Loyal American Day Parade Promises Largest Middletown Showing
A parade led by Robert Armbruster starts at 10 am forming on N Main and Tytus to Broad and Central to Main to Barnitz Field with about 100 units and 35 floats. Marine Brig Gen Edwin Wheeler to speak at Barnitz Field. sounds of America Band and Sing Out America to perform. Vietnam veterans recognized. Streets closed for formation and disbanding. McKinley School lot open for parking.
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Barnitz Field
Robert Armbruster
N. Main Street
Tytus Avenue
Broad Street
Central Avenue
Central
Main Street
Main
Armbruster
Middletown
Vietnam
Harold Goetz Sr
Barnitz Stadium
Marine Corps
Edwin B. Wheeler
Raymond J. Fening
Sounds of America
William Svarda
Paul Bell
Committee For
E. M. Rains
James Howerton
Bob Barnard
Columbia Avenue
Tytus
Verity Parkway
Verity
Columbia
Manchester Avenue
Broad
First Avenue
S. Main Street
11Th Avenue
14Th Avenue
Minnesota Avenue
McKinley School
Middletown Journal Skips July 4 Edition
The Middletown Journal will not publish on July 4 or Christmas Day. The paper will resume Wednesday with a July 4 activities round-up and a pictorial parade report. Comics and crossword puzzles from today and Tuesday are included. Be Alive on the Fifth.
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Middletown Journal
Armco Buys 1500 Acres for Houston Expansion
Armco Steel Corp purchases about 1 500 acres west of Lake Houston in Harris County for future industrial expansion. The Jacintoport Corp subsidiary of Louisiana Land Development Co. developed the site and Armco plans Houston office consolidation and a new building at Post Oak Park. The Houston Works employs over 4 000 and sits on the ship channel.
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Houston, Tex
Armco Steel Corp
Houston
Lake Houston
Harris County
The
Jacintoport Corp
Louisiana Land Development Co
William Verity
Armco
Aston
Gulf Coast
Verity
Post Oak Park
Jacintoport
Houston Works
Middletown Works
Ship Channel
Appell, Robeau and* Balch
B. F. Sawyer ‘and Son, Inc
Middletown
Truck Fire Destroys Wheat Truck Near Woodsdale
A truck loaded with 200 bushels of wheat and 10 acres of straw burned at 3:25 p.m. Saturday off Woodsdale Road near Woodsdale. Owner Otto Proeschel of Trenton reported smelling smoke as he left the field before the vehicle burst into flames. Firefighters from North and South Madison and crews from Overpeck and New Miami extinguished the blaze with estimated losses at 8000 dollars.
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Woodsdale Road
Woodsdale
Otto Proeschel
Douglas St
Trenton
Butler County
Madison
Overpeck
New Miami
June Swim Total At 44 288
The total attendance for June at three municipal pools reached 44 288 with breakdowns: Sunset 30 561 Yankee Road 9 801 Douglas 3 926. Weekend figures: Sunset 2 554 Yankee Road 699 Douglas 265. Ross Kramer, supervisor, reported today.
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Ross Kramer
Sunset
Yankee Road
Douglas
Collection Of Garbage Set Tuesday
Ken Young the sanitation superintendent said Middle Town will not interrupt garbage collection tomorrow July Fourth. Crews will work normal shifts tomorrow and maintain the weekly schedule. The disposal site will be open tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Middletown
Ken Young
Probation Ordered for Youth in Hamilton Case
A 19 year old Middletown youth Roger Whitman received five years probation in Butler County Common Pleas Court for breaking and entering at 3609 Central Ave on Feb 9 and stealing an $80 portable TV. Greg Keith 18 of Hamilton also got five years probation for breaking into the Island Sandwich Shop on Central Ave. Stolen items included whiskey and a transistor radio.
