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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1948
Page
8
Nutritionists outline luncheon and dinner menus to stretch a food budget. Recipes include Spanish omelet with potatoes, macaroni and tomato sauce, smoked tongue with mustard sauce, grilled cheese, plus a date nut bread with precise ingredients and baking steps. The guide emphasizes time and care in planning meals for families.
Donora Pennsylvania asks the U S Public Health Service to survey air above the town after 19 deaths and a rash of illness tied to fumes from Avican Steel and Wire Company zinc works. Local officials consider state tests for sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide while the plant remains closed and most workers idled amid ongoing fog and air quality concerns.
The Franklin Village Council replaced a police department member, accepted the resignation of George Jeffery Jr. effective in two weeks, and named John Flinspach as his replacement starting immediately. Bids for gasoline oil and grease for fire police and street departments were rejected and the clerk was authorized to re advertise. An ordinance to fund a new street sweeper and a new truck passed at final reading. The meeting was led by Mayor J T Riley.
Cancer Clinic will be held at 7 p.m. at Middletown Hospital. Local Unit of the U S National Guard will drill at 7 p.m. at the barracks Hunter Clark Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet at 8 p.m. at the Silver Leaf Social Club.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold a meeting at 8 p.m. at the Silver Leaf Social Club.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles will convene at 8 p.m. at the hall for a scheduled gathering.
VEW Auxiliary will meet at 7 30 p m at the hall. The notice confirms the time and venue for the gathering.
The Spanish American War Veterans group has postponed their upcoming meeting indefinitely citing ongoing election activities. No new date has been announced.
The Middletown Co-Operative Club gathers at 6:30 p.m. in the Manchester Hotel where Chester Skillman reports on the District Convention held in Detroit.
The Holy Trinity PTA meeting is postponed to Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the school. Attendance details remain unchanged for parents and guardians.
The Middletown Aviation Club will meet at 7 30 p m in the airport classroom. Members will show pictures from trips and share experiences.
All delegates of Chauffeurs Teamsters and Helpers Local Union No 836 convene at 7 30 p m in the Trades and Labor Council Hall for a regular session.
House committees and the executive board of Blythe Williams Post 231 will convene at 7:30 p.m. in the Hall to discuss post affairs and upcoming duties.
The Moose Club holds its weekly meeting at 8 p.m. in the Hall. Members are reminded to attend and participate in club business and community planning.
Middletown Camp 58 of the United Spanish War Veterans and its Auxiliary plan a 7 39 p m meeting at the American Legion home armory.
Wayne H. McMillen of Wellsburg West Virginia was killed in an automobile crash on Route 22 in Hover Township. Two companions, Robert Watt of Steubenville Ohio and Joe Speer of Follansbee West Virginia, were listed in serious condition as the car plunged over an embankment.
A historical note states that when available, Americans eat about 50 million pounds of meat each day. The figure reflects broad dietary consumption in ordinary times and is used to illustrate national food demand.
Puerto Rico holds its first governor election in history with about 872000 eligible voters. The race features three main candidates Muno Marin Francisco Susoni and Martin Travieso with stances on remaining a U S dependency independence and statehood. The outcome will also signal views on Puerto Rico’s political status.
Clarence M. Ferguson will succeed Dr. H. C. Ramsower as director of the Ohio State University Agricultural Extension Service on January 1, ending Ramsower’s 29 year tenure. Ferguson, 49, former Michigan State lecturer and Colombian agriculture technologist, holds leadership roles in state extension groups and the Ohio Poultry Council.
Dimitri Kundra of Massillon argued Mary Kusilek moved in over a year ago and posed as his wife. The Stark County Common Pleas Court, Judge Paul G. Weber presiding, ruled she was not his wife common law or otherwise.
Miles OMelody and Johnny Dell headline a rural feature on farm life. The piece profiles their daily routines, crop choices, and community roles in a small farming town.
Breakfast includes seedless grapes oatmeal coffee cake coffee milk. Luncheon offers tomato juice baked macaroni and cheese rye bread butter or fortified margarine stewed pears tea milk. Dinner features broiled beef and vegetable hamburgers warmed rolls mashed potatoes cabbage and apple salad tapioca cream pudding fruit sauce.
A Dr. L. E. Woodward tip promotes the mother as the family's safety valve. The piece urges calm, supportive responses to a child’s belligerence or a husband’s temper to find sensible solutions and reduce tension, noting women are often home most and know each member best.
A quiet house awaits its new occupants as two lovers plan a final dance and escape. Lamps burn, flowers bloom in the parlor, and a key turns, signaling a transformation as footsteps fade into the night.
Raymond Sloan of Armco Steel will speak on Develop ment of Stainless Steel at the noon Ohio Society of Professional Engineers meeting. The Manchester Hotel hosts the talk, to be illustrated by slides.
The regular meeting of the Aman da WSCS has been postponed to November 10 at 7 30 p m at the Amanda Methodist Church.
A puzzle grid lists clues for horizontal and vertical entries with definitions such as authority, drama producer, clothing items, body parts, and celestial terms. The puzzle includes standard crossword prompts like Indian, Bacchanals cry, lariats, and sun god.
A compact list of crossword style clues and numbered hints appears, with terms spanning fabrics, emotions, names, and common nouns. The fragment shows entries like Brad cotton fabric man s name and sea mother eaters periods time indents woody plant social insect ambary gods note in Guido s scale nosgay observe sheltered side senior long meter.
Durand and his partner stand at the doorway as night stars glow behind them. They face Jace with arms about each other, a silent, motionless moment marking a kiss at the threshold of marriage.
A Wielszka Poland deposit of salt is claimed as the world’s largest. The salt rock bed is reported as 500 miles long, 20 miles wide, and 12 feet thick, highlighting vast underground mineral reserves.
Fremont’s eight mile radius milk processing ban is under review. Blue Spruce Dairy had its license revoked for selling milk processed in Lima. Operator Harry Sample was cited for selling milk without a permit and pleaded innocent. Hearing resumes tomorrow.
The Big Dipper is an American constellation with international names across Europe and Asia noted in this cross cultural astronomy reference. It highlights how the asterism is named differently in various traditions and languages.
Ohio residents from Cleveland and suburbs Akron Youngstown Warren Canton and Massillon join Atty Gen Hugh S Jenkins in protesting natural gas allocations from major and minor pipelines. The allocations, noted as inadequate for winter, follow a Federal Power Commission examiner’s report.
The Middletown Youth Forum announces a bake sale featuring cookies pies cakes and candies. The sale takes place Saturday at 8 a.m. in the Gordon Theater lobby.
The number of fishermen in the United States increased by 10 to 25 percent in 1946, reflecting growth in the fishing workforce.
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