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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1951
Page
9
Middletown fire companies answered six alarms early yesterday and today with three grass fires, two automobile blazes, and one false alarm. Fire Chief William Fishbaugh warned grass fires peak in fall due to careless bonfires and matches, despite light rain.
Sherman elementary principal Walter Geckeler will attend a three day conference at Miami University from September 7 to 9 to discuss expanded teacher community service with Ohio local education association leaders. About 140 attendees are expected for the September event, one of two held in the state that month.
Two Middletonians recovering at home after an automobile truck crash near Dayton. Lonnie Gibson of Manchester Ave was discharged two weeks ago and his wife returned home Sunday from St Elizabeth Hospital in Dayton.
In Cleveland Ohio Mrs M Abate of 1942 E 79th St reports losing 29 pounds and her husband 25 pounds over four weeks using Rennel diet pills. The ad promotes Ren nel liquid mixed with grapefruit juice taken twice daily with a money back guarantee.
Vital Statistics report five births with parents and addresses. A Mulligan girl at 503 Highview Rd. a Kiser girl at 110 Webster St. a North cutt boy from Germantown Route 1 a Higgins girl at 217 Park St. a Thompson boy at 2006 Pearl St. a Watson boy at 2017 Woodside Ave.
A compiled list notes patients at The Hospital with origins from North Sutphin Street to Miamisburg and beyond. It includes Adams surgical and medical cases such as Isaac Franklin and Barbara Campbell, plus out of town entries and a dismissal for Lawrence Osborne of Trenton Route 1.
Oscar the young bull elephant sent by Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihanouk Varmin to President Truman collapsed and died as the ship carrying it, the steel surveyor, docked at Capetown. The animal, a goodwill gift after Cambodia’s minister to Washington was accredited, was to be buried at sea later today after the ship sailed.
Wilbur Shaw, president of the Indianapolis Speedway, was presented a telegram signed by 10 000 hometown admirers as he recovers from a heart attack suffered at the All American Soap Box Derby on August 12. He is expected to be released from the hospital this week.
Mr and Mrs Rader Brown of Navaho Street and Mrs Norman Dole of Sixteenth Avenue Dayton are mentioned in a brief item. The text notes Grandview Hospital and includes a fact about ordinary water softening hair and not altering molecular arrangement, unlike permanent waving solutions.
Dr. Peter Schlumbohm, a prolific inventor with about 800 patents, demonstrates a bladeless fan using porous paper disks on a shaft to circulate air from the side. He envisions it as a cheap, safe air conditioner alternative and plans to supply disks and shaft while motorized units are sourced separately.
A rock off Martinique in the West Indies, named Rock Island Rock, was listed in the English admiralty book as a man-of-war. During England's 1803 war with France, guns were mounted on the rock and it appeared in several naval battles.
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