Big trucking firms say they protect owner operators
A vice president of a major trucking firm says owner operators are not being pushed out by big companies. The executive notes small owners provide vital service, supports a fair rate system to cover rising costs, and expects ICC increases of 6 percent plus a fuel surcharge. Armco Steel may haul its own freight if costs rise further.
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C.J. Bosnak Journal
Armco Steel Corp
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
ICC
Crucible Steel
Armco
Low escape rate reported for Ohio community release program
Ohio officials say in 1973 fewer than 4 percent of inmates in the community release program escaped or walked away while outside institutions. More than 800 inmates participated. 26 absconded, with 24 from Mansfield and one each from Chillicothe and Lebanon. Cooper defends the program as essential to rehabilitation amid a lawsuit seeking to halt it.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
Bennett J. Cooper
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
Franklin County
George C. Smith
Cooper
Ohio State Reformatory
Mansfield
Chillicothe Correctional Institution
Lebanon Correctional Institution
Middies on cable TV debut screens locally
Middletown High School suffered a 68 to 67 basketball loss to Hamilton Taft in a game broadcast on cable TV channel 14. The taped telecast will be shown again Monday at 6 30 p m with Bruce Armstrong noting this as the first local origination effort and promising more programming to come.
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Middletown High School
Hamilton Taft
Bruce Armstrong
Man guilty of selling barbiturate in Franklin raid
Clayton Abney, 21, of Franklin, was found guilty in Common Pleas Court of selling a barbiturate. Judge William Young ordered a pre sentence investigation with a possible 20 to 40 year sentence. Over $40,000 in marijuana and drugs were seized after a month long Franklin police and Multi-State Unit probe. The first convict from the raid was Steven Sanders with a 20 to 40 year term for selling an hallucinogen.
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Lebanon
Clayton Abney
Franklin
Abney
Common Pleas Court
William Young
Young
Franklin Police
Multi-State Unit, Inc
Steven Sanders
Woman kissed, then shot, serviceman testifies
A Middletown man Michael Shell 21 was bound over to the Butler County grand jury on a shooting with intent to kill charge after a New Year’s Eve incident at the Ranch Inn Motel. Freddie Scott 21 testified Shell held him and Willa Mae McCook 20 at gunpoint, Shell allegedly kissed her before the gun fired wounding McCook critically.
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Mike McLeod
Middletown
Butler County Grand Jury
Michael Shell
Cleveland St
Willa Mae McCook
Live Oak
Fla
Cleveland Street
Good Samaritan Hospital
Cincinnati
J. T. Lamb
Freddie Lee Scott
Ft. Monmouth
Miss McCook
Ranch Inn
Tytus Avenue
Scott
Shell
Deaths and funerals in Middletown region
Obituaries note deaths of Jeanette Corson and Clarence Hollon at Middletown Hospital. Services set for Monday at McCoy Leffler and Joseph R Baker & Sons Funeral Homes with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery and Woodside Cemetery. Several survivors listed including spouses children and siblings. military rites planned for Marguerite Rose.
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Jeanette Corson
N. Sutphin St
Fairfield Nursing Home
Corson
Middletown
Kuhlman Co. Tobacco Warehouse
Marshall
Robert
Robert Beckett
West Carrollton
Gertrude Yonker
Grove City
McCoy Leffler
Joseph Harvey
Oak Hill Cemetery
Glendale
Clarence Lewis Hollon
Church St
Joseph R. Baker & Sons
Howard Sears
Hollon
Middletown Hospital
Bernita
Christopher
Courtney
Angela Smith
Karl Hollon
Lexie, Roberts
Donald Hollon
Ronald Hollon
Norfolk
Ada Hollon
Betty Trader
Dayton
Wesley Poole
Woodside Cemetery
American Legion Post
Arthur R. Nash
Logan Ave
Nash
Sorg Paper Co
Aldean
Wesley
Linda Campbell
First Church of the Nazarene
Lottie Stamper
Elk Creek Road
Claude Kennard
Margaret Keller
Harriet DuErmit
Aberdeen Drive
Hannah
Blanchester
Keller
Woodside Manor
Kenwood
Break-ins Reported at Three Local Homes
Police briefs list three burglaries in the area. Mrs MRS Curtner at 4833 Victoria Ave reported a ransack and an antique ring stolen. Robert Driscoll at 920 Thorn Hill Lane had a color TV and a radio taken. Imogene McVay at 931 Eighth Ave said $167 was stolen from a hidden pocketbook.
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Ray Curtner
Victoria Ave
Robert Driscoll
Thorn Hill Lane
Driscoll
Imogene McVay
Eighth Ave
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Internal Revenue Service
FBI
Smith Park
Sheckler
Ballard Gayhart
Pleasant Valley Road
Kenny
Ruth Rogers
Elmo Place
Jerome Ingram
Woodlawn Ave
Ronald Robertson
Omaha St
Amanda Williams
Wicoff St
Frank King
Kay Chriswell
Germantown Road
John Miller
Rufus
Clarence Hollon
Marguerite Rose
Queen Ave
McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home
Arthur Nash
Miss Rose
ICE
Adiator
ATCO
U.S
B.Y.O.B
University Blvd
Central Ave
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