Commission Votes 3 Per Cent Pay Boost For Employees
The Middletown city commission unanimously approved a 3 percent pay raise for full time workers effective Nov 1, lifting hourly rates by 4 to 6 cents and monthly salaries by amounts up to 9.89. The raise, totaling about $30,000 annually, excludes City Manager Howard W. Kramer and part timers. The ordinance 2978 sets precise pay rounding. Other actions included taxicab fare readjustment review, highway bond support, and traffic improvements projects.
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Middletown
Ohio
Howard W. Kramer
Kramer
East Central Ave
Francis Carmody
First Ave
Kramer Says Wage Boost Won’t Please All Emplo yees
Kramer admits the new wage boost will not meet approval of certain employees yet expresses a belief it will gain support overall. He notes mixed reactions and hints at eventual acceptance as details unfold.
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Kramer
City Workers Accept Raise Quietly
Scattered reactions marked the city payroll news as workers learned a three percent raise effective November 1. Police demand for a flat ten dollar boost contrasted with a top bracket rise of nine dollars and eighty nine cents. some departments welcomed the move as better than none. City Manager Howard W. Kramer had warned of mixed responses while explaining the raises draw from normal funds and departmental appropriations.
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Howard W. Kramer
Kramer
Eagles Auxiliary Visits Wright-Patterson Hospital
Six members of the Eagles Lodge Auxiliary 2309 visited Wright Patterson AFB Hospital on Wednesday. They held a coffee hour from 10 to 11 a.m. and distributed gifts to about 125 patients. The group also visited Dan Long at the Dayton Veterans Center. A regular meeting is planned for Oct. 28.
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Franklin
Eagles Lodge
Wright - Patterson Afb
Ami
Dan Long
Dayton Veterans Center
City approves three percent raise for staff salaries
Taxpayer Leo F. Reinartz praises the commission for widening First Ave to the Big Four rail line, noting improved street appearance, reduced traffic congestion and collision risk as a result of the project. The three percent across the board raise followed a years long effort to match city pay with local industry and public payrolls in other municipalities.
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Pey City
Leo F. Reinartz
Commission On
First Ave
Garfield St
Big Four
Reinartz
Short Weight Brings Fine to Trucker in Ohio
Charles Osler, 52, of Carl ton Ohio, was fined 50 plus costs by Magistrate Lewis Bolser for hauling a coal load 4500 pounds short. Trenton township weights official Carl Loehner found the 17,800 expected weight reduced to 13,300. Osler said the Franklin purchaser was ill and could not pay, while Loehner warned residents about bootleg truckers.
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Carlton
Ohio
Butler County
Charles Osler
Lewis Bolser
St. Clair Township
Trenton
Carl Loehner
Loehner
Franklin
Osler
Tax Deadline Approaches as County Bills Remain Unpaid
The Middle Town branch reports many tax bills unpaid with the Oct 24 deadline looming. Deputy Treasurer Carl Wedekind says a flurry of payments followed an earlier warning, but a significant number still remain. A 10 percent penalty applies at noon Saturday when the office closes for the weekend. Office hours start 3:30 a.m. and continue to 4 p.m.
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Middletown
Carl Wedekind
Two Marines Return From Korea to San Francisco
Two Korean War veterans of the 1st Marine Division are due to arrive in San Francisco tomorrow morning aboard the troop ship Gen. John Pope. From Middletown, Sgt. William A. Whitesell of 1115 Oxford State Rd and Pfc. Jerry L. Feix of 85 S. Liberty St., Camden, are listed among the arrivals.
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1St Marine Division
San Francisco
Gen
John Pope
Middletown
William A. Whitesell
Oxford State Rd
Jerry L. Feix
S. Liberty St
Camden
Leaf pickup planned for Meadowlawn and S Main Street area
Street crews will collect leaves in Meadowlawn and the S Main Street area tomorrow. Residents are urged to keep leaves off the curb to prevent fires during the collection day.
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Meadowlawn
S. Main Street
Boy Struck By Auto and Vandalism Spree Reported
Police report four Wednesday traffic mishaps causing injury to 4 year old Stephen Gillie and $458 in damage. The boy was hit near 2212 Lamberton St and treated at Middletown Hospital. Other incidents include a $400 crash at Smith and Cherry Streets, a $48 hit and run, and a $15 two-car mishap at First Ave and Main. Five vandalism complaints cite window screen damage, porch leaf ignition, a stolen license plate, paint on a car, and nuisance at a new house construction.
