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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1948
Page
2
The Know Your Candidate session at the Legion Home drew a near capacity crowd as candidates for county, state, and congressional offices spoke briefly on issues from foreign policy to trash collection. LWV backed the incinerator plant and city waste pickup and distributed candidate bios and bond issue info.
Two new Junior Achievement companies held organizational meetings at the Civic Association last night completing the roster of 18 groups for the year. The Armco-ettes sponsored by Armco Recreational Center and a Junior Sewing Company sponsored by the University Women on the Armco Girls Association will work on sewing projects.
Friday and Saturday showings list Best Years of Lives starring Fredric Mr. Myrna Loy Dana Andrews Theresa Wright and Virginia Mayo at 1 45 5 15 and 8 45 p m Also Overlanders with Chips Rafferty and Daphne Campell Friday 1 50 5 10 8 40 p m Saturday 1 45 5 20 8 45 p m The Flame with John Carroll and Vera Ralston Friday 3 05 6 25 9 50 p m Saturday 2 55 6 30 9 55 p m
Friday screenings include Brute Force with Burt Lancaster and Yvonne DeCarlo at 7 45 and 10 15 p.m. Also Apache Rose with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans at 7 10 and 10 30 p.m. Saturday features Her Sister's Secret with Nancy Coleman and Margaret Lindsay at 8 40.
Four Butler County 4-H members won trips to the National 4-H Congress and Livestock Exposition in Chicago with all expenses paid. The awards, announced by George Wilson, cover excellence in club and community work over several years.
Marie Conn Abbott, 46, convicted of second degree murder in the May 31 killing of her former husband Morris, left for the Marysville Reformatory early today. She declared her innocence to reporters as Cyril Gordon, her former sweetheart, received a life sentence. Gordon had his own belongings and a poetry book as he was moved to the penitentiary.
James Lee Dwyer, 41, former Franklin resident, died suddenly Wednesday night at his Wa b a sh Indiana home. He worked as a coating mill superintendent. Survived by wife Isabelle, son Charles, daughter Janet, mother Mrs. James Dwyer of Red Lion, three brothers, four sisters. Funeral arrangements are complete at Robert Eaton Funeral Home in Franklin.
Paris actor Louis Salou, 46, prominent in stage and screen work. Omaha resident Mrs. Elizabeth C. Riner, 60, noted authority on family life education and homemaking education, supervising Omaha public schools homemaking program since 1933.
A Justice Department document filed in Washington reveals 1800 distinct automobile tire patterns. The listing details factory designs, patents, and potential overlaps in consumer tire manufacturing and branding.
William Phillippo 42 of Sassenheim Holland a stockholder in Springtime Bulb Farm Inc was the sole survivor of a crash near Prestwick Scotland that killed 39 en route to the United States His brother Arie 48 died in the wreck Both brothers owned interests in the bulb firm and exported bulbs to the United States and routinely visited Lebanon as part of the business
A four township mass GOP rally at New Miami Town Hall featured John J. Chester of Columbus who mocked the Tom Herbert administration and touted school aid highway improvement and tax cuts. County GOP officials Martin A. Coyle and Ben Van Gordon introduced candidates. Ross Township hosted with Morgan Hanover and Reily Townships aiding. Tonight Hamilton hosts a rally at 8 p.m. in the Buchanan school with the fourth and fifth wards as hosts.
The executive committee of the Middletown Youth Forum completed plans for a bake sale and chose Saturday, November 6, as the open business date in the Gordon Theatre lobby. Forms had been prepared earlier.
Pryse Haddix, 50, of the City Hotel, was arrested for intoxication and found dead in the county jail. Officials say a skull fracture caused the death. an official inquiry continues. Haddix served in World War I and II era service, with survivors including a daughter and several siblings. Relatives may visit the funeral home Sunday afternoon. services are set for Monday at the funeral home.
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Police reported $900 damage from a collision at Wilson St and Grand Ave. Wash Caldwell 34 Franklin drove west on Grand Ave in a truck struck by Gordon C. Sears 22 of 2005 Queen Ave Sears drove a car. The pickup overturned but no injuries were seen.
State patrolmen said two people suffered minor injuries in an early morning collision at Venice Ohio. Davey Lee Hanavan of Ross Ohio attempted a left turn into a filling station at a junction of Routes 126 127 and 128 when his car was struck by a vehicle driven by Ozie Kingery 29 of Spring Grove Avenue Cincinnati Kingery sprained left wrist Opal Faulkner 24 of Park Avenue Cincinnati a passenger in Hanavan s car received bruises to her right foot.
Farmers in Wayne Lemon and Madison Townships organize a rural relief drive through the Christian Rural Overseas Program. Carl J. Landes outlines plans for a European relief train, with Madison and Lemon Township co chairs named and a target to wrap up by late November. A fallback option would assemble boxcars in Ohio if a westbound train fails to materialize.
Winter prep available for convertibles including dyeing, patching, and full re covers at reasonable cost. Repairs cover factory re dye jobs and patch work to restore tops for cold weather use.
Beverly Huston a junior at Stoutsville High School was named Miss Pumpkin Show Queen of 1948 at Circevville Ohio during the annual pageant last night.
Prepared by the committee, donation forms were distributed to about 300 members this morning who will designate their gifts and return the forms to the committee.
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