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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1973
Page
3
The Middletown area YMCA Day Camp starts Monday and runs until July 6. Cost is 20 dollars for members and 25 dollars for nonmembers. Children aged 6 to 10 may attend. Campers ride to the Middletown Sportsmen's Club each morning and return at 3 pm for swimming. Activities include crafts nature study a cookout and an overnight.
Four persons sustained injuries in three city crashes yesterday and today. Archie Taulbee 63 of Gratis collided with Jerry Nardiello 51 after pulling into an intersection. Nardiello had head and knee bruises and Taulbee was cited for failure to yield. A second incident at Verity Parkway and Yankee Road injured Brenda Marshall 25 and Paula Marshall with unknown conditions. no citations were issued. Burl Waye 19 of Locust Street was in a one car crash on Second Avenue, suffered leg and chest injuries, declined treatment, and was cited for keeping insufficient distance.
The water distribution building at Hook Field Industrial Park now approved to cost up to 35 000 more than the initial 300 000 estimate. The city plans a 16 400 square foot facility for water maintenance, trucks, and office space. The fee increase follows a low initial estimate by architect Shilling Smith Balke Robinson.
Cleveland police searched the East Side for a gunman after a patrolman was killed and another wounded. The dead officer was Fred Cacha, 26, and the wounded partner John Saccany, 30, was struck in the foot. The assailant fired from the cruiser and fled on foot after a halt order.
Four people were rescued from an industrial park as up to eight feet of water flooded area buildings after a thunderstorm. A mudslide up to ten feet deep and a hundred feet wide blocked a Price Hill road while power outages and minor crashes were reported citywide. One worker, Robert Hall, 18, was struck by lightning at a Florence Kentucky gas station and treated at a Covington hospital.
Richard Lampley a 21 year old from 614 16th Ave was moved to Fort Hamilton Hughes Hospital in Hamilton after being shot several times last Wednesday afternoon by Middletown Patrolman Schmidt. He remains under police guard in fair condition while Schmidt and officers recover from injuries. Lampley is held on assault charges with a 6000 dollar bond. Otis Turner and James Malott also involved.
Sixteen area youths hold government offices at the 36th Buckeye Boys State at Ashland College. Roles include Middletown officials like Don Green as county recorder and Scott Barnes as fire chief, with others from Fennick, Lemon-Monroe, Edgewood and Carlisle. The program concludes Friday.
Obituary notices report the deaths of William Dudley Baker 47 of Walnut Grove Trailer Park Blue Ball and Wilson Theodore Forney 67 of 2416 Hill Ave Middletown. Also listed are the funeral arrangements for Christ Chifos 53 of Middletown with services in Rockford Illinois. Survivors include spouses children and grandchildren for each deceased. Services and burial details note times locations and the handling funeral homes.
The Lydia may sail from Bermuda to New York tomorrow evening with a three man crew including Middletown businessman Charles E. Morgan 43 as a new member. Vincent Sisson 52 attorney-owner and George Howell 52 of Richmond Indiana join Sisson on the 35 foot sloop. David George 26 of Dayton will not make the final westward leg.
The Agriculture Department reports 96 percent of the nations corn crop planted by June 17 with late planting in the Corn Belt. Growth is lagging behind normal due to spring rains, though warmer weather and moisture aid survival. Illinois corn stands at about 10 inches, well below the normal 16 inches. Weeds and grass growth are high in some regions as farmers cultivate to control them.
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