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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1959
Page
2
A two million gallon gasoline tank fire at Esso Stand Oil Co refinery near Charleston eased to a flicker after days of danger. The blast destroyed three houses and injured nine, with only one hospitalized. Cause undetermined days after Hurricane Gracie struck the area.
In Mexico City police arrested a soldier who operated a thriving refreshment stand at his desk in the National Defense Ministry. Investigators say he sold gum and marijuana cigarettes to favored customers in the facility.
Joseph Woodruff A E Lennie Edward Barker and Charles Chaffin spoke at Monroe Elementary PTO on the November election. Principal Robert Schanke and assistant principal Carroll Cosby were introduced along with eight new faculty members. Millard Saylor announced Mr and Mrs Charles Ramey as chairmen of the ways and means committee.
Winners from Troop 9 and Troop 141 Deanna Rhodhamel Karen Cox and Nancy Lorig receive 2.50 prizes. Posters will be placed in local merchants’ windows announcing the chorus opening rehearsal date judged by Miss Millicent Bender Middletown school system art teacher.
Springfield Ohio AP Gus Sun a nationally known showman died at 90 after breaking his hip and contracting pneumonia. He built the Gus Sun Booking Agency and helped dozens reach fame, supplying talent to hundreds of theaters across the midwest. Sun born Gustav Ferdinand Klotz in Toledo in 1863 began as a juggler and rose from vaudeville to run theaters and a major booking operation.
Providence AP report notes motorists queued at inspection stations as the month long period began for car inspections. Some drivers did not receive windshield stickers because the registry mailed them the day before and stations lacked stock.
Samuel Reed 66 longtime Franklin native and secretary treasurer of the Miami Conservancy District died at home in Dayton. He began with the district in 1919 and held multiple posts before his June 1958 appointment. Survived by two sons, two daughters, and siblings, services planned at Our Lady of Mercy Church with Woodhill Cemetery burial. Memorial gifts suggested to Memorial Cancer Center in New York City. Funeral arrangements ongoing at Sparks Funeral Home Mt. Vernon.
William Proctor 82 of Mt. Vernon Kentucky father of Milton S. Proctor of Vanderveer Street died.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce announces 25 talks before the November 3 election to advocate fluoridation. Roger Thompson, general chairman of the fluoridation committee, says the group will address any local club or group upon request, with E. T. Forsyth coordinating Jaycee speakers.
A Boy Scout Troop 18 court of honor at the Civitan Club home of Joe Caldwell on Manchester Road awarded members for rank, merit badges, and service pins. Recipients included David Craig, Don Dennis, Mike Hall, Doug Sherron, Doug Watson, and David Wittman with multiple secondary awards and pins. New candidate scouts James Lampert and Ronald Walters were introduced, and posters will be distributed today for Hire-the-Handicapped week.
The Charmette Club will sponsor a chitterling dinner beginning at 4 p m today at the home of Mrs Ruth Owens 928 8th Ave.
Oscar Avery 46 of Camden Rt 2 will have services at 2 30 p m tomorrow at Sugar Valley Methodist Church with Rev Donald Rossman officiating Burial is in Fairmount Cemetery Camden Friends may call at R C Nein & Sons Funeral Home after 6 p m today and at the church tomorrow after 1 p m Mr Avery died Wednesday at Good Samaritan Hospital Dayton
Mrs Elizabeth Flora aged 75 of 1734 Morey Avenue will have services at 10 a m tomorrow at Webb Funeral Home. Charles W Martindale aged 96 of 410 South 7th Avenue will have services at 10 30 a m tomorrow at Brown Dawson Funeral Home.
In Venezuela the Most Rev Rafael Arias Banco archbishop of Caracas and foe of former President Marcos Perez Jimenez died after plunging off a cliff. In Arkansas Sam E Gearhart 72 longtime GM and VP of Fayetteville Democrat Publishing Co died from a cerebral hemorrhage after returning from a convention of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Assn.
St. Marys Catholic Church sponsors Explorers Post 47, the seventh new unit in the Pokey Griffith Boy Scout District this year. Edward Brown announces the organization, with Robert W. Clark as committee chairman and Peter J. Trepanier as explorer adviser. The post, meeting Mondays at 7:30 p.m. at St. Marys School, expands the district to 65 units.
A flaming No 4 engine forced American Airlines DC7 to ditch emergency lands near Mineral Wells Texas. Capt Ed Bachner of Fort Worth landed the four engine plane with 29 passengers and 5 crew aboard from Dallas to Los Angeles. No injuries reported.
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