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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1970
Page
2
City sanitation crews resume work after a two week strike. Superintendent Ken Young expects most residents to have a pickup by Wednesday with routes in the south end on Thursday and Manchester Meadows areas on Tuesday. Schedule beyond midweek remains uncertain.
Linda Lee Gates 27 of 350 W Market St Springboro died at Grandview Hospital Dayton after a month long illness. Survived by husband Girdon C Gates two sons parents and siblings. Services 10 a m Tuesday McCoy Leffler Funeral Home burial Woodside Cemetery Visitation 3-5 and 7-9 p m tomorrow. William L Henry 46 of 315 S Marshall Rd Middletown died at Middletown Hospital after 18 months illness. Survived by wife Betty daughter Karen brother Harold sister Mrs Louise Bruner. Services 10 a m Tuesday McCoy Leffler Funeral Home visitation 7-9 p m tomorrow memorials to St Paul United Church of Christ. Additional visitation 7-9 p m Tuesday at another funeral home. Burial Oblong Cemetery Rev Robert McNamara will officiate.
Mrs. W Gelder formerly Hazel Schueller 71 of Middletown died Friday in Kalamazoo Michigan. Survived by husband a daughter Virginia Berden a son Walter Jr of New Jersey a brother Howard L Schueller Sr of Middletown five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Services at 1230 p.m tomorrow at the Kalamazoo funeral home and burial in Kalamazoo.
Arnold Chippendale 63 of 10204 Short Road died Friday night at home. Services will be 1 30 p m tomorrow at R C Nein and Sons Funeral Home with burial in Fairmount Cemetery. There is no visitation. Memorials may be made to the Preble County Cancer Society.
About 60 foreign and more than 60 American students met at Miami University Middletown campus for International Dialogue Day 1970 to discuss issues facing the world. Small groups shared views on humanity, the UN, generational gaps, and international drug use, followed by a three minute group summary. The event was sponsored by the Middletown Campus branch of the Cincinnati Council of World Affairs with Pam Pearson presiding over the closing round up.
After the 30 month war ends, refugees flood Lagos as relief work loosens constraints. Some soldiers feed civilians while others loot. Gov Gowon urges patience, pledging progress though wary of job losses. Red Cross workers strain under refugee influx as Allison Ayida is named to lead economic development efforts.
Franklin city court fined Franklin residents for various offenses. Douglas Oney, 27, 817 S Main St, paid 100 dollars and costs with 25 suspended for receiving and concealing stolen property after admitting he hid a radio and tape recorder known to be stolen. Other individuals faced smaller fines for disorderly conduct improper passing and traffic violations.
Gov. James A. Rhodes named a special committee led by Cincinnati fire prevention chief Donald P. Yuellig to study fire safety laws for nursing and rest homes. The panel will meet Feb 2 in Columbus to review all fire and smoke prevention protections following nursing home fire deaths.
William Rupp received the Armco 50 year pin from Lee Weitzenkorn vice president of Armco Steel Corp. Rupp began as a 1919 machinist apprentice at Middletown Works then progressed through sheet mill hot mill catcher rougher roller helper and blooming bar and strip mill roles before transferring to Armco Research as Sendzimir mill operator in 1944. He retired in 1949 as a senior operator.
Advanced tickets for the February 14 Young People’s Concert at Miami University Middletown are selling ahead of expectations. The program targets children from pre school to fifth grade and runs one hour in the Dave Finkelman Auditorium. Tickets cost 75 cents for all, with sales at local bookstores or by phone.
Ponderosa System Inc faces a 225000 suit over a Middletown venture. David H. Fagen and co plaintiffs claim breach of contract after a $10000 payment for a steak house franchise was returned. The case, filed Sept 2 1969 in Montgomery County Common Pleas, seeks ownership rights and damages.
In brisk trading on Friday 1970 the Dow fell 10.56 to 775.54 the AP 60 stock average slid 23 to 266.2 and the NYSE index dropped 0.50 to 49.93. Decliners outnumbered advancers 937 to 398 as volume reached 11 million shares.
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