Break-in spree hits nine cases with cash losses
Nine burglaries reported since yesterday linked to cash takings and damaged property. Alma Rhinehart was attacked in her home on 522 Boyleston St with $206 missing and a knife used. her husband found the break-in after returning home. Intrusions occurred at Famous Recipe Fried Chicken and Jad's Roast Beef on Grand Ave, with loot including chicken, beverages, and small cash from machines. Additional break-ins targeted McConnell Radiator, Wertz residence, Setters home, N Verity Parkway apartment, 1106 S Main St, and Engle residence, totaling varied valuables and little to no forced entry observed. A Garfield Cafe break-in left a rock-rammed window and two suspects seen fleeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma Rhinehart
Boyleston St
Carl
Grand Avenue
Breiel Boulevard
Welcome for FMC Chorus Highlights Middletown Weekend Events
The 95 member FMC Chorus from Japan arrives Saturday morning greeted by Middletown High School band Rotary PROMISES and local officials. A welcome program at the mall features speeches gifts and national anthems before host families and a hayride. The weekend ends with an 8 p.m. Sunday concert at Dave Finkelman Auditorium and shuttle service from Miami University parking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
FMC
Middletown High School
Rotary Club
Main Street
Manchester Avenue
Verity Parkway
Middletown Mall
Dave Finkelman
First United Methodist Church
Middletown
Miami University
Kim Williams Wins Elk Regional Speech Contest
Kim Williams a 1975 Middletown High School graduate won the Elks regional speech contest in Columbus on Sunday. She previously captured local district and state titles and earned a spot in the national contest in Chicago on August 11. The six-state field included entrants from Michigan Illinois Virginia West Virginia Indiana and Kentucky. Williams is the first Ohio winner in over twenty years and will attend Mount Union College in Alliance next fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elks
Columbus
Williams
Chicago
Michigan
Illinois
Virginia
West Virginia
Indiana
Kentucky
Miss Williams
Ohio
Mount Union College
Alliance
Norwegian Elkhound wins two dog shows weekend
A Norwegian Elkhound owned and handled by Virginia Curtner at 4833 Victoria Ave earned wins in two shows over the weekend. Jackson's Salute to Teddy captured the puppy class and reserve best in show at the Bloomington Indiana Kennel Club Show on Saturday, then won the puppy class at the Northern Kentucky Kennel Club Show in Alexandria Kentucky on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Curtner
Victoria Ave
Jackson
Teddy
Bloomington
Ind
Northern Kentucky Kennel Club
Alexandria
Farmers to picnic at LeSourdsville Lake
MONROE A Grange Farm Bureau picnic will be held Thursday at LeSourdsville Lake with a barbecue chicken dinner at 5 30 p.m. followed by a talent contest emceed by Harold Wissman Monroe Grange will have a picnic Aug 4 at 7 p.m. at Webb's south of LeSourdsville The next regular Monroe Grange meeting will not be until Sept 1 for the election of officers The Women's Activity Committee will meet at Thompson's Park northwest of Hamilton at 6 30 p.m. Aug 8 with a covered dish dinner Last evening Monroe Grangers watched a demonstration of a painting by Mrs Boyd Smith Pomona Grange members met at Monroe Saturday and it was announced the Grange would have an exhibit at the Butler County fair and its officers march in a parade there.
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Monroe
Grange Farm Bureau
LeSourdsville Lake
Harold Wissman
Monroe Grange
Webb's
LeSourdsville
Thompson's Park
Hamilton
Boyd Smith
Pomona Grange
Grange
Butler County Fair
Laundry van strikes fence at Avalon Park
A Valley Laundry van left running at 1404 Germantown Rd rolled into gear and crossed Germantown Road, hitting the Avalon Park fence. Police report no truck damage but city property damage is estimated at 100 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germantown Road
Avalon Park
Valley Laundry
S. Main St
Franklin
Boy dies of leukemia after Opti Soap Box Derby bid
Mark A. Mikula 14 of 105 S Breiel Blvd died at Children’s Hospital Cincinnati after a year illness. He reached quarter finals in prior derbies and helped by brother Tom this year, a Manchester Junior High student who played Peewee football. Survived by parents, siblings, grandmother and other relatives. Mass at St John’s Church and burial at Woodside Cemetery. Memorials to leukemia fund at Children’s Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark A. Mikula
