Burglars Loot Two Homes in Butler County Incidents
Burglars pried windows at Elzie Ferguson 6055 Dairy Lane and Larry Eckhardt 1064 Dairy Lane, stealing rifles, a large knife, pistol, gun cases, collector bottles, Kennedy half dollars, a shotgun, a camera, cash, and other items. Losses totaled about 715.50 and 370 respectively. A rear door was forced. Another incident at Bob's Sohio Station involved a $10 shortchange claim by four men. Mrs. Charles King reported $111 in coins stolen from her mobile home, including 7,000 pennies.
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Elzie Ferguson
Dairy Lane
Kennedy
Butler County
Larry Eckhardt
Mike Perry
Bob
Sohio
Rt. 4
Trenton-Franklin Road
Charles King
Keister Road
School break ins hit McKinley Middle and Kroger store
Police investigated two new burglaries last week in the city. McKinley Middle School on S Verity Parkway reported a basement window entry at 11:45 a.m. yesterday with an adding machine found at a rear door. At Kroger on Main Street a trailer door was pried open and a case of orange drink found discarded south of the store.
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McKinley Middle
S. Verity Parkway
Bass Brandenburg
Kroger
Main Street
Robert Ryan
Americans Increasingly Move to Canada Doubling in a Decade
Ottawa reports immigration statistics showing 22,785 Americans immigrated to Canada in 1969 versus 11,338 in 1959. Draft-age immigrants lead the trend, with more U.S. citizens seeking residency across the border.
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Ottawa
Canada
Immigration Department
Serviceman Injured In Auto Accident Near Winston-Salem
Middletown serviceman John Barnett stationed at Fort Bragg suffered a broken back and head injuries in an auto accident Saturday near Winston-Salem North Carolina. He was in Baptist Hospital ICU and was on furlough. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Barnett of 809 Elwood Street. Details were not released.
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Middletown
John Barnett
Winston-Salem
N. C
Baptist Hospital
Barnett
Ft. Bragg
Robert J. Barnett
Elwood St
Area Bus Fares Rise in Middletown and Hamilton
Inflation pushes up local bus fares as Ortman-Stewart Co raises adult to 30 cents and four tickets to 1.00 while children pay 20 cents. Hamilton raises adults to 35 cents and children to 20 cents with school hour rates for students, plus a token plan. A city subsidy of up to 1900 dollars monthly supports Hamilton City Lines Inc to guarantee a 2 percent profit. Middletown offers no subsidy.
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Ortman-Stewart Transportation Co
Hamilton
Hamilton City Lines Inc
Youth Fined in Drug Case In Butler County Court
Stephen Williams 19 of Worthington was fined 100 dollars and costs and given a suspended 90 day jail term after pleading guilty to possessing a hallucinogen in Common Pleas Court Judge Fred B. Cramer heard he was arrested May 4 in Oxford at 329 West Church Street where a marijuana roach seeds and a hypodermic needle were found Williams said he was en route from California to Baltimore and stopped in Oxford previously lived there for four years He admitted smelling marijuana on entering the apartment and noted past four month Indiana jail time for marijuana harvesting. Williams apologized for the incident.
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Hamilton
Stephen Williams
Worthington
Butler County
Fred B. Cramer
Common Pleas
Oxford
W. Church St
Williams
California
Baltimore
Church Street
David Busby
Talawanda High School
Indiana
Cramer
Dayton man named general manager of Miami Conservancy District
Coy L Bennett of Dayton is named general manager and secretary of the 45 year old Miami Conservancy District after the death of chief engineer Max L Mitchell. The move centralizes water management, covering flood control river cleanup groundwater conservation pollution control and land reclamation under one administrator.
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L. Bennett Coy
Dayton
Miami
Conservancy District
Walter A. Rentschler
Hamilton
Mitchell
Loss Runs High In 2 Fires
Fire Sunday caused damage at the David Weikel farm on Trenton Franklin Road with an estimated 6000 dollars in losses. A separate blaze at 7110 Tylersville Road West Chester left resident Jack Hasting hospitalized for smoke inhalation after damage estimated at 10000 dollars.
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David Weikel
Trenton
Franklin Road
William Heavrin
Madison Township
Jack Hasting
Tylersville Road
West Chester
Mercy Hospital
Hasting
Union Township Life Squad
Rubber Workers Ratify New Pact in Akron
United Rubber Workers Local 365 members ratified a three year contract ending a strike at General Tire & Rubber Co. warehouse in Akron. Seventy three of eighty five voted, with a close result. The wage increases total 82 cents an hour over three years, matching plant workers’ gains though warehouse start rates were lower.
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Akron, Ohio
United Rubber Workers Local 365
General Tire & Rubber Co
William Evanchek
Evanchek
Evan
Eaton Homecoming Queen Dies In Crash
Eaton Ohio 732 near Eaton saw a double fatal crash killing Jane Alyce Harris 199 Eaton High School homecoming queen and Gerald C Brooks 4. Dayton driver Robert D McIntosh 30 hurt. another Eaton resident Frederick C Allison critically injured. Funeral set for Wednesday at Barnes Funeral Home with burial at Mound Hill Cemetery. Survived by parents Glenn and unnamed mother and four sisters.
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Eaton
Ohio
Jane Alyce Harris
Glenn Harris
W. Main St
Robert D. McIntosh
Dayton
McIntosh
Frederick C. Allison
Good Samaritan Hospital
Allison
Reid Memorial Hospital
Ind
Gerald C. Brooks
Miss Harris
Barnes Funeral Home
Mound Hill Union Cemetery
JoAnn Harris
Susie Swadener
Columbia, Mo
Peggy Willett
Oxford
Judy Reitz
Red Ink Flub Kills Fluoridation Petition in Ohio
A fluoridation referendum failed after petitions printed in black lacked required red text. Dr. Harvey Weinstein says 2000 signatures were submitted, 1300 needed, and the error blocks a November vote though a citizens petition could still pursue the issue.
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Harvey Weinstein
Weinstein
Dr. Weinstein
Shot Fatal To Hamilton Area Wife
Mrs Myrna Jo Miranda 27 of 2689 Tylersville Road died Sunday from a head wound police say was self inflicted. She was taken to Hughes Hospital then Fort Hamilton Hospital where she died on arrival. Her husband Lt Col Conrado Miranda serves in the US Army at Fort Knox Kentucky. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Brown Dawson Funeral Home.
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Hamilton
Myrna Jo Miranda
Tylersville Road
Hughes Hospital
Fort Hamilton Hospital
Conrado Miranda
United States Army
Fort Knox
Brown-Dawson
Doris Fleeson Kimball Dies at 69 in Washington
Former syndicated Washington columnist Doris Fleeson Kimball died at home in Washington after a massive stroke, two days after her husband Navy Secretary Dan Kimball. She was 69 and died with her daughter Doris O Donnell by her side.
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Washington
Doris Fleeson Kimball
Navy
Dan Kimball
Kimball
Doris Fleeson
Doris O’donnell
Kimball House
Trenton Restores Power After Five Hour Outage
A short circuit on a 13 200 volt trunk at Cincinnati Gas and Electric Trenton substation caused a five hour outage for most of Trenton Saturday night. Power was restored after CGE workers replaced the damaged cable feeding two 4 000 volt lines. The outage began around 8 43 p m with 5 to 5 30 p m partial restoration Downtown Middletown lost power briefly during the repair.
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Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Trenton
Cg&e
Middletown
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