[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 204 (Tuesday, December 19, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2392]
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 TRIBUTE TO JIM MILLS'S 40 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE MIDDLETOWN COMMUNITY

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                          HON. JOHN A. BOEHNER

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, December 18, 1995

  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, for 40 years, Jim Mills has served the 
Middletown area through his local reporting and editorial writing at 
the Middletown Journal. Jim began his career at the Journal in 1955 
starting off as a reporter covering local government. In 1957, he was 
appointed Sunday editor and moved to city editor in 1960. From 1972 
until 1981 Jim was the managing editor of the paper. Ultimately, in 
1981, he headed the newsroom and retained the title managing editor.
  Jim and Middletown, OH, have seen many important news stories over 
the last four decades. Some of the local highlights include the growth 
and restructuring of Armco to its present organization as AK Steel, 
creation of the City Centre Mall and redevelopment of the downtown 
area, state championships for area high schools, and the change 
Middletown and its business community have undergone.
  Jim and the Middletown Journal staff were always conscientious to 
bring the local angle to national news items ranging from the John F. 
Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy assassinations, the 
Vietnam War, the Iranian hostage crisis, Desert Storm, and the 
explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
  Jim has received several awards for his dedication and continuous 
service. Among them are an award from the Associated Press Society of 
Ohio for exemplary service to news-gathering business and his 
assistance to the Xenia Daily Gazette publish and report the news when 
its offices were destroyed in a 1974 tornado. For coverage of the 
devastation the Gazette won a Pulitzer Prize.
  During the past four decades, Jim has worked with hundreds of 
reporters and local officials. The join me in saluting Jim for his work 
and wishing him the best in his retirement.

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