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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1955
Page
2
Heavy wet snow blankets Ohio roads with many cars stuck or in ditches. Police say practically all roads are snow covered while main routes stay passable. one man, Ted Olt, 50, 113 Fuelid St, hospitalized with a fractured right arm after a fall on ice. Temperatures expected to rise Sunday.
Twenty to twenty five cars slid into ditches in Butler Warren County but no serious injuries were reported. Middletown saw one minor mishap not tied to the snowfall. Most streets were covered in slush yet listed slippery as patrol urged residents to stay home if possible.
Two pedestrians were hit by autos yesterday near 15th Avenue. A 59 year old man at Mid town Hospital in critical condition. a 6 year old girl with minor injuries. The man, William Goad of 780 Manchester Road, was struck on S Main Street by Eugene Angel. Goad is an employee of Fairbanks Fiber Box Co. The other incident involved Ruth Stout at 1st Avenue and Crawford, treated and released. Police report Angel was driving about 20 mph. Wright brakes failed before striking the child. Bush charged with failure to yield. Bonnie Carpenter involved in another collision on Verity Parkway and Vail Street.
Henry J. Walker aged 28 of 1601 Garfield Street collided with a parked vehicle owned by Perry Hill aged 48 of 1233 Sycamore Street at the Hudson Avenue Garfield intersection causing under one hundred dollars in damage.
Cincinnati Redlegs pitcher Joe Nuxhall spoke at the Middletown Optimist Club noon meeting at the Manchester Hotel sharing thoughts on Reds prospects for the 1956 season. Club events announced included dances, zone meetings, charter parties, and a Dec 15 Christmas party for 60 underprivileged boys.
Guerney Cole, salary administrator for Armco Steel, spoke to Middletown Assn of Life Underwriters on the value of proper life insurance for businessmen and families. He urged six to eight times annual income in coverage and encouraged underwriters to discuss insurance with clients to ensure adequate planning, noting estates for families. The group met at Colony Restaurant. next meeting is January 20.
Firemen battled a small blaze at 7 53 a m caused by an overloaded wall plug in a Franklin residence on Beech Drive 535 Allen. Only slight damage was reported and one minor fire run completed.
Hong Kong reports Father Justin Garvey of Union City New Jersey and Father Marcellus White of Waltherham Massachusetts freed after long detention by Chinese authorities. Both described solitary confinement and threats including choosing a pistol bullet for execution.
In Los Angeles Mrs Virginia Labor Cormier 34 sacrificed her life to rescue five of her six children from a two story blaze. Firefighters found her and her 5-year-old David dead in an upstairs bathroom with her arms around him. Her husband advertising executive Ray Cormier Sr. was located in Dallas.
Colombia and the United States sign an immediate effective agreement guaranteeing that future U.S. investors can take profits out of the country. The pact aims to stimulate the flow of American capital into Colombia.
Mrs. Alberta Harrison, 57, woke from a nightmare in which her son died in a flaming airplane crash, believing the scene involved a house and civilians near a military airfield. A reporter later informed her son, Pfc. James C. Harrison, 20, survived with minor burns after a Seattle crash.
Mrs Willa A Linville 1701 Yankee Rd died yesterday at 10 45 AM after a yearlong illness. She lived here 45 years and belonged to First Methodist Church. Survived by husband Benjamin H Linville a son Frederick Cummings Middletown two stepsons Chester and Arthur Linville Middletown a granddaughter five step-grandchildren two brothers Boyd Beverly Middletown Grover Beverly Dayton and sister Ellen Smith Middletown. Services 2 9 PM Monday Riggs Funeral Home with Rev C W Lovell. burial Woodside Cemetery. Friends may call 2 5 and 7 9 PM Sunday. A second service 2 PM Monday Girton Schmidt Funeral Home Sugar Grove Cemetery New Lexington with calling after 11 AM tomorrow.
Mrs. Maud Campbell 67 of Neola Iowa mother of Mrs Britt Kendrick of Middletown died yesterday at her home. Wife of Jesse F Campbell she is survived by two sons and two daughters. Services set for 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Church of the Latter Day Saints Neola with Becker Funeral Home Persia handling arrangements.
Mrs Maggie Jones 57 of near Johnsville dies in Good Samaritan Dayton. Wife of Walter Jones she is survived by four daughters her father five grandchildren and brothers Earl and Lee Dishman of Middletown. funeral 2 p m tomorrow at Holweger and Help Funeral Home New Lebanon burial Sugar Grove Cemetery.
Mrs Susie Buehner age 63 of 231 South Franklin Street died early yesterday at Bahn Rest Home. Survived by daughters Emma Wilt Marie Baker both of Eaton a brother Millard Swarts of Campbellstown and three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Obituaries note Henry F. Dahms 76 of 2307 Pleasant Ave with services at 10 a.m. Monday at First Church of God. Salome Lorine Warwick 46 of West Chester Route 1 will have services at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Webb Funeral Home. Helen L. Ireland of 914 Park Ave. will be laid to rest with services at 2 p.m. Monday at Klaus Funeral Home.
City commission race results show the three winners Martin Miller Francis Carmody and Charles B Stiles had the costliest campaigns. Stiles spent 63 personally with committee expenses 1952 while Miller Carmody filed no personal expenses but committees spent 1507 and 1458 respectively. Losers Harold Agee Paul Wells Sammuel Redding had various personal and committee expenditures.
Eighteen artists from Oxford are represented in the 19th annual Dayton and vicinity Artists Exhibition now on display at the Dayton Art Institute. Participants include Mary Halbach, Stousland, John C. Benz, Richard A. Clark, Marston Hodgin, Edwin Fulwider, Doug Heubler and Kathryn Fulwider. Most members are affiliated with the School of Fine Arts at Miami University.
Richard Holder, a 28 year old suspended Middletown firefighter, is held without bond in city jail awaiting a preliminary hearing after being charged with first degree murder in the November 7 shooting of his wife Eloise. A visitor described him as dumbfounded by the charge and Holder hopes to be released on bond to care for his three month old daughter.
A Franklin Municipal Court session heard 37 cases with heavy penalties for intoxicated driving. George McKin Mey received the stiffest penalty, a $200 fine, three days in jail, and a three year license suspension. Other notable fines included Cecil Long for reckless operation with damages to a Civil War monument, and Herrell Cook for reckless operation with a 90 day license suspension. Bond forfeitures and minor fines for various offenses were also recorded.
In Youngstown Ohio a hearing on an injunction against a strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen was continued in Common Pleas Court. A union spokesman said there would be no walkout and no strike is contemplated. The dispute involves negotiations over working rules and grievances affecting about 10 000 steelworkers at plants served by the railroad and the 200 railroad employees.
The Ohio Bus Line Co. said one Hamilton run returns to 4:50 p.m. daily effective Sunday, restoring its former time. Other Hamilton runs shift to 10:05 a.m., 12:05 p.m., and 2:05 p.m., with related changes for Hamilton to Oxford departures.
Three juvenile boys from Middletown with prior records received suspended sentences to Boys' Industrial School in Lancaster for auto theft. They were picked up by Indiana state police in Shelbyville after stealing a car from Ortman Stewart Transportation and attempting to flee toward Texas or Florida. The second vehicle also ran out of gas near Shelbyville before custody.
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