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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1960
Page
14
New York AP report notes six Ohioans among the 22 member board of directors of the Erie Lackawanna Railroad Co formed by the merger of Erie Railroad Co and Delaware Lackawanna & Western. Board members from Ohio include Raymond J. Wean Warren John A Hadden John K Thompson and Erie officials Paul W Johnston Milton G McInnes and Marty W Von Willer.
Edward Schwartz, 56, of Cincinnati, goes on trial in U.S. District Court charged with making a hoax bomb call. He allegedly phoned Delta Airlines on Labor Day claiming an explosive was in passenger luggage, delaying a Greater Cincinnati Airport search for 90 minutes.
Tree owners can protect trees by embedding copper mesh deep in the ground. SHERIF'S SALE Case No 76620 Security Savings & Loan Co plainail vs Earle Davis et al Butler County Common Pleas. I will sell at the Court House in Hamilton Ohio on Tuesday November 1 1960 between 10 and 11 AM to the following real estate: 1505 South Main Street Middletown Ohio. Appraised at 12000 dollars. Sold for cash. Sheriff Paul A Pell. Sept 26 Oct 3-10-17-24.
A single engine Cessna 172 stalled after takeoff from North Columbus Airport and crashed into a house in Columbus Ohio. Four aboard were injured while a couple in the home escaped unharmed. Pilot Robert Keller 28 planned to celebrate becoming airport manager. Dennis Speakman 29 planned a parachute jump. The plane wedged on the roof and did not burn.
Police report an armed bandit entered the Standard Oil station at Pleasant and S Clair in Hamilton early Sunday. Pearl Hoskins describes a man about 18, five feet four, 160 pounds, brown hair wearing a black leather jacket and hat who ordered him to hand over $86 after counting to 100. He fled the stock room area. no injuries reported.
In Moscow Pravda champions Khrushchev’s call for total disarmament and an end to colonialism. The Communist party organ runs a page-long piece titled Colonialisms will be smashed and publishes a map showing Africa mostly free except for Algeria, with the southern third in chains amid color notes.
Market notes list Middletown Securities Aeronca Crystal Tissue Sorg Paper and First National Bank on the New York Stock Exchange floor. Ladd and Lou Blower referenced with phone GA 2-457. Manchester Hotel appears in listing context.
Livestock prices listed include cattle vealers good to choice, steers, heifers, commercial cows and utility, with ranges from 9.50 to 22.50 for various classes. Bulls and heavy cattle show 13.00 to 37.00 in the cited columns. Sheep and lambs report 4.00 to 7.00 for different grades, with Bucks and other small lots noted in mixed figures.
Cincinnati reports farm gate prices for eggs and potatoes. Jumbo eggs fetch 42 to 51 cents per dozen, large 40 to 50 cents, medium 35 to 45, small 22 to 32. Large undergrades 28 to 45, other undergrades 12 to 20. Potatoes range 2.75 to 6.00 per unit.
Police used tear gas to subdue Richard Spencer a 30 year old former Air Force sergeant and Korean War veteran after he went berserk in a Lakewood apartment. He slashed himself 78 times with a penknife and suffered neck and arm cuts requiring 78 stitches. He was taken to Lakewood Hospital psychiatric ward.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. AP Louis J. Taber, 82, former Ohio agriculture director who at 38 was elected master of the Ohio Grange and led the National Grange for 19 years, died Sunday at his home. Recipient of Ohio governor's award in 1957, he ended National Master role in 1941 and later chaired Farmers & Traders Life Insurance Co. in Syracuse, relocating there about eight years ago.
In Osaka at Shinsaibashi, gum waste marred the marble sidewalk prompting a preventive effort. Gum makers install 60 boxes stocked with disposal envelopes to curb litter and keep the center clean.
Local obituary notices list Herschel Ivan Kerrick 54 of First Ave Middletown Hospital, service Monday 2 pm Rev H C Grunewald. interment Fairfield canes. Gladys Newlin 41 of Stratford Ave Dayton died at Good Samaritan Hospital. services Monday 2 pm at Joseph R Baker & Sons Funeral Home with Rev Haskel Jenkins. interment Woodside Cemetery. Clarence Atkinson bereavement thanks addressed to friends and family. A and M Service Co. Keister and Germantown Rd. Dial GA 2-5768.
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