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Middletown Journal

Location

Middletown, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 18, 1955

Page

12

Action in Center Votes to Restart Zoning Request

City council deadlocks on Mayer rezoning petition for a proposed shopping center. A second submission to planning and zoning is required after auditor opinion. Four way stop added at 6th and Anderson. parking rules study to set 90 minute limits downtown. Mutual Electric to buy two extra poles under 100 dollars. Spring curb and sidewalk projects listed on several streets. Wells plan on triangle near railroad bridge referred to engineer for detail. Franklin Optimist Club signs approved at city entrances. Reading room permit request referred to solicitor for review.

Edward A. Mayer Lloyd E. Ritz Planning and Zoning Commission 6Th Anderson Streets Mutual Electric Co Dayton van Horne Avenue Thirfield Avenue Farm S. River Brown Streets Collins Wight Wight Miami Conservancy District Franklin Optimist Club Ritz Louise Jeffrey Franklin

Canal Street traffic rules revised at key intersections

Two ordinances passed changing Canal Street traffic flow at the 3rd Fourth and Sth street intersections. The measures take effect once the existing stop signs on Canal Street are replaced or removed.

Canal Street

Forty girls attend Jr Tri-Hi Y meeting at YMCA

Forty girls and advisers attended the second Jr Tri-Hi-Y meeting at the YMCA. Mrs Della Mary DeJerus led the session with special guests from 7th to 9th grade interested in joining. Next Monday at 4 p.m. junior high members will be guests again.

YMCA Della Mary DeJerus Donald Osborne Mervin Rayburn

Presidents Married in Office Three U.S. Presidents Wed While Serving

The record notes that Grover Cleveland Woodrow Wilson and John Tyler each married during their presidential terms. It highlights the unusual fact of sitting presidents forming matrimonies on the job.

United States Grover Cleveland Woodrow Wilson John Tyler

Last of Field family freed as Erika Wallach leaves Soviet Union

Erika Wallach, Noel Field’s foster daughter, released from Vorkuta labor camp and awaiting travel documents in Moscow. She said she was seized in 1950 in East Berlin, held in solitary for years, sentenced to death in 1953 as a spy, then commuted to 15 years before transfer to Vorkuta. She aims for Berlin by train but US admission unclear.

Moscow Noel Field Erika Glaser Wallach Vorkuta Soviet Union East Berlin Field State Department Herta Hermann Cleveland Europe Soviet Arctic

Court Orders New Hearing For Chessman

U S Supreme Court orders a rehearing of Daryl Chessman death row petition for a new trial, remanding to federal court after finding transcript fraud claims. Chessman, 34, has endured seven years on San Quentin's row and awaits a dateset hearing for his habeas corpus petition.

San Francisco Daryl Chessman San Quentin U.S. Supreme Court Chessman High Court Chesman Los Angeles Federal District Court Black Frankfurter Harlan Minton Douglas Clark Burton Reed Warren

Freddy Martin Held For Drunken Driving

Freddy Martin, 47, pleaded innocent in Los Angeles municipal court after being arrested last week on drunken driving charges. A jury trial was scheduled for October 28.

Freddy Martin Los Angeles Martin

Chances For Peace Better Nixon Says With Watchful Leaders

Vice President Nixon declares chances for peace today better than since World War II but warns U S leaders in Geneva talks will scrutinize real Kremlin policies not mere goodwill He cites UN strength atom power and a Geneva spirit as supports while opposing peace at any price and urging cooperation with nations on both sides of the Iron Curtain for progress and freedom

New York Nixon U.S Russia Kremlin New York Herald Tribune Forum Eisenhower International Air Transport Assn Herald Tribune Forum Foreign Ministers Geneva Middle East Egypt United Nations United States Free World

Marine Corps Installs New Commandant

Lt Gen Randolph McCall Pate, 57, of South Carolina, prepared to become the Marine Corps commandant on January 1 succeeding Gen Lemuel Shepherd who is retiring. Pate, deputy commandant, helped plan Guadalcanal Peleliu Iwo Jima and Okinawa and led the 1st Marine Division in late Korean War fighting.

Washington Randolph McCall Pate Marine Corps Lemuel C. Shepherd Shepherd Pate Ilson Eisenhower Denver Port Royal S.C Virginia Military Institute Pacific Guadalcanal Peleliu Iwo Jima Okinawa 1St Marine Division

Clotheespins B used for Soapy Water Dunking

A brief note explains clothepins are used during soapy water dunking to keep clothes clean. The piece emphasizes the need for a special occasion to use them.

United States

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Action Council Extermital Richard Minge Tytus Dohn Hardware Penalay Vatermite Service Jr. Tri-Hi-Y Middletown Ilvory Soap Laundry Logan Ave Selineville Ohio Mervin Buxton Gladys Bland Lavrenty P. Beria Top Value City Fuel, Inc Lifeguard Design Ford Thunderbird Ross Motors, Inc Noel Goward Mary Martin
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