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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1953
Page
2
City Commissioners adopted an emergency ordinance raising basic electrical inspection fees about 50 cents, effective December 1. The Ohio Inspection Bureau noted rising costs since 1949, and the increase applies to basic fees only with no charge for additional circuits. The measure follows prior caucus discussions.
Frank Dobrozsi, Democrat and highway official, starts his 17th term as president of the American Citizens Club, a naturalized citizen group active in patriotic work and aiding foreign-born residents. Elected with him are John Hasselbach as vice president Julius Levy as treasurer Mrs John Domanick as recording secretary Julia Forni as financial secretary Anthony Rossi as sergeant at arms Carl Kau rich and Straus Petroglou as assistant sergeants at arms. Board members include John Dobrizsi Jr Steve Botos Sr Benno Mendel Steve D Varga and William Doebler Sr. The club honors Joseph Szcentesy aged 88 as its oldest member after attending every meeting this year.
City seeks bids by noon tomorrow for the Sutphin Grand sewer project as part of a multi million dollar city improvement. Thirteen bid sets have been requested, with tabulation to be ready for City Commission review next week.
Franklin special report police yesterday arrested two men on charges of driving without a license. Held were Henry H. Milligan 22 Franklin Route 1 and Everett C. Coffey 17 Franklin Route 2. They will appear in court Friday.
Dorothy McGuire of the McGuire Sisters reportedly decided against divorcing her Army sergeant husband Sgt John Brown of Middletown now in Korea. Julius LaRosa refused to discuss rumors of a romance, while Brown said there is no desire for a divorce and he has canceled leave plans.
City Manager Howard Kramer announces a trial of traffic measures at Germantown Road and Verity Parkway after widening part of Germantown Road to create a potential extra lane. Results will guide whether a traffic light is needed, with no light planned until downtown system work and salvageable controllers are completed. The project cost city crews 200 to 250 dollars. contracted cost could reach 1500 dollars.
Lt James Combs of the Traffic Bureau explains the yellow signal requires stopping after green, with cars in the intersection allowed to proceed cautiously. Chief Joseph Blackmore notes many motorists wrongly believe yellow grants right of passage, and tickets have been issued to violators.
Fourteen members of the Teen Age Crafters Junior Achievement company receive their wages in silver dollars rather than greenbacks. The unusual payroll method originated with George Kalb, chief adviser for Aeronca Manufacturing Corp, sponsor of the group known for Go Middies Go front end plates. The firm plans to enter the jewelry field soon, says M.G. McCall, executive director.
The gypsy moth was imported from France in 1869 to cross with the silkworm for silk research.
City Commission hosts three visitors including Arthur Sanderson who will take office January 1 as commissioner. Commissioner elect William Donham is on vacation and absent. German visitors Christian Kreuzer and Henrich Salzmann, county managers, also attended Middletown tour. Sanderson arrived early, spoke with reporters before being invited to the city manager’s office. Commissioner Stiles noted the hard chairs. Dr. Ross A. Hill, the presiding commissioner, added comments as Chairman Francis Carmody was absent.
A Oneida man pondered changing his name after a William Rhodus, 37, from Oxford rural route, was convicted on a morals charge in Butler County court. Another local William Rhodus, 37, resides at Oxford and Omaha, causing neighbors to call in surprise. The man in Oneida did not admit to any name change.
About 50 to 60 representatives from 22 southwestern Ohio counties meet at the Manchester Hotel for the annual South-West District Ohio Public Health Assn session. The theme Do Present Ohio Public Health Laws Frustrate You prompts amendments. a panel led by John W. Back follows, with topics on health legislation public relations and mass feeding.
Middletown will host a National Guard holding unit to serve until the 37th Infantry Division is reactivated. Maj. Gen. Albert E. Henderson said the unit will manage personnel returning from active duty and those who must continue National Guard service. The 37th is expected to reactivate by January 15, 1954, after which members will transfer to the division, now to be known as the 37th Infantry Division, National Guard of the United States. The old division was sent to Camp Polk, Louisiana two years ago. Middletown’s Company F formed part of the old 37th and will remain at Camp Polk for at least three more years. The reactivated division will include 123 units in Ohio.
Middletown firemen answered 46 alarms in November including two fires and two false alarms. Company 2 responded at 2 01 p m to a grass fire at 3006 Milton Rd on BF Sawyer property. no damage. Companies 1 and 3 dealt with a leaf fire at 821 4th Ave started by children. no damage. False alarms to 802 17th Ave at 4 46 p m and to Calumet Ave and Young Street at 8 44 p m.
At the movies Paramount presents Mo gamma bo at 1 50 4 20 6 45 and Fighting Lawman at 1 15 4 25 7 25 10 15 p m and Sixteen Fathoms Deep at 2 50 5 55 8 55 p m for Thursday and Friday.
Mayfield and Franklin fire crews battled three neighboring grass fires yesterday afternoon near Lefferson Road Clifton Farms Jefferson Road Jackson Lane and Ohio 73 Linwood Road. Fire officials blame a cigarette discarded from a passing car for one blaze and a spreading trash fire for another. Four lots burned.
Madison Township residents pressed for fire protection as Wayne and Madison departments wavered after withdrawals. Fire Chief Bill Whitman said Wayne would suspend the three mile limit for house fires but not dispatch beyond its grass fire radius. Martin Littman said his group trusted Wayne crews to respond and would consider a mutual aid pact once Madison has its own department.
Salt occurs in nineteen states of the Union and is commercially produced in fourteen of them. The statement highlights widespread natural occurrence and significant industrial output, indicating a broad geographic distribution and notable production activity within the United States.
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