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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1967
Page
11
Franklin faces a projected year end balance of 108000 in black. City Manager Tohn Muiffin Wuiml Vila presented final figures approved by the City Council for 1967. The budget totals 813000 in spending and 921000 in revenue with 343640 allocated to the general fund. Council to study joint engineer hiring with Mason and Waynesville and share salary costs.
Ohio's January employment declined four percent from December, per the Ohio State University Bureau of Business Research. Toledo was the sole major city with higher employment, while Akron Canton Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dayton and Youngstown posted declines. January 1967 employment was three percent higher than January 1966, with gains across all major Ohio cities from a year ago.
The council proclaimed April as Franklin Area Historical Society Month and set May 1-15 for the annual cleanup campaign. It instructed City Solicitor Jack Tracy to draft an ordinance for a mutual aid agreement with the Carlisle Fire Department. Bids from Howe Motor Co. Middletown were accepted for a police cruiser at 1521 dollars plus trade in and two-ton pickup trucks at 3350 dollars plus trade-in. Singapore was founded in 1819 by Sir Stanford Raffles.
The Easter recess begins for Fenwick High St Johns Holy Trinity and St Marys Catholic schools at 3 pm tomorrow with classes resuming 8 am Tuesday March 28. Public schools in Middletown and Madison Township start recess at close of day and reopen Tuesday morning March 2.
San Francisco Hippies from Haight Ashbury gathered on sidewalks in a city chalk in inviting hundreds to create a color filled carpet to Golden Gate Park. Artists received four foot squares with slogans and designs including a flower power motif and a large one eyed bird with a pink flower. An abstract panel urged go Navy join now.
Ohio and Virginia test new standard signs for interstates under U S Bureau of Public Roads with oil company emblems and lists of restaurants and motels. Larry Lindsay of the Ohio highway department explains the one year program costs 26000 dollars and will survey motorists at service stations via postcards to gauge usefulness or nuisance.
A 19 year old Dayton man, Travis L. Peagler, was shot and killed by police early today at a tavern burglary scene. Officers said Peagler fled and refused to halt, and a riot gun blast ended the chase. another person is being held in connection with the incident.
Andrew L. Gomez Jr. of Middletown is jailed on a $500 bond after Secret Service agents arrested him at home on charges of possessing counterfeit $20 bills. Three suspect notes were found in deposits at First National Bank as authorities warn businesses to watch for fakes with specific face plate numbers.
Demolition of the northeast corner properties at Central Ave and Main St for a new Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co building is slated to begin after July 1. Commonwealth Loan Co will relocate to Mid-Town Center on N Broad St, with plans to lease space there for a year. Spencer's Jewelers and the Corner Men's Shop will also move. rental terms include Commonwealth occupying renovated Mid-Town Lounge by June 15.
The City Commission, urged by objections from Howe Motors, decided to purchase one garbage truck from Lindon’s Sales & Service and one from Howe Motors. Public Utilities Director Moschell argued for a maintenance minded approach and weekend service to assure weekday readiness. The move follows a prior purchase of two from Lindon’s based on bid fit.
William R. Minor of Van Lear Kentucky was ruled sane after a mental exam at Lima State Hospital in the slaying of Dr Robert W Spike on October 17. Minor pleads innocent and may face a sanity hearing as prosecutors and doctors weigh his fitness for trial in the first degree murder case.
The commission bought York 14th Avenue lot 1844 for 3000 dollars and Roosevelt Avenue lots 2212 2213 2214 for 12500 dollars. It also acquired University Boulevard lots 2084 and 2087 for 9500 and 8500 dollars. A mourning resolution was passed for Weber W. Sebald. Assessments were filed for the East End sanitary sewer. Ordinances were requested for vacating an alley behind Mary Etta Street and vacating the stub of Lowell Street near the New York Central tracks.
Middletown distributors report beer still available though not abundant and expect enough supply for a week if demand remains steady. They, like Cincinnati suppliers, hope for an early settlement of the strike by Operating Engineers Local 20 j affecting three major Cincinnati brewers. Negotiations are in recess but expected to resume with talks focused on contracts, while local firms learn of the dispute mainly through news media.
In Samarkand a Soviet army major joked Nixon should stay home and study Marxism. He claimed Marx would tell Nixon what he needs to know. Nixon, visiting Moscow after four days in the USSR, met other Western leaders while Soviet officials did not receive him.
A mother and five children plus one visiting child escaped injury when a Union Town house at 9605 Princeton Glendale Road burned early morning. Three fire units fought the blaze, gutting the home of Mrs Leo Banks. valuables were saved and the family and visitor Kathy Kerby were taken to relatives. The cause is under investigation.
Navy investigators called an accident the killing of Pfc. Edward Crawford Jr. 19, who was shot by a comrade while on sentry duty Friday night at Pearl Harbor Hawaii. He is survived by his widow Maxine in Dayton Ohio.
Warren County officials reported no new developments in the triple shooting near Maineville. Frances Simon, 45, remained in poor condition with a chest wound at Christ Hospital. Sons Joseph Jr., 17, and Elmer, 15, were found dead. Prosecutor H William Bowers said Mrs Simon denies shooting them and cannot be questioned while hospitalized. Autopsy planned. fingerprints and gun evidence sent to London Bureau.
A panel of six members from the Ohio Association of School Administrators will hold a closed session in Medina to discuss the recent dismissal of Medina school Superintendent Albion V. Gotaas and Medina High School Principal James Loughridge.
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