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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1952
Page
13
Butler County records a 34th polio case of 1952 with eight patients now in Mercy Hospital's polio ward. Frank Lee Shera, 12, and son of Lloyd and Mrs. Shera of Taylor Road College Corner, was admitted Sunday.
Two Middletown recruiters announced the acceptance of Paul Robert Bigler of Middletown Route 1 and Jerome Anthony Smith of 1826 Sherman Ave as Air Force enlistees for four years. They proceed to Sampson Air Force Base in Geneva New York for basic training, part of eight two total enlistees this month toward the quota.
The Ohio Newspaper Women's Association ended its three day, 50th annual convention in Cincinnati. Main speaker was Mrs. Jerry Fox Vin cent of the Washington Post.
The dedication ceremony at the Civic Auditorium in Cuyahoga Falls drew local officials led by Ohio Attorney General C William and community leaders. Funding details and future event plans were outlined, highlighting civic pride and regional growth.
An 18 year old Mount Vernon Kentucky youth died at Mercy Hospital after injuries from an automobile crash near the Indianapolis Speedway on his 18th birthday. Kenneth Payne, once employed by a local baking company, was to be buried in Mount Vernon.
Five highway accidents injured seven people in the area yesterday and today. John Stewart, 38, was hurt awaiting a bus when John Hager, 18, fell asleep at the wheel on Route 123 causing a collision. Hager faces reckless operation charges and a Franklin court appearance set. Other crashes on Route 73 and Route 42 sent several to Middletown Hospital with various injuries. one rider, Ted Karchner, was treated in Covington and admitted later.
Middletown Personnel Association to tour Aeronca plant after a 6 p.m. meeting at the Aeronca cafeteria. Secretary Mrs. Pauline Fisher says the event includes dinner a short business session and a tour of the facility.
TOKYO reports Shunichi Matsumoto, the Japanese ambassador to Great Britain, is in line for appointment as foreign minister in the new Japanese Cabinet.
O'Neill spoke Sunday at dedication exercises for the city's new Municipal Auditorium valued at $750,000.
Motorcycle officer Larry White age 34 of 800 Elwood Street was injured when a horse reared and fell on him while riding in Camden. He was admitted to Middletown Hospital for observation at 2 p.m. The extent of injuries was not disclosed. He will likely limit riding to bicycles from now on.
President Harry S. Truman will deliver a ten minute talk from the rear platform of his campaign train in Hamilton Friday at 2 20 p m The appearance was disclosed by Albert A Horstman Dayton Democratic national committeeman The stop is set for B and O tracks likely Fourth and High Streets He will also campaign in Ottawa Sidney Troy and Dayton before arriving in Cincinnati at 3 25 p m to speak at Music Hall at 9 p m The Cincinnati speech will be broadcast and telecast A prior Hamilton whistle stop drew an estimated 10000 people in 1948.
City manager H. W. Seal reports rapid progress on Verity Parkway repairs after sewer work. Starick notes most sections are finished except the Yankee Road Verity Parkway Woodside Avenue junction. Water line fixes completed by McGraw Construction restore process water to Armco.
Hollywood mourns Hattie McDaniel 57 the Beulah star and Oscar winner for Gone With the Wind dies after a cancer illness. Illness ended her Beulah TV run though radio transcriptions kept the show on air. McDaniel was the first Black performer to win an Academy Award in 1938 for her Mammy role.
A second typhoon in six days plowed across the Central Philippines causing crop damage but early reports noted no deaths. The storm lashed Samar Northern Leyte and Masbate as it moved over the Sibuyan Sea with winds near 100 mph. A U S B 29 weather plane from Clark Air Base went missing with 15 aboard east of Samar.
General Sir Rob Lockhart, deputy director of anti-Communist operations in the Malayan project, said guerrilla attacks in Malaya have shown a marked decline in recent months. He cautioned the shooting war is not nearing an end.
Melvin J. Pownall of Coatesville Pennsylvania said Italian police barred members of his congregation from entering a building in Alessandria where services were to be held and threatened him with arrest. The incident involves the American led Protestant sect and ongoing police interference.