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Middletown
Court of
Butler County, Common Pleas
Arthur J Fiehrer
Roger Whisman
Tyrust Ave
Joseph Atkinson
Central Ave
Whitman
Vietnam
Lima State Hospital
Greg Keith
Hamilton
Fiehrer
Central Avenue
Editor Retires After Long Columbus Career
The Columbus Dispatch reports the retirement of Executive Editor W. Doyle Frazier Sr. Frazier began his career in 1915 as a reporter for the Zanesville Signal, marking a storied tenure in Ohio journalism.
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Columbus, Ohio
Columbus Dispatch
W. Doyle Frazier Sr
Frazier
Zanesville
Police hold man in $4000 house fire
Police investigate arson after a 10 15 p m Saturday fire at 1501 Yankee Road caused 2500 damage to the brick two story house and 1500 to its contents. A man released from Butler County jail earlier that day was seen with lighter fluid and matches near the scene and later arrested near a bar on Michigan Avenue.
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Yankee Road
Butler County
Michigan Avenue
Four Cars Demolished In Early Morning Crash On Verity Parkway
At 1 30 a m yesterday on North Verity Parkway near Curry Ford Inc four cars were demolished in a collision. Joe Wheeler Lowley 35 of 131 S Main St Franklin drove into parked vehicles owned by Dale Sallie 814 Yankee Road Joe Hill 1804 Johns Road Sam Warner Dayton and damaged Lawrence Smith 1307 Elwood St. Lowley faces a driving while intoxicated charge.
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North Verity Parkway
Curry Ford Inc
Tytus Ave
Joe Wheeler Lowley
S. Main St
Franklin
Dale G. Sallie
Yankee Road
Joe Hill
Johns Road
Sam Warner
Dayton
Lawrence Smith
Elwood St
Lowley
Middletown Commission Holds Light Agenda Tonight
City commissioners meet at 8 in the City Building with two ordinances and a resolution on a light agenda. A resolution would authorize a contract with Duane Hasselbring and Kuhlman for engineering services on Breiel Boulevard. An ordinance would levy a Gladell Heights relief sewer special assessment. A motion will be considered to sell a lot in Hook Field Industrial Park to B S S Realty Co.
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Middletown
Duane, Hasselbring and Kuhlman
Breiel Boulevard
Roosevelt Avenue
Oxford State Road
Gladell Heights
Hook Field
B.S.S. Realty Co
Swimmer Saved From Lake Drowning In Middletown
Robert Wood, 26, was pulled from Le Sourdsville Lake by Paul Meeks, 24, a California resident visiting for the summer. Meeks performed 15 minutes of mouth to mouth resuscitation to revive Wood after he had been underwater about five minutes. Wood remained in critical condition at Middletown Hospital. Meeks credited his lifeguard training and said he may stay in Middletown beyond the summer or return to California.
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Dayton
California
Middletown
Middletown Hospital
Robert Wood
LeSourdsville Lake
Paul Meeks
Forest Ave
Meeks
Wood
Middletown High School
US. Army
Alaska
LeSourdsville
Bill Barr
Aeronautronic Corp
Newport Beach
Calif
Claude Meeks
Chase crash leaves 19 year old dead in Middletown
A 19 year old girl, Joyce Ann De Hart, died after a crash near Central Avenue and Verity Parkway. Police say driver Robert Krause was chased by youths in a red Chevrolet before the collision. Gentry, driver of the other car, suffered a fractured wrist and was treated and dismissed. Services for De Hart were set for Wednesday at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home.
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Joyce Ann de Hart
Howe Road
Trenton
Robert Wayne Krause
Yankee Road
Middletown Hospital
Central Avenue
Verity Parkway
Edward Lewis Gentry
Brandon Road
Germantown
Rt. 2
Krause
Main Street
Engle’s Corner
Gentry
Miss DeHart
Ralph DeHart
Timothy
Kathy
Ernest Calhoun
Middletown
Anna DeHart
McCoy- Leffler
Herbert Gibson
Woodside Cemetery
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E. Fifth Street
John Shelton
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Joyce Dehart
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