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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1952
Page
13
Plans for a five day Sesquicentennial celebration in Lebanon include a pageant with about 300 cast members staged by John B Rogers Company of Fostoria. Performances run June 16 to 20 at Warren County Fair grounds with 8:30 start each night.
West Elkton prepares for Memorial Day on Friday May 30 at 10 am in Fairmount cemetery with rain plan to the West Elkton school gym. Rev Guy E Smith chairs the Memorial Committee. The program includes invocation by Rev William P Channon vocal by the Sextette memorial address by Rev O Arnold drum corps memorial roll call firing squad taps grave decorations and ceсile Stephenson leads singing. Other committee members listed are Frank Elmes Joe Pierson Rev Channon and Rev Parvin Bond.
Seven Mile High School holds its commencement tonight at 8 in the school auditorium. Dr. William E. Smith of Miami University will deliver the address "Seven Mile in the Age of Seven." Rev Harley Martin will give the invocation and Rev Wendell Pontius will deliver the benediction. Paul Reed Needles will present the class and Ralph Beiser will present diplomas. Salutatorian is Patricia Anne Henry and valedictorian is Mary Lee Malcom. The 1952 graduates include Frieda Mae Baker, Donald Lee Black, Ina Jewel Brown, Warren Exiward Burkhard, Betty Lou Cain, Marlene Clark, Charoline Carol Dinnie, James Edwin Dozier, Claude Lyon Hawkins, and many more.
Lebanon observers will close food markets banks courthouses libraries and village offices on Friday May 30. Post office hours will be limited with morning mail only. Kenneth Oswald of the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce and C Stanley Earnhart of the post office announce the nationwide local observances and programs.
Local groups list gatherings for Wednesday including National Guard Company D 2nd Battalion 107th Armored Cavalry at 7 30 p m at 2100 South Main Knights of Columbus at 6 p m K of C auditorium Order of Ahtepa at 8 p m Nelva Center American Legion membership at 8 p m Legion Home Kiwanis and Lions clubs at noon Manchester Hotel Toastmasters Club at 7 p m Gardner Employment Conference Room Alpha Council 326 Jr O U A M 7 30 p m 19 North Broad St Dog Training class 7 30 p m South Main St Armory 1 C C F Lodge at 7 30 p m hall Alcoholics Anonymous 7 45 p m Moose officers and lodge at 8 p m Blythe Williams Post Auxiliary American Legion at 8 p m Silver Leaf Social Club
Camden bids farewell to its only theatre the Majestic closed by owners Mr and Mrs Wally Wingate who opened it May 28 1951. The closure leaves Camden without an amusement center for years. R E Ulrich and William Nett plan a May 20 departure for the National Rotary Convention in Mexico City May 26 29. Ulrich is a delegate, Matt alternate, representing Eaton Rotary Club, joined by Mrs Ulrich and Mrs Matt. Rev Kenneth Morse of Camden Presbyterian delivered the Baccalaureate sermon May 18 at the high school auditorium with a program featuring soloists and readings.
Poasttown marks its 60th annual Memorial Service at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery one mile north on Sunday May 25 at 2 30 p m announced by cemetery superintendent Harry M Bowlus. Colonel David D Donohoe of Lebanon will speak with local veterans organizations Boy Scout Troop Poasttown and Poasttown School students participating.
Kings Mills High School held commencement exercises on Tuesday night with Rev. John H. Lamy delivering the address. Superintendent Jay D. Mack presided, and Rev. C. Holt Foster gave the invocation and benediction. Baccalaureate was Sunday night by Rev. William Meyers. Alumni Association banquet for the class is set for Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in the school gymnasium.
The Air Force will switch from miles per hour and statute miles to knots and nautical miles on July 1. The Defense Department announced the change, approved by the Air Coordinating Committee, to reduce aviation traffic confusion. A nautical mile equals one minute of arc on a great circle, about 6,080 feet, versus 5,280 for a land mile, and a knot equals one nautical mile per hour.
Stanley Donen aged 28, former boyfriend of Elizabeth Taylor, married 22 year old Marion Marshall in Westwood California. The couple spent their honeymoon in New York today after their wedding yesterday.
Springboro Grange will observe Rural Life Sunday on May 25 with a noon basket dinner. Mrs Roxie Jones will lead a rural life worship service featuring scripture readings poems and musical numbers by Carol Jean Fry Janet South and others. Memorial services for deceased members will follow.
A class of 30 seniors will graduate from Trenton High School in the auditorium at 8 o clock tonight. Hugh Maxwell Walters of Connerville Ind will deliver the address. C H Williams superintendent will introduce the speaker and Robert E Wearly will award diplomas. Diplomas will be presented by Lawrence King. Rev A M Wilson will give the invocation. Dale E Beckett announced the graduates: Ronald K Baker Albert Byrd Jr June Ellen Carson Thomas Francis Cassidy Ethel Lucille Crout Russell L Downs Herbert O Ehresman Julia Frances Evans Ross Flenner Loretta Louise Francis William Lawrence Fry Janet Lee Hinkle Dorothy Marie Hounshell Edward S Keith William Lawrence King Jr Jane A Leach Janice Lee Lovely Thomas E Martin Howard Logan Phares Jr Nancy Lee Polley Peggy J Prater Harriet Puckett Beverly Eileen Reece Dale Eugene Richter Garry B Roberts Richard J Scott Carlous E Smith Frederick C Toth Richard Williams Willis Barbara Jean Wilson
Four Ohio grain elevator operators pleaded innocent today to charges of converting thousands of bushels of government owned wheat and corn to their own use. They were released on bonds of 1000 dollars. Reynolds and Churtz of Kingston Farmers Exchange face 23 counts for selling nearly 60000 bushels without replacing them. Walton and Case of Richwood are charged with selling over 200000 bushels of CCC corn without replacement, indicted in Dayton in March.
