Boy, 7, dies in basement blast in Middletown
Investigators continue study of the O Grady home basement at 1309 Woodlawn Ave after a blast fatally injures seven year old Dean Patrick O Grady. He died at Middletown Hospital after being carried out by fireman Ronald Parker. Mass for the boy is set at St John’s Church with burial in Woodside Cemetery. Surviving are his parents two brothers and a sister, plus grandparents in Canada and Ontario.
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Woodlawn Avenue
Robert Curtis
Middletown Division of Fire
O'Grady
Woodlawn Ave
Patrick O’grady
Ronald Parker
Trenton
Middletown Hospital
Burns
Toronto
Canada
Middletown
St. John’s Church
Woodside Cemetery
McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home
Kim
David
Ronald
Anthony O'Grady
Quebec
Raymond Logan
Niagara Falls
Ontario
Masked man fires into Hannah residence at midnight
City detectives seek a man after a masked intruder fired three shots through a front window at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hannah on Lewis Street. Joyce Hannah, peering from her bedroom, saw the gunman who claimed to have killed another girl and said he had just been released from prison. He wore a black silk mask and ordered the girl to open the screen door. The family described the assailant as he fled after firing.
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Robert Hannah
Lewis St
Hannah
Joyce
Powell Tells Workers 24th Is A Demo Target
Powell frames the 24th District as a Democratic target and outlines a campaign plan. He notes the district includes areas where the Republican incumbent is not running, and rally attendees include supporters and party operatives. Lukens and Perry pledge concerted effort and a tough race with a push across multiple counties.
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Walter Powell
Powell
Congress Inn
Jones
Fred Jones
Lebanon
Morris Turkelson
Donald E. Lukens
Frank Perry
Mason Central School
Lima Calm After Guard Watch Quells Civil Unrest
National Guard officials waited in Lima to decide when to pull out 500 troops as funerals and a mourners march were planned for Christine Rick, a 45 year old Negro woman whose death after a police shooting sparked rioting. City remained quiet over the weekend with a dusk to dawn curfew lifted though the state of emergency and weapon ban remained.
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Lima
Ohio
National Guard
Christine Rick
Christian P. Morris
Barefoot and shirtless policy issued for Hennepin courtrooms
Minneapolis AP reports Judge James Rogers in Traffic Arraignment Court orders that no one may enter Hennepin County municipal courtrooms barefoot or without shirt like attire from the waist up. Court Administrator S Allen Friedman says the rule applies to all municipal courtrooms.
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Minneapolis
Hennepin County
James Rogers
S. Allen Friedman
Middletown Teacher Association Sets Next Executive Session
Middletown Teachers Association executive council meets at 3:30 p m Wednesday in Middletown High School. President Sally Williamson says the group will set next year’s agenda and begin negotiations when the current salary fringe benefits package expires at year end. The council includes one representative for every ten teachers in the roughly 700-member association.
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Middletown Teacher's Association
MTA
Middletown High School
Sally Williamson
Williamson
Car Hits Stump in Middletown, Three Dayton Youths Hurt
A 19 year old Dayton youth Eddie Wooten was listed in poor condition at Miami Valley Hospital after a car with four passengers struck a stump on Cincinnati Dayton Road just north of Middletown. Wooten was taken to Middletown Hospital then transferred to Miami Valley ICU with injuries to both legs and possible spinal injuries. Passengers Charles Brewer 19 Donald May 20 Dayton were treated at Miami Valley. May had head lacerations at Middletown Hospital. Carlos Brewer 19 was examined and released. All are from Dayton.
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Dayton
Miami Valley Hospital
Middletown
Cincinnati-Dayton
Eddie Wooten
Middletown Hospital
Miami Valley
Ohio Highway
Charles Brewer
Donald May
Wooten
Carlos Brewer
Driver Leaves Scene After Car Pileup on First Avenue
Police search for a heavily damaged blue car that fled the scene after causing 1000 dollars in damage to four parked autos near First Avenue and Clinton Street at 11 27 p.m. yesterday. The eastbound vehicle veered left on a one way street and struck Paul Buchanan’s parked car at 37 S Clinton causing 800 dollars in damage. Buchanan’s car then hit Thomas Watson’s at 211 Highview Road which rammed Elbert Essey’s at 1305 First Ave and Essey’s struck Joel Gabbard’s at 1309 First Ave.
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First Avenue
Clinton Street
Paul Buchanan
S. Clinton
Thomas Watson
Highview Road
Indians Live Longer With Vaccines And Hygiene
In New Delhi health authorities report smallpox and cholera vaccines along with better hygiene have raised an Indian baby's life expectancy to 51 years. A child born twenty years earlier could expect to live only about two years.
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New Delhi
Monroe Hosts Multinational Weekend Visitors at Local Events
International exchanges unfold in Monroe with guests from Switzerland Mexico Austria Scotland as Jaycees and IFI programs pair locals with foreign students and pen pal friendships lead to in person reunions. Local families host visitors including Ellen Anderson and Miss Chris Docherty as plans and travel arrangements unfold.
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Andersons
Boyd Smith
Monroe
Jaycees
Mieko Kato
Kimiko Tanemoto
IFI
Lemon-Monroe
Melana Rosado
Enrique Sanzquerrero
Miguel Ortega
Alexander Kleibel
Austria
Robert Hagans
Sands Avenue
Lions Club
Jamboree finale reset after rain delays event
Armco Girls Jamboree second day was rained out and moved to Saturday with a new date to be announced. The 4 to 11 p.m. evening features a 9 p.m. beauty pageant and a Florida trip drawing to benefit scholarships and local charities. Rain and wind damaged tents and displays at the Middletown Works site near Crawford Street tunnel.
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Florida
Middletown Works
Crawford Street
Drug program outline set for Lions Club meeting
Richard Noe will speak on the drug analysis program proposed by the Middletown Jaycees at the Lions Club noon meeting Thursday at the Manchester Motor Inn. Roger Craft is program chairman.
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Richard Noe
Middletown Jaycees
Lions Club
Manchester Motor Inn
Roger Craft
Seventeen Pass Tests For City Patrolman Job
Twenty six persons have taken written tests for city patrolman and 17 have passing scores since the program began July 1. J D Bates says names may be presented to the City Commission for appointment tomorrow. Two patrolmen were appointed last month, started July 27, and will train in October and November with others appointed this month and next per Captain William Brewer.
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J. D. Bates
Bates
City Commission
Thomas Gentry
Ronald Sloan
William Brewer
Man Charged In Knife Robbery At Gabe's Cafe
Hamilton police report a 45 year old man, James Smartt, was charged with obtaining 175.24 at knifepoint from Gabe's Cafe at S Front and Wilson streets. Smartt was arrested at Waldo's Supper Club on Hamilton Cleves Road after the 2:30 a.m. robbery when he threatened staff and cut the telephone line.
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Hamilton
S. Front
Wilson Streets
James Smartt
S. Front St
Ptl
Steve Timmers
Hamilton-Cleves Road
Smartt
Loreen Harrison
Gabe's
Japan Adds Subways In Four Major Cities
Subway expansion plans reach Tokyo Osaka Nagoya and Kobe with Yokohama set to open a line in 1971 and Sapporo Hokkaido preparing a line for completion ahead of the 1972 Winter Olympics hosting in Sapporo officials announce progress.
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Tokyo
Osaka
Nagoya
Kobe
Yokohama
Sapporo
Hokkaido
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