RAPIST'S RIFLE Clues Sought In Middletown Probe
Police released a newer likeness of an armed rapist who struck after midnight Friday abducting a 15 year old girl from Grand Avenue. The suspect, nearly 6 feet tall and 130 to 155 pounds, is linked to five prior incidents. a Savage over and under shotgun rifle was found discarded in bushes with no usable fingerprints. Citizens are urged to call 424 2376 or 424 2486 with tips, assured anonymity.
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Middletown
Grand Avenue
James R. Howerton
Howerton
Jack Barnes
Journal
Paul Frisby
Barnes
Board Asked Buy Land For Handicapped School
Carlisle school board received a request from the Society For Handicapped Children to purchase a three acre tract next to the school for a future school and possible residential village. The group, leasing the current building, plans a special meeting with officials and the county prosecutor to discuss responsibilities if the society dissolves. An update noted 88 percent of teachers hold college degrees, and lunch reimbursements from the state rose to 34 cents with free meals up due to recent layoffs. The board schedules a 7 p.m. meeting to wind up yearly bills.
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Juanita Abney
Carlisle
The
Society For Handicapped Children
Carlisle School Board
William Minck
Fairview Avenue
David Way
Fac
Warren County
Charles Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Christmas Overnight at YMCA For Girls Grades Six to Eight
A Christmas overnight will be held Friday at the YMCA for girls in grades six through eight. Activities include games, songs with guitar, swimming, snacks and breakfast. The event runs 8 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday with a $2 member and $3 non-member fee. Reservations by telephone preferred. payment due by 8 p.m. Friday.
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YMCA
Tools Taken From Campus Construction Site and Nearby Property
Hamilton Charles Bowers of Dayton reported to Butler County police that $1,100 worth of tools were stolen from a storage trailer at a Western College library construction site in Oxford. In a separate theft $700 worth of tools were taken from a garage at Fair Auto Parts on Hamilton-Eaton Road. Billy Ragsdale reported a power mower valued at $100 stolen from his home on Timberman Road.
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Hamilton
Charles Bowers
Dayton
Butler County
Western College
Oxford
Fair Auto Parts
Hamilton-Eaton Road
Here
Billy Ragsdale
Timberman Road
Toronto Homemaker Agency Faces Financial Straits
Blanche Diana of Toronto hails the visiting Homemaker role as vital to keeping families together. The Visiting Homemaker program, among Toronto's oldest social service agencies, is struggling to stay afloat financially after eight years of service.
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Toronto
Blanche Diana
Mobile Home Rezoning On Commission Agenda
City Planning Commission agenda includes 254 unit mobile home park on Jefferson Road proposed by Venus Investment Co north of Armco Project 600 and a zoning frontage increase from 100 to 200 feet for certain districts. Also planned are Wilson Schramm Memorial Home modification and first phase of United Housing Development at S Main and Lafayette. Meeting at 7:30 p.m. City Building commission chamber.
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Jefferson Road
City Planning Commission
Venus Investment Co
Armco
Ose
Wilson-Schramm Memorial
Roosevelt Avenue
United Housing Development Project
S. Main Street
Lafayette
Pringle May Resign As Center Board Chair
Elder Rudolph Pringle of 614 2th Ave announced his intention to resign as chairman of the Middletown Community Center board. The resignation could not be formally accepted due to lack of a quorum. three members discussed clarifying board and officer roles at the January meeting with City Manager Dale Helsel in attendance.
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Rudolph Pringle
2Th Ave
Middletown Community Center Board of
Thee
Dale Helsel
Mulford’s Fire Hits Nationwide Christmas Flower Trade
A blaze at Mulford's City Beautiful Nursery on U S 42 destroyed about one fifth of the Christmas flower crop and damaged 1000 cases of poinsettias. The firm ships plants to supermarkets and stores as far as Chicago and Detroit, with 90 percent of business in five states. Loss estimated at 250000 dollars as Easter bulbs fate remains unknown for weeks. Fire officials praised quick control. cause under investigation.
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Lebanon
Mulford
City Beautiful Nursery
U.S. 42
Chicago
Detroit
H. B. Mulford Jr
Young Mulford
Ex-MU Student Ordered to Five Years Probation
Hamilton. Robert Freidenberg, 27, former Miami University senior, pleaded guilty last October to possession of hallucinogenic drugs for sale. He was placed on five years probation by Butler County Common Pleas Judge Fred B. Cramer and must stay out of Butler County, away from Oxford, continue treatment, refrain from all drugs, provide restitution, and pay prosecution costs. Freidenberg, formerly of Scarsdale and now at the Institution of Living in Hartford, was among twelve arrested in a May drug raid in Oxford.
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Hamilton
Miami University
Butler County Common Pleas
Fred B. Cramer
Robert Freidenberg
Scarsdale
N.Y
Institution of Living
Hartford
Columbus Evening Dispatch Strike Ends With Pact
In Columbus Ohio the Teamsters Local 413 voted 54 to 6 to accept a contract from Dispatch Printing Co ending an 11 day strike that halted the Columbus Evening Dispatch and the Columbus Citizen Journal. The mediator called the settlement on the high side and officials offered no wage or benefit details.
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Columbus, Ohio
Teamsters Local
Dispatch Printing Co
Columbus Evening Dispatch
Columbus Citizen Journal
H. J. Montoney
Teamsters
Two Die In I 75 Crash Near Monroe After Fire
A rear end collision on Interstate 75 south of Monroe left 7 year old Barry Levy burned to death at the scene. His mother Estelle Levy suffered serious burns and remained in intensive care. Miss Ann Foyt, 22, died later at Mercy Hospital in Hamilton. The crash occurred about 3 20 p m after Foyt's car struck the Levy vehicle igniting gasoline fumes. Butler County’s traffic deaths for the year rose to 49.
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Monroe
Garret J. Boone
Butler County
Barry Levy
Pleasant Ridge
Estelle Levy
Mercy Hospital
Hamilton
Miss Ann Foyt
Kettlersville
Miss Foyt
Motorist Loses Car To Armed Man
Franklin resident Raymond Richmond reported to Middletown police that an armed man hijacked his car yesterday on Columbia Avenue at 3 p m. The suspect, a white male about 6 feet 1 inch tall weighing 180 pounds with gray hair and a checkered coat, fled in the vehicle from the 1500 block.
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Franklin
Middletown
Raymond Richmond
River St
Columbia Avenue
City Commission to Consider Street Name Changes
Public hearings are scheduled tonight to decide on renaming Roosevelt Avenue to Roosevelt Boulevard and Atco Avenue to Yale Drive. The sessions begin at 7 p.m. in the commission chamber at the City Building before the regular meeting.
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City Commission
Roosevelt Avenue
Roosevelt Boulevard
Atco Avenue
Yale Drive
Commission Chamber
City
Man in fair condition after Red Lion crash
Harold A. Luse of Cincinnati remained in fair condition at Middletown Hospital with chest injuries after a one car accident at the Rt 123 Rt 122 T intersection in Red Lion. Patrol reported he failed to stop at the stop sign around 1120 p.m. and struck a power pole before leaving the roadway.
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Cincinnati
Middletown Hospital
Red Lion
Harold A. Luse
Luse
Rt. 123
Rt. 122
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Sol Schneider
First Ave
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Columbus
Armed Man
Odletown
Bruce Faltin
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