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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1977
Page
2
Monroe votes to join county regional sewage treatment at LeSourdsville. County to own and operate the plant with lines from the village boundary to the site. Sewage flow metered at village limits. County sets treatment rates. village sets village customer rates.
Brenda Prether filed a $600,000 suit in Warren County Common Pleas Court charging Mayor Melvin Reece with denying her a patrolman position after a probationary period. She seeks $300,000 in compensatory damages and $155 weekly wages from the date the job would have begun, plus punitive damages, amid a dispute over appointment procedures.
City negotiators and Fraternal Order of Police representatives failed to reach an agreement on the 1977 wage package yesterday. No details of the disputed terms were disclosed.
Death notices for Robert Lee Barnhart Jr 32 of 1603 Flemming Road Curtis Harry Brown 71 of North Fort Myers Fla and Edmonia Morton ? 58 of Lee Street list funeral details services and burial at Woodside Cemetery. Survivors include spouses children and siblings and additional obituaries cover James Belcher Doris Smith Ruth Smith and others with service times and locations. Also FDP wage talks and late fire division pay deadline noted with limited progress.
Police report a week and a half long vacancy led to vandalism and burglary at Kay Thomas’s apartment on 2017 Tytus Ave. Water pipes burst causing damage. missing items include a color TV, turntable, radio-tape player, bedspread, class ring, and $12 in cash. It appears someone may have lived there or held a party. Nearby at Union Sanitary Laundry $200 in change was taken from a dollar changer overnight Monday.
A 27 year old woman told Butler County sheriff's deputies she was abducted from the House parking lot on Hamilton Middletown Pike about 1 a.m. yesterday. She said a man escorted her outside, forced her into a van, and took her to the Princeton Road Trailer Park at Port Union where she was raped. She was taken to Mercy Hospital for treatment and examination.
The 20 year old son of former Hamilton councilman W. Tyson Pee, 410 Columbia Road, was killed in a car crash near the Peru Ecuador border while studying abroad in Bogota. Douglas Beazley, a junior at the University of Kalamazoo, was majoring in music and had been in a foreign studies program since September. authorities and family provided details via the American embassy in Lima.
Elliott Fortner 33, former Middletown Hospital ancillary services VP, is named administrator of Kettering Medical Center’s 120 bed satellite hospital to rise along Ohio 725 east of I 75. He helped plan the project while awaiting HEW approval for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. Fortner began at Kettering in 1966 and earned a hospital admin master’s from Xavier in 1970.
Swami Nishveyasanada of the Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center will lecture in room 16 Logan Johnston Hall at Miami University Middletown at 7 30 p m tomorrow. The talk is part of a U S Canada tour from Central Africa with missions including Zambia Malawi Rhodesia and the Republic of South Africa and is free and open to the public.
Franklin officials warned of salt shortages and potential flooding as winter persists. City Manager Bernard Eichholz told the City Council that diesel trucks, adopted after a costly trial, run longer between Fueling and improve plowing efficiency. He cautioned limited salt supply and discussed sand drawbacks, while arranging an on call crane and describing blade choices to avoid damage to manholes and water valves.
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