Years Of Working, Waiting Result In Suitable Armory
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
May 17, 1953
May 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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Guardsmen Invite Public To View New Structure - When Company I, 147th Infantry, of the Ohio National Guard, was organized in 1924, the men were located in the long, narrow
office building by which the Oglesby-Barnitz Bank on Central Avenue and Main Street now stands. "We are probably the only company that ever drilled on a stair case," Henderson Estes, first commanding officer of the group, now recalls. Today at 3 p.m., the Middletown National Guard, which now contains three units, will dedicate its new, huge $250,000 armory at 2100 S. Main St. Planes from Wright-Patterson Field will fly over the city and offer the new building an air salute. W. W. Sebald, president of Armco Steel corporation, will be the featured speaker at the public ceremonies...
Guardsmen Invite Public To View New Structure - When Company I, 147th Infantry, of the Ohio National Guard, was organized in 1924, the men were located in the long, narrow
office building by which the Oglesby-Barnitz Bank on Central Avenue and Main Street now stands. "We are probably the only company that ever drilled on a stair case," Henderson Estes, first commanding officer of the group, now recalls. Today at 3 p.m., the Middletown National Guard, which now contains three units, will dedicate its new, huge $250,000 armory at 2100 S. Main St. Planes from Wright-Patterson Field will fly over the city and offer the new building an air salute. W. W. Sebald, president of Armco Steel corporation, will be the featured speaker at the public ceremonies...
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