City workers reject blanket three percent raise plan
City employees in three departments formally reject the three per cent salary increase offered by City Manager Howard H. Kramer. Police and fire crews say the percentage raise is unfair to lower paid workers, preferring an equal, cost-of-living raise spread among all staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard H. Kramer
City Commission
Police Personnel Committee
Fire Department
Police Department
Starick
Korea
Kramer
Freed POW Reaches Home After Release from Red Prison Camp
Charles Riddell Jr a 21 year old sergeant freed from a 33 month Red prison camp reached Travis Air Force Base California at midnight and expected to be in Dayton today His parents Mr and Mrs Charles Riddell of Germantown Route 1 received a call confirming his safe landing He plans to stay in a Dayton hospital but hopes to visit his family tonight and says he feels better and more like himself than when first contacted from Japan weeks ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Korea
Charles Riddell
Germantown
Charles, Jr
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Dayton
Riddell
Japan
Air Force
Police Committee Backs Equal Raises and Pay Reforms
The police committee concluded that raises should be equal for all rather than percentage based. They also plan to pursue differential pay for night shifts and to speed the schedule so four patrolmen reach top pay in two years instead of three. Pay reform ranked first in importance.
At The Movies Showtimes Featured At Paramount And Strand
Paramount presents I Love Melvin It Remains To Be Seen Big Leaguer Band Wagon with showings Saturday and Sunday. Strand screens One Girl s Confession Problem Girl Arctic Flight Jack McCall Desperado across weekend times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin
Jack McCall
Warren Fair Ends With Prize Beef and Parade Triumph
Warren County fair closes after free acts and five harness races. Rain cooled crowds after a mile parade of floats livestock and machinery. Grand prize 50 dollars went to the Warren County Pomona Grange for the second year. The grand champion Angus sold for 86 cents a pound in the baby beef sale. Scholl’s 969 pound steer bought by Coyle Packing. Additional top-sellings included steer prices around 44 to 30 cents and numerous 4 H and breeding winners across Hampshire Duroc Yorkships and Jersey classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebanon
Warren County
Pomona Grange
Court of
Pomona
Franklin
David Scholl
Scholl
Coyle Packing
Waynesville
Kroger
Charles Smith
Break-Ins and Thefts Total $700 In Local Area
Six break-ins were reported across the city with more than $700 in value taken from sixteenth Avenue homes and the Parkay Service Mart. Crooks pried desks, rummaged rooms, and left odd clues including a toy gun, a penny bank, and intact items like drinks and peanuts. Detectives labeled the suspect as youths, with several residences ransacked and windows pried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixteenth Avenue
Herbert Frazier
Parkway Service Mart
South Verity
Clyde A. Grevey
John Fitzgerald
Roy Crout
Robert Slough
Sixteenth
Glen Luckner
Sixteenth Ave
Luckner
Willis Daniel
Auxiliary To Purchase Bone Set For Hospital
Welfare Auxiliary to Middle town Hospital authorized a $900 purchase of bone instruments for the orthopedic department. The set was recommended by Logan T. Johnston Dr John Perkins Miss Anne Middlemiss and William Bohman. Mrs J D Sawyer announced appointment of Mrs Richard Siegel as card party chair and three new members Mrs F Winslow Mrs J Harkrader and Mrs S Watkins were welcomed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown Hospital
J. D. Sawyer
Board of Trustees
Logan T. Johnston
John Perkins
Anne Middlemiss
William Bohman
Sawyer
Richard Siegel
Manchester
Fred Winslow
John Harkrader
Stanley Watkins
Ore trains halted at Excello crossing decision by PUCO
Butler County Commissioners were updated on the Ohio Public Utilities Commission ruling that B and O trains need not stop at the Excello Route 4 crossing. The order allows flagging only for Armco steel molten metal trains, with a 30 day educational program for drivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler County
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
B&o Railroad
Excello Crossing
Route 4
PUCO
State Commission
B&o
Utilities Commission
Armco Steel Corp
Art Reiff
Armco
Turkeys and a Wristwatch Among Delayed Home Thefts
A turkey disappeared from Elm Street resident Mrs. Robert Mettler's refrigerator after she left home briefly. Three teenage girls reported entering John Presta's Brown Street home during absence, finding the TV and lights on. Delayed thefts included Elva McNabb's wristwatch worth 80 dollars and Mrs Joe Blackburn's car theft of 100 morphine tablets and two medicine bottles valued at about 4.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Countryman
Sixteenth Ave
Robert Mettler
Elm Street
John Presta
Brown St
Presta
Elva McNabb
Yankee Rd
Joe Blackburn
Forrest Ave
West Central Avenue
Blackburn
Mother and Children Left Homeless by Franklin Fire
A second fire in three days caused by a faulty kerosene stove left Mrs. Elizabeth Robertson and her three children Perry Lee 13 Roy Edward 11 Vernon Donald 7 without a home or possessions. The frame dwelling on Penny Royal Road Franklin Route 2 was destroyed with $5 000 damage as Franklin firemen arrived after the roof collapsed. The Salvation Army pledged aid. Prior night the Taulbee family in Bean Hollow South Excello also lost their home to a stove fire.
