Girl, 7, Shot By Brother in West Middletown
Seven year old Charla Sue Davidson was treated at Middletown Hospital for a .20 caliber bullet wound to the right forearm after her six year old brother Chuck allegedly got a gun from a chest of drawers and fired while playing in the grandmother’s bedroom at 990 Lafayette Ave. Mrs Floence Kilgore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charla Sue Davidson
Charles Davidson Jr
Flemming Road
Middle
Chuck
Floence Kilgore
Lafayette Ave
Sparse Voter Turnout Predicted In Wet Middletown Election
Predictions of a slim turnout for the special Ohio Constitution amendments mark Middletown’s voting day as rain drenched and cloudy. Precinct checks show only about 22.4 percent by midmorning, with totals around 3,700 of 16,604 eligible voters likely to vote before 6:30 p.m. Local precincts report light balloting statewide, and no local races on the ballot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Journal
Butler County
Spring Hill School
City pool prices raised to restore full park program
Middletown voters approve higher pool fees to fund a revived summer playground program. City commissioners, urged by the Park Board, set under 18s at 3 cents, 18 and over at 7 cents, with family season tickets at 30 dollars for five members. Revenue is expected to range from 12 000 to 20 000 dollars, offsetting 8 000 dollars cut from recreation. The panel debated cost-cutting and bidding ideas, but left the bidding plan unresolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Board
Cecil Runyan
Commission
Manchester
Motor Inn
Ranyan
Armco
Avalon
Miami
Michigan
Wilson Playgrounds
Virgil Clark
Joe Lewis
Clark
Lewis
Parks Department
Runyan
John Paschal
Paschal
Lewis, Clark
James Curry Sr
Mary Lord
William Denham
Commission Schedules Zoning Board Action and City Bids
The commission named a new member to the Board of Zoning and approved a series of city purchases and proclamations. It paid small sums for parts of several lots, and design work on the inn tied to University Boulevard. Proclaimed May 21-27 Realtor Week and other observances, approved street use for a Downtown Summer Festival, and allowed Treaty Co. to withdraw a low bid for pipe sheaves with the contract awarded to the next low bidder, Utility Service &.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Zoning
Treaty Co
Utility Service
Eaton Woman Hurt In Crash Near Camden
Mary Vice, 53, of Camden, sustained multiple abrasions and severe scalp lacerations when her car left Greenbush Road two miles east of Route 122 in Preble County and hit a tree at 7 20 a m. She was reported in fair condition at Middletown Hospital. Police said she was eastbound and veered off the north side of the road.
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Eaon
Middletown Hospital
Greenbush Road
Rt. 122
Preble County
Mary Vice
Camden
Middletown Board Weighs Materials Center Plan
The Middletown Board of Education will discuss an instructional materials media center to serve public and parochial pupils, funded 100 by gift under Title II of the 1963 Education Act. The meeting also covers retraining courses for unemployed locals under the Manpower Training Act and a delegation report on a Flint, Michigan trip to view Mott Foundation schools and buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Board of Education
Middletown High School
Flint
Mich
Mott Foundation
Locked Out Then Sol Riegel Opens Hamilton Polls
Precinct 2BA workers at Butler County Court House found themselves locked out at dawn. Sol Riegel, head of Middletown Journal Hamilton bureau, arrived with a key and let them in at 6 25 a m five minutes before polls opened. One voter left to work and planned to return later.
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Hamilton
Butler County Court House
Sol Riegel
Middletown Journal
Hamilton Bureau
Riegel
Auto Stolen From Sullivan Residence Recovered
Franklin police recovered a damaged automobile reported stolen from William Sullivan of 920 Lake Ave. The vehicle, taken from in front of the A and P Supermarket at 522 S Main St at 11 45 p m, was found at Lake and Maple after late night.
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Franklin
William Sullivan
Lake Ave
Lake and
Maple
S. Main St
Four area teens named to U.S. service academies
Four Middletown area residents and two from Hamilton win nominations to U S service academies from Ohio’s 24th District. Michael Palmer and Geoffrey Kimball earn Naval Academy spots. William Purcell Lavoy Spooner Jr and William Evans join Air Force Academy. Ronald Lee Thompson is admitted to the Military Academy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown Area
Hamilton
24Th
Donald E. Lukens
U. S. Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Michael Palmer
Walla Palmer
Garfield St
J. Geoffrey Kimball
Jackison Kimball
Lebanon
Palmer
Fenwick High School
West Point
Air Force Academy
William Purcell
Edward Purcell
Lavoy Spooner, Jr
Lavoy Spooner Sr
Germantown
William Evans
William D. Evans
U. S. Military Academy
Ronald Lee Thompson
Herman Thompson
Chamberlain Road
Franklin
Thompson
Carlisle High School
Spooner
Germanstown
Kimball
Lebanon High School
Evans
Garfield High School
Purcell
St. Joseph Preparatory School
Bardstown
Carpenters Work as Strikes Stir Ohio Construction
Ohio construction faces a nationwide wave of strikes with several unions walking out as contracts expire. In Middletown workers remain on the job, while Hamilton Local 637 slows projects at Miami University Oxford sites. Middletown and Cincinnati locals say no spillover yet but pickets may begin if talks fail. Local officials note contract timing and district council ties cover both cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Ohio
Hamilton
Afl-Cio
Oxford
Miami University
High Street
Paul Becker
Harry Nation
Carpenter
Nation
Cincinnati
Progress In Hollywood Too Slow, Franklin Council Told
Franklin council hears Mackinaw residents urge stricter cleanup as eight visitors from the district press for faster action. They cite absentee landlords and 25 percent noncompliance with sewer tie ins, while some warn against sweeping residents without care for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
Mackinaw
Hollywood
Joseph Baxter Jr
Marshall
Griffin
Baxter
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Town Hospital
the Journal
Roosevelt Junior High
Legion Check Coyle Machine
Kenneth Henderson
Nell Thomas
Weith
Jim Rohman
Bunyan
Ito
University Boulevard
Sion
Sol
Lukens
Kkrom
Ice Crean
Revelos Confectionary
Central Ave
Franklin Council
Fred Sennet
Marion Marshall
Forest St
William Powell
Jim Mears
Arlington St
Harpland
Wood
Board of Equalization
Gerald Miller
Macksnaw
Metropolitan
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
1St Ave
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