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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1948
Page
5
U S Children’s Bureau chief Katharine Lenroot notes 3 26 million kindergartners face large classes, crowded schools, and war-era stresses. Most children adapt well thanks to parental love, but a minority show emotional disturbance needing support from teachers and communities.
The article notes that wood submerged in water may persist for centuries unless degraded by shipworms and marine organisms, challenging assumptions about rapid decay in submerged timber.
In La Grande Oregon a courtesy program by the Chamber of Commerce gives a nickel to each driver instead of a ticket. Drivers drop the nickel into a courtesy envelope with returns of coins averaging far more, boosting the fund from 25 dollars to 28.66 in one month.
Ohio leads in five month school construction contracts with 12.1 million dollars, four times last year, as nationwide school and highway awards rise. California, New York, Texas top early lists. Ohio, Illinois, Washington exceed 12 million. Public construction in Ohio totals 45.4 million, up from 28.3 million a year earlier.
Ohio cities must spend about 266.146 million dollars to meet Public Health Service sanitation standards within ten years. The Sanitary Engineering Division’s 1945-47 survey sets Ohio sewerage needs at 147.882 million and water facilities at 118.264 million. From 1946 to 1948 Ohio awarded 16.601 million in sewerage contracts and 22.902 million in water works contracts, both above national averages.
Dayton factory fire teams won the Ohio intercity brigade contest held in Columbus on Saturday. The Dayton squad scored 7% to top Hamilton with 38 and Springfield at 20, with teams tested on hose work and hand extinguishers to supplement city protection.
Executor Elliott Levey sells real estate in Butler County Ohio on October day 1948. The 95 acre farm near Monroe includes multiple parcels with dwellings and 87 88 89 village lots appraised at twenty five thousand dollars for the farm and three hundred dollars per village lot. Cash terms and contact details at Middletown Ohio bank building.
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