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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1967
Page
13
Associated Paper Products of Middletown will meet with MADE officials to discuss a permanent Middletown home. Richard Grand said offers exist but the firm prefers to stay in Middletown. Temporary HQ remains at Hoover Ball and Bearing on Wildwood Road and Enoch Drive as Germantown facilities burned in a recent million dollar fire.
North Madison Township Fire Chief Meredith Nelson plans to complain to trustees over a junk yard on Kiester Road run by John King. He also warned area residents to keep children away after a fire in an abandoned trailer drew responders while children were reported playing nearby and believed trapped.
Franklin police report a trailer in a junk yard burned down while children played inside. Chief Nelson warns the yard is dangerous and urges trustees to clean up the site after noting prior sheriff orders. The Bowling home at 6002 Park Ave was entered yesterday with $80 missing.
Dayton driver Hugh C Montgomery Jr led Morrow police sergeant Gary Tye on a 120 mile per hour pursuit from Morrow to Norwood along Route 22. The seven car roadblock at the Cincinnati line stopped him at 1:25 a.m. Eight police cruisers and over 20 pursuing cars were involved. Montgomery faces charges including damaging city property reckless driving fleeing the scene and resisting arrest. He is jailed in Warren County.
A new suit filed in Butler County Common Pleas Court seeks a declaratory judgment that the districts assessments are void and should be removed from the county auditor records. The plaintiff alleges the commissioners failed to mail hearing notices, making the assessments wholly void. A prior similar suit was filed last week by Geneva Haley and a temporary restraining order was denied.
Sheriff James F. Hixon announced deputies will carry chemical maces like other agencies to subdue a specific person without harming bystanders. Thirty maces cost $330 and include safety locks. Six portable resuscitator inflator aspirators will join sheriff ambulances next week weighing 17 pounds and operable by one person.
A new Sing Out Middletown choral group forms after Dayton’s 60 member ensemble performs at Sunset Park. The Jaycees plan a Sept. 17 Sunday program at Barnitz Stadium open to junior and senior high and college age youths with a separate adults only show at Middletown High School auditorium and paid admission proceeds funding the project.
Waynesville School Superintendent William Meyers announced state building assistance has approved the new high school. Bids open Sept 20 with construction expected to start before Oct 1. The $1 million facility will seat about 500 students and include gymnasium, auditorium, cafeteria, kitchen and classrooms on land from Charles P. Ellis.
Mrs. James Elder 37 of 6743 Short Road pleaded guilty to second degree manslaughter in a Richmond Indiana man’s traffic death. The collision at Route 73 and Cotton Run Road northeast of Seven Mile involved Elder’s station wagon failing to yield. Victim Joseph C. Hilterman Jr. died at Fort Hamilton Hospital. Sentencing set for Tuesday September 5 at 9 30 a.m.
Fourteen Middletown area youths head to the 24th National Junior Achievement Conference at Indiana University Bloomington. About 2,000 delegates attend as ten locals compete for national awards while others serve as delegates at large. officers, finalists, and counselors from Middletown join national JA events and competitions.
William Conley, who joined the Navy in 1926 at 17 and retired in 1949, arrives in Middletown to reunite with brothers Charles Henry Alex and sister Della Kennedy. His Lt. Col. brother Calvin serves in Vietnam. The family plans a picnic at Armco Association Club Park to celebrate.
A column argues that judging women by clothing is unfair due to insufficient evidence and emphasizes changing social expectations.
A 58 year old Middletown man, Thomas Carter, was left in fair condition at Mercy Hospital after a collision on S Erie Highway. He skidded on wet pavement while turning from High Street and struck a northbound car driven by Geneva Lewis of Cincinnati. Carter needed surgery. Lewis received injuries to her right leg and neck, and her children Paul and Doug sustained an eye injury and chin lacerations.
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