Middletown 1974 highlights and setbacks under city leaders
City Manager Dale Hessel counts an 8.5 year rating with mall enclosures and a new city building site as 1974 pluses. Major disagreements over Bachmann Tract zoning and hospital expansion haunt the year amid hopes for 1975 mall completion and tax funds.
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Mike McLeod
Middletown
Dale Hessel
Helsel
City Commission
Dudley Inwood
Verity Middle School
Sebald Park
Bachmann
Kittyhawk Enterprises, Ltd
Lewis Street
Hessel
Gasoline spill prompts night evacuation in West Chester
About 100 families were told to leave a half mile area after a rupture at the Union 76 Service Station near Cincinnati Dayton Road and I 75. Fire crews declared a state of emergency at 10 p.m. and evacuated residents until about 3 a.m. The spill reportedly entered a drainage ditch and nine manholes affecting underground cables as crews flushed the area and investigated the break in the supply line.
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West Chester
Union 76
Fire Department
Cincinnati- Dayton Road
I-75
West Chester Presbyterian Church
Union Township
Cincinnati-Dayton
Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co
Solar heat proposal for Butler County home gains attention
County commissioner urges solar heating for the new county home as a public demonstration project. Architect's feasibility report hinges on a federal grant, estimated cost around $130,000. The letter seeks help obtaining funds and notes a 1.5 million levy from November voters to fund the build.
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Commission
Reiff
United States
Butler County
Mary Haven children go home for Christmas in Lebanon
At the 100 year old Mary Haven Orphanage in Lebanon Ohio 31 residents aged 6 to 18 will spend Christmas with volunteer families in Warren County. For the first time many residents from broken homes or runaways will return to their own families while a traditional Christmas dinner was served.
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Lebanon
Mary Haven
Robert Davis
Warren County
Davis
Ohio 63
Mary Haven Orphan's Asylum
Last of 182 Poisoning Victims Released From Hospital
Pamela Reese, 11, the final patient from Friday's Cincinnati grade school carbon monoxide exposure, was discharged from Jewish Hospital on Sunday after two nights hospitalization. The 182 students suffered headaches and nausea when a chimney damper stuck, allowing fumes into the school air system.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati
Pamela Reese
Jewish Hospital
Candle Light Service At Amanda United Methodist Church
The Amanda United Methodist Church will host a Christmas Eve candle light service at 7 p.m. tomorrow. The senior choir directed by Lester Theodore will be featured. The Rev Don Kochersperger invites the public to attend.
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Amanda United Methodist Church
Lester Theodore
Don Kochersperger
Dayton Detectives Question Two In Paint Center Robbery
Police questioned a man and a woman arrested Saturday on bench warrants in connection with the Thursday robbery and murder at the Pittsburgh Paint Center on Central Avenue. The suspects, held without names, admitted no involvement. one was to be sent to Cincinnati for a lie detector test. Investigators seek tips from the public at 424 2376.
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Pittsburgh
Central Avenue
Dayton
Michael Carter
Franklin
Cincinnati
Carter
Crash causes power outages along Verity Parkway
A driver, William Deaton 27 of 3007 Princeton Ave, was speeding north on Verity Parkway when he lost control east of Elwood Street and clipped a utility pole. He was treated for facial and head cuts at Middletown Hospital and released. power outages affected a large city area from 3:15 a.m. to 6:27 a.m. due to pole damage lines and a fallen tree limb.
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Middletown Hospital
Verity Parkway
William Deaton
Princeton Ave
A.m
Elwood Street
Deaton
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Christmas Week Publication Schedule Notice
No Christmas paper on Wednesday as Journal staff spend the day with families. Classified ads for Thursday are due by noon tomorrow, with cancellations for Thursday ads due by 5.
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Journal
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Kittyhawk
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Civic Center
Kramer
James
Dad
Dobbler Brothers, Inc
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