A panty raid at Ohio University fizzled after police received a tip Tuesday night. About 10 officers, many from off duty, stood outside Lindley Hall and Howard Hall dormitories as male students, groups of 30 to 40, stayed back. Dean Maurel Hawkins said disciplinary action would follow future incidents.
Mrs Millard Saylor and Mrs Robert Newlin co chairmen of the Central School lawnfete committee report plans are complete for the event on the school grounds Friday Serving will begin at 5 30 p m with three lanes of service In case of rain the event will be held in the school
Poasttown Heights guests included Mr. and Mrs. Richard Goins of Lewisburg Mr. and Mrs. Cletus McGriff and sons of Miamisburg Mr. and Mrs. Norman Goins and Miss Geraldine Goins of Middletown who were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Peyton Goins and daughters on Sunday.
Five Middletown Hi-Y clubs gathered at Armco Park for the Hilltop Ceremony as retiring presidents handed the Hi-Y Torch to newly elected leaders. A devotional by Taft Kendrick preceded remarks by Rev. Howard Sears, with the event shortened by bad weather and no outdoor supper or sports.
Thirteen hundred copies of the Front Line quarterly report will mail Monday. Tom C Venable Middletown managing director notes the back cover carries the annual fiscal statement for October 1 1950 to September 30 1951 listing payments totaling 18024387 to 24 agencies including American Legion Home Boy Scout Civic Association agencies Fresh Air Camp Family Service Bureau Garfield Mission Girl Scouts Haven Junior Achievement Middletown Hospital Public Relations Agency Bureau of Public Health Nursing Safety Council Salvation Army USC Veterans Service Center YMCA Youth Opportunity House and Y-Teens plus a special automobile appropriation. Venable explains that Campaign Community Chest Building Accounting Services and Public Relations appropriations go to sub divisions of the Civic Association while the rest are public service organizations.
A county primaries report reveals Democrats spent 2965.71 while Republicans spent 1269.69. Major outlays include Freida McCandless 651.15 and Wilson committee 848.75 for Democrats and Republicans. other listed state and county candidates show varied expenditures. Filing of expense reports was due last Friday for all candidates regardless of spending.
Armco vice president Leo F. Reinartz was named winner of the American Iron and Steel Institute regional technical meeting award at the 60th annual meeting in New York. John S. March of Bethlehem Steel Co received the AISI Medal for a paper of special merit. Dr. E C Bain of United States Steel warned that industry technical problems will grow more difficult even as solution devices become more powerful.
President Howard L. Bevis of Ohio State University relieved two instructors of teaching duties after they refused to answer questions at a hearing of the Ohio Un American Activities Commission. Marston A. Hamlin, an instructor in fine arts, and George D. Pappas, a graduate assistant in zoology, were the affected individuals.
France confers its highest honor the Medaille Militaire on General Dwight D. Eisenhower in a farewell ceremony. The tribute echoes Napoleon era pageantry as Paris hosts the event amid ceremonial pomp and national regard for the Allied leader.
A weather forecast optimistic for a brief break from two weeks of showers in the Miami Valley. Forecasters warned more rainfall possible Thursday with a partly cloudy morning and a high near 75. Daytime totals reached 0.12 inch in the 24 hours ending 8 am. Temperatures held around 56 to 58 earlier, with a 75 degree high anticipated.
Middletown coal dealers expect May and June stability with a 20 cent per ton increase likely in July. Government authorization allows a 20 cent rise to cover a six percent rail freight hike, the first major rise since the May 2 order. OPS notes coal earnings and volume have declined and a broad earnings survey is underway.
Upton New York American scientists produced the world s first man made billion volt atomic particles with the giant cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory near Upton. The atom smasher generated atomic bullets at 1 300 000 000 electron volts three times the power of any prior machine. Researchers say the process may someday convert matter into energy or allow creation of matter from energy.
London reports Mrs Betsy Clarke granted a divorce after her husband Syd ney Clarke a butcher insisted on doing the housework. She said he took over her duties from shopping to cooking and claimed she was more efficient. The judge noted the dispute over household roles and jealousy within the marriage.
Farmers face higher losses from hog cholera than any other illness among livestock, underscoring the impact on hog herds and the need for disease controls and vaccination efforts.
Frank H. Fanning told the American Iron and Steel Institute at the Waldorf Astoria that new wide strip mills cut steel sheet costs. He cited a drop in 20 gauge cold rolled sheet prices from 135 to 104 dollars per ton and traced mill evolution from Hazeldine in 1798 to the 1920s.
Senator Estes Kefaufer arrives in California amid fast rising Democratic polling as he plans press conferences and a Town Hall to campaign for 68 California votes at the Democratic convention. He faces questions on the Arizona water project and federal tidelands bill from California opponents led by Edmund G. Brown. At a Jefferson Jackson Day dinner in Santa Ana he also advocates allowing 18 year olds to vote, arguing they are old enough to bear arms.
In Caldwell Ohio Dr. Woodrow W. Carr aged 34 pleaded guilty to 19 counts of illegally selling narcotics to an addict over a year. Judge Mell G Underwood deferred sentence pending production authority review. Colum bus veterinarian Dr. William E. Porter, 30, faces illegal sale charges to the same addict. arraignment held up by continuation.
ALCOA today unveiled a 15,000 ton forge press capable of shaping metal into complete airplane structural sections. Valued at 6.2 million dollars, the machine was built in Germany for wartime production and brought to the United States after the war. ALCOA is leasing it from the Air Force. The five story facility houses the monster and it can produce plane parts in hours instead of days.
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