Middletown YMCA drive tops quota while Hamilton wins trophy
Middletown YMCA surpasses its 1,500 member goal with 1,681 members, a 12 percent overage, while Hamilton reports 1,762 new members for a 125 percent score. Grand and division prizes awarded. Ray W. Young lauds all teams and Elmer Barker presents top honors to leaders.
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YMCA
Hamilton
Nsnge
Hamilton McA
Black-Clawson Company
Frephy
Ray W. Young
Young
Ivision
Armco
Edgar Westfall
Robert Hayden
P. F. Johnson
John Burdsall
Robert Mayden
Elmer Barker
Hayden
George Kuehnle
Middletown
Journal
Non-Partisan Toastmasters Talk at Gardner Meeting
Gerald Miller and John Brannon led a non partisan Toastmasters evening in the Gardner conference room. Miller warned elections can hinge on a few votes and urged voting on November 4. Brannon presented Grade Your Candidate, showing a survey of traits the public seeks in a president.
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Gerald Miller
John Brannon
Toastmasters Club
Gardner
Miller
Brannon
Arthur Osborn
John Kauffman
Robert McConaughy
Ernie Raines
Frank Ivine
Will Pigtlig
Spike Flies Like Bullet Pierces Coach in Freak Accident
Roosevelt Junior High physical education director Ralph Rettig was struck by a six inch spike while marking a football field. A student’s foot slipped releasing the spike which flew like a bullet, piercing four inches into Rettig’s left calf. He was hospitalized for tetanus shots and returned to duties the next day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Rettig
Roosevelt Junior High
Rettig
Roosevelt
City to study effects of shorter work week on budget
City Manager H W Starick said a factual report will outline how reduced police and fire hours would affect the budget and services. Firemen seek 36 hour weeks and police seek 40 hour weeks, with petitions approved to place the issues before voters this fall.
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H. W. Starick
Board of Election
Starick to Attend Kansas City Parley
City manager H. W. Starick will be away for two weeks. He will attend the city manager conference in Kansas City during the first week and take a vacation then. Francis Carmody, chairman of the Commission, will handle pressing matters in his absence.
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H. W. Starick
Kansas City
Naaes
Starick
Francis Carmody
Armco Foremen Hear Cincinnati Industrialist at Dinner
J P Field vice president of Williamson Heater Company Cincinnati addressed Armco Fabricating Division Foremen at a Hotel Manchester dinner. He urged foremen to understand company policies and objectives during management recognition night with guests and speeches.
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J.P. Field
Williamson Heater Company
Cincinnati
Armco
Hotel
Manchester
Foreman
Charles R. Hook
L. F. Reinartz
C. O. Kane
Ralph Wright
Dave Tranter
Robert Wall
Last Ear
Iock
Marion Kershner
National Association of Foremen
James Ferguson
Adrian Smallwood
Weather Forecast Sees Cooler Temperatures This Weekend
A cooler air mass moves into the area tonight and Saturday with overnight lows in the low 40s. Temperatures reached 66 by 10:27 a.m. today and were forecast to climb to 75. Yesterday tied a high of 77 at 5 p.m. and a low of 44 at 7 a.m.
Middletown Sets Registration Record with 18 593 Voters
Deputy Clerk Frank Dobrozsi cites record registration in Middletown as 18 393 with a prediction miss of seven from an 18 400 target. County and Lemon Township show sharp gains. transfers and moves push eligibility up for November voting in Butler County Ohio with expected record turnout.
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Dobrozsi
Frank Dobrozsi
Middletown
Imary
Lemon Township
Butler County
Ohio
Butler County Voter Register Totals 75 937
Butler County election officials released a registered voter total of 75 937 while still counting. A prior weighted estimate of 75 176 had overestimated by 761, and the board planned further division of Hamilton and rural registrations as counting continued. Combined figure 57 613.
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Butler County
County Board of Elections
Board of Elections
Hamilton
Kendrick to Head Middletown Hi Y Councils
Thursday night Talt Kendrick was elected to lead the Hi Y Council at Middletown High School. Charles Feledy was named vice president and Tom Dillman secretary. A record dance for seniors and juniors was planned in the YMCA gym after Libbey Middies football game, with the center open until midnight.
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Talt Kendrick
Middletown High School
Charles Feledy
Tom Dillman
YMCA
Libbey - Middies
Scout Leaders Series Opens With First Training Class
The Builders Area Council of Boy Scouts began a six week program for Cub Scout Boy Scout and Explorer leaders. The first class drew fewer volunteers than expected at Thursday’s Civic Association session led by Scout executive Earl McVey. Subsequent sessions are set for next Thursday and four more Thursdays at Camp Hook and Civic Association offices.
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Cub Scout
Boy Scout
Explorer Builders Area Council of
Boy Scouts
The
Civic Association
Earl McVey
Camp Hook
Council
Civitan Wins Quiz in Safety Dramatization Week Quiz
Six Civitan Club members edged a Middletown Jaycees team by one point to win the third and final Safety Quiz broadcast Thursday night. The Civitans topped the Jaycees 29 to 28 in a half hour program promoting safety information for Middletown residents.
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Middletown Civitan Club
Middletown Junior Chamber of Commerce
The
Civitans
Jay‘cees
Middletown
Cpl. James Richardson Dies In Korean Action
Corpral James Norval Richardson 21 of Middletown West Middletown died in Korea serving with the Second Infantry Division. An Elk Creek Grange and 4H Club member he was a Middletown High School graduate class of 1949. He enlisted April 1951 and embarked from Seattle in April this year. He is survived by parents five brothers two sisters and grandmother. He would have turned 22 October 8.
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Middletown
Cpl
James Norval Richardson
Korea
Far East
Ermon Richardson
Eck Road
West Middletown
William E. Bergen
Washington
Corporal Richardson
9Th
Indiantown Gap
Seattle
Elk Creek Grange
Richardson
Neal
Jacksonburg
Ronald
Trenton
Floyd
Marvin
Loran
Harold
Edna
Phylis
Elizabeth Logsdon
Hamilton
Middletonian
Robert Minch
Minch
Middle Gym To Be Named For Miller
The Middletown Board of Education approved naming the new gymnasium at Middletown Senior High School in honor of Wade E. Miller. Miller began as principal in 1917 and became superintendent in 1944, now entering his thirty sixth year in the district. The new high school gym is near completion with floor installation underway.
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Iddletown
Middletown
Wade E. Miller
Board of Education
MHS Stadium
Miller
At The Movies Friday and Saturday Showings
Paramount screens Scarlet Angel at 1 15 4 15 7 25 and 10 35 p m Ivory Hunters at 2 40 5 45 and 8 55 p m Strand presents Wild Horse Ambush at 1 15 3 50 6 30 and 9 05 p m Sea Tiger at 2 25 5 00 7 40 and 10 15 p m Saturday Sea Tiger at 1 15 4 20 7 25 and 10 20 p m Wild Horse Ambush at 3 10 6 15 and 9 20 p m
Middletown Committee Receives 80 Constitutions Replies
About 80 replies have come in from the first batch of 12 500 letters mailed by the Middletown Committee to Protect the Ohio Constitution. Chairman Elliott Levey says hundreds more remain to be mailed as the group urges a no vote on a state constitutional convention. Also noted is an estimate that baseball spikes contain seven to eight tons of steel in total weight.
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Middletown Committee To Protect the
Elliott Levey
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