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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1968
Page
17
The reading notes a strong career cycle starting yesterday with improvements through September and October, aided by friends in September. It highlights best periods for progress in January, March, June and July, plus a favorable three month financial cycle from October 1. Romance peaks late year and into mid 1969, with travel hints for September, January, and mid 1969. A born child will be methodical, practical and trustworthy.
Bradford police report 16 art objects valued at about 1.394 million dollars were stolen from Dr. T Edward Hanley during a break in Thursday morning. Works by Picasso Cezanne LaTour Degas Goya and Modigliani along with two Rodin bronzes were taken from the first floor while the resident elderly man and his sister in law slept upstairs. Burglars gained entry by slitting a kitchen window screen after climbing a back porch stair.
Chicago police will guard all pumping and filtration plants beginning Saturday amid threats to contaminate the water supply. One threat reportedly involved putting LSD into the water. Legal notice follows regarding a real estate dispute in Butler County Ohio with a cancellation petition and required response dates.
A Soviet transport aircraft crashed at Budejovice with many dead and injured aboard. Wounded were moved to a Czechoslovak hospital where doctors gave blood transfusions. Soviet soldiers later arrived to donate blood. No further details were given.
A collage of classifieds and notices including Lost cat in Wilshire Heights near Moyer and Jeffery Dr with reward call 423-4078, swap of rides to Denver and Chillicothe, job ads for readers advisors and ceramic studio, wig party and free wig offer, various babysitting and housework services, trash hauling and tree service, and real estate or trailer listings, with contact numbers such as 423-4021 422-4946 423-195 746-5042 422-6478 422-7343 423-7891 423-061.
The American Civil Liberties Union said it will assist Fred M. Esherick Jr., 16, condemned to die in the electric chair for his role in his father’s bayonet slaying. ACLU general counsel Bernard A. Berkman cited a conflict of interest between the boy’s defender and a prosecuting witness as a reason for support.
Multiple obituaries listed with names ages and addresses. Thomas Edward Blevins 49 Hamilton area, Corrine Fannin 39 Ottawa Street, Russell in Georgetown Kentucky 59, George J. Quam 74 Middletown, Judge E Taylor 54 Trenton. Services and arrangements by McCoy Leffler Funeral Home and Riggs Funeral Home with church and cemetery interments noted.
Ohio State Fair in Columbus opened amid 90 degree heat and high humidity with only partial crowds on opening day. Attendance reached 64 047 versus 191 000 a year earlier and officials project 1.5 million for the run through Sept 2. Toledo Day featured Ed Ames, helicopter acts, and the All-Ohio Boys Band. Leslie Shroyer 17 of New Carlisle won Miss Future Farmers of America.
Memorial tribute for William Gibbs, deceased three years ago on August 23 1965. Poem speaks of walking a shared memory path and awaiting reunion, with verses about spring roses and lilacs, and hope sustaining Norman and family.
Two Cincinnati men appeared at a preliminary hearing in Hamilton County Municipal Court on first degree murder charges for the fatal shootings of Elvin Billman 31 and Willa Roberts. Three witnesses testified as the hearing proceeded before Judge George Heitzler. A trial date remains pending.
Harold Carpenter Republican candidate for Butler County sheriff will speak at the Middletown Area Young Republicans meeting in First National Bank conference room Monday at 8 p m. Carpenter formerly led detectives for the Hamilton Police Department and won the May primary over six rivals.
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