Downtown Parking Meters Debate Moves to Shorter Times
City officials debated meter time limits for Central Avenue from Verity Parkway to the Hydraulic Canal. The traffic study found existing meters mostly 45-minute or 12-minute, with seven one hour meters and one 12-minute meter between Main and the canal. City Manager Dan Kothe will study further and consider 15-minute meters.
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Dan Kothe
Central Avenue
Verity Parkway
Police Traffic Bureau
Verity
Main
Main Street
Out Of Town Taxpayer Calls For Fair Share Of City Services
Middletown would grant non-residents who pay the city income tax access to services like the landfill. John A. Bachus urged identification cards for non-city taxpayers. commissioners debated, with some supporting, others fearing inequities. The council also lease Revelos Building for city offices at $450 monthly for five years with longer options and approved ambulance contracts with Mc Coy Leffler and Riggs Funeral Home requiring collection efforts on uncollectable bills.
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John A. Bachus
Todhunter Road
Middletown
Bachus
Mary Lord
Sebald Park
Joe Lewis
Virgil Clark
Franklin
Monroe
Commission
Revelos
Central Avenue
Clinton Street
McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home
Riggs Funeral Home
Riggs
McCoy-Leffler
Widow Sues For 151 306 In Ratliff Crash
Mrs Patty Ratliff administratrix of William D Ratliff estate sues Clifford Blanton for 151 306 in Butler County Common Pleas Court claiming Blanton ran a stop sign at Grand Avenue and Eaton Avenue causing a collision that killed Ratliff and injured his family.
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Middletown
Butler County Common Pleas Court
Patty Ratliff
Flemming Road
William D. Ratiff
Clifford Blanton
Lewis St
Blanton
Eaton Avenue
Grand Avenue
Ratliff
Commission Approves Land, Pedestrian Access and Equipment
The commission passed a resolution to appropriate four acres along Elk Creek Road for access to Sebald Park owned by Timothy Morrison. It agreed to pay Robert Back $106 for Streets and Sewers Superintendent Carl Den nin’s work while ill, and approved buying a $4 900 diesel engine from Dayton Mack Inc for the fire division’s hook and ladder truck.
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Sion
Elk Creek Road
Sebald Park
Timothy Morrison
Robert
Carl Dennin
Dennin
Dayton Mack, Inc
Fire Blamed On Hot Wire Destroys Home
A short in electrical wiring caused a $1,250 blaze at a home occupied by Dorothy Maeder at 805 Charles Street. The rear wall and rear bedroom contents were damaged. Mrs Maeder woke an upstairs roomer possibly saving him from smoke. Damages set at $1,000 for the building and $250 for contents.
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Dorothy Maeder
Charles St
Cyclist Dies After Motorcycle Crash in Butler County
Germantown man Gary S. Duncil, 22, died at Middletown Hospital from head injuries after his motorcycle overturned on Interstate 75 near Millikin Road. The death raises Butler County’s year toll to 44 traffic fatalities. Kathy Pierson, 19, of Dayton, died from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning as her family traveled home from Kentucky. Her body was sent to Hoyne Funeral Home in Dayton. Arrangements for Duncil are pending at Zimmerman Funeral Home in Gratis.
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Germantown
Middletown Hospital
Millikin Road
Gary S. Duncil
W. Market St
Butler
Garret J. Boone
Kathy Pierson
Dayton
Kentucky
Monroe
Rhodes Busy Day Touring Ohio Parks With Flair
Ohio Governor James Rhodes toured LeSourdsville Lake and Fantasy Farm amid a busy schedule. He visited air museums, nature centers, and historic sites while promoting tourism and a 70 000 dollar fundraising plan for park expansion.
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Ohio
LeSourdsville Lake
Fantasy Farm
James Rhodes
Ann Murrell
Middletown
Roger Gillespie
Air Force Museum
Fairborn
National
Vandalia
Bullwood Nature Center
Dayton
Gov. Rhodes
Overfield Tavern
Troy
Greenville
Fort St. Clair
Bebb Park
Hamilton
Rhodes
Jean Adams
Pieratt
Girl Injured In Bike Mishap In Middletown
A 16 year old Middletown girl was in surgery at Middletown Hospital after a bicycle crash on Buena Avenue. She ran over a second rider, 15 year old Ron Manning, who swerved to avoid gravel and crashed his bike. The injured girl was visiting her grandmother on Granada Avenue when the incident occurred.
