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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1955
Page
3
The W. W. Sebald Self Reliance Awards program will be presented at Middletown High School during tomorrow morning's assembly. The Jaycee contacts sub-committee outlined the awards background, rating sheets, and slides showing the award story.
Five Chilean provinces were placed under a state of siege modified martial law as President Carlos Thanez's government said the powers were needed to confront subversive activities. The decision followed a six day strike at the Chuquicamata copper mine in Antofagasta province, owned by Anaconda Copper.
The Commerce Department reports Americans will spend about 11 billion dollars on travel abroad in 1955, aiming to beat the 1.358 billion record set last year. The Survey of Current Business notes rising outlays and expanding international travel as year progresses.
Estel Ellis 59 of Middletown died at 5 05 a m today at Middletown Hospital after working in Armco Steel Fabricating since 1933. Survived by wife Fletchi two brothers Glenn and Durette a sister Mrs Chester Basfard and parents Mr and Mrs Charles Ellis. Services Thursday 2 PM at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home with burial Woodside Cemetery. Call 2 5 and 7 10 PM tomorrow. Also noted is a memorial for 60 year old resident cremated at residence with ashes buried at Woodside, and Wright Patterson civil engineer Mr Lindquist funeral arrangements by McCoy Leffelt Funeral Home.
David T. Hurd 21 of New Lexington died from multiple injuries after his flatbed truck was hit broadside by a train at the Decatur Street crossing in Eaton. The locomotive dragged the cab over 800 feet before breaking loose. The train, traveling 35 mph, delayed 15 minutes on its Cincinnati to Richmond run. Hurd’s widow Pearl and siblings survive. The body was taken to Barnes Funeral Home.
Formosa reports a population of 8,749,000, an increase of 2,658,691 people during the past eight years, reflecting substantial growth.
Jewell Mayabb 48 of Dayton died of a heart attack while visiting West Liberty Kentucky. He is survived by his wife three children his father and three brothers and three sisters. Arrangements are incomplete.
William Grund husband and brother of Hy Grund of Middletown died at 3 a.m. Monday at his Des Moines home. Survived by wife a son and three brothers all of Des Moines. Arrangements for services are not known at present.
Dr. Azel Ames 51 Hamilton physician died Saturday at Mercy Hospital after a heart attack. Services at Episcopal Church at 2 30 p m today. Burial at Spring Grove Cemetery Cincinnati. Native of Wellesley Hills Mass a graduate of New York School of Physicians and Surgeons began practice in 1938. He was resident surgeon at Cincinnati General Hospital in 1936 and professor of surgery at the University of Iowa in 1937 and 1938. He was active in medical and civic circles in Hamilton and Butler County.
Mrs Dorothy Morgan 47 died yesterday at home from a stroke on North Lane. Services set for 3 p.m. Friday at Oswald Funeral Home with burial in Lebanon Cemetery. Survived by four sons Richard Fred Ralph all of Lebanon and Howard in the U S Army in Germany. three sisters Mrs Ida Mae Faulkner Nyak NY Mrs Ada Honaker Dayston and Mrs Anna Kimberlin of Lebanon.
In Lebanon, two brothers, Robert and Alonzo Morgan, are named in a report from the Lebanon area. The text identifies their connection to local events involving the Morgan family.
Services for 17 year old Fairfield High School student Larry D Koopman will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Zettler Funeral Home. Butler County coroner Dr Garret J Boone attributed the death to alcoholic poisoning.
The injured junior was the son of Mr and Mrs Harold Koopman of 5916 Crestview Ave Fairfield. He succumbed Sunday following an investigation and related medical treatment at the local hospital.
SAN RAFAEL Calif Dr Ber tram V A Low Beer 54 internationally known University of California Medical School professor and former head of Czechoslovakia radiology department died Sun.
FR TM EPORT New York Homer Strickler 41 news services manager for American Airlines and former World War II foreign correspondent for the New York Sun died yesterday. Born in South Bend Indiana. CHICAGO Carroll F Sweet 78 founder of Park Forest Chicago suburb and former director of priorities for the Chicago regional office of the National Housing Agency during World War II and a former Grand Rapids banker died yesterday.
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