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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1975
Page
2
The city schedules a final public hearing on its community development program for next Wednesday at 7 30 p m in City Commission chambers. A three year plan one year program and housing assistance program will be presented with citizen input from neighborhood meetings.
Picketing in downtown Lebanon continues with former city workers and AFL-CIO supporters urging a boycott of non union businesses. IBEW official James Kilbane says 50 to 60 pickets today, possibly hundreds by weekend, and vows to picket indefinitely until workers rights are recognized. City Manager Charles Guard maintains no status for current demonstrators and no affidavit will be filed despite a court injunction.
American Savings and Loan Association and executive VP Paul Steigerwald say 1974 showed net gains. The group added about 100000 to reserves, issued 2750000 in home loans to nearly 200 residents, and grew total assets to nearly 19 million. Finley and Starr were re elected directors, with Finley also president. Douglas Trenaman named loan service manager.
Butler County Mental Health Clinic has been renamed the Butler County Mental Health Center. Director Marion S. Parish says the name reflects broader services and operations including a West Chester branch and an enlarged Middletown clinic. The center will become independent Feb. 1 as the Middletown Area Mental Health Center. More than 800 treatment interviews are conducted monthly.
Two break-ins were reported to police with $4 in cash missing from a desk drawer at the Children’s Medical Center on 10 S. Highview Road after 9:30 p.m. Monday. A window was broken to enter. no drugs or other items were taken. Police suspect youths due to the small window hole. A separate break-in at Ruth Wilcox residence 620 Wicorf St involved a kitchen door forced open and a ransacked home with papers and jewelry scattered.
The national NAACP treasurer emeritus will speak 10 30 to 11 a m in Room 113 Logan Johnston Hall Middletown Campus and join an informal chat 1 to 2 p m in the North Lobby hosted by BSAA. Faye Walker eulogizes MLK on his birthday. Public invited.
Madison firefighters responded to a blaze at 6423 Michael Road around 12 40 PM. The fire damaged a 1973 car with an estimated $150 loss, starting from a backfire in the carburetor at the residence of Henry Craft.
The body found along I-71 north of Wilmington Road on December 28 is identified as Edwin Leroy Tremain, 50, of Lima. Tremain, a merchant seaman from Toledo, was shot in the back of the head. The identification was confirmed by fingerprints via the FBI at the Hamilton County Morgue. Investigation by Warren County authorities continues.
A husband and wife team will head the second annual Walk-A-Thon for the Butler County Branch of the American Heart Association on Saturday April 12. Mrs. Ray Brown will be chairwoman with her husband as co chair. The 12 mile route starts at Fenwick High School and sponsors aim to raise 16000 with 10 cents per mile minimum. Fifty percent of funds support research and the rest stays in the county for local services.
Multiple death notices from Middletown area hospitals include Frances Diver age 71 of 3102 Hampton Place Walter Diver and Dorothy Diver among survivors. Arzell Gresham 54 of 1820 Cherry St. and Lonnie Dalton 23 of 1007 S River St. are also reported with service details and burial plans.
Gus Harrison age 46 former Middletown civilian Air Force employee died in Albuquerque after 15 years there. Survived by three brothers Charles Randall and William. Funeral arrangements incomplete in Middletown. Vera Nixon 69 of Lebanon died at home with husband Menard and family. burial in Lebanon Oswald Funeral Home. Morley Ripley 81 of Franklin died at hospital after long illness. survived by wife Jenny, two sons, two daughters, 17 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Leonard Robinson, 17, of Lebanon died from auto crash injuries at Daytona Beach. services set at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home with burial at Woodside Cemetery. Rose Wirsing 81 Cincinnati formerly Hamilton services set. Willard Collins 74 Princeton Glendale Road services set. Mary Webb 85 Millville Avenue services set. Clarence Adams 58 N E Street services set.
Warren County Common Pleas Judge William Young approved an oral defense motion for acquittal in the Emma Lee Collins trial. Collins of Carlisle faced voluntary manslaughter charges in the July 18 stabbing of Thomas Burgess at River Arms apartments in Franklin after the state rested its case. The judge ruled the evidence insufficient.
The Middletown Area Safety Council reports that its defensive driving course trained over 1,106 people last year, surpassing 440 percent of the NSC quota for the area. Court referrals from Mason, Lebanon, Warren County juvenile court, and Middletown and Franklin courts are joining the program, with a new evaluation form and Saturday sessions. The council plans safety programs for the elderly and for industry focusing on the key man concept.
Clifford E. Hunt aged 90 of Ft. Thomas Kentucky is identified as the father of Mrs Kent Little. The notice notes his relation and residence as part of a family obituary item.
On December 8 1973 two Arab oil ministers signaled the U S embargo on oil shipments would be lifted sometime in 1974. The remarks pointed to a gradual return to normal supplies and heightened talks about market stabilization.
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