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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1968
Page
13
Neglected shoes harm grooming and wealth. Use shoe trees to maintain shape, give each pair 48 hours rest between wearings, keep leather dry to preserve oils, and air dry wet shoes with paper towels at room temperature.
Fragmentary classified style mention lists Crystal Tissue Co and Sorg Paper with First National Bank Midwest Indemnity and New York Stock Exchange. Includes contact line GA 2 4571 and Manchester Inn at 27. Readers infer a local business notice or directory snippet referencing firms and a venue.
Ohio and Southern Indiana poultry prices show fryers at 12.5 to 15 cents with most 14 to 14.2 cents per pound. Egg prices for cartons delivered to major Ohio cities range from 31.5 to 56 cents depending on grade and size, with Large A cartons 51 to 56 cents and mixed grades listed.
AP USDA cattle sales in Cincinnati show 500 cattle and 100 calves with varying demand. Slaughter steers and heifers steady to moderately active, cows very slow to 50 lower, most declines on canners and cutters. bulls mostly steady. Prices list steers 900 to 1100 lb yield grades 2-3 around 26.50 to 27.50, heifers 800 to 900 lb 25.50 to 26.00, cows 16.50 to 18.50, canners 13.00 to 17.00, bulls over 1000 lb 20.00 to 22.50.
New York AP report shows gains outweighing losses at the open with Active trading. NSA Corp up 46 and Shell Oil up 69, Monogram Industries 58, Mobile Oil 57, Av. net down 29. The AP average of 60 stocks rose 1.3 to 354.8.
A reader asks about setting up a Keough Act pension fund as a self employed individual. The adviser notes tax free limits and five methods including bonds, annuities, bank trusts, mutual funds and certificates. Thorough study is advised before committing since funds are usually illiquid until age 59½. A second reader asks whether to hold or sell Quaker Oats. the response cites growth potential, management changes, and favorable factors lifting projected 1969 earnings.
Fire alarms report three calls starting at 2 40 p m on 1108 Malvern Street where a car owned by Rick Thinnes backfired causing 200 dollars in damage. At 3 20 p m on 1709 Dix Road Mary Warnock 77 was knocked down when a dog jumped on her and she was taken to Middletown Hospital in fair condition. At 6 55 p m at 1318 Fairmount Avenue Marsha McIntosh 17 months was ill and taken to a doctor.
Cub Scout Pack 2 sponsors a spaghetti dinner at the Church of the Ascension on Friday from 5 to 7 30 pm. Adults pay $1.25 and children 75 cents. General chairman Mrs. George Hansen says tickets are available from any Pack 2 member or by contacting Mrs. Q R Reeder.
A numeric puzzle from King Features Syndicate provides a daily fortune. Count your first name letters, adjust by minus four if six or more or plus three if fewer, to get a key number. Read letters under checked positions in the grid from left to right to reveal the message. World rights reserved 1968.
In Moscow in 1964 Nikita Khrushchev was ousted. In 1851 gold was found at Melbourne Australia. A year ago US lost three jet planes in raids on North Vietnam. Lincoln and Douglas debated in 1858 at Alton Illinois. Mata Hari executed in 1917 outside Paris. Graf Zeppelin landed at Lakehurst NJ in 1928 after final Atlantic flight.
The article notes executions of Laval and Goering for Nazi collaboration, a wreckage sighting of a missing Venezuelan airliner with all aboard dead, and Adenauer's retirement. It also carries a 1968 legal notice about divorce proceedings in Butler County Ohio, and a city planning hearing on sidewalk requirements in Middletown Ohio.
Obituaries list multiple local residents including Wilburt Martin 55 of Cincinnati James H McLain 40 of Mason Grace Orpha Sellars 86 of Dayton Frieda M Sharpe 71 of Trenton Van C Tipton 72 of Middletown Denval J Williams 48 of Franklin with funeral arrangements by McCoy Leffier and Joseph R Baker & Sons, services and interment details, visitation times, and cemetery names noted.
Two scouters will receive the President's Award at the Pokey Griffith District annual fellowship and recognition dinner. The event, with James Howerton chief of police as speaker, is Thursday at 6:30 pm at the Church of the Ascension. Attendance costs 1.75 dollars per person with no reservations required.
Five from the Middletown area attended a splinting in arthritis workshop at Holmes Hospital in Cincinnati. Participants included Mr and Mrs Robert Hottentot Dudley Kramer Linda Fall and Sam Russell with ninety two physical therapists learning light splints and related conservative therapy for joint diseases.
George E. Linnert of Armco Steel Corp will present a technical paper at a joint seminar of the American Iron and Steel Institute and the American Society for Metals in Detroit today and tomorrow. His topic is Selection of Filler Metals for Welding Modern Steels.
A New York City library holds about 160000 law books with roughly 7500 volumes on criminal law. The figure reflects the scope of the New York County Lawyer's Association collection and highlights the portion devoted to criminal jurisprudence.
Sincere thanks to friends and neighbors for kindness during illness and death of Grover C Deaton and James Scott Leach. Gratitude to doctors nurses clergy and funeral homes and appreciation for thoughtful floral offerings and support from relatives.
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