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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1978
Page
13
Middletown School Board meets at 7 p.m. in the Administration Building to hear routine personnel matters and consider authorizing officials to seek bids for a food truck. The unit would replace one of four trucks used to transport lunches from central kitchens to district schools. Public comment is open at the end of the meeting.
Lebanon High School and Kings High School earned I ratings in a district contest at Hamilton Garfield High School, joining three other top bands to advance to the state competition on April 29. Middletown and Lemon-Monroe also rated I, while other districts posted II or III ratings.
Police report a large pothole in the 3900 block of Central Avenue that bent rims and blew tires. About 11 p.m. three people were changing flats as street department workers patched the hole after officers secured the area.
Pierre the Pelican brings a 26 part, four page series on infant and parent feelings for the first six years, offered free to mothers in the Middletown Area Mental Health Center service area through the mental health levy. Outside areas may receive first two issues and subscribe for the rest.
President Carter extended Ohio energy emergency for a second 30 day period. The move allows the state to temporarily lift air pollution control regulations to ease energy supply problems across Ohio.
Columbus Ohio AP reports 1500 Ohio State University students will graduate in the winter quarter commencement set for March 16 at St John Arena. The exercise will feature graduates from OSU's programs across the university.
Trenton Edgewood High athletic awards banquet, originally set for tonight, has been moved to later this month at the school.
Hamilton County detectives investigate a possible link between Karen Baker, a 17 year old missing girl from New Cumberland West Virginia, and a young woman found dead by two hunters near Colerain Avenue just below the Butler County line. The body is described as a girl about 2 years old and may date from the January blizzard.
Hamilton Butler County Commissioners unanimously approved the 1978 budget at a public hearing. They plan to increase federal revenue sharing for social services from 10 000 to about 100 000 and may form a committee to screen agency requests. They also approved multiple funds and raised mileage reimbursement from 12 to 15 cents effective April 1.
Middletown official Lewis Hill testified at a Cincinnati hearing for the Ohio Department of Education Task Force on Minimum Competencies. He argued local control, cost concerns, and potential legal and logistical issues, noting tests show many eighth graders fall short of mastery. The hearing, one of 13 statewide, sought guidance for state board and legislature.
The City Commission meets at 11 45 am Wednesday in the City Building to decide whether to renovate or rebuild the Sunset Douglas and Yankee park pools and to consider new Weatherwax Golf Course fees. The panel last discussed the pools in September.
Butler County Common Pleas Judge Robert L. Marrs is named to the board of governors for the Cincinnati unit of the Shriners Burns Institute. Judge Marrs cited the center’s national reputation and its treatment of children from across the United States.
A Warren County grand jury eliminated murder charges against Lebanon couple Buell and Karen Bolin Sr. after a coroner’s report attributed their 5 month old son’s death to cystic fibrosis. The indictment had included endangering children amid prior police findings of injury.
In Westerville Ohio the 10 100 student district resumes classes after teachers voted to accept a new contract ending a 12 day strike The agreement with the Westerville Education Association raises base pay from 8900 to 9800 immediately and to 10300 starting April 1 1979 The board will cover 70 percent of health benefits through December 1979
Theodore Dickerson, 21, of 6867 Millikin Road, remains in serious condition at Middletown Hospital after a Saturday one car crash on Yankee Road near Princeton Road. He was a passenger in a vehicle driven by David Martin, 20, of West Chester, which slid on ice, lost control and hit a culvert.
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