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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1970
Page
2
Christmas at McKinley Middle School featured 16 students from Patricia Jackson's eighth grade class making and selling arts and crafts. The bazaar blended academics with afternoon craft time and hands on sales, hosting shoppers with punch and cookies.
A long list of meetings appears for Thursday evening across Blythe Williams Post 231 Franklin Post 149 and 218 the Greek Orthodox Church K of C Auditorium IOOF Hall and other venues with times from noon to 8 30 pm. Separate items note community service by students and a remark from Mrs Jackson praising teachers and their bazaar funds for a future day trip.
House investigators report a possible CIA connection to Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas through a Dominican Republic literacy project. The CIA chief Richard Helms said records show funds from the Albert Parvin Foundation, linked to Douglas, supported the CIDES literacy effort run by Sacha Volman.
Three people were injured in a two car crash on Rt 4 near Headgates Road just north of town. Shona Giles and her passenger Glenn Young were taken to Mercy Hospital in fair condition with multiple injuries. Ellsworth A. Wente Jr., president of Wente Construction Co, was charged with reckless operation after his southbound car struck the other vehicle, causing Giles to be pinned in a ditch.
William Whitney of Sunbury Ohio publisher of the Sunbury News died at Riverside Methodist Hospital Columbus after a lengthy illness. The Delaware County weekly under his leadership earned several Ohio Newspaper Association awards in recent years for news coverage. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Mrs Wilma Jean Keaton 49 of Middletown Ohio died 7 45 am at Middletown Hospital after a stay since Oct 26 Born in Bloomingsburg she is survived by husband Roger two sons James and John and parents Oscar Howe and Florence Harper Services and arrangements are pending at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home A male resident identified as West died 3 45 pm yesterday at Middletown Hospital He was a Dumford Trucking driver 21 years Eagles Lodge 528 member and former Eagles Bowling League officer He leaves wife Vera a daughter Lois Parker and two grandchildren Services set for 2 pm Friday at Grand Avenue Church of God with Rev Henry Howard officiating Burial in Woodside Cemetery Viewing at Joseph R Baker Sons Funeral Home Thursday 3 00 5 00 and 7 00 9 00 pm.
Leo Wilbur West, 55, of 316 East Aberdeen Drive, Trenton, is listed in the record.
James Stepp 84 of Eubank Kentucky died at 5 a.m. Wednesday at Franklin Nursing Home Dayton where he had been a patient since November 9. Survived by wife Leatha five daughters Clyde Stepp of Springboro 16 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren. Services 11 a.m. Saturday Farrie Morris Funeral Home Eubank Ky burial Liberty Cemetery Anglesby Funeral Home local arrangements.
Services for Jessie Michael 84 and Marie Michael 66 of Spring Valley, winter residents of Florida, are at 2 p.m. Friday at Stubbs Conner Funeral Home. Burial for Jessie is at Middle Run Cemetery. Marie at Springboro Cemetery. The couple, members of Spring Valley United Methodist Church and Bellbrook Grange, died in a six-vehicle crash that also claimed four others. They are survived by numerous relatives including Jason Earl of Florida, Marjorie Furnas of Jamestown, Donald Boerner, and five grandchildren. Funeral home viewing Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m.
The 21 year old daughter of Senator Edward W. Brooke divorced Donald R. Hasler in an uncontested decree granted last February. Remi Brooks Hasler, married June 22, 1968, returned to Northeastern University where she had attended before the marriage.
Vatican City AP reports Pope Paul VI, 73, canceled his weekly public audience due to influenza with a slight fever. His personal doctor, Prof. Mario Fontana, said the fever is light and the pope can handle normal church affairs with aides.
Funeral arrangements are pending for James A. Sears 49 of 3917 Freeman Ave Lindenwald who died yesterday at Beckett Paper Co. on Fourth and Dayton where he was crushed while working as an electrical foreman. Police say he was pinned between a crane and a girder over 50 feet up.
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