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Middletown
Middletown Hospital
Butler County
Mary Shannon Lawson
Brentwood Sr
Buena Avenue
Ron Manning
Pinta Ave
Lawson
Granada Ave
Middletown Board of Education Sets Hiring Agenda
The Middletown Board of Education meets tonight at 7 30. The agenda focuses on hiring new teachers and non certificated staff. Howard Cromwell is to seek approval of special education courses and assignment of elementary coaches.
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Middletown Board of Education
Howard Cromwell
Denial of TRO in Amanda Sewer District case
Butler County Common Pleas Judge Fred B. Cramer denied a motion for a temporary restraining order by Geneva Halsey of Middletown to block county certification of assessments in the Amanda Consolidated Sewer District. The ruling focused on whether notices were mailed after publication of a Sept 6 1966 public hearing. Witnesses for the plaintiff testified they did not receive mail notices. county witnesses said notices were prepared and mailed and a postage receipt was produced. Attorneys for Halsey may appeal.
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Butler County Common Pleas
Fred B. Cramer
Middletown Area
Amanda Consolidated
Geneva Halsey
Manitee St
Cramer
Fred Stein
Mulberry Gap Association Holds 129th Convention
The 129th annual Mulberry Gap Association of Missionary Baptist Churches opens tomorrow at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Franklin. The 77 churches in Tennessee Virginia Maryland and Ohio are represented. Rev. Alfred Greene of Sneedville Tenn moderates. Sessions cover missions cooperative program Christian education children’s homes temperance and the Baptist Training Union.
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Mulberry Gap
Official Notice May Cut NYC Passenger Trains
New York Central System plans to trim passenger service to one train per day each direction. NYC attorneys filed a 39 day notice to discontinue northbound No. 306 and southbound No. 327, effective Sept. 6, leaving Middletown with only trains 16 and 15. Mail service would stop with the discontinued trains, creating substantial losses.
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New York Central System
City Commission
Middletown
Cincinnati
Cleveland
New York Central
NYC
Airman Off Again On Aug
A Trenton serviceman leaves for Vietnam today for the fourth overseas duty on August 15. Sgt. Paul A. Tharp, 17 years in the Air Force, has served as a finance and accounting specialist with prior posts in Bermuda the Philippines France and Germany. His wife and two children stay in Sacramento where he has been stationed. Mrs. Tharp said her son called from California and noted August 15 has been a lucky day.
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Trenton
Vietnam
Paul A. Tharp
John Tharp
Hamilton Ave
Air Force
Bermuda
Philippines
France
Germany
Sacramento
Calif
Tharp
Vandals Damage Car Window on Omaha Street
A rock tossed through a window caused 60 dollars in damage to a 1963 model car driven by 19 year old Steve Brown on Omaha Street. The vehicle is owned by his mother Esther Brown residing at 3231 Omaha Street.
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Steve Brown
Omaha St
Omaha Street
Esther Brown
Burglars Loot American Legion Post 218
Burglars ransacked American Legion Post 218 at 116 S Main St causing about 200 dollars in damage. Entry was gained by forcing a screen and window covering on a north window. They pried doors and locks in the bar area basement storage and food service areas. a portable television valued at 200 dollars was taken.
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American Legion
S. Main St
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Miss Lord
Kothe
Lewis
William Denham
Lima
Paris
Middletown Journal
Federal Housing and Urban Development Department
LeSourdsville
Lori Strong
Jack Strong
Natonal Tea Council
Columbus
Amanda
Ruth Heaton
Hood Ave
Helen Hill
Mohawk St
Charles Nixon
Ella Gibbs
Charles Powell
Yankee Road
Walter Bake
Hazel B. Stoutenborough
Central Ave
S&s Car Wash
N. University
U. S
Frisch’s
Mere
Office Outfitters
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