Steve Mikula
S. Breiel Blvd
Cincinnati
Mark
Manchester
James
Joseph
Steven
Middletown
Mary Swigert
Apolonia Mikulas
Czechoslovakia
St. John's Church
Woodside Cemetery
Wilson-Schramm
Leukemia Fund
Children’s Hospital
Warren approves sewer agreement for Muddy Creek district
Warren County will assume ownership and operation of a sewage treatment plant and trunk sewers built by Crooked Development Co to serve the Muddy Creek Sewer District. The plant will start at 125000 gallons per day with completion targeted for October. The action accompanies other county decisions including a second stage on Chautauqua Baptist Park development and a public hearing on the 1976 budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil Yost
Lebanon
Warren County
Crooked Development Co
Muddy Creek
Eeaee
Ed Tree
Mason
Richard Renneker
Chautauqua Baptist Fellowship Park
Miami
Blue Balldesignated Bicentennial community in Ohio
Blue Ball received official Bicentennial status from the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration announced by U S Senator John Glenn. It is one of 56 Ohio communities to gain designation, allowing access to federal and state funds for local programs coordinated by Mrs. Martin Rush in Middletown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
John Glenn
Ohio
New Jersey
Blue Ball
Martin Rush
Cincinnati-Dayton Road
Middletown
Man Fined $100 in Franklin for Disorderly Conduct
Frankin Municipal Court fined 18 year old Mark Metcalf of Middletown $100 and costs with $50 suspended after guilt for disorderly conduct at Jerry's Restaurant on July 10. Two prior speeding convictions added $45 in fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
Mark Metcalf
Germantown Road
Middletown
Franklin Municipal
Woman wins red tape contest at Warren County fair
Dayton resident Mary Sue Livensperger won a red tape cutting contest sponsored by Lt. Gov. Richard Celeste and the Warren County Democratic Party. Judges praised her computerised mailing idea to validate automobile license plates by mail, promising a $25 savings bond as the prize.
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Lebanon
Dayton
Richard Celeste
Warren County
Democratic Party
Mary Sue Livensperger
Franklin honors David Puckett death in Fontana
David Puckett 55 of Wilson Drive died Sunday in Fontana California. The obituary notes his residence and age with limited details in the fragmented notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
David Puckett
Wilson Drive
Fontana
Calif
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Famous Recipe Fried Chicken
Grand Ave
McConnell Radiator Service
Jefferson Road
Richard Wertz
Flemming Road
Franklin St
Edsell Setters
Orchard St
Joyce Jones
N. Verity Parkway
Ken Engle
Rotunda
Ed Seamon
Dale Helsel
Clark Deem
Seers Middletown Rotary
Sta
William Denham R
Michael Fox
R-Hamilton
Robert Johnson
Clem Burton
Promises
Ivan Dornon
Yoichi Anazawa
FMC Chorus
Masaji Hemai
Fukushima City
Sojio Takano
Promises Bell Choir
Middletown Sportsmen’s Club
St. Paul’s United Church of Christ
James Rhodes
Anazawa
Robert Richards
Dudley Inwood
Donald E. Lukens
Rotary Club and
Towne East
Kettering
Kim Williams
Elk
Bell-Hanna
River Bridge
State St.Ste. Rte
Larry E. Young
Ira Rt
Springboro
Middletown Bank
WPFB
Dodds Monuments
Verity Pkvy
14Th Ave
Charles
Bud) Steller Mor
Tom
Samuel Hunt
Samuel T. Hunt
Glenn Ave
Middletown Hospital
Mr. Hunt
West Liberty
Miami Carey Co
Walter
Gertrude Merriman
Medway
Barbara Ramsey
Springfield
Opal M Gle
Blanche Clark
Martha Kolb
Talmadge
cCay-Leffler
Eugene Wallace
Janie Gwartney
Janie M. Gwartney
Redmond
Ore
Robert G. Osborne
Ralph
Zacker
Walter Hitte
Walter A. Hitte
Laura Smith
Oxford Road
Hitte
Maxwell Paper Co
Myrtle
Hazel Mullins
Germantown
Ernie
Tampa
Fla
Cleveland, Tenn
Joe
Puckett
The
American Bridge Co
David
Jeffersonville
Sharon Gray
Molly Puckett
Mary Ballard
Trotwood
Mattie Myers
West Carrollton
Eaton Funeral Home
Edward Bates
Woodhill Cemetery
Christopher Riedel
Salvatore Place
Queen of Peace Church
Pearl Schell
S. Second St
Martin Herzog
Millville-Shandon Road
St. Aloysious Church
Mildred Parshall
Ft. Lauderdale
Rose Hill Cemetery
Mark Mikula
Warren
Clearcreek-Franklin Road
Ohio 73
Tamarack Hills
Sonora
Craig Pendleton
Edwardsville Road
Sharp’s Run
McCoy-Leffler
McCoy- Leffler
Sutphin
Woodlawn
Homer D. Leffler
Mimed National
Peac Ao
Nee Moore
Vannest Ave
Potter St
Trenton
Su Gullega
Man
Culligan Man
Culligan Water Conditioning
SO. University Blvd
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