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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1963
Page
15
Roberts Brooks chief Maurice Saltzman shapes Robbie Brooks of Cleveland into a $75 million annual outfit maker. The firm runs a $1.5 million computer, uses 3,000 sewing machines, and ships to 6,600 stores with plants in 8 states and overseas licenses.
Middletown High School senior Jean Nardin will discuss her summer in Japan under the American Field Service at a Middletown Chapter event of the Cincinnati Council on World Affairs. She will show more than 300 photographs from her Tokyo and Kyushu experiences and describe life with Japanese host families.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce plans a Middletown area Junior Miss Pageant sponsored by Bobbie Brooks Inc. Entrants must be 16 to 19 and high school seniors. judging emphasizes scholarship, talent, poise and interviews. The winner goes to the Ohio Junior Miss in Dayton February 5 with the national winner crowned in March in Mobile, Alabama. Sponsors include Coca Cola and Eastman Kodak.
Three members of the Shelton family were admitted to Middletown Hospital after being overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from a blocked flu at their Logan Avenue residence. James Shelton 25, Marsha 24, and Jody Lynn 22 were listed in fair to satisfactory condition.
Robert Lee Gabbard 43 of Dayton pleaded guilty in U S District Court to possessing and passing a forged 1440 government check at a Belmont bar. Postal Inspector Rehling says he is one of two men named in the case. The other suspect, from Middletown, is held in Connersville Indiana. Gabbard once led the Dentallure Corp at Middletown and had prior Preble County sentences in 1960 for check charges. A pre sentence investigation was ordered by Federal Judge Carl A Weinman.
Delores Olinger 13 and Versa Whitt sustained injuries in separate morning crashes on Verity Parkway and Manchester Road. Olinger was checked at Middletown Hospital after a Verity Parkway collision with a Trans American Transportation rig driven by Thomas Lux of Yale Michigan. damage to the Olinger auto estimated at 1200 with no truck damage. Whitt drew a neck complaint after a three car pileup on Manchester Road involving Earl Whitt and Isom Stephens Jr.. total damage about 650. Additional mishaps on Main Street and Shaford Street caused varied damage and citations for drivers Center and Sheffield.
Butler County urges timely payment of second half 1962 taxes due Tuesday October 1 with a 10 percent penalty on late bills. Deputy treasurer John Stromquist says residents from Lemon and Madison townships and Middletown may pay at City Building ground floor 8 30 to 4 00 weekdays and 8 30 to noon Saturdays. Over 30 000 tax bills were mailed. those who did not receive one are still liable for penalties.
Deputies investigated two thefts reported yesterday in Butler County. John Hunt of Middletown Eaton Road said a transmission worth 250 dollars and a carburetor were stolen. Jack Wills of 1607 Jefferson Street reported four hubcaps valued at 15 dollars taken from his car parked at J and J Bowling Lanes on South Main Street.
City Commission began reviewing a long planned police division reorganization. The plan abolishes captains, upgrades lieutenants, adds two field supervisors and creates a two assistant chief setup with one to head technical services. Budget changes include 203 098 dollar increase and a fifth fire station.
Division chairmen in the YMCA drive must turn in 926 new and rental memberships for tonight's dinner report meeting to be a victory event. James Sexton presides at the final check up session, with William Csellak distributing awards to top producers. Louis J. Brown will present to the chairman with the highest percentage over goal in enrolments as the campaign for 2121 memberships began three weeks ago with 1195 memberships turned in after two nights.
The Midlletown-Butler County Unit of the American Cancer Society elected Bruce Thomas of Armco Steel Corp and William Schaefer, partner of Clark Heldman and Wood CPA, at a noon meeting at the Manchester Motor Inn. The Cancer Prevention Study continues with 33 local researchers and 684 area cases tracked over five years, with two more years planned. Christmas cards for delivery are available, contact Mrs. Earle Turvy or the ACS office on Tuesdays and Fridays.
City firefighters extinguished two field fires yesterday with no damage reported. The first blaze started at 3:49 p.m. at Central Avenue and Carmody Boulevard in a Diamond National Corp. field ignited by wood and sawdust. A second grass fire was put out at 5:35 p.m. at Michigan Avenue and Sycamore Street, believed caused by a lighted cigarette.
A man was injured when a car left the road and struck him while he sat on a guard rail. Joseph N. Hughes Jr. 38 and 305 Sutphin Sr. were examined at Middletown Hospital for leg and hip injuries. Driver Herman E. Land 36 of 302 Maple St. Trenton was backing up on Route 122 and cited for reckless operation.
Unofficial city registration nears 23 091 with 16 183 Middletown residents among new registrants and 209 transfers. County totals show 74 422 eligible voters as campaigns focus on Board of Education and City Commission contests along with a cigarette tax measure funding a Miami University Academic center.
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