Tough Readjustment - Middletown may be home but it’s not as quiet as North Korean Prison Camp No. 1. Pfc. Roland A. Hamilton, 1303 Woodlawn Ave., the city’s first returned POW, has slept very little since he arrived in Dayton's municipal airport Sunday morning. "There weren’t any television sets, machinery, radios or electric lights in prison camp. It was quiet," he said today. Last night the soldier came home from roller skating at Chautauqua about 2 a.m. He could only sleep until 6. Automobiles in the streets, railroad trains that sped over the track about 100 yards from his window, Armco's Fabricating plant across the street, and his two nephews, Donny, 5, and Rodney, 3, who raced through his apartment, all made sure that Rollo’s lids did not stay closed too long. But the city's noise is not the only thing to which Hamilton must adjust after 28 months as a prisoner of the Communists. "My old girl friends are married now" he said, pointing to a picture of one of them...

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