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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1978
Page
17
About 100 Middletown seniors and 15 Lemon-Monroe seniors face possible graduation loss for lacking required vaccines and oral meds by April 17. A 30 day extension allowed clinics. by May 18 up to 400 students may be excluded without proof of immunization or exemption.
Former Middleton resident Eugene W. Gall was not named in any indictments returned by the Scott County grand jury. Gall faced kidnapping charges in a case involving a girl taken from her home to rural Grant County and raped. He also faces murder in a separate death in Columbia Township, Ohio, plus charges including assault on a state trooper, robbery, rape, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and sexual imposition in Greene County.
Arson suspected in a mobile home blaze at Leonard P. Reichel’s unit in Catalina Mobile Home Park. The 20 by 60 foot home sustained about 6000 dollars in insured damage, with flames confined to the kitchen and living room after a break in was reported and neighbors observed men nearby.
A surge in requests for Erma Bombeck Mother's Day column When God Created Mothers has emptied our preordered stock. More reprints arrive by Saturday. The classic piece and When God Created Fathers are offered in decorative framing for 50 cents each, plus 25 cents postage for mail orders.
Former President Gerald K. Ford will visit Middletown on Wednesday May 17 to attend a reception for himself and four area congressmen. The event at the Arts in Middletown Building aims to raise campaign funds for Representatives Thomas N Kindness William A Harsha Clarence J Brown and Willis D Gradison. A ticket for two costs 100 and is tax deductible. Further details will be released later by Sam Noblet, member of the Southwestern Ohio Reception committee.
Daily fire and medical report lists incidents at 1215 Young Street and 1316 Young Street with chest pains. 4642 Freedom Court for fever. 2347 S Sutphin Street and 805 S Main Street for illness. Middletown High School merit royalty chest pains. 1219 Baltimore Street ill. 3705 Central Avenue chest pains with serious condition. Patients Elizabeth McKnight, Rosemary Ann Thomas, Merit Royalty, Arthur Lunsford, Robert Caron, Robert Hoskins. Hospital transport and treatment details vary.
The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. filed revised plans with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for a test of residential customers willingness to cut electricity use during peak hours in exchange for lower bills. The plan, originally filed April 10, adds a time-of-day price differential and tests comfort levels when air conditioning is controlled by radio signals, aiming to shift usage away from peak periods to delay new power plant construction.
The Journal corrected a Wednesday report from Springboro Ohio that a Clearcreek school teacher dragged a wire down a student’s arm. The parent clarified the student scratched another student with a wire brush, with no teacher involvement in the incident.
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