Flying Saucer Sighting Draws Middletown Witnesses
Four Middletown residents report a glowing, ball like object moving north across the city at 9:15 p.m. with bluish light earthward and a high pitched engine sound. An Armco engineer suspects a flying saucer while another observer believes it was a plane. Wright Patterson AFB notes no military aircraft were in the area and may investigate.
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Armco International
Wright-Patterson Afb
Tme
A. A. Hafen
Baltimore St
S. Main Street
Central Avenue
Mike Fishbaugh
6Th Ave
Armco Steel Corp
Bobby Puckett
Hafen
Fishbaugh
Puckett
Air Force
Dayton
Two Men Hurt In Rt 73 Auto Crash Near Engies Corner
Two men were seriously injured in a two car collision on Ohio 73 about 1 40 a m near Engies Corner. James Morningstar 48 and Gerald Burns 17 were treated at Middletown Hospital with skull fracture pelvic fracture and facial injuries for Morningstar and a fractured right thigh for Burns. Hall Morningstar driver passed eastbound when his car veered into a yard and struck a pole. Ambulance transported the injured. investigation ongoing. A separate minor crash on Yankee Road near Oneida School left Mrs Geraldine Armitage 18 and her infant Dwight 7 months with nose injuries. They were released from Middletown Hospital. Sheriff's deputies investigated. Eskimos count on fingers and toes the only counting method known to them. The figure 20 means a man counted to the end.
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Ohio 73
Engies Corner
Middletown Hospital
James Morningstar
Main St
Excello
Gerald C. Burns
Oxford Rd
Hamilton
Harold Hall
Morningstar
Hall
Burns
Yankee Road
Oneida School
Geraldine Armitage
Dwight
Sheriff's Deputies
Condition Of Students Unchanged After Prom Crash
Conditions of Nancy Eichorn and Larry Shackelford, both 16, remained unchanged at Miami Valley Hospital after a Sunday morning accident. Eichorn, from West Middletown, is in poor condition with a fractured clavicle and internal injuries. Shackelford, from Middletown-Hamilton Road, is in satisfactory condition with a fractured pelvis and possible rib and brain injuries. Police said a station wagon ran a red light at S Main and Stewart streets at 5 20 a m, colliding with a car driven by Kenneth Hemmelgarn of Dayton. The wagon then struck a street sign, a filling station, and overturned. The couple had attended Lemon Monroe High School prom and left with adults around 3 30 a m for a drive in theater. No charges have been filed. investigation ongoing.
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Nancy Eichorn
Larry Shackelford
Miami Valley Hospital
Dayton
Eichorn
Harold Ejchhorn
West Middletown
Shackelford
L. E. Shackelford
Middletown
Hamilton Road
S. Main
Stewart
Kenneth J. Hemmelgarn
Lemon-Monroe
Two Motorcyclists Hurt In Separate Crashes
Two motorcyclists suffered minor injuries in separate incidents the day before. Ptl. John Combs, 35, German town, was injured when his city motorcycle slid on oil at Grand Avenue and Baltimore Street at 3 p.m. He fell after looking away to reattach a microphone. damage was $5. John Keith Jr., 32, 1029 Woodside Ave., fractured both wrists when a kickstand bolt failed at S Verity Parkway and 18th Avenue at 7 p.m.. damage about $150. A third driver, Walker Johnson, 51, of Wizzard, Kentucky, was charged with DUI, leaving the scene and no operator’s license after a crash on Manchester Avenue at Shafer Street. damage $55. Other collisions included a 12:15 p.m. crash at S Sutphin Street and Alameda Circle totaling $305, and an 7:03 a.m. crash at Shafer Street and N Sutphin Street totaling $50.
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Ptl
John Combs
Germantown Rt. 1
Grand Avenue
Baltimore Street
Combs
Middletown Hospital
John Keith Jr
Woodside Ave
S. Verity Parkway
18Th Avenue
Keith
Walker Johnson
Wazard
Highview Road
Central Avenue
Manchester Avenue
Shafer Street
Johnson
Eugene Wolgamot
Shafer St
Wolgamot
Herbert Fawley
Colin Gardner
Gardner Pl
Donald Jay
Grand Ave
S. Sutphin Street
Alameda Circle
Martina Riley
Glen Sa
Whitt Kemplin
N. Verity Pkwy
N. Sutphin Street
Salvation Army officer to speak at Kiwanis meeting
Sr. Capt. F. William Carlson of the Salvation Army Southwest Ohio and Northeast Kentucky division will address Kiwanis during National Salvation Week at a noon session tomorrow. Carlson, commissioned in 1938, has served in New Jersey and New York postings and has led the Philadelphia division as divisional young people's secretary.
