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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1959
Page
5
Middletown records a strong eight months in 1959 with peak industrial employment near 15,000 and building valuations at a nine-year high. Bank debits and deposits exceed prior periods, and prepaid Ohio sales tax receipts approach record levels despite auto sales adjustments.
Roger Babson argues a partial gravity insulator could dominate future warfare and aviation. He suggests research abroad, cites Copenhagen and the Bohr Institute, and predicts gravity harnessing via sun power or natural rays, also advising land bets near cities for cheap acreage. He warns against outside power schemes and promotes cautious, informed purchases.
A fragment suggests that if a partial gravity in sulator is discovered someday, it could trigger a significant rise in the price of all vacant land. The note hints at future economic impact but lacks concrete details or named entities.
Armco Steel Corp completed its first company-wide corporate orientation program for sales trainees. Executive vice president Logan T. Johnston said the two week course aimed to give trainees from all divisions broad knowledge of the corporation and foster a corporate consciousness in dealings with customers. Forty one trainees attended, including Middletown participants Richard C. Ten Eyck Ronald L. Keim John T. Kropf and Charles Hoover from Armco Division Al Schell of Armco Drainage & Metal Products Inc James B Golley Theodore C. Rogers and James S. Kilgore of Armco International Corp and others from National Supply Co and the Shefield Division.
Boston Hillview Country Club complained to radio host Joy Hyder about skindivers snatching golf balls from ponds at night. WEZE asked for ideas to stop them and the first solution suggested was to buy surplus explosives from the Boston Navy Yard and mine the ponds.
In Turin FIAT stands as a billion dollar industrial giant with global customers, producing from dams to fighter jets. Chairman Vit jtorio Valletta leads a anti Communist stance, boasting no strikes in four years as production doubles since 1951. The plant expansion includes ships, rails, and NATO jet work, with IMPRESIT project and Kariba dam nearing completion shaping a vast development drive.
FIAT operates a spread of 20 factories mainly in Turin covering 6800 acres. It employs 77,000 people with families totaling about 300,000, supporting roughly half of Turin's 850,000 population. Average wages run around 70,000 lire per month 115 dollars, with bonus payments adding 35,000 lire yearly. total FIAT expenditure exceeds four million dollars.
In 1920 the Valletta vessel was summoned to Fiat by founder and senator Giovanni Agnelli, identified as a leading figure of the company.
A Detroit firm pioneered lightweight pressed steel bathtubs about 25 years ago and Ford enameling iron from Armco creates durable porcelain enameled finishes. The steel tubs are lighter, cheaper, and resistant to acids and chips, with sales growing as Americans choose color variants. In 1958 over 500000 Americans bought them for homes.
P F Johnson Middletown Ohio state Employment Service reports August shows 169 unfilled orders at month end. Job orders rose 36 percent from July with 338 placements, 121 women, factory jobs leading, unemployment claims up to 352 from 271 due to plant vacations and model changes.
The actual number of claimants was down, averaging 341 per week in August, seven per cent less than July. Unfilled openings remain in civil, mechanical and aeronautical engineering, draftsmen, insurance sales, machinists and machine tool operators, electricians, auto and truck mechanics, stenographers, waitresses and kitchen helpers, and machine pressers.
Braun Brothers Packing Co of Troy Ohio creates an advertising and promotion unit headed by Jack Meyers ex agency exec Meyers brings promotional experience from Cincinnati baseball club and Hobart Arena Troy The Mitchell Steel Co Cincinnati reorganizes naming Augustus L Ervin Jr president treasurer The board includes W W Sebald former Armco president Dorothy Dix Elizabeth M Gilmer started the Lovelorn advice column in 1890 and many papers now feature similar personal problem guidance.
Detroit reports that public schools will spend about 50 million dollars this year teaching teens to drive. Enrollment approaches 114 million students across voluntary courses with credit often not awarded. Michigan, Connecticut and Maine push compulsory training. Michigan’s 3 hours classroom and 6 behind the wheel are free to students.
The Hamilton Middletown Section of the American Society for Quality Control will host its September meeting at the Dallas Restaurant on Wednesday at 6 30 p m. John Gower of Dayton will headline as the main speaker. Gower, a Carnegie Tech industrial engineering and University of Cincinnati law graduate, is a senior ASQC member and lawyer. He belongs to several professional groups and will discuss legal aspects of quality. A coffee talk by Detective Elmer Robish of the Cincinnati Police Department on narcotics will also be on the program.
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