Cincinnati Garden hosted the seventh annual Protestant Festival of Faith drawing more than 14,000 attendees. The overflow crowd filled the venue on Sunday as the event showcased religious devotion and community gathering.
A Caribbean hurricane that smashed Cuba with 165 mph winds veered east across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas. Though diminishing, it remains a potentially dangerous storm with winds near 75 mph. At 5 am EST it was 275 miles east southeast of Nassau moving east northeast at about 7 mph.
Middletown and Arthur Breise of Hot Springs Ark will speak at the Business and Professional Women's Annual Public Affairs banquet. The Dinner is at the Manchester Hotel at 6 30 with remarks by Francis Carmody City Commission chairman and Calvin Verity Middletown Chamber of Commerce president. Reservations remain with Mrs Fred Yoder.
Seven motorists in the area courts paid ninety dollars in fines and costs after being arrested by the State Highway Patrol. Raymond Wallace of Covington Kentucky faced ten dollars for a yellow line violation. Chester Robertson of Flint Michigan ten dollars for crossing a yellow line. James Taylor of Dayton ten dollars for yellow line violation. James Ante of Cincinnati fifteen dollars for reckless operation. James Davidson of Detroit fifteen dollars for yellow line violation. Earl Smith of West Chester Route 1 five dollars for stop sign violation. Emanuel Hyden of Hamilton twenty five dollars for driving without a valid operator's license.
Bolivia's government says the Big Three tin firms Patino Hochschild and Aramago owe 67.66 million in back taxes and duties, on top of 485 million previously claimed. Mines seized earlier this month remain under state supervision ahead of possible nationalization.
The Infantile Paralysis Committee meets at Lambert's Tea Room at 9 tonight led by chair Fannie Patterson. Mrs Harriet Chambers of Springfield was weekend guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Chambers and their son.
Mrs Maude Sarah Sherrick 65 died at 6 20 am at her home 1413 Jacoby Ave after two years illness. A Clarksville native she lived in Middletown since Foster Sherrick died in 1945. Surviving daughters Mary Elizabeth and Lucy Mae and son George Franklin Sherrick. Funeral 10 am Thursday at Joseph R Baker and Sons. burial Port William Cemetery. Visitation after 7 pm Tuesday.
Graveside services for Marjorie Diane Whitacre infant daughter of Morris and the Whitacre family of 7 West Fifth Street will be held Tuesday at 10 30 a m at Woodhill Cemetery with Rev H S Gessner officiating She died at birth Saturday night at Grandview Hospital Dayton Surviving are parents a sister Kay Elaine grandparents Mrs Lennie Whitacre of Morrow and Mr and Mrs William Slaton of Franklin Friends may call Tuesday morning at Robert Eaton Funeral Home
Harry Lee Gilmer 63 of Loveland died at home last night. A former Remington Arms and Peters Cartridge employee, he is survived by his wife two daughters Mrs. Robert Whit acre of Blanchester and Mrs. Clif ford Mitchell of Loveland a son Lee of Kings Mills and three sisters Ethel Leah and Laura of Murdock. Funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday Tufts Funeral Home Loveland with Loveland Cemetery burial.
The Associated Press notes deaths across multiple cities: Gilbert F. Close 71 former Wilson secretary in St Louis born Dunmore Pa. Arthur Stanley Gist 69 ex Humboldt State College president and author in Piedmont Calif. Harold J. Harding 57 Propeller Club secretary treasurer in West Englewood N J. Mrs Minna H. Carothers 66 former president of Women's Press Club in New York. William E. Sanderson 50 secretary to Rep Merlin Hull Wis and former farm cooperative executive in Black River Falls. Mrs Mary T L Gannett 98 suffrage and racial tolerance advocate in Rochester. Clarence H. Booth 78 Michigan newspaper executive in Detroit. Harrie J. Dean 61 retired teacher in Cleveland. Charles H. Wyatt 42 former lieutenant colonel and WWII Japanese prisoner in Cincinnati.
