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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1973
Page
2
Hamilton reports an attorney has been appointed to represent William Jones Jr. 24 charged with shooting with intent to wound a Michigan youth at an I-75 rest area. Jones will appear in Area 2 Court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing before Judge Arthur Fiehrer of Butler County Common Pleas.
KAOS of Miami University Middletown swept the 1972 73 awards led by a general excellence prize among eight Ohio branch campus papers. KAOS earned top feature news layout photography and two other honors for staff writer John Polisini editor John Sparks and photographer Bob Hauselman. A separate report notes a court appearance in a separate case where Jones was charged with armed robbery resulting in a fatal shooting at a rest stop involving Nicola Yussuf Kassis and Sandra Jones.
Police responded to a report of a man asleep on railroad tracks near Calumet Ave. The individual, 18 year old Bart Volkhan, told officers he was waiting for his work crew to pick him up.
Two injury accidents in the I 75 construction area were reported. Robert Hoskins 60 of Cincinnati was treated at Middletown Hospital after a truck backed into him south of Monroe. Gregory Sutton 21 of Cincinnati moved his farm truck from the berm into the right lane and was struck from behind by Glen Long 30 of Cincinnati.
Two LCI inmates Michael Rolland and Henry Austin were moved to Chillicothe to be placed in a maximum security setting after a June 15 disturbance at Lebanon Correctional Institution. Dallman cited Rolland as OPSU organizer and noted Austin’s clandestine OPSU ties and hunger strike attempt. Rolland faces a parole hearing next month. Austin is due for release in 11 months.
Middletown Rep. William Donham says the Ohio House passage of a legislative pay raise is inflationary and hard to justify. The bill boosts state reps and senators from 14000 to 17500, with substantial increases for the governor and other top officials. Donham and Rep. Corwin Nixon voted against the measure, which mirrors a Senate version not yet voted on.
Parks Director John Paschal announced Sebald Park is open following repairs to the low bridge over Elk Creek. High water washed away approach abutments and tree limbs were cleared. a plan to prevent future washouts will be decided next week.
Three youths, including Dennis Sorrell and his brother Kenneth, were to appear in Middletown Municipal Court over a Castell Building break in two weeks earlier. They admitted to breaking into nine Castell Building offices around July 14 and confessed to at least six other burglaries, aiding police in clearing up 16 or 17 cases. Dennis Sorrell faces charges for the Middletown Sand & Gravel Co. burglary. James Perkins and Carl Marshall are also charged in the Castell Building burglary. Two safes were peeled and furniture damaged during the nine offices break-in.
Rollie E. Griffith 6970 Ronald Drive Middletown died at 5 40 am at Middletown Hospital after admission July 25. Surviving wife Arminda two sons Rollie Jr and Eugene a daughter Mary Franks six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Services 2 pm Monday Grace Baptist Church burial Miami Valley Memory Gardens. Masonic service Sunday 7 30 pm at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home. James Hopper 41 Air Force M Sgt formerly of Middletown dies at McGuire AFB N J services Monday McCoy Leffler Funeral Home burial Middletown Cemetery. Ernest J. Root 75 3712 Vannest Ave Middletown dies in hospital after long illness. Burial Woodside Cemetery. Fannie Sexton 92 3503 Manchester Road dies Middletown Hospital. Camden Bruner Caudill 53 Camden killed in one car crash. Burial Fairmount Cemetery. Ger mantown Raymond W. Smith 79 dies Grandview Hospital. Sisters and children named. services pending. Berry G. Stamper 66 Ormond Beach Fla dies. Survived by wife Lillian and son William. Burial Rose Hill Hamilton. Seth Turnmire one week old Franklin death graveside services at Woodhill Cemetery. Fred Reinart 81 Fairfield James Helton 56 Hamilton Mason Rd Richard Kniss 47 New Orleans formerly Hamilton.
Arye Pincus, 61, chairman of the Jewish Agency and a key world Zionist figure, died Wednesday in Tel Aviv. He had led the Jewish Agency since 1966, guiding immigration to Israel.
The 19th annual national car festival runs tomorrow through Sunday in Hamilton and Fairfield. About 300 old cars will be on display at Hamilton West Shopping Center 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Then at Fairfield High School 1:30 to 2 p.m. Trophy awards 4 to 5 p.m. at the courthouse. An aerobatic display by Bill Hogan in a 1929 Waco biplane caps the event. Club dinner at Hamilton Inn at 7 p.m. tomorrow. The festival ends Sunday with events across the area.
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