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Middletown Journal

Location

Middletown, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Sep 10, 1956

Page

3

Headway Seen Yet Paradise Still Distant Says Methodist Leaders

At the World Methodist Conference in Lake Junaluska North Carolina leaders from around the world say progress toward building a better world is real but slow. They cite gains in social justice and international aid alongside ongoing wars tyranny and nuclear risk.

George Cornell Lake Junaluska N.C Earth Christa Charan Pande Calcutta India Raymond George Leeds England Ernst Scholz Berlin Frank Smith Houston Tex Rev R. Ernest Ker Belfast Ireland

Deaths and funerals listed for multiple local residents

Obituaries notice of Ida M Berger and several other Hamilton Eaton area deaths with funeral times and burial places. Included are services for Charles L Murphy Audun Grimnes Jennie Misner Henry Adams Smith Clarence Bobbitt Ruth Miller and relatives and burial sites at Plainview Mound Hill and other local cemeteries.

Eric Hall Grimnes Audun Grimnes Eaton Ave Hamilton Webb Funeral Home Jennie Misner High St Henry Adams Smith Oxford Rt Marshall-Smith Funeral Home Clarence Bobbitt Oxford-Middletown Road Ruth S. Miller St. Petersburg Fla Proeschel

Mrs Anna Farnsworth 96 dies in Hamilton Ohio

Mrs Anna RK Farnsworth 96 of 241 Millville Ave Hamilton died at 115 yesterday at Valley View Rest Home after years of ill health. Widow of Amos Farnsworth who died in 1925 she was the last of 14 siblings and is survived by a daughter Mrs Harvey Abbott of Hamilton. Funeral services will be Wednesday at Webb Funeral Home with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may call after 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Hamilton Anna RK. Farnsworth Millville Ave Middletown Valley View Amos Farnsworth Butler County Farnsworth Harvey Abbott Webb Funeral Hove Greenwood Cemetery

Flora Eaton services held for 75 year old resident

Quincy A Flora aged 75 of 326 East Main Street died Saturday morning after a six month illness. Services were at Barnes Funeral Home with burial in Concord Cemetery Dixon Township. He was a retired farmer and member of the Congregational Christian Church. He resided in Eaton eleven years. Survived by wife Ethel daughter Mrs Hilda Christman of Eaton and sister Mrs Edith Beasley of New Madison.

EATON Quincy A. Flora E. Main St Barnes Concord Dixon Township Flora Congregational Christian Church Ethel Hilda Christman Edith Beasley New Madison

Notable Obituaries From Around the World

A string of obituary notices reports deaths of notable figures including Tokyo envoy Shunichi Kase age 59 and Princess Chikako Kuni age 76. Other obituaries list Thomas Phillips 69 of Westinghouse, Edwar Teneyck 77 rowing coach, Elsie Robinson 73 columnist, Peter Seward 78 FCC examiner, Lawrence White 68 architect, Freddie Rich 58 composer, and Jeanne Brola Harrison 85 opera singer.

Tokyo Chikako Kuni Japan Nageko Akihito Yoshi Ligonier Thomas Phillips Westinghouse Electric Corp London Idaho Falls Idaho Edwar Teneyck Syracuse Wisconsin Rutgers Peekskill Beverly Bills Calif Freddie Rich Poland Denver W Jeanne Brola Harrison

Lily of the Valley Chapter 55 Meeting Tonight

Colored News reports at 8 p.m. today the Lily of the Valley Chapter 55 will gather at the Trades and Labor Hall. The item notes a historical reference that Russia's Czar Peter once imposed a tax on beards.

