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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1962
Page
9
City commissioners meet at 7 45 PM at the City Building to review a routine agenda. No legislative items are listed. the administrative session will consider an aerial survey contract for the master plan, hear a letter praising street department tree limb cleanup, and consider two appointments.
The last program in the YMCA Travel and Adventure Series screens Nicol Smith’s 90 minute color film Hawaii Cross roads of the Pacific at Roosevelt Junior High School. Officials expect over 400 attendees as Smith tours Oahu Kauai Maui Lanai Molokai and Hawaii island with scenes of Honolulu business and plantations. The event starts at 7 30 p.m. and features Buddhist weddings and a Hereford ranch among the highlights.
Franklin-Warren deputies seek leads after a midnight to early morning burglary at the Martz Paullin Road store. Items stolen include a hi Fi TV stereo tape recorder typewriter beef cheese toothpaste and groceries. Owner James Powers says no insurance due to high rates district far from law enforcement and neighbors report a light outage and a warning to stay out of a telephone booth.
The 1962 eight month fishing season starts tomorrow at Smith Pond operated by the Department of Parks and Recreation. Charles Davis directs. hours are 4 a.m. to 9 30 p.m. Fees fund stocking and pond improvements with primary passes for families and daily or guest options. servicemen on leave may fish for free with ID. Passes are nontransferable.
In Butler County Domestic Relations Court, 39 year old Mrs Erie Venricks of Middletown received a suspended one year Cincinnati Workhouse term after pleading not guilty to tending to cause the delinquency of her 16 year old daughter. Judge David Black fined 42 year old William F Hall of 48 N Broad St 100 with 90 suspended on the same charge after his guilty plea.
March 9 through March 19 mark the annual Girl Scout cookie sale period. Hundreds of Scouts from four districts aim to sell 60 000 packages with Mrs Sam Tutt as general chairman and Mrs Richard O Donnell as co chairman.
The Peewee Knothole Mothers Auxiliary will discuss plans for the upcoming season in a meeting tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the Park Board building located at 400 Highland Street. All members are urged to attend and prospective members are welcome.
Hunter Clark Post 6405 of Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold an officer election March 12 at 8 p.m. from nominees including Commander Charles B. Johnson Senior Vice Commander William McCuller Junior Vice Commander David Glass and John Hunter Quartermaster Eugene Hart and James Hunter Chaplain Miles Ringer and John Thomas Trustee David Glass and Robert Frazier Judge Advocate Jerry Glover Surgeon Choice Bryant.
A 33 year old man, James Edward Echols of Lockland, died when his speeding car crashed into the Bi Lo Service Station on Hamilton Middletown Pike near Rt 4 north of LeSourdsville. The car and building damage exceeded 10000 dollars. Echols was a chauffeur for Cincinnati attorney Harris Weston, whose car owned the wagon. The death marked Butler County’s fourth traffic fatality this year.
The Miami area committee discussed the airborne classroom television project at a meeting in the Board of Education room. Howard Cromwell, Middletown school superintendent, heads the 15 member panel of educators and business people overseeing the year long pilot program.
North Madison Fire Department asks for clothing furniture and useful items for the Don Wagner family burned out when their home burned Sunday evening. The family with four children ages 4 9 15 and 18 escaped with only the clothes on their backs. Donations may be left at Poasttown fire house or called GA 3-1988 or GA 3-2988 for info.
Two Franklin men avoided serious injuries when cars collided near Verity Parkway and Germantown Road at 4 10 a m. Kammer ran a red light and struck Holbrook's eastbound auto, sending Holbrook’s car over a bank and damaging two vehicles. Police charged Kammer with failure to yield at a red light.
Heavy rainfall and rising rivers prompted evacuations and road closures around Middletown Trenton and Franklin. Water from Twin Creek keeps flooding areas while some roads reopen as river levels drop to near flood stage.
Firefighters report a loft blaze at L and M Body Shop 2012 N Verity Parkway yesterday. Preliminary damage estimated at about 50 dollars with a cigarette or match listed as possible cause.
Ronald Hipsher at Cook's Sunoco on Main Street reported a break in at his station when he opened early today. A glass section of the overhead door was smashed, a desk drawer rummaged, and a metal box with $35 in change taken. The Sinclair station on Main Street was also entered. a neighbor saw two youths fleeing and notified police.
Anderson of Oxford and Ben S. VanGorden of Princeton Road were appointed yesterday to the Butler County Planning Commission. They replace Robert Richardson of Middletown, former chairman, and Leon Bailey of Lemon Township whose terms expired. Anderson is a personnel relations consultant for Champion Papers Inc, while VanGorden is a former president of the county commissioners in real estate.
Commissioners re appointed two planning commission members John Davis of 731 LeSourd Ville West Chester Road and Krae Erickson of Oxford for three year terms. Robert Hillbrand Jr Seven Mile was re appointed to the Butler County zoning commission for five years and Virgil Perry Box 466 Middletown was re appointed to the Butler County Zoning Board of Appeals for five years.
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