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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1978
Page
13
Staci Sue Spurlock arrived at 6:24 a.m. weighing 5 pounds 14 ounces and measuring 18 inches, first child of Brenda and James Spurlock at 200 E. Jackson St. in Franklin after a delayed birth caused by a late doctor. The baby was named for friends Jean and Eddie Stacy.
Police broke up a 1:30 a.m. fight at Ta Ho Tavern. Lornie Silverthorn, 22, resisted arrest, and her mother Vergie Back, 46, was also arrested after trying to intervene. In a separate incident, two men on 4th Avenue, James Simmons and Cleveland Simmons, were arrested at 1 a.m. for discharging firearms in their backyard on 804 14th Ave, with James wielding a shotgun and a revolver and Cleveland a shotgun.
Fire department runs record multiple calls across Middletown including medical incidents and a vehicle fire. Individuals listed range in ages from 10 months to 86, with several treated and released or admitted to hospital, and one in intensive care.
A seminar on estate planning and the Tax Reform Act of 1976 will be hosted by Shearson Hayden Stone on January 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Manchester Inn. Admission is free but reservations are required. contact Shearson offices at 1 N. Main St. for details.
The Madison Life Squad will start emergency ambulance service for Madison Township residents at 8 a.m. Tuesday. The emergency telephone number to reach the squad is 425-0708.
The village shifts large trash collection to a quarterly plan with the first pickup starting tomorrow at 8 a.m. Residents must place items at the curb by street level. Eligible items include discarded furniture, major appliances, and bundled four foot brush or limbs.
Warren Sheriff Wallace goes to trial with his wife Elda charged in bribery case. Prosecutor Turkelson seeks to prove guilt from a 1976 grand jury investigation. Jury selection from 105 candidates to begin, with possible delay or venue move if unbiased jurors cannot be found.
Franklin City Council approved placing a 1-mill levy on the March ballot to fund city employee pay raises, five percent across the board for this year. The plan would run five years and raise about $43,774 annually per mill. Police expressed dissatisfaction with the raises given 1977 increases.
Franklin City Council re elected Dan Moore as chairman and William Gansheimer as vice chairman. The meeting appointed members to the Housing Board of Adjustments, Civil Service Commission through 1983, and the Warren County Regional Planning Commission with new alternates, and continued service on Franklin Homeowners Inc. The council adopted 1978 appropriations of 3,311,214 and witnessed oaths for newly elected officials. Regular Jan 2 meeting was dispensed with.
A second reading for an ordinance setting installation and monitoring fees for burglar and fire alarms will proceed at tomorrow’s City Commission meeting. Other items include sidewalk time limit extensions, purchasing property for the South neighborhood CD program, and special assessments for sidewalk curb and gutter repairs. A Meet Your Commissioners session precedes at 5 30 p.m.
State troopers reported two women were injured in a two car crash at Ohio 122 and Dixie Highway at 7 p.m. Bonnie A Anderson 21 of Fairfield failed to stop at a red light and traveled north on Dixie, colliding with Patricia H Hathaway 40 of Fairfield who drove west on Ohio 122. Hathaway and her passenger Annette King 47 were hospitalized for treatment.
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