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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1976
Page
2
The city issues its largest ever building permit for Middletown Hospital adding basement three stories and a vertical transport tower. The project aims to hire many workers during and after construction with a June 1 contract award target.
The Middletown School District projects 1976 revenues at 16.57 million dollars with 12.82 million from property taxes and 2.44 million from state aid. The 5.24 percent increase over 1975 funds funds a 295 thousand dollar contingency and budget changes across departments including higher costs for utilities, salaries, and retired benefits. Maupin Insurance Agency secured a one year school bus fleet policy at 8,300.11 dollars.
Verity Parkway will close Monday at 8 a.m. from Reinartz Boulevard to Tytus Avenue for rubberized crossing work on Penn Central tracks. Local traffic allowed, through traffic detoured. Northbound via Reinartz and Clark, southbound via Tytus Main and Reinartz. Project lasts about two weeks.
A lightning strike Friday ignited a fire at Monsanto Co. Addyston plant near Cincinnati, causing damage over 500000 dollars. Fire crews worked 18 hours to extinguish flames that touched two additional tanks, prompting evacuation of a 1300 resident community until residents could return home. No injuries were reported.
Talks to transfer 2000 miles to Chessie System under the ConRail plan collapse leaving July 1960 reorganization in limbo. Freight may be curtailed temporarily as unions and management failed to reach a pact, jeopardizing planned upgrades and subsidies for Northeast routes. Delaware Maryland Virginia agreements in principle restore some service while broader subsidy timelines loom.
Colorado safety chief says a frayed cable caused the Vail Mountain aerial lift derailment killing three and injuring nine. The incident left two gondolas hanging on the cable and prompted officials to inspect the cars, with power shut off after a skier warned of frayed strands.
Edwin F. Ryan 67 of 3871 Fulton Ave Kettering died Friday in Dayton a Wright Patterson retiree and Middletown High School alumnus survived by wife Margaret daughter Susan Partin three sons James Robert William sister Ruth Denis brother Harold and three grandchildren funeral Monday 11 a.m. Hoyne Funeral Home burial Calvary Cemetery visitation Sunday 7 9 p.m. Mrs Margaret Fitzgerald 92 of 600 N Verity Parkway died Saturday in Oxford hospital arrangements incomplete at Joseph R Baker Funeral Home.
Civil docket items list individuals from Franklin and surrounding towns including Lingram Palmer Whitt Mills Goins Rinehart Delph Keener Crawford Carrol Brown Baker Neal Stockton Baker Baker Holbrook Brewer Brewer McKinney Clary Shaver Heard Barker with addresses and relationships noted. Proceedings reference cruelty neglect and willful absence or related civil actions in multiple households and jurisdictions.
Police logs show thefts from parked cars Friday night and Saturday morning. Items include CB radios eight track players hubs caps golf clubs and a windshield break in. One arrest recorded for driving without a license careless operation and eluding officers.
Fire responders report at 10.57 am for an incident involving Inland Container Corp worker Ea Hutfenburger who fell beside a TH? truck with left shoulder pain. He was treated for shock and released from Middletown Hospital emergency room at 9.59 am. At Sorg Paper Co on West Columbia Avenue Joan Sorrell, address unknown, was taken to the same hospital with a fractured right ankle and injuries to the right leg. she remains in fair condition.
Len Patrick of 3787 Village Drive Franklin ate a six pound steak at Alfy's Restaurant in the Middletown Shopping Center after a challenge from a diner. He finished the entire steak and followed with a strawberry pie for dessert.
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