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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1977
Page
2
Williamsburg Ohio residents race to raise 1250 this weekend to keep street lights on as funds dwindle after two failed levies. Mayor Donald Hiler cites labor cuts and rising crime while Rotary volunteers mobilize. If the drive succeeds the village will match funds and residents offer to pay for lights.
A sequence of death notices and funeral details from Monroe Hamilton Germantown Lebanon and surrounding communities. Hazel F Callahan of Monroe died after a weeklong illness. services are Friday at Webb Funeral Home with burial at Greenwood Cemetery. William Daniel Dean a seven month old died at home. service Friday at John A Arpp Funeral Home. Bertha F Hauser of Seven Mile died. burial at Butler County Memorial Park. Georgie B Singleton of Lebanon died after extended illness. service Friday at Oswald Funeral Home. Clarence Thieman of Lebanon Franklin died. mass Friday at St Mary Church. Martin B Shugg and Doris J Ping noted in Hamilton obituaries with service details.
One library bookmobile broke down prompting cancellation of several runs from today through Friday. All books on canceled routes will renew automatically. Remaining runs stay on schedule with listed locations for Thursday and Friday. Easter dates vary between March 22 and April 25.
Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Arthur J. Fiehrer stayed Donald L. Korn’s death sentence pending appeal for the murder of retired Hamilton school principal Ruth Doench. Korn was convicted June 13, 1974, for stabbing and sexually assaulting Doench, with a mattock buried in her forehead. He remains on death row at Lucasville.
The Pastoral Counseling Service will sponsor an auction at the Community Services Flea Market at Middletown City Centre Mart on August 27 at 10 a.m. Proceeds support PCS services and programs. Auctioneer will be Col. Roger Barnes. PCS solicits donations of items and requests donors call PCS.
Police say Polly Reed and Beverly Lakes were arrested at 2018 Linden Ave and face Eaton charges for illegal possession of drug documents. Reed is also charged with narcotics possession, receiving stolen property, and illegal drug documents. Lakes faces receiving stolen property and illegal documents. Lakes is linked to a Franklin drug and stolen property ring via a federal indictment.
A tractor pulling contest and a junior talent contest headline tonight’s Butler County Fair events at 7 p.m. Tomorrow features horsemanship at 8 a.m. junior beef breeding at 4 p.m. and another tractor pull at 8 p.m.
Frits Eppler 71 of 34 N. Cherry St. longtime antique dealer and Grist Mill Excavating Co. owner died yesterday in Dayton after a four-month illness. He once owned Germantown's Shuey Mill on S. Main Street built 1844 45 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The three story mill stood as a local landmark.
The Middletown Area Chapter of the American Red Cross will host four instructor classes on Health and Safety in the Home Economically. The first session is Tuesday with subsequent classes on August 9 16 and 23 from 3 to 5 p.m. Gen Welch leads nursing services assisted by Marge Caldwell. For registration call weekdays 8 30 a m to 4 30 p m.
Byron H. Clark of the Franklin Inn in Franklin was named grand champion at a county fair week spelling contest held at Garden Manor Extended Care Center. Zelma Horner, also of Franklin Inn, Vandalia, was runner-up among about 30 spellers from nine facilities. Judges Douglas Bean of Middletown Public Library and Edward Dax of Lane Library Hamilton pronounced the words idyll ic and iconoclast.
Mrs. Charles Sizemore of 921 W Market St Apt B Germantown was treated for minor burns on her legs after an aerosol insect spray she was spraying in a closet in her apartment ignited when a water heater pilot light lit the air. Fire Chief Richard Zechar noted kerosene base in sprays can ignite near flames and warned of warnings on can labels.
Butler County Commission will decide on final CETA funding for Middletown at Thursday meeting. Keith Hyde says Middletown has three applications in the advisory council top five and five city proposals are in the top 15, most likely receiving funding.
Firefighters battled a blaze that gutted the Dayton Insulation Co plant in the Maloney building at 315 Lock Street in Miamisburg. The fire was reported at 2:18 a.m. and investigations into damage and cause were pending.
A two-vehicle crash at Verity Parkway and Germantown Road injured a woman and a child from Madison schools. Judith Hatton 21 and Tracy Hatton 3 were treated and released. Driver Davey King 17 was charged with failure to yield on a left turn.
Arthur L. Miles, 66, of 1020 Yankee Road, was driving a car that struck a sand bank at Middletown Sand & Gravel Co. on Sunday. He was removed from the critical list and listed in satisfactory condition at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati.
Two residents on Midway Street alerted authorities after spotting a car at SK Construction offices on 2514 Atco Ave. Police arrested William S. Worthington, 18, and a 16-year-old boy for complicity to attempted theft and related charges. gate details include a missing gas cap and tools found in the pumps’ circuit box. A separate late theft at Middletown Hospital shows a window broken and about $40 stolen from Roosevelt Stevenson’s desk.
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