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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1967
Page
8
DETROIT AP January auto sales fell 21.1 percent from a year earlier as GM Ford Chrysler and American Motors report sharp declines in the first 11 days of the month. Plant cuts and possible tax increases cloud the outlook for 1968 demand.
A Philadelphia father perished attempting to rescue his family as a second floor blaze trapped seven people in a three story brick row home. Nancy Rounds, 14, survived a jump from the third floor with a broken leg. several siblings and a next door child were injured. Firefighters halted the flames within three minutes, but the Drum family suffered multiple deaths and injuries.
A east side apartment fire in Cleveland killed five people including four children in what authorities call a revenge act after a domestic dispute. Police hold a woman as arson investigators gather evidence and expect to present details to the county prosecutor. Gasoline found at a nearby station is linked to the investigation.
Franklin municipal court bound over two men to the Warren County Grand Jury. John Menthes 25 of Richmond Ind faced auto theft charges and received 9 days jail and a 200 dollar fine plus costs for petit larceny from Donald Kidwell. Kermit Wallen 40 Middletown bound over on non support of minors with a 3000 dollar bond. Others fined include Adah Hollen Harley Edds and Wilbur Wright for various offenses.
The Butler County Medical Society will host its first general meeting at Elkis Country Club on Route 4 in Wednesday. Dr. Brady Ran notes the rarity of two leading Ohio medical figures attending a local society gathering. The 184-member group expects strong turnout as Dr. Meredith prepares to share his Ohio State education and Elyria practice background while Dr. Hulschmitt serves as secretary treasurer.
Buel Ray Wortham Jr. was released on $22,222 bail from a Leningrad prison as he appeals a three year sentence to a Soviet labor camp for stealing an antique bear statue and black market currency exchanges. He will stay at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow awaiting the appeal.
A Mohawk Street pony keg business, Ray's Pony Keg run by William Moreland at 3126 Mohawk St, has a seven day suspension of its liquor license by the Ohio Department of Liquor Control. The ban starts noon Feb 14 and ends noon Feb 21. Other cases before the liquor control commission include Chatterdine Inc doing business as Chatterdine Cafe at 418 Baltimore and Garlan C Barr doing business as Barr's Pony Keg at 4713 Central Ave. Chatterdine is charged with selling beer to a minor and furnishing beer to a minor. Barr is charged with Sunday sale.
Hamilton sheriff deputies searched for a man possibly knifed in a dawn altercation outside Kip's A Go Go on Route 4 north of here. Officers found no clear victim or assailant identities as investigations continued and area hospitals were checked for knife injury admissions.
Fred Parks, 19, of 75 Mitchell Avenue, sues James and Orville Wilsman of 2693 Dixie Highway Hamilton in Butler County Common Pleas Court seeking 50000. He alleges a truck owned by the defendants turned in front of his motorcycle on September 17, 1965, at Erie Boulevard and Grand Boulevard, causing a skull fracture and injuries to his leg shoulder and wrist.
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