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Stephen Gillie
William Gillie
Lamberton St
Middletown Hospital
Smith and
Cherry Streets
Warnie Simpson
First Avenue
Main Street
Lula Nichols
Vanderveer St
Main
George Riley Jr
Elsmere St
Queen St
Malvern St
D. A. Biggs
Bill Soule
Curtis St
Homer Kirby
Linden Ave
Sherman Ave
Candidates Speak At Middletown Democratic Club Meeting
About 125 Middletonians listened as candidates for City Commission led by Lloyd Miller Sam Redding William Denham Arthur Sanderson Britt Kendrick and Reuben Doty spoke. J T Lamb Vincent Sisson stood for municipal judge with others for the school board J Howard Stalker Jack Christy and Harry Hadley. Harold Sherron moderated and Joe Bayer chaired with H T Phillips urging the two mill school levy.
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Joe Bayer
Harold Sherron
Reds stall interviews as prisoner swap ends with protests
The Army announced Col Edward S Dickenson the former prisoner who switched from communism to home was flown to Tokyo for a medical checkup. He is from Big Stone Gap Virginia. The exchange left 23 Americans one Briton and 335 South Koreans who chose to stay behind. The Red side released a Chinese prisoner whose interrogation sparked a U N protest over harsh brain washing claims.
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Army
Edward S. Dickenson
Tokyo
Dickenson
Big Stone Gap
Air Force
U. N
Missing Pair Said Believed En Route Here
Two missing persons reports surfaced overnight. Francis Thompson, 13, from Ironton, believed en route to Middletown after buying a Middletown bus ticket. described as 5 ft 2 in, 125 pounds, wearing a blue satin dress, black coat, red belt and red sandals. Frank Rowland, 46, of Philadelphia, also missing and possibly headed to Middletown. 5 ft 10 in, missing left ring finger.
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Ironton
Middletown
Thomas Thompson
Ironton Rt. 2
Francis Thompson
Bertha Tester
Central Ave
Frank Rowland
Philadelphia
Young Driver Hart Wiseman Suffers Thumb Fracture in Crash
Hart John Wiseman a 16 year old from Dayton sustained a fractured right thumb in an auto crash near Waynesville around 10 30 p m yesterday. He received emergency treatment at Middletown Hospital and was discharged. No further details were available today.
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John Wiseman
Dayton
Waynesville
Middletown Hospital
Golden Agers View Film History Of Movie Industry
Thirty two members of the Golden Age Club met at the Civic Association to view a program tracing the history of the motion picture industry. Refreshments were served during the social hour.
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Golden Age Club
Civic Association
At The Movies Showtimes
Paramount offers Stand at Apache River at 1:30 4:50 and 8:20 p.m. From Out of Space plays 3:15 6:40 and 10 p.m. Strand features Bandit of Sherwood Forest at 1:30 4:20 7:10 and 10 p.m. Son of renegade shows 3:15 6:05 and 8:55 p.m.
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Paramount
Apache River
Sherwood Forest
Middletown to present kidnap prevention policy at board meeting
Superintendent Earle R Leidner will outline measures to guard pupil releases to strangers at the Middletown Board of Education session in the high school. The plan aims to prevent a Greenlease style kidnapping, noting safeguards already in place in Letics Township and local parochial schools. Also on the agenda: a teacher resignation, a replacement approval, and an addition to the superintendent’s secretarial staff.
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Middletown
Earle R. Leidner
Board of Education
Ing
Bobby Greenlease
Kansas City
Seidner
Greenlease
Letics Township
Wrenn Signs Agreement With FTC
The Wrenn Paper Co and five other blotting paper makers agreed with the Federal Trade Commission not to fix prices. The six firms, denying or admitting no acts, faced previous accusations of restricting competition and dictating sales terms. They account for about 90 percent of U S blotting paper production, including Joseph Parker & Son Co New Haven Conn Rochester Paper Co Rochester Minn Albemarle Paper Mfg Co Standard Paper Mfg Co Richmond Va Mead Corp Dayton Ohio.
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Wrenn Paper Co
Associated Press Today
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
United States
Wrenn
Joseph Parker & Son Co
New Haven, Conn
Rochester Paper Co
Rochester Minn
Albemarle Paper Mfg. Co
Standard Paper Mfg. Co
Richmond, Va
Mead Corp
Dayton
Ohio
Family dispatch to Seattle for sister’s illness
Mrs. Herbert Collins of 321 North Main Street flies to Seattle for her sister Mrs. Eileen Laws who is seriously ill. The Jubilee Singers of Springfield will give a public program at Peoples Friendship Baptist Church Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., announced Rev. H. Hart the church pastor.
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Herbert Collins
N. Main St
Seattle, Wash
Eileen Laws
Jubilee Singers of
Springfield
Peoples Friendship Baptist Church
H. Hart
Traffic in United States Tops Half Trillion Miles in 1952
The report records motor vehicle traffic surpassing 500 billion miles for the first time in 1952, indicating rising mobility and usage across the nation. Transportation officials highlight the growth trend and its implications for highways and urban planning.
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United States
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