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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1957
Page
2
Middletown Commissioner Miller states two points on city finances. The city is reviewing every economy measure while commissioners discuss but have not decided on an income tax. Shortfalls loom after a failed two mill proposal, with $105000 projected by year end and further gaps in 1958 and beyond.
Middletown City Commission Chairman Francis Carmody urged decisive steps to force railroads to install proper warning lights at crossings after recent accidents at the Baltimore and Ohio Yankee Road crossing. He proposed pursuing action with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio and other measures, while noting new street lights have been installed at all B and O crossings. Hospital reports show Rev. Clifford Hutchinson remains critically injured after a car collision with a locomotive. three injured children were released from the hospital.
Thieves broke into Certified Parts Co. at 104 Charles St. and stole a safe with papers and a large blank checks book. Police warn merchants to verify checks before acceptance. Entry was through a broken window. Earlier burglaries yielded an alarm clock and a pocket watch from Ralph Jack at 1303 Yankee Rd and a 12 gauge shotgun from James Nichoson at 1512 Fairmount Ave.
Police reported the break-in at Middletown Auto Sales on Verity Parkway led to three Middleton residents being arrested. Roscoe Stacey, 23, his 21-year-old common law wife, and a 17-year-old boy were taken into custody with a loaded German Luger pistol and a stolen check protector recovered. The owner valued the stolen items at 770 dollars including the pistol, cash, watches, a ring, radios, and checks. Stacey faces a conversion charge and is wanted on other warrants. the other two suspects are detained for investigation and juvenile authorities.
Three Middletown defendants were placed on five year probation by Common Pleas Judge Fred B. Cramer. Edward Allen Richard Lang and John Clem faced charges of breaking and entering grand larceny and related offenses. Restitution was ordered to Carter Gregory Beard and a bonding company respectively.
Formal induction services for new YMCA members will be conducted Saturday at 7 p.m. in the small Y gymnasium. Mrs Pat Fridolph and Jack Wiley lead the program with the emblem explanation and a history movie for members and their parents.
Germantown Junior Chamber of Commerce announces an open meeting for prospective members at 7 30 tonight at the EUB Church. Knight Goodman director of public services for The Middletown Journal and former state Jaycee official will speak. All men 18 to 35 are invited.
Boy Scout Troop 11 led by Elza Abraham received the first troop advancement award, a rotating monthly totem for highest rank advancement. Troop 44 earned a national camping award. Herb Daniels accepted a certificate. Dudley Inwood presided. Robert McIntyre presented the new award at the Pokey Griffith District roundtable in Trenton with 88 scouters attending.
Miami University president John J. Millett explains that the proposed screening is only for housing priority, not admission. He says the plan aims to assign housing to the most qualified students by college work aptitude to prevent excessive dropout and rising room costs, with unlimited admission at branch campuses where housing is not involved.
Police seek the driver of a dark maroon Chevrolet that struck eight year old Joan Knox on Garfield Street near Fairmount at about 12 15 p m as she crossed to return to school. The vehicle fled the scene and the driver had not reported the crash by morning. The girl suffered a bruised right leg and ankle but was not hospitalized.
Police say 34 year old William Trace of Farle Hotel was arrested after an eastbound car struck a parked vehicle, veered into an embankment and Gardner Park, then left the scene at 6:25 p.m. yesterday.
Five additional minor-damage accidents were reported alongside a primary incident. Details note liaison between responders and witnesses and record times and locations of the incidents.
W McAllister's Dairy Farms Inc announces price reductions effective Monday. Milk falls from 75 to 69 cents a gallon and from 38 to 35 cents a half gallon.
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