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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1978
Page
2
Monroe High School home economics classes under Connie Crawford and Jennettie Darnell will run a free morning nursery next week from 8 15 to 10 45 a m. About 12 to 15 children aged 3 to 5 are needed, brought by parents and picked up after activities.
Joe Cottle, 23, a local winner in the Bob Braun Talent Search preliminaries, will appear on WLWT Channel 5 in a March 23 special. Cottle, an X ray technician and medical assistant for Kiefhaber and Langworthy MDs, sang If for the audition and has a new album Joe Cottle A Wedding Song. He plays guitar, performed since high school, and the contest will lead to a March 31 final and a paid April guest spot on the Braun show.
WARSAW KY AP Captain John Beatty reports the 135 by 35 foot towboat Clare E Beatty sunk by ice near Markland Dam last month is to be fully raised by week’s end. He plans to move the vessel to his dock for repairs by September, with salvage costs under insurer negotiation. The boat, valued at 385000 and insured for 350000, carried river memorabilia and tools. damage appears non structural though windows and radar were lost. Ice and a tanker gasoline leak had halted river traffic for 17 days.
Obituaries list Solomon B. Foster 70 of 1005 Baltimore St and Kathryn C. Lyons 73 of 112 S Clinton St with survivors, services, and burial details. Other notices include James Lee Giles 71, Wynona Brown 48, Myrtle M. Tackett 62, Romona Brant 87, Dorothy Marie Hesse 58, Maude Miller 83 with service times, burial, and memorials.
Ray Hannah named city income tax clerk to replace Michael Smith who resigns at month end. Rita King to become utility clerk per City Manager Bernard Eichholz. Smith cites low pay and no future, plans to join Bill Smith Realty as Realtor associate. City Council approves 1 mill levy on June 6 ballot to fund pay raises.
Two Ohio businessmen, Marple Blankenship of Lebanon and Wilford Curtis of Wilmington, were sentenced in U S District Court to three years probation after pleading guilty to failing to deposit taxes withheld from employees. They owned a chain of dry cleaning stores in the Lebanon and Wilmington areas and did not deposit seven withholdings totaling 4183.79 dollars between August 31 and October 12, 1977, with a tax liability of 667.73 dollars for the period.
Valley View School Board yesterday placed English teacher James Boeckman on leave with pay from now through year end due to illness or disability. Boeckman, 36, of Dayton, called the action criminal and an ongoing attempt to destroy him. He plans a hearing. the district cites medical reasons, while Boeckman notes he was ill only briefly and provided a doctor’s note. He has eight years at Valley View and will receive sick pay with about a month unpaid.
OMTA teachers gathered yesterday at Miss Mary Sulfsted’s residence for a piano workshop led by Mrs. Gerald Squire on performance without tension. The program included breathing exercises, and Miss Sulfsted announced another session on April 19 at 9:30 a.m.
Monroe Village Council received the proposed 1978 budget of 875,851.97 and will study it for two weeks before a public hearing on March 21 at 8 p.m. in Village Hall, with a prior hearing on general revenue sharing funds at 7:45 p.m. Snow and narrow streets prompt talk of designating some roads as one way for parking. residents on affected streets will be notified. The council also designated tomorrow as a memorial holiday for Maurice Hank Henry Propps, 46, longtime village employee who died Monday at Middletown Hospital. offices will close at noon for funeral services.
State troopers at Post 9 and Lebanon Post 83 reported bad road conditions after overnight snowfall. Snow began yesterday afternoon with 15 inches of precipitation by morning, about 2 inches of snow, bringing winter total to 58 inches. Five accidents with one injury reported at Post 9. six accidents at Lebanon Post 83. Some vehicles left the roadway on Ohio 63. Sheriff deputies described roads as fairly slippery but improving after the morning rush.
The Butler County Democratic Executive committee endorsed 12 candidates for the June 6 primary. Lou Schroeder of Fairfield seeks the US House seat in the 8th District, Max Weir aims for the Common Pleas judgeship, Henry Gruener seeks the Fairfield Municipal Court judgeship, and incumbent Jim Tilton is nominated for county auditor. Local party leaders also signaled Arthur Reiff plans to announce campaign intentions. State tickets include Richard Celeste for governor, Michael Dorrian for lieutenant governor, Randall Sweeney for secretary of state, Gertrude Donahey for state treasurer, William Brown for attorney general, Thomas Ferguson for state auditor, Alfred Bahling and J. William Brown for Ohio Supreme Court.
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Charles F. Kurfess tapped Ashland College economist Lucille Garber Ford as his lieutenant governor running mate. Ford, dean of special programs and former economics chair, backs a new vision for Ohio focusing on retraining workers and boosting the state's economic strategy.
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