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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1970
Page
10
The city plans to solicit bids for an 8.6 million sewage treatment facility after four years of development. Financing received from the Ohio Water Development Authority with 30 percent federal and state funds, bonds to be repaid over 25 years. Construction could start in spring with bids opened in March.
The Appalachian Regional Commission says its five year effort to elevate poverty in 13 states has yielded only small gains. It notes more hospital beds, vocational schools, sewage plants, and 2600 miles of roads while incomes and education remain below national levels. Congress boosted funding to 283.4 million for the current year as officials weigh options on extending or ending the program.
An AP report from London notes a Sikh applicant was rejected by the London Ambulance Service over beard concerns affecting mouth to mouth resuscitation. The piece places the incident in postwar immigration Britain and cites local community relations efforts, plus a broader view of prejudice.
A Carlisle resident sues the Barnitz Bank of Middletown the Middletown Journal and a bank officer for 95000 alleging newspaper stories on January 11 and 13 1969 damaged his reputation. The suit says he was a McDonald’s manager and that a night deposit bag disappeared after publication of the articles. He claims the reports implied he faced felony punishment.
British health officials report 4 185 flu deaths in six weeks with 2 400 in the week ending last Saturday marking the highest weekly toll since February 1951. They call the virus mild, noting deaths stem from widespread infection rather than virulence. The Gospel Delegates from Dayton will give a concert at Shiloh Holiness Tabernacle tomorrow at 7 30 p m. Estate notices list Edith Dean appointed executrix of Neil Dean and Eva Brown executrix of John Brown in Butler County Ohio with case numbers E 7299 and E 7297.
An accident prevention course for seniors titled Handle Yourself With Care begins this Wednesday at 2 pm at the Senior Citizens Center in the old Barkeley Electric building at 1905 Columbia Ave. The four sessions are offered free by the National Safety Council and the U.S. Administration on Aging, led by James Schaffner with Rev. Robert Clark Capt. Robert Curtis and Robert Noel assisting. Contact Schaffner at the Middletown Safety Council for groups interested in hosting the program.
J. Robert Jones, Ku Klux Klan leader from North Carolina, freed from federal prison in Danbury Connecticut after one year for contempt of Congress. He proclaimed his return to the south, greeted his wife at the gates, and left with about two months shaved off for good behavior.
TV tonight features Andy Williams with Arte Johnson Mama Cass Elliott Ray Stevens and Sam Jaffe at 7 30 on channels 2 and 5. Adam 12 airs at 8 30 on channels 2 7 and 9 My Three Sons follows Barbara hosts a weather influenced dinner at 8 30 on channel 7 9 Green Acres at 9 9 on channels 9 and 12 16 Hollywood Palace at 9 30 on channels 9 12 and 16 with Burt Bacharach Angie Dickinson Willie Shoemaker Dusty Springfield Scoey Mitchill Petticoat Junction at 9 30 on channel 9 Mannix at 10 on channel 9 as a blackmailer case unfolds Tonight’s movies include How to Murder Your Wife on channel 7 and Son of Dracula on channel 19.
Multiple obituaries list names such as Mrs Appollonia Chaputa and Mr Wayne Ludwig, with ages 83 and 69, burial plans at Woodside Cemetery and various church services. Funeral arrangements are handled by Joseph R. Baker & Sons and McCoy Leffler. services span Jan 7 to Jan 10 with prayers, Rosary, Requiem Mass, and interments in Middletown and Kentucky locations.
A thank you note from Mrs. Erna Agoston expresses gratitude for sympathetic support after the death of James J. Agoston. She thanks pallbearers, floral donors, Father Huser of St. Marys Church, and Wilson Schramm Memorial Homes, pledging to cherish the honor shown.
A collage of obituary style tributes dated 1959 1967 and 1966 mourning family members. Messages express enduring love loss and memory for a husband father and son Charles Delano Swartz killed in Vietnam and several relatives with prayers and reunion hopes.
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