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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1950
Page
5
A forecast calls for a few scattered showers on Thursday with tonight’s low around 55 degrees. The prior day’s temperature ranged from a 5 degree low at 6 am to a 36 degree high at 4 30 pm. Today’s low was 56 degrees at 6 am rising to 64 degrees by 10 am.
The Ohio Republican State Central and Executive Committees meet to discuss November strategy. Incumbent officials were re elected, and September 20 was set for the State Platform Convention in Columbus. Several officers and committee members from Cleveland Toledo Canton and Cincinnati were listed across finance policy speakers and political research groups.
More than 100 men and women from news, radio and television attended a cocktail party and dinner at LeSourdsville Lake to preview facilities. Guests toured the park, watched the first LeSourdsville regatta, and enjoyed rides, a new white sand beach, and neon signs as the lake opened officially to the public Sunday. News and advertising representatives from Cincinnati, Dayton, Lebanon and Middletown attended.
New York AP reports electric power production for the week ended May 13 at 5.864 billion kilowatt hours, down from 5.872 billion the prior week. Year over year, output was 11.6 percent above the 1949 week. Regional gains ranged from 9.1 to 13.9 percent across New England, Mid-Atlantic, Central Industrial, West Central, Southeast, South Central, Rocky Mountain, and Pacific Coast.
Kenneth Corn, 40, of Kitts Hill near Ironton, was fined 387 by a magistrate in Portsmouth for driving an overloaded truck. State Patrol said the truck carried 18,000 pounds more sand than the legal limit.
The committee for Prof. Henry M. Busch of Cleveland failed to gain the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination while reporting a campaign fund of 18 274. Expenses totaled 17 473 with 288 unpaid bills. Other Ohio campaign finances include various candidates for Congress, state treasurer, secretary of state, attorney general, and gubernatorial notes from Toledo to Columbus and beyond.
Columbus or the ruling keeps the eight cent interim fare in effect. Judge Leland Rutherford of Morrow County concluded the five cent ride is not financially viable for the Columbus Transit Company. The city will renegotiate a regular rate while the interim rate remains in force and the company stays in business under the injunction. The memorandum notes a $51,211.44 profit under the interim rate from November 1, 1949 to February 28, 1950, and a projected loss of $302,103.12 if five cents had been charged.
Baltimore AP reports Dr. A A Andersen of the Department of Agriculture unveils a subtlin based method to preserve vegetables and fruits in cans with less heat and no pressure. The process aims to reduce heating from 240 degrees to about 3 degrees and times from 40 minutes to 5 10 minutes by attacking hardy bacterial spores. The pilot trials seek safer, tastier preserved foods through this subtlin aided technique.
The Ohio Academy of General Practice and Ohio State Medical Association meet in Cleveland to install Dr. Ross M. Knoble of Sandusky as president. Dr. Gordon L. Erbaugh of Dayton is named president-elect and Dr. Earl D. McCalliser of Columbus is re-elected secretary-treasurer.
Funeral services are arranged for Dr. Ray Fife professor of Agricultural Education at Ohio State University He died yesterday in Mt Carmel Hospital He was chairman of the north central region of Vocational Education in Agriculture
Case No. 64949 Butter County Common Pleas First National nk Of Middletown Ohio publishes a sheriff sale of Lot 8930 in Douglas Park Middletown Butler County. Property at 707 19th Street, Middletown. Sale by public auction June 13 between 10 and 11 A.M. cash terms. Appraised at 7500 dollars. Charles B. Walker Sheriff. Elliott D. Levey Attorney. Notices dated May 10 17 24 31 and June 7.
CINCINNATI AP The Presbyterian Church in the USA reports its total membership near 2.40 million with a net increase of 71 713 last year The church also notes last year’s total contributions of 204 313 621 the highest on record The 162nd General Assembly meets in Cincinnati for sessions beginning tomorrow and will present the benevolent budget for the coming year.
Washington AP report says airlines request to be excluded from the Railway Labor Act to avoid strikes. Air Transport Association VP Robert Ramapeck argues the act tailored for railroads does not fit the airline industry and would reduce uncertainty and prevent impaired labor relations.
Secretary of the Interior Chapman named Ervin J Ute of Washington as assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Ute has led the Reclamation Bureau Land Use and Settlement Division for four years and previously served under Dillon Myer in the Indian Affairs Bureau as chief of the nations division of the old War Relocation Authority. The appointment takes effect June 15. One Virgin Islands parade drew almost no spectators as most residents joined the parade.
Notice to members and others that on April 24 1950 Adam Huff filed in Butler County Court a petition No 652 seeking an order to mortgage church property to obtain a loan to finish the Full Gospel Tabernacle building. The parcel in Lemon Township is described as one acre starting from the abandoned canal right of way and includes references to Eldora Drive Cincinnati Lake Erie Railway and Miami Erie Canal. Interested parties may answer by May 27 1950.
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