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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1977
Page
2
Robert Stanton of Fairfield reported a car blaze on Verity Parkway yesterday afternoon at about 2 p.m. He found smoke from the back seat and said his brakes failed when he tried to stop. Firemen attributed the blaze to rear brake malfunction. Stanton escaped uninjured, with $800 damage to a 1968 Oismobile.
Korn 32 formerly Fairfield was sentenced to die for the July 1974 murder of Ruth Boench, a Hamilton school principal. A three judge panel ruled death after weighing mitigating circumstances. He had requested execution over life imprisonment and faces appeals in Cincinnati. He also faces a life term in Indiana for assault and rape under appeal.
A string of obituaries lists services and burial plans for residents including Mrs. Collis Bailey 65 of 1203 Pine St. and Herbert Dewey Cutter 78 of 2900 Armco Dr. with services at First Church of God and McCoy Leffler Funeral Home. Other notices name Mabel L. Fry 79, George L. Gayheart 49, Eleazer Holbrook and Eva Lou Laricchiuta 47 among others with times, locations, and burial sites across Middletown Franklin and Trenton.
The Lakota school board in a special session agreed to join Union Township trustees to use the Voice of America tract on Tylersville Road near I-75. The disused tract was declared surplus by the U.S. government which is seeking new uses. Darrell Root was named to negotiate with township officials on the joint application.
ATLANTA AP Four human bubonic plague cases have been reported to the CDC in 1977 with two in New Mexico and one each in Colorado and Arizona. All four victims are alive or recovering. The illness traced in one case to a family pet cat and transmission between people remains rare.
A Middletown woman Blanche McIntosh age 62 died after driving into a car carrier at the Ohio 49 Westbrook Road intersection north of Dayton at 11:15 a.m. She died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton. The driver of the carrier Robert Szeliga 23 of Cleveland was injured but declined treatment. McIntosh was en route to her son's home in Dayton. she leaves a daughter, a son, a mother, four brothers and five sisters plus eight grandchildren. Funeral services will be Friday at Gabbard Funeral Home Jackson Ky with burial in Haddix.
Hamilton police say no charges have been filed in the shooting death of 26 year old James B Lang found early Saturday in front of the Turf Club. Coroner Garret Boone called Langs death a homicide from a gunshot wound to the left chest after he had been beaten. Lang born in Hamilton worked for Matthews Company and is survived by wife Margie and three sons plus a daughter and siblings. Private funeral at Brown Dawson Funeral Home with burial in Greenwood.
Wilmington College in Ohio will get 1.5 million dollars from the federal Advanced Institutional Development Program. The funding, announced by U.S. Rep. William H. Harsha, covers July 1 through 1982 to lay groundwork for future expansion.
Henry Hudson and Capt. Russell Wilson, officers of the Trenton Rescue Squad, spoke to a seniors group about a February suit filed by unnamed squad members seeking their ouster. The May court dismissal prompts costs of 1500 to be charged to the suit’s initiators or paid from squad funds. Hudson hinted at restructuring the squad under city government if the public supports such a move.
A fire at 3716 Roosevelt Blvd caused about $5,000 damage to the contents and $5,000 to the building. No injuries were reported. Fire officials said the blaze started from an electrical short in a window fan or clock radio, with many musical instruments damaged by heat or smoke. William Marshall, who was closing a Lebanon music store, said the items belonged to his home.
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