Weather Disrupts Area Schools After Weekend Snow Storm
Dozens of schools remain closed as road crews clear routes for buses following the snow, with only a handful in Franklin Lebanon Trenton and Middletown able to reopen. A 48 year old Middleton highway worker was hospitalized with a possible broken leg after an accident while unloading a bulldozer. three Detroit area relatives were injured when their car slid on ice and hit a guardrail on I 75 near Rt 122.
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Lebanon
Trenton
Middletown
Monroe
Middletown Hospital
Rt. 73
Clarence Creech
Minnesota St
Butler County Sheriff's Deputies
I T
Detroit
Mich
Robert Presnell
Louise
Wanda
Stevens Avenue
Public Service
C. A. Boeke
Ohio Highway Department
Warren
Greene
Inmates Ordered Into Hole After Jail Tools Found
Butler County jail inmates faced disciplinary action after a prisoner struck a fellow inmate and hair was cut nearly to the scalp. Deputies found a pocket knife and two spoons sharpened to near razors during a Sunday afternoon search. George Woh! attacked another inmate while James Hughes and James Hancock were involved in the hair cutting. The investigation led to the weapons and prompted potential visitation and mail suspensions.
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Hamilton
Butler County
Cliff Hyde
Fire damages utility room. ignition blamed on furnace
A fire yesterday morning caused an estimated 500 damage to a utility room in John D. Hoffer’s home at 3804 Lewis St. Firemen say the blaze stayed in the room and likely started from a delayed furnace ignition. The fire totaled 300 to the building and 200 to contents. Firemen aided 10 month old Bobby Conley of 927 Lafayette Ave who swallowed lighter fluid and was taken to hospital.
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John D. Hoffer
Lewis St
Bobby Conley
Lafayette Ave
Fire damages car interior in Franklin incident
Fire damaged the interior of a car owned by William Abney of 827 Park Street Saturday night as he attempted to start the vehicle. Firemen said the blaze might have been caused by a cigarette. No damage estimate was provided.
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Franklin
William Abney
Park St
Abney
Monroe Grange Meeting Postponed to February 1
Bad weather delays Monroe Grange gathering from tonight to February 1. The postponed meeting includes a covered dish supper and slides from Mrs. Wallace Chamberlain about a recent Europe trip. Pomona Grange's meeting, postponed from last Saturday, is rescheduled for this Saturday at Poasttown.
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Monroe
Monroe Grange
Europe
Wallace Chamberlain
Pomona Grange
Poasttown
Reservists Named For Inaugural Parade In Ohio
Three Middletown residents Garnett Gresham S Sgt Rudolph Looney and A S Robert G Akers were selected to represent their Air Force Reserve unit at Wilmington Ohio in the inaugural parade They are with the Continental Air Command 302nd Troop Carrier Wing at Clinton County Air Force Base Gresham is a metals processing technician Looney is a material supervisor and Akers is an airman with local family details provided
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Garnett Gresham
Rudolph Looney
Robert G. Akers
Middletown
Air Force Reserve
Wilmington
Ohio
Continental Air Command
Clinton County Air Force Base
Set. Gresham
Jacoby Ave
Athens
Distress Haynes
Set. Looney
Young St
Floyd Looney
Calument St
Middletown High School
University of Dayton
Henrietta S. White
Airman
Akers
Mattie A. Akers
Garden Ave
Lee County High School
Beattyville, Ky
Winds Piled Up Snow Costs Shrug Off Frigid City
City and state officials say the four inch storm and fierce weekend winds produced the costliest winter weather effort in 15 years. Crews widened plowed paths and opened drifted streets with rented graders, salt trucks, and heavy machinery.
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Wayne Township
John Paullin
Wayne Township Trustees
Howe Road
Trenton
Paullin
Park Department
Boeke
hardy scouts weather weekend at two camps in heavy snow
One Boy Scout troop braved Camp Hook while 13 of 20 stayed Friday to Sunday with Scoutmaster Joe Hoffman saying the trip was difficult but doable. Dennis Daley arrived late and hiked in Saturday morning. A Carlisle troop could not go, and a Franklin Girl Scout troop stayed at Camp Middlemoor despite the snow.
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Hardy
Camp Hook
Franklin
Camp Middlemoor
Boy Scouts
Joe Hoffman
Hoffman
Dennis Daley
Carlisle
Officials to reconvene on Akron freight train crash
Railroad state and government officials scheduled another hearing in Akron Ohio to hear testimony on the Sterling area freight collision that killed five crew members.
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Akron, Ohio
Sterling
City Commission to act on fire station site purchase
City commissioners plan to authorize the purchase price for lots at the southwest corner of Breiel Boulevard and Central Avenue for No. 5 fire station construction and Bresel Boulevard widening. An architect for the fire house and a construction timetable are expected topics at the 8 p.m. meeting. Right of way purchases delay Breiel widening from Roosevelt Avenue to Central Avenue.
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Bresel Boulevard
Breiel Boulevard
Central Avenue
Breiel
Rosevelt Avenue
Separate incidents blamed for Trenton outage and barn fire
An early Thursday auto crash on Cotton Run Road near Morganthaler Road caused an electric outage in New Miami area, while a separate fire on C. H. Moore’s barn near Trenton cut telephone service. Company officials said the crashes and fire were unrelated and five miles apart. A Marion Pate 23 of Hamilton was later arrested on loitering after a car theft and tire theft tied to the incidents.
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Cotton, Run Road
Morganthaler Road
Trenton
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
C. H. Moore
Sycamore Road
Woodsdale Road
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Rt. 4
Marion Pate
Hamilton
Cotton Run Road
Louis Angst
New Miami
Robert L. Brown
Jacksonburg Road
Brown
Butler County
Pate
Third Street
Snowy Weekend Traffic Uplift Causes Minor Injuries
Police logged 45 accidents since Friday with 31 Friday, 10 Saturday and 4 yesterday. Lt James Combs said most accidents are not heavy and two people, Mr and Mrs Joseph Cimprich, 68, were injured in a collision with Jimmie Dale Wallace 23 near the Middletown Library. Cimprich declined hospital treatment though in pain.
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James Combs
Lt. Combs
Joseph Cimprich
Lind St
Cimprich
Jimmie Dale Wallace
Park St
Curtis Street
Middletown Library
Wallace
Middletown Hospital
Footprints Lead Police To Break In At Penney Store
Police tracked a Sunday morning burglary at the J C Penney Store 1125 Central Ave after an ADT alarm. Snow footprints from the City Hotel linked two Detroit men to the roof entry. they were arrested and questioned with no losses reported.
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J. C Penney
Central Ave
ADT
City
Detroit
Mich
Two Zoning Hearings Set Near Middletown Plaza
Public hearings are scheduled for two zoning change requests before the city planning commission tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. in the City Building auditorium. The Kroger Co and Gillen Crow Pharmacies seek a change from single family residence to neighborhood business on the rear of the Grand Ave at Gideon Rd parcel. the rest remains commercial. A second hearing covers Dr. T C Benseler requesting a switch from single family to R-3 multiple family on Breie Blvd north of Batsey Dr, with the tract from Gideon Rd to Breie Blvd included.
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Middletown
Kroger Co
Gillen- Crow Pharmacies
Grand Avee
Gideon Road
T. C. Benseler
Breie Boulevard
Batsey Drive
Board To Eye Addition Plans
The Board of Education will hold a noontime special session at Monroe Elementary School to approve preliminary architectural drawings for an addition. Two board members were unable to attend last week’s meeting when the matter was first discussed.
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Board of Education
Monroe
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