Water Bill Policy Depends on Hoover Study Says City
City commissioners say reforms to unpaid water bill collection hinge on findings from a Little Hoover Commission study. The panel will assess city operations after a push by Terhune arguing collection via property tax is unfair. Manager Rothe and Chairman Inwood remain firm that current policy avoids revenue loss.
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Hoover
Hoover Commission
Commission
Dudley Inwood
Charles Terhune
Terhune
Jean
Dan Rothe
Cincinnati
Inwood
Little Hover
Fire incidents span homes and business with various damages
A grease fire in an oven at 703 Seventh Ave belonged to Thomas Baldwin causing smoke damage. A space heater motor overheated at Whitt auto sales 330 Charles St due to a short circuit, $35 damage. A car fire at 1205 Yankee Road owned by Mabel Reed resulted from careless smoking with $150 damage.
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Seventh Ave
Thomas Baldwin
Charles St
Whitt Auto Sales
Yankee Road
Mabel Reed
Pentagon Reveals May Draft Plans for 27,600 Recruits
The Pentagon announced a May draft of 27,600 with 25,600 to the Army and 2,000 to the Marine Corps. This is the smallest May calling since January, compared with 26,800 in January and 33,000 in April.
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Washington
Pentagon
Armed Forces
Army
Marine Corps
Ohio Senate OKs rail crossing bill amid traffic limits
The Ohio Senate approved a bill to ban trains blocking crossings for more than five minutes. Trains must clear crossings for at least three minutes every five minutes while switching or loading. Fines rise from 2 to 10 dollars to a minimum of 100 and maximum 500 paid by railroads, not crews.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
Paul Gillmor
Toledo
Ohio House
Armco Nurse Improves After Rt 4 Crash Near LeSourdsville
Mrs. Geraldine M. Cline a 43 year old Armco East Works nurse living at 639 High St Hamilton was reported improved and in fair condition at Middletown Hospital today. She had been in serious condition after a car truck collision on Rt 4 Tuesday night suffering a compound fracture of the right ankle fracture of the right upper arm and multiple bruises and lacerations. The accident occurred when she drove onto the highway from the Bi Lo Service Station south of LeSourdsville and was struck by a tractor trailer driven by Clifford James Kaufhold 26 of Cincinnati hauling 7000 pounds of sulphuric acid enroute to Armco.
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Geraldine M. Cline
High St
Hamilton
Middletown Hospital
Cline
Armco’s
East Works
Rt. 4
Butler County
LeSourdsville
Clifford James Kaufhold
Cincinnati
Armco
NLRB Urges Hearing Over Diamond Packaging Bargaining Vote
A regional NLRB director recommended scheduling a hearing on a complaint from two unions alleging misrepresentation by Diamond Gardner Employees Independent Union after a December 5 vote. 631 employees cast ballots at Diamond Packaging Products Middletown. 332 chose the independent union, 271 the affiliated unions, with 24 challenged and 4 for none. The board will decide on the hearing in the near term.
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Cincinnati
National Labor Relations Board
Tion
Diamond Packaging Products
Middletown
John C. Getreau
NLRB
United Papermakers and Paperworkers
Afl-Cio
Lithographers and Photoengravers International
Diamond Gardner Employes Independent Union
Getreau
Diamond
Legion To Elect Officers At 50th Anniversary Meeting
American Legion Post 218 with 1 391 members and 27 fifty year members will elect and install new officers after a 6 30 dinner at post headquarters 116 S Main St next Wednesday evening The post marks its 50th anniversary with recognition for long time members listed including R G Adair C T Atkinson Joe R Baker Sr Jack R Baker Sr Arch L Bales and others Candidates for post commander are Jess F Border assistant chief of Middletown fire department and Stanley Sorrell of Sorrells Market.
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American Legion Post
S. Main Street
Legion
Jesteeannege
R. G. Adair
Dr. C.T. Atkinson
Joe R. Baker Sr
Jack R. Baker Sr
Arch L
Apollo 9 Returns Home Families Celebrate Space Mission
Apollo 9 nears splashdown as wives of astronauts watch aboard from home and Mission Control. Wives recount excitement after a 10 day vigil awaiting the final plunge scheduled for 12 01 p m EST as television crews prepare to capture the moment.
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Mrs. Scott
Guadalcanal
Scott
Clare
Franklin man charged in Cassano Pizza robbery
Franklin resident William Edward Smith 28 Cranes Run Road was arrested after a three day probe for the armed robbery of Cassano Pizza and Delicatessen on March 9. Police say a man who ordered a pizza returned with a gun and took 238 dollars from manager Charles Gilbert at 301 North Main Street. Smith is due in Franklin Municipal Court before Judge Stanley Kolb tomorrow at 3 p.m.
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Cassano Pizza and Delicatess
Frank Harbach
William Edward Smith
Cranes Run Road
N. Main St
Charles Gilbert
Smith
Stanley Kolb
Franklin Municipal Court
Prisoner Slashes Wrists at Warren County Jail
A Middletown man with a long arrest record slashed his wrists early today at the Warren County Jail in Lebanon. William Duhamel, 2824 Wilbraham Road, is in fair condition at Middletown Hospital and guarded by deputies. He was arrested Feb 18 on charges including attempted safe cracking at the Western & Southern Life Insurance Co. office, plus parole violation and carrying a concealed weapon. Deputy William Reynolds found him in a cellblock at 2 am, conscious, in a blood puddle with a razor in hand.
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Middletown
Warren County
Lebanon
William Duhamel
Wilbraham Road
Duhamel
Western & Southern Life Insurance Co
Franklin
William Reynolds
Reynolds
Deaths And Funerals Taulbee Jones 83
Taulbee Jones 83 formerly of Middletown died at his Wilmington residence. He operated a Grimes Street grocery from 1908 to retirement about ten years ago. Born in Frenchburg Kentucky he is survived by daughter Dorothy Hatton Cincinnati sister Lillie Rose Middletown and five grandchildren. Service 10 a.m. Saturday Riggs Funeral Home with Rev Herschel Caudill officiating burial Woodside Cemetery. Friends may call 6 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the funeral home.
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Taulbee Jones
Middletown
Wilmington
Jones
Grimes Street
Frenchburg
William
Dayton
Miami Valley Hospital
Dorothy Hatton
Cincinnati
Lillie Rose
Riggs Funeral
Herschel Caudill
Woodside Cemetery
Services for Herman W. (Wick) Smith Held Tomorrow
Herman W. Wick Smith, 75, of Lytle, will be buried and remembered at Stubbs Funeral Home at 2 p.m. tomorrow after calling hours from 5 to 9 p.m. He died Tuesday at the home of his sister Miss Velma Smith in New Carlisle.
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Waynesville
Herman W. (Wick) Smith
Lytle
Stubbs
Requiem High Mass for Army Officer and Burial
Mrs Bertha Jaspers 53 of 5145 Pleasant Ave is noted with a Requiem High Mass at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Sacred Heart Church. The service honors Wayne Wagner Frank Richter 87 and Wayne Sanders Drive for burial. The text references Army rank and promotion by seniority in a brief obituary context.
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Bertha Jaspers
Pleasant Ave
Heart Church
U.S. Army
Wayne Wagner
Frank Richter
Wayne Sanders
Girl offered drug near school by classmate
A 12 year old Fernwood Street girl was offered a blue pill that could make her high by a 12 year old boy. The boy took two pills and behaved oddly at George M Verity Middle School. She refused to take it. Detectives were to investigate the report today.
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Fernwood Street
George M. Verity Middle School
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