Library recovers 291 long‑lost books during no‑fines week
The Public Library returned 291 long‑lost books from its shelves plus assorted items from Lemon‑Monroe High and St. Stephen's School. Notable reads include Over the Rockies With Air Mail and a General Chemistry division book. Oldest returns dated back to 1945.
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Public Library
Lemon-Monroe High School
St. Stephen's School
Rockies
Middletown High School Library
Division of General Chemistry
Middletown Aviation Club Aims Big Role In Charity Air Show
The Middletown Aviation Club formed in 1940 prepares for a large charity air show at Municipal Airport on Sunday April 29 coordinated with the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Members organize displays from Wright Patterson vans, antique aircraft, and several experimental planes while handling ground logistics, admissions, and a free fall jump before 1 PM. The event features Navy Blue Angels and National Air Shows acrobatics plus local bands and flying displays throughout the day.
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Middletown
Municipal Airport
Aviation Club
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Carmody Boulevard
Middletown Aero- Modelers
Armco
Lemon-Monroe ‘High School
National Air Shows
Navy
Jewish Passover Starts At Sundown
The Passover festival begins at sundown and is known as the Festival of Freedom and the Festival of Matzoth. The Seder is the main observance for Temple Beth Sholom members with Friday services by Rabbi Harry A. Roth and memorial type services on April 26.
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Temple Beth Sholom
Harrry A. Reth
Roth
Beating Suspects Found Guilty in Municipal Court
Mrs Fay Reed of 400 Park St was found guilty of assault and battery for beating and burning Dora Taulbee 18 at 6 30 p m Monday with Kidd and Judy Reed. Reed fined 100 plus costs and 60 day jail. Kidd fined 56 and 60 day sentence. cases sent to probation for medical payments and restitution. Taulbee said she was abducted from a car on Myers Road and Morningstar Road by Kidd and associates who demanded information about Reed's husband.
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Fay Reed
Park St
Dora Taulbee
Navaho St
David Kidd
Kidd
Myers Road
Peasttown Heights
Miss Taulbee
Sheriff's Deputies
Judy
Mrs. Reed
Morningstar Road
Community Good Friday services in Trenton churches
A Good Friday service schedule lists 1 to 3 p.m. at Nazarene Church with ministers from Mennonite, Nazarene, St. Peter Claver Lutheran, Presbyterian, and New Miami Baptist churches. Easter music features the Triple Trio of Trenton High School and Prof. Wayne Gallop.
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Trenton
The
Nazarene Church
Kenneth Shelley
Mennonite Church
A. W. Wilson
Charles March
St. Peter Claver Lutheran Church
J. E Amstutz
Richard Rodda
Presbyterian Church
R. Howerton
New Miami Baptist Church
James Storch
Trenton High School
Wayne Gallop
County to defend suit over juvenile detention center purchase
Warren County Prosecutor Stanley Kolb said he will defend the county in a taxpayer suit challenging the 30 000 price for a house adjoining the county jail. Glenn Irwin contends the price is too high and cites a 20 000 appraisal by Juvenile Judge Robert G. Ray. Irwin is linked to Glenn Island Inc which is delinquent on taxes. The case centers on urgency to provide a Juvenile Court facility and avoid mandamus action.
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Lebanon
Warren
Stanley Kolb
Glenn Irwin
Scott H. Ray Jr
Irwin
Robert G. Ray
Glenn Island, Inc
Foster
Glenn Island
Kolb
Middletown Car Wash Theft Probed After Cash and Coupons Stolen
Police search for a thief after a break in at Middletown Automatic Car Wash on Main Street. About $178 in cash and a book of car wash coupons were taken from an inner office, with the owner noting no forced entry and the safe left unlocked. A separate incident sees a thief twice visiting Mrs. Virgie Jewell home on Moore Street, stealing a $52 billfold and ransacking drawers during a brief absence.
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Middletown
Middletown Automatic Car Wash
N. Main St
James Eliopoulos
Eliopoulos
Virgie Jewsell
Moore St
Germantown Exhibit Earns State Science Fair Bid
Germantown High School announced freshman Marshall N. Kurfiss will enter his project Measurement of Acceleration Due to Gravity in the state science fair at the University of Toledo on May 4. He earned a superior rating at the Southwest District Ohio High School Science Day at Miami University Oxford, where 119 of about 675 exhibits from 44 schools received superior marks. The school also noted Tom Bowman, who created Atomic Reactor, narrowly trailed Kurfiss by one point for the superior rating.
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Germantown
Marshall N. Kurfiss
University of Toledo
Kurfiss
Germantown High School
Miami University
Oxford
Toledo
Tom Bowman
E. Market St
Marshall
William Arnold
Deputies Check Area Break-Ins Near Middletown Home
Deputies investigated recent break ins in the area, noting a pried rear screen door and broken kitchen glass at JW W McIntire’s 798 Middletown Eaton Road. A separate report from Peastown Church of God at 6376 Germantown Road cited a damaged west door but nothing taken, with noises from a basement pump possibly scaring intruders.
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JW. W. McIntire
Middletown
Eaton Road
Peasttown Church of God
Germantown Road
Appais
Burned Girl Is Unchanged in Middletown Hospital
The condition of Sandra Reynolds four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Reynolds of 7137 Dickey Road West Middletown remained unchanged at Middletown Hospital today after suffering burns over seventy percent of her body when her clothing caught fire while playing with other children in her backyard.
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Sandra Reynolds
Edward Reynolds
Dickey Road
West Middletown
Middletown Hospital
Police Briefs Detailing Local Vehicle Theft and Burglary
Police report Gene Gillispie’s steering wheel stolen from his car at 3528 Jewell Ave late Tuesday night. A cigar smoking burglar took a half box of Stogies and several pads of matches from Carter’s Beverages at 1800 Germantown Road. an attempted break in at an inner office failed.
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Gene Gillispie
Jewell Ave
Carter's Beverages
Germantown Road
City buildings close for Good Friday with limited offices open
The City Building at Greene and Ladd and two liquor stores will close on Good Friday. YMCA activities will be cut from noon to 3 p.m for employees to attend church services. The tax office at the city building will stay open as it is a county office, while the Butler County Courthouse remains open Friday.
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Greene and Ladd
YMCA
B. P. Allen
Tax
Butler County Court House
Stolen car lights and hub caps report filed
Ruby Armstrong of 1205 Forrer St Execedo reported to sheriff deputies at 11 10 p m yesterday that two spotlights and four hub caps were taken from her car parked at the rear of her home. Total value set at 75 dollars deputies said.
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Ruby Armstrong
Forrer St
Execedo
Sheriff's Deputies
Three youths charged with arson over barn blaze in Franklin
Franklin police charged three youths, two from Miamisburg and one from Franklin, with arson and destruction of property after a $3,000 blaze leveled an abandoned barn on the old Pardee Farm along River Road. The trio, aged 16 and 17, allegedly drank beer and used matches and straw to start the fire, then watched firefighters work before fleeing. The barn belonged to the Pardee daughters and a storage shed nearby was saved. A home on the land was unharmed.
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Franklin
Mark Pardee
River Road
Dan Nease
Hollywood Addition
Two 17
Lone
Allen Walters
Forest Ave
Miamisburg
Park Avenue J
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Canada
Passov
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Herbert Stewart
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Scott Ray Jr
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