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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1951
Page
3
The Textile Workers Union of America filed a complaint against a Piqua based underwear maker. The board ordered the company to stop questioning employees about union membership and to cease discouraging joining the union. Five workers laid off for one month due to union activity must be compensated.
Ohio Legislature opened the final week as action slowed. The House sent a 23-district congressional plan to the Senate, while the Senate passed an omnibus elections bill to remove party emblems, raise officials’ pay, and modernize the code. A counties-run poor relief plan and a $335,000 additions and betterments bill advanced, but no major statewide votes occurred. Budget, school, subsidy, and redistricting issues loom with truck tax debates and local government funds for two years debated.
A 15 year old student was convicted of juvenile delinquency for writing a 10000 extortion demand to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. He claimed the act was a joke and offered to return any money if paid. He was held at the Federal House of Detention after an arrest near Belmont Park.
The city of Columbus asks the Ohio Supreme Court to decide if cities may condemn land for municipal off street parking. A Wednesday morning hearing is set. Baxter Evans says the test case involves Cleveland Cincinnati and Youngstown and seeks guidance on legality of two ordinances and bond financing for land purchase.
Pvt Jack H Keller 20 completes basic indoctrination at Lackland AFB Texas preparing for Air Force technical training and assignment. Seaman Jack M O'Brien serves aboard destroyer USS Hank in the Far East aiding evacuation at Hungnam and shore bombardment during combat operations. O Brien enlisted October 14 1948 after recruit training at Great Lakes and is ward of Otis Moore of 713 Yankee Rd Middletown High School alumnus.
John T. Takach of Middletown filed in Butler County Common Pleas Court a petition for specific performance of a contract with Frank and Blaine, owners of Middletown realty he occupies under a July 27 lease with a $12,000 option to buy. Divorce suits include Helen Casey versus Ernest Casey for neglect and cruelty and Patricia Ann Back against Robert Louis Back. Betty Vaughn of Hamilton is also noted.
Millie Oder of Hamilton legal dissociation from John G Oder on grounds of neglect. Zena Powell of Hamilton cited neglect in dissolution from Stanley Powell. Roy Rawlins of Hamilton faces cruelty charges with Stelan Rawlins also named in a separate action. Dora McKinney of Seven Mile seeks release from Frank McKinney on neglect. Robert Edwin Shirk of Defiance listed with Lee Shirk in Middletown case on neglect under Judge P. P. Bell. Virgil Vaughn and others noted in cruelty and neglect disputes. The Black Hills of South Dakota are described as dark pine forests in unrelated text.
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