Florence Powell of Middletown High School was elected president of the Ohio Association of Secondary Teachers in Speech at a Columbus meeting held with the Ohio Conference for Speech Education. Other officers named include John Scott Kent vice president Mrs R W Portz Newcomerstown secretary and R Richard Banker Ravenna treasurer. Retiring president John T Rickey Canton now pursuing a doctorate at Ohio State University.
Belgrade radio reported Bulgarian troops fired across the border at a Yugoslav pillbox and Bulgarian planes made three illegal flights over Yugoslav territory. The border violations centered near Dimitrovgrad, a potential invasion route for eastern Soviet allies. No retaliation details were given.
Mrs. Bertha Perkins with her daughter Eunice and Mrs. Emma Hollis both from Middletown, along with Mr and Mrs Howard Bullins and Della Mae Abner of Miamisburg, visited about 100 women patients at Longview Hospital on Saturday afternoon. Nurses and patients requested hymns and spirituals as Bible verses were presented by several patients.
Donald O Connor anchors the Comedy Hour delivering singing and dancing with brief flat spots in a review noting he thrives when performing on well paced acts. Ben Blue and a trio of silent movie men deliver the strongest belly laughs while other sketches fall short. The piece also mentions Gosden and Correll weighing retirement and Howdy Doody's rising kid appeal with Tallulah Bankhead signing for five more All Star Revue shows beginning November 8.
Radio tonight features Cornell Wilde in a perilous password tale at 8 p m on WHIO and 9 30 on WSAI with Governor Stevenson campaign remarks at 9 30. Tomorrow noon Ranny Daly discusses National Education Week on WPFB with Middletown school system members to follow.
A British Overseas Airways Comet jet from Ciampino Airport near Rome crashed during takeoff on a London to Johannesburg flight. The eight mile a minute aircraft veered and belly landed but all 42 people on board survived unharmed. cause under investigation.
The Middletown Safety Council's School Safety Unit will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Civic Association to set annual objectives and discuss using audio-visual teaching aids for safety programs, according to division chairman Miss Celia Long.
The Butler County Tuberculosis and Health Association will station its mobile X ray unit for pre employment examinations on Wednesday from 1 30 to 4 p m. Tom Venable Civic Association managing director said the service aims to screen applicants efficiently.
Middletown firefighters were dispatched to Manchester Avenue and Franklin Street at 7:35 p.m. Sunday to extinguish a leaf fire set by children. Earlier at 7:12 a.m. today two companies responded to Shafer Street residence of George Adams where a dirty fuel line to an oil furnace caused smoke and heat but no active fire was found.
Cecil Duvall age 50 of 23 South Broad Street is reported in satisfactory condition at Middletown Hospital after being pinned by a large earth mover last week. Duvall, a State Highway Department inspector, suffered a pelvis injury when the vehicle swung to avoid another employee and did not see him.
In MUNSAN Korea the Communists accused U.N. liaison officers of dropping propaganda leaflets inside the Panmunjom neutral zone on Saturday.
The bulletin records numerous births from area families including Estille Crase Walters Drake Hall McKay McGovern Martin Reynolds Elking Mosley O Neill and MacFarlane. Girls and boys are born Saturday Sunday and today at multiple addresses.
The list records patients admitted to or discharged from hospitals including names such as Anna Zurmahr Lyle Wells Shannon Pieratt Gladys Miller Ottalee Tolliver William Nixon Ronald Smith Paul Chamberlain Thomas Soard Fred Boehm Betty Johnson Madeline Moore Paul Lewing Ed Powers Stanifer Ruffing Mims Miller Judy Armbruster Carrigan Bolling Bailey Badger Dalton Dickerson Ellis Fisher Gaffin Gardner Haney Hassett Jarrells McGonigle Willoughby Woodrey and others from Flemington Middletown and surrounding areas with notes of medical or surgical status and out of town transfers.
A safe reported stolen from a Sharonville grocery was found in a Butler County field Saturday. The owner, J. G. Gilbert, said the safe was taken Friday night after the door was battered off. about $1,000 was missing. Clarence Carr of Princeton Pike discovered the discarded safe.
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