Monroe police classes pay plan rejected by Monroe council
Monroe council rescinded a Dec. 4 action to pay 12 police officers for 40 hours of state criminal code classes at their regular hourly rate. Mayor Reed said attendance did not meet the hours, fearing a precedent for paid schooling. The measure, totaling 1104, was referred to the license committee to review missed hours.
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Monroe
Gordon Reed
Council
Lice Committee
Reed
Mike Lawhorn
Annette Brumberg Wins Monroe Girls Oratorical Contest
The Monroe Optimist Club hosted the first Girls Oratorical Contest at Mt. Pleasant Church. Annette Brumberg, 12, daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Brumberg of 170 Dineen Ave, won first place. Katherine Wellspeak was second, Julie Carr was runner-up, and all six contestants received certificates. Brumberg advances to the zone contest at Franklin.
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Monroe
Funeral services for Miss Sara Faye Jackson set for Friday
Miss Sara Faye Jackson 28 formerly of Brown's Run Road will have 2 p.m. Friday services at Wilson-Schramm Memorial Home with Rev. Billy Ball officiating. Burial follows at Woodside Cemetery. She died Tuesday at Orient after a 15 year residence there. Survived by parents in Winchester four brothers and four sisters. Friends may call Thursday 7 to 9 p.m.
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Sara Faye Jackson
Brown’s Run Road
Wilson- Schramm Memorial
Billy Ball
Woodside Cemetery
Jackson
Orient
Winchester
Shelby Jackson
Shelby E
Camden
Ray and
Shirley
Charles
Middletown
Ann Beschorner
Milford, Mich
Nettie Hampton
Phyllis Willoughby
Lillie Johnson
Germantown
Elmer Lewis
S. Clinton St
Middletown Hospital
Lewis
Mayfield
Curtis
Corsicanna
Tex
McCoy-Leffler
Middletown Cemetery
Man in custody. second suspect sought in motel robbery shooting
Monroe police say Wayne Blair of Dayton confessed to part in the Nov 12 Day's Inn robbery at I 75 and Ohio 63 and the motel night clerk shooting. A warrant is out for a second Dayton man. Blair faces armed robbery charges with bond set at 5,000. Kellis safe after being shot in the leg during getaway.
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Monroe
I-75
Ohio
Wayne Blair
Dayton
Moraine
Kenneth Cobb Cobb
Ptl
Martin Wilbur
Blair
Cobb
Montgomery County
Centerville
Moraine and
Youth charged in hit skip accident
A 17 year old youth was arrested for fleeing the scene and driving without a license after a hit skp incident. The car belonged to James Wilson who said he did not know it had been taken. Damages to both vehicles were about 300 dollars.
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William Godsey
Jackson Lane
Debbie Begley
Begley
Godsey
James Wilson
Wilson
Daisy CockerhamServices for Mrs Daisy Cockerham
Mrs Daisy Cockerham mother of Steve Cockerham and sister of James and Willard Lawson of Middletown will have services at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Lawson Church of Christ near Hazelgreen Kentucky. She died Tuesday in Lexington after brief illness.
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Daisy Cockerham
Steve Cockerham
James
Willard Lawson
Middletown
Lawson Church of Christ
Hazelgreen
Cockerham
Lexington
Fire damages vacant house on Vannest Avenue
Police and fire officials investigated a fire of undetermined origin that caused $400 damage to a vacant house at 3810 Vannest Ave. Firefighters found an open side door and spent matches in a bedroom. The property is owned by Timothy Garrett of Gratis.
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Vannest Ave
Timothy Garrett
Ada- Doty Drive
Gratis
Search for man still on Hamilton River probe continues
Butler County deputies plan aerial searches along the Great Miami River between the Trenton and West Middletown bridges to locate Middletown man J. R. Mays who is suspected to have jumped after his car was found Dec 12. A death by own action note was found in the vehicle and a bar sighting is unconfirmed. If weather cooperates, two walkers may be posted along the riverbank to check for a body. Forties-seven percent of Canadian agricultural imports come from the United States.
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Hamilton
Butler County
Great Miami River
Middletown
John Bohlen
Sheriff’s Department
Trenton
West Middletown
Bohlen
J. R. Mays
Sheffield St
Mays
Civil Defense
Mother Mary E. Silver, 116, dies in Springfield
The Rev. Mary E. Silver known as Mother Silver, pastor of Little Zion Holiness Church, dies at 116 in Springfield Ohio after a lifetime of gospel work in 50 states and Canada. Funeral Saturday at Mount Zion Baptist Church with two bishops presiding. Burial in Ferncliff Cemetery.
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Springfield
Ohio
Mary E. Silver
Silver
Canada
Little Zion
Robert C. Henry Funeral Home
Butler jury fixes Middletown urban renewal land price
A Butler County Common Pleas Court jury set land value at 190633 dollars for city urban renewal. The case named Ray and Virginia Distance, Carskadden Optical Lab, Sherwin Williams Co, and Mark Wendel as defendants. The verdict priced land at 137214 dollars and building at 53419 dollars for property at 46 and 48 South Broad Street and the adjacent city parking lot.
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Hamilton
Butler County Common Pleas Court
Middletown
Ray
Virginia
West
Alexandria Road
Carskadden Optical Lab
S. Broad St
Sherwin- Williams Co
S. Broad
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Regency Action Radio
Action Radio
Betzler’s
S. Main Street
Miss Mary
Fortmann
S. Second St
St. Joseph's Church
Frederick Krizan
Vine St
Colligan
Mike Cain Sr
Lanes Mill Road
Webb
Charles Ladder
Charlberth Drive
Queen of Peace Church
Anna Conrad
E. River Road
Sacred Heart of Jesus Church
Tilford Bowling
Melbourne
Fla
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The
United States
Ferncliff Cemetery
Sandy Hook
N.C
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South
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Detroit
Windsor
Ont
Mary Silver
Butler
Converse
Monument CO
Manchester Rd
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Granite & Bronze
Nicols
Dale Converse
Worthmore
Arrow
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Bank Americard Master Charge
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Central Ave
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