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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1977
Page
2
Federal and local investigators press on after December 8 raids in Middletown Franklin and Cincinnati. Officials refuse timetable while calling the operation a major inquiry with chapters to come. Confiscated items include heroin valued around $2 million and assorted valuables stored by police.
Gov James A Rhodes sends an all time high state budget of 14.5 billion to the Ohio legislature for 1977-1979 with no new taxes. The plan relies on about 1.5 billion in existing revenue growth and uses 6.8 billion in federal and other revenues. The general fund would hold about 8.7 billion. Education, higher education, and mental health spending are central as Democrats threaten to alter priorities.
Multiple obituaries from Middletown and surrounding towns note deaths of Martha Jane Combs 88 Clara A Roe 67 James Antrobus 51 Amanda Caudill Long 54 Grace L McFall 88 Edward Jewell Wills 56 and others. Services listed with dates times locations and storing churches and funeral homes. He list survivors including spouses children and siblings with burial at Woodside Camden Miltonville and other local cemeteries.
Humane Officer Carl Creach reports twenty three dogs froze to death during sub zero days. He cites a state law requiring straw bedding and offers tips: provide warm water twice daily, avoid long outdoor exposure, do not use heat lights without safe wiring, prevent electric pads hazards, keep doghouses flat-roofed, avoid antifreeze, and avoid bathing to preserve body heat. Short haired dogs and chained dogs at risk. birds also benefit from warm water.
Letown High School Tech Ed committee announces a spaghetti supper scheduled Friday from 4 30 to 7 p m in the school cafeteria ahead of the Middle Hamilton Taft basketball game. Orchestra members serve as waiters for the fundraiser. Proceeds fund a trip to Marion Indiana next month. The Clock restaurant caters. tickets are 250 each at the door.
General Telephone Co of Ohio plans 68 million dollars to expand statewide facilities. President Robert M. Wopat says about 4000 requests for reduced ey lines will be fulfilled while expanding cable networks and switching. About 2700 sheath miles of new cable, 75 percent underground, are planned with pushbutton dialing in 37 more cities and 14 exchanges already equipped. Training center building in Marion to be finalized in 1977. The company serves roughly 10,000 customers across 243 exchanges in 80 Ohio counties.
Glenn Hollingsworth 76 long served as Harveysburg mayor died from injuries in a two car wreck at Ohio 73 and Main Street. Russell Shaeffer 21 of Wilmington was driving the other car with passenger Robert Plymate 25 of Springboro treated for injuries. Hollingsworth succumbed to his injuries at Clinton Memorial Hospital.
The Journal corrected that Fire Lt. William Brice retired after 29 years with the division, not resigned. Firefighter Danny O'Neil was promoted to the lieutenant’s position.
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