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Franklin
Middletown
Elizabeth Robertson
Penny Royal Road
Franklin Route 2
Perry Lee
Roy Edward
Vernon Donald
Edgar Farmer
William Prescott
Salvation Army
Taulbee
Bean Hollow
South Excello
Man Wanders Tracks in Uneasy Morning Heat
Police responded at 7:13 a.m. to a report near Woodlawn Avenue and Curtis Street. A man was found walking along railroad tracks without pants. relatives agreed to take him home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esse
Woodlawn Avenue
Curtis Street
Stormy Weather Sparks Series of Auto Accidents Damaging Numerous Cars
Heavy rains cooled the heat but triggered a string of accidents across the city. No injuries were reported though damage exceeded $500 in a Baltimore Street crash involving George Douglas and Homer Wells. Other collisions at Charles and Henry, Garfield and York, and multiple parked-car impacts produced lesser damages.
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Baltimore St
George Douglas
Trenton
Baltimore
Homer Wells
North Broad St
Douglas
Arthur Roberts
Lloyd Wells
Charles Street
Henry Avenue
Stanley Holloway
Auburn St
Vernon R. McKinley
Jewell St
John C. Trammell
Garfield St
Garfield and
York Avenue
Albert Post
Middletown
Route 1
Lafayette Avenue
Osborne fined for license falsification and violations
Municipal Court Judge Alton H. Combs sentenced William Lawrence Osborne to 90 days in the Cincinnati Workhouse and fined 150 dollars plus costs after arraignment on charges of falsifying a driver’s license and allowing an unlicensed driver to operate a vehicle. The case stemmed from a crash involving a 15 year old girl driving his car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lawrence Osborne
Taylor Ave
Cincinnati
Alton H. Combs
Osborne
National JA Conference installs new officers and awards
The 10th annual Junior Achievement Conference in Manchester Hotel ends with 550 attendees. Roger Alvey, 17, of Bridgeport becomes president, succeeding Dick Hagens. Other officers Richard Freeman and Mary Pat Tyrrell are named. Top speakers were Margaret Van Leuven and Mary Manning. John Uhle wins president of the year. A plaque honors Middletown Industrial Council for tours and J A Lawler receives a signed picture.
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Manchester
Roger Alvey
Bridgeport
Mass
John Witt
Milwaukee
Wis
Mary Pat Tyrrell
Pittsburgh
Jeanine Johnson
West Point
Margaret van Leuven
Chicago
Mary Manning
New Bedford
Witt
John Uhle
Cleveland
John Queen
Columbia Machinery & Engineering Co
Hamilton
Miss Johnson
Hagens
Newia
Middletown Industrial Council
Middletown
J. A
Carrier Boys Will Be Cited For Fire Call
Two Middletown newspaper carriers Emmett Jenkins and Rodger Pyle spotted smoke from 244 Crawford St early Thursday turned in an alarm at 3 18 am saving Mrs Pauline Heizer 32 from a two story frame building Firemen rescued the occupant The Safety Council will cite the youths at its Tuesday meeting and discuss a traffic courtesy committee under the Traffic Bureau in the Civic Association library at 4 pm
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Middletown Safety Council
Board of Control
Emmett Jenkins
Franklin St
Rodger Pyle
Cleveland St
Crawford St
Pauline Heizer
Civic Association
Council
Auto valued at 3248 stolen from Hamilton Auto Sales
Police reported a new auto valued at 3248 stolen Thursday night from 437 High Street Hamilton Auto Sales. The incident was disclosed yesterday by authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Hamilton Auto Sales
High St
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