Call-out of Ohio Bell service cripples Middletown area
A central office breakdown at 1505 Central Ave disabled most local and long distance calls in Middletown Ohio. Police and fire departments used mobile units and radios to maintain emergency contact while repair crews worked since 4 a.m. Restoration hoped by noon but no cause given. If unresolved by 4 p.m. residents would miss Carter radio call-in.
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Central Ave
Ann Baines
Ohio Bell
Journal
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Butler County Sheriff's Office
Coors
State Highway Patrol
Jimmy Carter
Ptl
J. C. Kristanoff
Joe Slusher
Loren Marshall
Middletown Area News Dated March 5 1977
Local Middletown brief highlights events from early March 1977 including community notices, small notices, and brief local updates. No major incidents detailed in the readable text.
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Middletown
Area
Taxes Due Tuesday for Butler Mountains Real Estate
Tuesday marks the deadline for Butler Mountains real estate taxes for the second half of 1976 with a 10 percent penalty after the due date. Treasurer Mark Wendel said about 40 percent of taxes had been collected and some bills were returned for incorrect addresses. Citizens missing bills should call the treasurer and Middletown branch office at the city building second floor.
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Butler Mountains
Mark Wendel
Wendel
Trash Means Cash for Middletown Students Recycling Drive
Sixth graders will compete to turn in the largest weight of aluminum for a $10 prize per class at the Middletown Area Recycling Center MARC will award $50 to the winning class. The two week contest runs at McKinley Manchester Roosevelt Amanda and Verity Schools with MARC volunteers speaking about recycling. Aluminum items such as foil pie trays and lawn furniture are accepted and a magnet test helps distinguish aluminum from iron or steel.
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Middletown Area
Middletown
McKinley
Manchester
Roosevelt School
Amanda Middle School
Verity School
Marc
Fire and medical responses across city incidents
Fire crews logged multiple calls from 7:52 a.m. at 202 Charles St with 19 year old Kim Yancey suffering stomach pains to hospital, to 509 Ross St where 55 year old William Wilson was ill and admitted in fair condition, and 9:14 a.m. at 2814 Moorman Place for Frank Cogan aged 68 also ill and admitted in fair condition. Additional calls included an electrical wiring damage at Wayne Commodore residence causing several hundred dollars in damage and a 25 year old man overdosed who refused aid but later admitted to hospital in fair condition. A Middletown High School incident involved Teresa Breedlove, 16, insured to hospital, treated and released, and a 7:02 p.m. emergency run at 601 18th Ave noted as investigated.
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Ross St
William Wilson
Second Ave
18Th Ave
Wayne Commodore
Man
Middletown High School
Teresa Breedlove
Jacoby Ave
Ins
Moorman Place
Frank Cogan
Bank OK to Move Headquarters to Monroe
The First National Bank of Middletown Ohio may relocate its headquarters across the county line to Monroe Ohio after a U S District Court ruling by Judge David S Pdin Cincinnati. The move faced a challenge from Franklin National Bank which argued it would give Middletown’s larger banks an unfair advantage.
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Cincinnati
First National Bank of
Middletown
Ohio
Monroe
U.S. District Court
David S. P Din
Franklin National Bank
Warren County
Butler
Warren
Franklin Bank
U.S. Comptroller
Robert Bloom
Porter
Bloom
Ohio audit critiques accrued sick leave payouts
Ohio State Auditor Thomas E. Ferguson says public officials lack statutory authority to pay accrued sick leave at retirement or termination. The report seeks $5,191 recovered from a Colerain Township highway superintendent and trustees who approved the payment, citing an 1916 Supreme Court ruling on legal authority for such expenditures.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Thomas E. Ferguson
Ohio Supreme Court
Colerain
Hamilton County
Levey Named to Opening on Miami University Trustees Board
Middletown attorney Barry Levey was nominated by Gov. James Rhodes to the Miami University Board of Trustees filling a vacancy from the nine year term of Lucile Cooks. Levey, 45, a long time Ohio legislator and Middletown attorney, will add a second representative for Middletown on the board alongside Mary Lord.
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Middletown
Barry Levey
James Rhodes
Miami University Board of Trustees
Miami University
Levey
Lucile Cooks
Ohio
Bunker Hill Lane
Mary Lord
Butler County
Carl Morgenstern
Hamilton
Scott M. Kinsley
Columbus
Wayne J. Albers
Chagrin Falls
John Weld Peck
Cincinnati
Paul Brown
John C. Jurgensen
Donald C. Fanta
Youths Suspected in Church Break In
Two boys aged 14 and 11 were to be questioned by juvenile officers about a break in at Central Baptist Church on Clayton Street. Pastor Harold Thompson caught a 14 year old inside at 6 45 pm and police traced the other to a cousin a location. Police say tools were left at the door and the door frame had been pried. The youths provided false then corrected addresses and additional thefts included twelve quarts of oil and two gallons of antifreeze from a home on Aberdeen Drive.
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Central Baptist Church
Clayton St
Harold Thompson
Herb Clark
Aberdeen Drive
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