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Newspaper

Middletown Journal

Location

Middletown, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jul 17, 1973

Page

2

Monroe officers sue over police appointment dispute

Three Monroe police probationers in Butler County sue Mayor Gordon Reed in Common Pleas Court. They allege Reed arbitrarily blocked their appointments after the chief recommended them on April 2 and June 5 1973, while council had unanimously voted for Wilbur Faris and others.

Hamilton Monroe Butler County Common Pleas Gordon Reed Martin Wilbur Carson Read Donald Faris Todhunter Road Donald D. Dillman Ridgeway Court Reed Chief of Police Wilbur Faris

Franklin approves 1974 budget with steady spending

Franklin City Council approves a balanced 1974 budget of 617,488 with receipts down slightly but spending steady. City Manager Eichholz notes increased local receipts offset by loss of federal revenue. The report notes 1973 receipts at 636,799 and expenditures down by 20,000, plus hires and zoning actions, sign revisions, and sewer contracts.

Franklin Bernard Eichholz Council Cincinnati Howard W. Morgan Jr Eddie Lawson Jr Morgan Chase Law School

Multiple Middletown deaths mark week of services

Obituaries list Mrs. Lucille C. Linkous and others across Middletown and nearby towns. The deceased include Clyde O. Moore Minnie Thomas Mullins Troy C. Stacy Shirley Booth Ed Lamb and Helen Finch Saunders with funeral plans set at local churches and homes, memorials requested to Central Baptist Church and Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, and services scheduled across Ohio and Indiana communities.

Menifee County Earl Roy Otis Middletown Corbett Trenton Anna Jackson Joyce Sorrell Lucille Nickell James Mullins Gratis Effie Holland Olympia Bethel Morton Columbus Miss Mary Steele Linnie Long McCoy-Leffler Rodney Williams Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Peasttown Della Walker Addie Deaton Jackson, Ky Joseph R. Baker & Sons Harold Thompson Woodside Cemetery Central Baptist Church Shirley Booth Ann Clark Mazie Hansel Spring City Tenn Booth Raymond Bay Co Dorothy Mae Dean Louise Creech Rockwood Memorial Garden Cemetery Booth Funeral Home Ed Lamb North Vernon Ind Tony Lamb Butlerville Walter Mabel Herrin Mt. Vernon Christine Brown Piqua Jordan Funeral Home Vernon Oxford Helen Finch Saunders W. High St St. Francis Hospital Beech Grove John Rosenfelder Ellen Drive Spring Hill Charles Coral Gables Fla Paul Don Hamilton Marshall- Smith Funeral Leonard Klotz Oxford Cemetery

Township road striping machine on loan from county office

Township clerk Helen Brown said a road striping machine reported in yesterday's Journal is on loan from the Butler County engineer's office. Trustee Stanley J. Roth said yesterday the machine had been purchased.

Lemon Township Butler County Engineer's Office Helen Brown Stanley J. Rothman

Toledo man fined for helping dump body in river

A 20 year old Toledo man Marnee Wayne Bennett was fined 200 and given 30 days in jail suspended after admitting he helped dump the body of 42 year old Columbus Blevins in the Great Miami River near Woodsdale. John Compton 19 of Moreland Indiana faces murder charges in Blevins death.

Toledo Hamilton Columbus Blevins Great Miami River Butler County Common Pleas Arthur Fiehrer Marnee Wayne Bennett John Compton Moreland Ind Blevins Anderson Fiehrer Bennett Woodsdale Interstate 70 New Hope Preble County Butler County

Store closed by hoax halts at G C Murphy

A telephone bomb hoax forced the G C Murphy Department Store at 1044 Central Ave to close yesterday afternoon. Police and store officials searched the store from about 1 p.m. until it reopened at 4 p.m. The new manager, Scott Maxwell, declined comment on his first day. An employee said a man made the call.

G. C. Murphy Department Central Ave Scott Maxwell Franklin

Fire damages truck in short circuit on Lowell and Jewell

At 8:52 a.m. a fire on Lowell Street and Jewell Avenue damaged a Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. truck van by an electric short circuit with $200 loss. At 9 a.m. Mrs. Nancy Hyden 47 of 1917 Lamberton Street was ill and taken by ambulance to Middletown Hospital. condition listed as fair.

Park, Lake, Sycamore Walnut Street Clifford Gentry Gentry National Homes, Inc E. Fourth Street Clear Creek National Homes Contractors Service Co Cincinnati Lower Springboro Road Frank Crane City Service Department Lowell Street Jewell Avenue Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co Lamberton St Nancy Hyden Middletown Hospital

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