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Salvation Army
Kiwaniang
National Salvation Week
F. William Carlson
Southwest
Ohio
Northeast Kentucky
Carlson
Salvation Army Training College
Hacketstown
N.J
Union City
N. J
Newton
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Fenwick Latin student earns top score merit pin
Fenwick High School sophomore Cathie Herr won the Superlative Merit pin and certificate in Latin after scoring 118 of 120 on the Nationwide Latin Exam taken last month. Other Fenwick students earned certificates for high scores with 110, 100 to 109, and 90 to 99 ranges.
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Cathie Herr
Fenwick High School
Miss Herr
Joseph H. Herr
Linden Ave
A. E. Warsley
Auxilium Latinum
Elizabeth
N. J
Fenwick
Marcheta Kramer
Louise Cassidy
David Aleman
Mark Daley
Theresa Faeta
Kathleen Mangold
Carol Ryberg
Court Agrees To Hear Appeal By Middletonians
Ohio Supreme Court will hear the appeal of Carlton Wentz of Virginia against Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Richardson of Butler County. Wentz claimed heater fumes killed his wife Margaret during a Florida tourist camp visit on March 21, 1951. Trial court dismissal reversed on appeal, case sent back for further proceedings.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
Middletown
Carlton Wentz
Virginia
T. J. Richardson
Butler County
ROTC Officer Is Ordered To Spain
Comdr. I. D. Quillin executive officer of the Miami University Naval ROTC unit has been ordered to report for duty with U S naval activities in Madrid Spain. Capt Richard B. Levin confirms the assignment noting Quillin and his family have lived in Oxford since February 1954 and will sail from New York by ship in July. He rose from destroyer and cruiser service to flight training at Pensacola and has served with seaplane squadrons in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Oxford
I. D. Quillin
Miami University
U. S. Naval Activities
Madrid
Spain
Richard B. Levin
Quillin
New York
Far East
Naval Academy
Pensacola
Fla
Caribbean
Pacific
Railroad Pays Property Taxes in Butler County
John W. Wendel Butler County treasurer reports a check from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for 58,729.83 covering Butler County property taxes for the first half of 1955. The B and O tax bill for the county for 1955 exceeds 117,450 while the railroad system’s total 1955 tax bill was 26,961,163, above its net income of 23,918,782.
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John W. Wendel
Butler County
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Wendel
J. L. Stanotn
Water Supply Improvement To Be Considered Tonight
City Manager Charles W. Thompson announced plans to ask the City Commission to approve a contract with Layne-Ohio Co. for water equipment repairs. He noted trouble at wells 2 6 and 7 near the municipal airport and the nine seasonal demand spike, with potential deeper drilling to 180 feet and possible seepage beds to boost the water table. The eight million gallon first hot day and five million gallon daily average frame the urgency along with bids for parking lot paving and the codification ordinance reading.
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Charles W. Thompson
Thompson
Layne-Ohio Co
Columbus
Miami
City Commission
Airport
Yankee Road
At The Movies Showings This Wednesday and Thursday
Paramount presents Guys and Dolls at 1 15 45 6 30 and 9 15 p m Stran d features Teenage Crime at 2 30 5 00 7 30 and 10 p m Dangerous Mission at 1 15 3 45 6 15 and 8 50 p m Colonial shows Deep Blue Sea at 2 30 ? 30 and 8 45 p m Born to the Saddle at 1 15 4 05 7 08 and 10 15 p m Dixif Cruise In Wednesday Bobby Ware Missing at 8 17 p m Francis Joins the Wacs at 9 50 p m
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Deep Blue Sea
DIXIF
Bobby Ware
Francis
Wacs
Garfield PTO Finishes Year With Program by Students
The Garfield PTO closed its year with officer introductions for the coming year and a program by the fifth and sixth graders plus the school orchestra, wrapping up the group’s activities last night.
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Garfield Pto
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McCoy-Leffler
Riggs Funeral Home
North Broad
Middletown, Ohio
Cathie
Middletonians
O& E
O & B ThriftiCheck
Oglesby- Barnitts Bank
ThriftiCheck
Oglaby-Bounty Bank
Main
Central Branch
Railroad
Paramount
Guys and Dolls
U.S
Central Ave
Second Ave
Broad & Verity
PTO
Phil¢Co
Phieco
Florentine
Philco
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