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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1973
Page
2
An Icelandic island off Vestmannaeyjar experiences its first eruption as lava reaches near the town. 5,000 residents are evacuated by sea and air, with ships and coast guard craft aiding the operation. No casualties reported.
Edgewood school board approves a cash funded addition to Edgewood High School increasing capacity by 150 to over 1,000 students. The district, using general fund surplus, touts better tax value. The board also renames buildings to Edgewood Middle and Edgewood Junior School effective 1973 74.
Alexandros Onassis, 24, heir to the Greek shipping empire, remained critically injured after a private plane crash at Athens Airport. Officials announced his condition citing temple sources as Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Onassis left the hospital in tears.
Otterbein College President Thomas J. Kerr will address area alumni at a Manchester Motor Inn dinner tomorrow at 7 45 p m. He and Mrs Kerr will discuss the college and its future as part of Otterbein 125th anniversary Capital campaign led by local chairman Joseph C Ayer. Dinner starts at 6 30 in the Garden Room.
Michael McGraw of Trenton has been named editor of the 1972 73 Ohio University yearbook the Athena. The 2 A communications major and Edgewood High School graduate is the first sophomore to edit OU s yearbook. He aims to reverse a declining sales trend with about 2000 copies sold last year and notes university committees voter information work and Student Governing Board service. The selection followed studies by the Student Activities Board on yearbook demand and the late spring or fall prior.
William Melloh reported a tape player and tape stolen from his car parked at Edgewood High School on Oxford State Road. Local deputies investigated the daytime theft and recorded the incident.
Retired landscaping service owner O N Moon 72 dies after two months illness at Middletown Hospital. Birth Pender Nebraska. lived in area since 1911. WWI veteran. survived by wife Lillian, daughter Vera Mullins, four sisters, two grandchildren, great grandchild. Services Thursday at Wilson Schramm Memorial Home. burial Woodside Cemetery.
John Shepherd, 62, of Middletown, was found guilty yesterday in Butler County Common Pleas Court of shooting with intent to wound John Shoemaker, 37, after an argument about a debt. Shoemaker was in his locked car when the chest wound occurred. Judge Fred B. Cramer set sentencing for February 5.
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