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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1973
Page
2
A city in a yearlong operation uses five women to manage a word processing center on the second floor of the City building. The system types, corrects, and updates documents via magnetic cards and high speed final typing, reducing need for extra staff and saving on clerical costs.
Franklin Planning Commission approved the High Ridge subdivision on 16.4 acres north of Virginia Avenue near Skokinan Drive. Twin Homes, Inc. plans up to 50 two family units with some single family homes and a public playground, plus Virginia Avenue extension. Commissioner Michael Smith abstained.
Saddle and riding gear valued at about 160 dollars were stolen from a horse barn owned by Juanita Stephens at 5457 Cincinnati-Dayton Road in Hamilton deputies reported. The items belong to Wally Comer of Sharonville who boards his horse with Stephens.
John Pate, 25, of 8282 Martz Paullin Road Franklin was treated in good condition at Middletown Hospital for facial cuts and chest injuries after his car struck a utility pole at Yankee Road and Curtis Street around 3 a.m. yesterday.
A car owned by Bob Bush of 1509 Church Ave sustained 100 dollars in damage after a fire yesterday at 11 02 am on 14th Avenue and University Boulevard. The blaze was caused by short circuited wiring and investigated by local responders.
Ronald L. Rodrigues, 29, of Cleveland, is sentenced to 10 to 25 years in the Ohio Penitentiary after a Middletown A P store armed robbery. A 24 year old Cleveland man, Robert Wilcher, was killed in a police shootout after the Oct. 31 incident on Clinton Street. A third suspect, Alvin Reed, remains sought.
C.S. Pettis, 46, of Dayton, was found guilty by a Franklin County jury yesterday in Municipal Court on a charge of driving while intoxicated. Sentencing was to be set.
A pre trial hearing for Wayne Lester Rainey is scheduled for February 28. Rainey, indicted in 1971 for the shooting death of 26 year old Bradley Wayne Stamper, is serving a life sentence for another murder in Michigan. Stamper’s body was found on a Springboro farm after the victim and Stamper were linked in time.
Cincinnati planners receive $50,000 to acquire land and plan a 5.2 mile river park along the Little Miami River. City and conservation groups seek national scenic and wild river status to qualify for federal preservation funds.
A stream of notices from Middletown and surrounding towns reports deaths and funeral services for Joseph M. Little 73 of 2215 Grand Ave. Middletown. Paul Theodore 69 of Middletown found dead in Chicago. Mabel Reichelderfer 87 mother of Armco executives. Nellie Ann Harvester 63 Detroit sister of Charles McGee. Mrs. Ellinor etc. Memorial services and burial details follow across several local funeral homes with calls and service times noted.
In Dayton Ohio a brother files in federal court asking to mark Navy hospital corpsman Mark V Dennis as missing in action rather than killed in action. He cites exhumed remains tests and records suggesting possible POW status in Southeast Asia, while the Navy maintains Dennis died in a 1966 helicopter crash in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. The suit seeks a temporary restraining order to prevent continued designation as dead on constitutional grounds.
At 10 22 p m an armed robber entered the Halfway Inn on Hamilton Middletown Road and demanded cash. Barmaid Sandy Lambert saw a bite steel handgun pointed at her head as the man, described as 6 feet tall about 38 in dirty green work clothes, took an undetermined amount of money and fled. There were no other patrons present.
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