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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1950
Page
2
Residents emerge from a heavy snow week to settle into a new routine as schools reopen and buses resume regular stops. Officials praise public cooperation, note few accidents or fires, and outline ongoing cleanup costs and efforts by city and state crews.
Middletown faces heavy snow with City Manager H W Starick lauding Street Superintendent W H Shawhan and crews from Water Works and Park Departments for round the clock service. Fire Chief William Fishbaugh and police aided access lanes, while local contractors such as McGrawstruction and Middletown Sand and Gravel aided operations. Immediate cleanup focuses on key intersections and school areas, with catch basins cleared to ensure runoff. Also noted, Los Alamos County status change to full county in New Mexico.
Fragmentary report shows formal action on bar reportedly not sought pending fer action to address aggression. Officials say questions remain on bombing supply centers north of the Kowloon border and whether Chinese Communists plan full scale war or mass border actions. Uncertainty lingers over UN forces' fate in Korea as tensions rise.
At the Paramount, Bride for Sale starring George Brent and Claudette Colbert shows at 3:50, 5:45, 7:50, 8:45, 9:45. Strand presents Son of a Doubt with Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten at 2:30, 6:20, 9:50. Paris Bombshell with Elizabeth Bergner and Randolph Scott at 1:15, 4:30, 8:00. Colonial screens American Guerrilla in the Philippines on Wednesday and Thursday at 1:15, 3:15, 5:20, 7:20, 9:25.
W J Marshall of Maumee Ohio won the reserve championship in the grain and hay show with alfalfa hay at the International Livestock Exposition. Henry Casey of Kansasville Wisconsin named hay king. A fault is a displacement along a fissure in rock formations.
Charles R. Hook of Armco Steel spoke on a Detroit radio broadcast for the Women's Town Meeting, arguing that American workers and management share the goal of security. He said real security comes from hard work, rising living standards, and the freedom to work, earn, and save, not from handouts or socialist dictates.
In Middletown pedestrians received courtesy tickets as the new anti jaywalking ordinance began. Fines start January 1 with an educational period. Police Chief Joseph Blackmore urged drivers and pedestrians to observe signals and share responsibility for safety amid Ohio traffic death data.
Shrimp Mull serves 4 to 6 with rice, tomato and cracker crumb sauce and shrimp added near end. Christmas Coconut Igloos use pineapple, walnuts, cookies and whipped cream for eight servings with a coconut garnish.
Brazil’s Panair do Brasil announces a high altitude air current described as a jet stream above southern Brazil. The stream, moving eastward at 100 to nearly 200 mph, is wide over 400 miles and possibly girdles the globe. A cold spot above the equator at twelve miles altitude reaches 140 degrees below zero.
A vintage guidance piece suggests decorating gift wrap to reflect the content and style of the present. It details creative wrapping ideas including fabric dress boxes, ribbon arrangements, spools of thread, large button accents, yarn bows, and disguising flat boxes as desk pads with a blotter. It also proposes necktie knot embellishments, dark ribbons, and a suitcase style wrap with decorative tape, handle and tag.
In Jaffa Port, Arab workers now earn $6.72 to $7.70 per day, nearly double the British era rate. The Jaffa Portworkers Union of 110 Arab members signed a new wage agreement with the Jaffa Port Authority, bringing Arab pay to parity with 240 Jewish port workers who previously earned the same daily rate. The change follows the end of the British mandate on May 15, 1948.
James E. Hale, 66, credited with developing the modern balloon tire, died yesterday. He was a consulting engineer for Firestone Tire & Rubber Company and president-elect of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Funeral services are set for Thursday for John F. Miller 78 who died yesterday from burns after a puff of flame from a coal stove ignited his clothing. The item notes a historical aside on erosion theories prior to geoecology.
More than 600,000 UAW workers receive a three cent hourly boost as cost of living escalator clauses trigger raises for 63 plants and suppliers. GM accounts for 437,000 workers with this protection, Ford 118, Studebaker 23, Bendix 21, Kaiser-Frazer 19, Packard 8, and others. The increases start with December pay periods. President Walter Reuther notes inflationary pressures behind the rise.
A southbound Southern Railway freight train derailed at least 22 cars in Dry Ridge Kentucky within its south city limits near Williamstown 34 miles south of Cincinnati. No injuries were reported as police investigated the morning incident.
Belgrade Yugoslavia March 29 AP Marshal Tito led a government austerity celebration marking the seventh anniversary of the wartime creation of the Yugoslav Republic.
Commander Thomas D Middying of Seattle is appointed officer in charge of the Ninth District Aids to Navigation Section. He takes over from Commander John P German who becomes chief of the Seventh District Engineering Section in Miami Florida.
Steam acts as the driving force ejecting water from a geyser, sending it upward by as much as 100 feet or more in spectacular eruptions.
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