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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1960
Page
7
In Ashland County Common Pleas Court a divorce awarded Mrs Louis H Heitzman all property. The decree lists a property settlement excluding a hand grinder, winter clothing, a shelf for a husband’s fridge, and one chicken crate.
Paris AP reports NATO's permanent council broadens European air defense under Gen Lauris Norstad to satisfy De Gaulle by placing French air units in West Germany and near the border under his command while France maintains major self control. The plan adds ground to air weapons and radar coverage.
News notes several service members: Herman Looney a fire control technician in the USN stationed at Newport Rhode Island. Dewayne Lawson promoted to Spec 4 in Germany with the 24th Infantry Division in Munich. Danford Dennis involved in Exercise Light Foot at Grafenwohr with the 8th Division’s 26th Infantry. Donald Sorrell on leave from Camp McCoy after qualifying as expert rifleman with the 586th Signal Company. all are linked to families in Middletown Union Township and surrounding areas.
Police learned thieves struck the Hilgeford Rowe agency at 350 N Verity Pkwy yesterday. Jim Morrissey reported a spare wheel was stolen from a 1961 Dodge pickup on Monday night and from a 1960 Dodge truck. Loss set at 70 dollars. Last weekend the thieves stripped a 1961 Imperial of all four wheels tires and hubcaps, causing about 45 dollars in body damage.
Five suits and two topcoats were stolen from Falls Cleaners at 301 N Clinton St after a Monday night break-in. No money was taken. A separate theft at Mose Service Station 705 W Ninth Ave yielded nothing, police said.
In Dayton Ohio the Frigidaire Division of General Motors reports an uptick in sales allowing a recall of 525 employees. Vice President Herman F Lehman noted the firm had previously announced a recall of 350 workers.
Leopoldville Congo AP Col Joseph Mobutu dispatched 26 aides into the city to invite political leaders to a roundtable conference aiming to end weeks of government chaos. He plans stops in Elisabethville to win Moise Tshombe s agreement and may go himself if talks fail. The move has Premier-designate Joseph Teo s backing. Lumumba refuses to concede and remains in his residence.
In Vientiane authorities said premier Souvanna Phouma’s government and the royalist rival committee agreed to peace talks to end the 17 day civil conflict. Gen Phoumi Nosavan and Prince Boun Oum led envoys to Luang Prabang, as King Savang Vathana had urged a week earlier after the Pak sane clash northeast of Vientiane.
Premier Gaston Eyskens outlined a government program in Brussels including new taxes totaling 120 million and expenditure cuts of 200 million to address Belgium's economic setbacks following Congo’s independence.
The Rev William H Knoderer will be speaker at a fellowship program Thursday at 730 PM at Zion Lutheran Church 4309 Central Ave Topic Because We Care will be the view of the Oesterlen Home for Children Springfield director of public relations He will outline latest activities and future plans Color slides will be shown He formerly served at Zion Lutheran Church Portland Ind and has ties to Good Shepherd Church Indianapolis and Wittenberg College Springfield with a 1950 divinity degree from Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary and Ohio State University background
An 83 year old Wayne County man Moses S Troyer was killed Tuesday when he walked into the path of a car on a county road three miles east of Wooster. The driver was not charged, according to the Highway Patrol.
Soviet medical specialists conduct exhaustive tests on a single prospective space traveler, Timakov says the training spans about a month. The candidate, a jet pilot of compact build, is framed as ready for an imminent manned flight, amid Pacific and Atlantic radar ship deployments fueling space project speculation.
ANN ARBOR Michigan AP FBI agents wait for Percy F Lynes 31 of Springfield Ohio to recover from a serious injury after being run over while napping on U S 112 near Ann Arbor He faces extradition to Indiana for armed robbery kidnapping and bar theft linked to a Sept 2 gas station robbery in Jeffersonville with two accomplices captured in Louisville Kentucky.
Three young boys died in Toledo area hospitals from injuries after being struck by vehicles. Vincent Garcia, 6, and his brother Juan, 5, were hit by a car near their home in Holland. Daniel Harper, 5, ran into the side of a truck on Ohio 295 at Swanton.
In Warren Ohio two year old David Hyndman fell from a tractor seat while his mother rode nearby in a field near their Gustavus Two home. The rear wheel ran over his head, killing him.
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