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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1957
Page
12
Prices for eggs and poultry at Cincinnati area farms with U S A and U S B grades. Eggs show white brown and medium sizes with lines for jumbo large and small. checks paid 16 21. Poultry fryers and turkeys listed with weight ranges and prices. potatoes 3 35 4 25.
Yesterday's closings show Aeronca preferred and prior preferred, Crystal Tissue Co, First National Bank, Sort Paper Co, Pia, and other names in trading activity. Market notes highlight miscellaneous securities and minor price movements without major shifts.
California cattle market report from Cincinnati shows 9 600 calves and various slaughter steers and heifers moving in mixed lots. Prices span 18 to 24 dollars for slaughter steers, 12 to 17 dollars for cows and bulls, with canners and cutters trading around 10 to 15 dollars.
At University Hospital Columbus obstetricians track OSU football games while near the fifth floor, then flash colored bed sheets to summon on call doctors. Signals vary by color and pattern, ensuring arrivals to the delivery room within minutes.
North and South Koreans on Sakhalin clashed over repatriation after 317 arrived in Maizuru Japan. They alleged Soviet officials sealed Koreans in Yuzhno with communication cut off amid reports of corruption shortages and fights. A return flow included 60 Koreans, 80 Japanese and 177 mixed-heritage children aboard Hakusan Maru II.
Ed Brown announces two new Boy Scout troops Troop 52 sponsored by Middletown Kiwanis Club and Troop 20 sponsored by Holy Trinity Church. Troop 52 meets Mondays at 7 p m at the Salvation Army building Rolling Mill Park with five charter members led by Scoutmaster Paul Van Ostrand and committee chair William Wilmer Jr. Troop 20 meets Tuesdays at 7 p m at Holy Trinity School with 12 charter members led by Scoutmaster Robert M. Wall and committee chairs Cliff Gorski and Carl Jackson.
W. W. Jones of Armco Steel Corp was named chairmen of the National Open Hearth Committee of the American Institute of Mining Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers at a Columbus meeting. Jones is assistant general superintendent of steel production at Middletown Works. O. W. Ireland of Armco Middletown was co-chairman of the morning session. Representatives from Ashland Butler Houston and Middletown works attended technical discussions.
A survey finds one fourth of American housewives have no recipes. Among those who do, about one third have not used a recipe in the last six months.
Dr E A Weymuller explains otosclerosis and two main surgical options to restore hearing. The mobilization of the stapes frees the ossicular chain and often restores hearing, while the fenestration window operation is a second procedure if needed after 6 to 12 months of observation.
In Naples a car left the Naples Miami road and plunged into a canal, drowning seven occupants from the House Rockers band returning from Fort Myers. Victims, all Miami residents, include Herbert Blatch and Barbara Blatch, with a 8 month old son among the dead. Police suspect the driver dozed. Geneva, Switzerland, became the name of the League of Nations in 1920.
The article explains stapedectomy as a quick procedure with minimal hospital stay and rapid return to work, noting no visible scar and little post operative care. If results are unsatisfactory surgeons may resort to the fenestration or window operation, with a second article to describe it.
Four children of Airman 1 C Aaron White died from smoke in a six-room frame house fire at Amarillo AFB. The blaze occurred while White was returning a babysitter home. his wife was ill in the hospital. Victims Kathy six Arron Jr four Sharon two and Stanley 18 months were all Negro. White and his wife Lurine are Oakwood Texans.
Former Middletown minister of music Doug Oldham sang for Queen Elizabeth last week. He appeared with Fred Waring's group in a White House performance and is part of a quartet on a 10 week tour. The group performed in Columbus at Veterans Memorial Hall with two sacred numbers. Oldham is the son of Dr and Mrs Dale Oldham of Anderson Indiana.
Ohio Department of Highways invites sealed proposals for five mix asphalt surface courses on U S Route 50 BYP and related routes in Hamilton Butler and Warren counties with lengths from 0 80 to 6 35 miles due June 30 1958. Prequalification and wage rules apply. bid bond of 5400 required. plans available at the department.
The Butler County Board of Commissioners seeks to overturn a 1903 reservation to the United States regarding the Old Post Office Building in Hamilton. The petition asks the court to grant the county fee simple ownership of the described Lots 59 and 60, fronting Third Street and Ludlow Street, and to declare the reservation void. Defendants must answer by November 30, 1957.
Obituary section lists Rosine Elizabeth Banzhaf 80 of 806th Ave. and Clifford Goad 62 of 100 Tightan Street with services at Riggs and McCoy-Leffler Funeral Homes. Interments at Woodside Cemetery with multiple relatives in Middletown and Dayton. Also notices for George E Zecher and Jack West with listed funeral arrangements and dates.
In sorrow we thank relatives and friends for acts of kindness shown in the loss of Louis Murphy. We express gratitude to Rev. Louis Walter and Rev. Charles Lovell of the First Baptist Church, pallbearers, McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home, and Grandsons Tom and Jack Morningstar.
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