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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1949
Page
2
A cold wave could wipe out Middletown coal stocks as dealers report yards nearly bare and supplies dwindling. Smokeless Pocahontas and stoker coal are depleted with egg and nut varieties filling remaining stock. Most shipments come from Kentucky and West Virginia amid a monthlong miners walkout.
Janet Sue Lairson nine year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Ishmael Lairson died today at 6 05 am at Middletown Hospital after confinement since Monday. She is survived by her sister Jo Bar bara and grandparents Jessie Lairson and Charles E Castle Middletown. Private services set for Monday 10 am at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home conducted by Rev Fletcher Shoup. Interment Woodside Cemetery. No visitations.
Brian R. Muir head about 57 vice president and treasurer of Universal Oil Products Company with the petroleum industry for more than 25 years born in Dresden Kansas
A district meeting of the Order of Moose will be held at the local hall Monday evening. Initiation is planned for 30 men on October 27 with the Middletown degree staff in charge. A Halloween party with best costume prizes is set for October 28. A Founders Day banquet will be held November 6 by the lodge women and men groups.
The Middletown Retail Merchants Association invites members to a 4 p.m. Tuesday meeting in the Civic Association auditorium. A Safety Council Traffic Division survey of city parking conditions prompted the session. Roy L. Patterson, association secretary, said letters will be mailed to all members.
A warrant charging assault with intent to kill was filed yesterday against Grace Rowland 37 of Conover Road Germantown for the shooting of Ernestine Coyner 35 who is in serious condition at Miami Valley Hospital Dayton Deputy Sheriff Ben Smith said Rowland is held in Montgomery County Jail Coyner’s condition prevented questioning but hospital staff reported slight improvement and may allow talks this afternoon Investigators Fred Wade and John Shuey say Rowland fired the shot in the abdomen during a Sunday incident at Clay Sandlin’s home The motive a possible love triangle was noted as a factor in the case
Andrew C. Straley 42 a former funeral director in suburban Bexley was sentenced to one to ten years in the Ohio penitentiary after pleading guilty to embezzling seventy five thousand seven hundred forty nine dollars from a trust fund.
The Midletown Retail Merchants Association approved Halloween related hour shifts for October 31 and November 1 with 9 30 am to 5 30 pm on Tuesday restoring Monday hours. Beginning November 23 no Wednesday afternoon closings through Christmas with extended evening hours Monday to Friday before Christmas. December 19 opens at noon closing 9 pm with 9 30 am to 9 pm December 20 21 22 23. December 24 9 30 am to 5 30 pm and December 26 closed all day.
A brief notice lists Adelbert Pop Warner of Cincinnati age 67 and Janet Sue Lairson age 9 of Middletown in a local vital statistics entry. The record confirms names ages and cities associated.
Mr and Mrs Herman Hoskins 502 Highland St report a daughter born Thursday Mrs and Mrs Charles Wilmot Somerville Route 1 report a son born Friday Mr and Mrs Robert A Zigler Trenton Route 1 report a son born Friday
In The Hospital Mrs. Fred Brosius of Central Ave medical. Russell D. Stevens of Franklin Route 1 medical. Dewey Brewer of South Ave medical. Dan Forney son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Forney of Winton St surgical. Gary King son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas King of Sherman Ave surgical. Thomas C. Sullivan of Poplar St medical. Pamela Garvin daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Hughes Garvin of The Alameda medical. Rexford Smith Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Rexford Smith Sr. of Oneka St surgical. Paul E. Ramseyer of Monroe, Robert Taylor of Franklin surgical John Shirey of North Grimes Miss Nannie Stateler of Lebanon surgical. Levi Hodge of Eighth Ave. Mrs. James Staples of Jacoby Mrs. William Campbell of Germantown surgical. DISMISSED Noah Wise of Sycamore.
Armco president W W Sebald and officials led a ground breaking ceremony on a Midletown farm as workers and civic leaders gathered to mark the start of a 12 million dollar steel plant. The project aims to transform the cornfield into a major Middletown facility amid a steel industry strike.
About 400 citizens attended a League of Women Voters town meeting in the American Legion auditorium. The event focused on proposed changes to Middletown's city charter including a city manager system, bonded debt increases, and other municipal reforms.
A speaker praised harmony and community cooperation while noting Mid dletown Armco runs without strikes, yet some Armco plants remain idle due to lack of opportunities to meet and discuss.
Schatzmann notes there are at least a dozen applicants in the city for the post and expects names to emerge within a few days. He downplays lack of good options while signaling swift shortlisting.
Mrs. Sarah Emma Cadwallader Hyre, 86, a Republican who served two terms in the Ohio legislature, died yesterday. A Mogadore native, she studied at Buchtel College in Akron and was clerk of the Cleveland board of education from 1912 to 1924.
A quote notes workers do not share a belief and cites an industrial magazine survey where five percent of those questioned think the worker should take a certain stance with further continuation on page eight.
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