Three Burned-Out Families "Adjust" As Help Pours In

Three Burned-Out Families "Adjust" As Help Pours In
December 29, 1953
December 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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Three somewhat-dazed Madison Township families are adjusting themselves to new living quarters this week. All three lost their homes in Christmas weekend fires that raged in the unprotected township. One has decided to live permanently with relatives, another is searching for a new apartment and the third is planning to rebuild. Meanwhile, contributions of money and clothing from sympathetic well-wishers have been trickling to the families. The exact value of the gifts has not yet been totaled, since accounting of their losses occupied the families' major time during a hectic weekend. Mr. and Mrs. James Oakley, who lost their uninsured $5,000 three-room home on Thursday afternoon, are now living with Mrs. Oakley’s father, Hershel McGraw on Brown’s Run road, next door to the rubble of the old home...
Three somewhat-dazed Madison Township families are adjusting themselves to new living quarters this week. All three lost their homes in Christmas weekend fires that raged in the unprotected township. One has decided to live permanently with relatives, another is searching for a new apartment and the third is planning to rebuild. Meanwhile, contributions of money and clothing from sympathetic well-wishers have been trickling to the families. The exact value of the gifts has not yet been totaled, since accounting of their losses occupied the families' major time during a hectic weekend. Mr. and Mrs. James Oakley, who lost their uninsured $5,000 three-room home on Thursday afternoon, are now living with Mrs. Oakley’s father, Hershel McGraw on Brown’s Run road, next door to the rubble of the old home...
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