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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1973
Page
13
Local brief from Middletown reports community happenings and notices for Friday August 16 1973. Highlights include civic events school updates and upcoming meetings affecting residents.
Hundreds of Pee Wee football players watched a hot air balloon owned by Kings Island drift over Smith Park in Warren County The craft piloted by Dan Stone carried Journal photographer Richard Nunlist and crossed West Middletown and Madison Township before landing at Weatherwax Golf Course Photographer Jerry Welch captured the moment as the balloon passed Smith Pond.
Harpers Cornett of 747 East Fourth Street were tied up by four men who robbed them of two guns, 250 dollars in cash, and gold coins valued at 10 000 to 40 000. Mrs. Cornett recalled the calm, professional style of the intruders and the family's fear as police investigate a possible link to a June robbery near Franklin.
A 1971 Middletown grocery price retrospective contrasts prices from two years prior with current figures. It notes beef shortages, high costs, and warnings about ad hoc bargains while comparing items like pork chops, coffee, eggs, and potatoes. Names, dates, and local stores anchor the analysis.
Admiral Arthur W. Radford former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff died at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda Maryland at age 77. The Pentagon announced his death from cancer after serving 1953 to 1957 and later retiring from the JCS post.
Police said James Lulebbe of 1630 Lamberton Square Apartments reported yesterday the theft of an antique wood rocking chair valued at 150 dollars.
William Elkins 26 of 2208 Whittier Street remained in critical condition at Middletown Hospital after his head was caught between two rollers in a papermaking machine at Sorg Paper Co early Tuesday.
The Brady Bunch will film next week at Kings Island Kings Mills with about 60 cast and crew arriving this weekend and filming beginning Monday at the park. Robert Reed leads as Mike Brady with Florence Henderson Ann B Davis and the Brady children in a sequence of comic misplacement of architectural plans.
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