. Two years in, it functions as a tiny integrated community with 243 Negro and 39 white families, proving mixed housing can work as a business and social model.
Reynolds Metals cuts down payment and lowers interest to 3.125 percent for Park Town cooperative housing, while income limits tighten eligibility. Some residents like Dr Kenneth MacLeod condemn the financing change as walls of structure overshadowing people, despite continued occupancy in the complex built for moderate income families.
Army Spec. 4 William F. Singleton of Lebanon earned a safe driver award while with the 517th Medical Company in Germany. National Guard Pvt. Glenn R. Needham of Middletown completed a cooling course at Fort Polk under the Reserve Forces Act program. PFC. William R. Manning of Crawford Street attended a religious retreat at the Eighth Army Retreat Center near Seoul after enlisting in 1962 and completing basic training at Fort Knox.
The House Taxation Committee in Columbus killed two measures. One would remove a 2 percent discount given to automobile dealers for collecting sales taxes. The other would raise county clerks filing title fees from 1 to 2 dollars. Also noted is per capita beer consumption in the United States exceeding 18 gallons annually.
The Royal Canadian Air Force led a large hunt in British Columbia and Yukon Territory for missing plane crash survivors Ralph Flores and Helen Klaben. The search involved 21 officers and airmen, 21 military aircraft, and 14 civilian planes and ran from February to March before the survivors were found.
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