Lily of the Valley CBS PHA Trades & Labor Hall Russia Peter

Geckeler Named By Arrow Order For 1956-57

Steve Geckeler will head the Order of the Arrow activities for the 1956 57 year at Camp Hook replacing Terry Webster in Nachenum Lodge New officers include Jim Berry George McDaniel Charles Birkholz and Charles Byers Berry named committee chairman to promote the Silver Moccasin Trail A trading post will operate at the council camporee October 12 14

Steve Geckeler Order of the Arrow Camp Hook Terry Webster Nachenum Lodge Jim Berry George McDaniel Charles Birkholz Charles Byers

Mayors Back DiSalle Support With Local Pledges

A committee named Mayors for Mike DiSalle announces backing from more than 200 Ohio mayors for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate. Eight local leaders from Thuriel Nagle Millville Charles Mee Somerville Harry Stretcher Trenton John J Corso Oxford Edward Beckett Hamilton Donald F E Moyer Germantown James D Templeton Lebanon and Francis Gerton Mason joined the push.

Mike Ohio Mike DiSalle DiSalle Thuriel Nagle Millville Charles Mee Somerville Harry Stretcher Trenton John J. Corso Oxford Edward Beckett Hamilton Donald FE. Moyer Germantown James D. Templeton Lebanon Francis Gerton Mason

Middletown City Manager Thompson to Speak at Civitan Noon

Civitan Club will host Middletown city manager Charles Thompson as noon speaker tomorrow. The program has been arranged by Paul Wells.

Charles Thompson Middletown Civitan Club Paul Wells

Eisenhower expands use of press conferences in campaign

President Eisenhower increasing the frequency of news conferences as the re election campaign begins. He held a live televised session at the Republican National Convention and followed with additional briefings, signaling a shift to a more open media strategy amid the 1954 political landscape. He also attended services at Penn State University in University Park for a chapel dedication to his late sister in law Helen Eakin Eisenhower.

Washington Eisenhower San Francisco White House James C. Hagerty Eisemmower Hagerty University Park Pennsylvania State University Helen Eakin Eisenhower

White Students Enroll at Negro School in Houston

Dr. Samuel Nabrit of Texas Southern University said several white students enrolled at the Negro school in Houston. He did not recall exact numbers and noted one withdrew after enrolling. Whites had applied for admission last year as the board opened integration for this fall.

Houston Tex.s Samuel Nabrit Texas Souther University Nabrit Texas Southern

Family Watches TV Boy Dies in Hidden House Fire

In Glendale California Clyde Allen Baker age 16 died in a rear house fire while his family watched television in the front house. He apparently suffocated before the flames spread to burn him as firemen fought the blaze alerted by a younger sister who found the fire at night.

Glendale Calif Clyde Allen Baker

Rotary Governor Curtis Holder to Visit Middletown Club

Rotary Governor Curtis W. Holder of Troy will make his annual visit to the Middletown Rotary Club tomorrow. He will attend the noon meeting at the Manchester Hotel and meet with officers directors and committee chairmen at 9 30 a m in the hotel's Colonial Room.

Rotary Club Curtis W. Holder of Troy Middletown Club Manchester Colonial Room

Balloon Over Decatur Sets Lofty Cosmic Flight Record

A large balloon hovered above Decatur Illinois yesterday then moved eastward toward Terre Haute Indiana. It appears to be the same craft launched in Minneapolis by University of Minnesota scientists. The balloon climbed to about 144000 feet breaking altitude records for such devices while researchers pursued cosmic ray and meteorology studies in the upper atmosphere.

Decatur Ill Terre Haute Ind Minneapolis University of Minnesota

Rupert Hughes dies prolific novelist and public figure

LA obituary notes Rupert Hughes dies at his brother Felix Hughes home after a long career as a novelist historian essayist poet and scriptwriter He uncle to Howard Hughes served in Mexican border service and WWI later a military censor He authored over 60 books and lived in retirement in Los Angeles burial planned at Forest Lawn with cremation no funeral per his wish

Los Angeles Rupert Hughes Felix Howard Hughes Hughes Lancaster George Washington Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale

New Pain Relief Cream Shrinks Hemorrhoids Without Surgery

Scientists announce a new healing substance Bio-Dyne found by a world famous research institute that shrinks piles and relieves pain without surgery. The ointment Preparation is now available at druggists with a money back guarantee. Reg. U. and Pat. Ort.

New York

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