Middletown Safety Town seeks funds for summer opening
Middletown planners led by Rose Clark Harvey Poff and Fred Sennet urge community donations to fund the Jack Combs Memorial Safety Town planned to open mid June. The project awaits Ohio highway safety funds. no city money is allocated. Donations of 50 dollars ensure a sponsor name on a car or building, and 180 groups have been asked for support. The 10 hour program includes diplomas and T shirts from the National Safety Town Center. Registration costs five dollars for a T shirt with kindergarten and first graders via local schools. Volunteers and teen helpers are sought to staff the event at two or three school gyms this summer. Contact the Safety Council office at 101 N Broad St.
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Jack Combs
Middletown Area
Rose Clark
Harvey Poff
Middletown Division of Police
Fred Sennet
Middletown Area Safety Council
Ohio Department of Highway Safety
Clark
Sennet
United States
National Safety
Cleveland
Middletown
Speech and Hearing Therapists Aid Middletown Students
Five Middletown City Schools speech and hearing therapists serve about 400 students, each seeing 75 to 95 pupils weekly. May is Speech and Hearing Therapy Month with State Rep. Denham visiting Taft Elementary. testing shows Denham himself has hearing loss from noisy work. Parents advised to refer children to the school principal or James Mack for evaluation.
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Middletown City
William Denham
Taft Elementary
Beth Tesnow
Miss Tesnow
Denham
Armco
James
Two Juveniles Charged In Church Break In
Police report two juveniles aged 11 and 12 were charged with breaking and entering and truancy after being found inside Meadowlawn Church of God at 10 am. They kicked in a window and searched closets but nothing was stolen.
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Meadowlawn Church of God
Pets Birthday Party At Franklin Home For Five Pets
At 6194 Celeste Drive Franklin the Henning family held a birthday party for five pets Fritz a nine year old dachshund Puss a 13 year old cat Muffin a one year old mixed breed Tater a four year old beagle and another cat or dog. About 30 guests attended a full sheet cake was ordered with animal themed decorations. The owner Jerry a Franklin High School sophomore notes the May birthdays and says this annual event has grown from a small gathering to a notable celebration.
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Franklin
Fritz
Tater
Muffin
Puss
Joseph Henning
Celeste Drive
Jerry
Franklin High School
Hennings
Willie
Franklin man stabbed at Dayton concert in fair condition
Tim Mullins a 20 year old Franklin man was stabbed in the lower abdomen during a fight at a University of Dayton Arena Alice Cooper concert. He is listed in fair condition at Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Police describe a suspect but have not arrested anyone.
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Ranklin
Franklin
Dayton
Saint Elizabeth's Hospital
Tim Mullins
University of Dayton
Alice Cooper
Mullins
Surgeons Reattach Hand After Accident in England
In Manchester Roger Hampson, 32, severed his hand with a power saw in a wood shop. Surgeons at Withington Hospital reattached the hand in an eight hour operation under a microscope, joining 22 tendons and blood vessels and nerves. Outcome uncertain for months as doctors assess success.
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Manchester
England
Roger Hampson
Withington Hospital
Hamilton man ends life after shootout with wife
Lindsey Knight, 27, of 239 Minster St. in Hamilton, exchanged gunfire with his wife near a Happy Foods Store at Belle and Pleasant avenues. He later died at Mercy Hospital from a self-inflicted head wound, gripping a 32-caliber revolver. his wife, 23, provided police with details of the pursuit and shooting.
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Hamilton
Lindsey
Knight
Minster St
Mercy Hospital
S Second St
Central Avenue
Happy ‘Oods
Belle and Pleasant Avenues
Longtime Middletown resident Louis B. Lesch dies at 72
Louis B. Lesch 72 of 4404 Hannah Drive died yesterday at Middletown Hospital after an extended illness. Born in Sellersburg Indiana, he retired in 1970 as an assistant turn foreman at Armco Steel East Processing. He was a St Johns Church member and lifer of Elks 257 and Eagles 258. Survived by wife Mary, two sisters, one brother, services Monday 10 am at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home. Burial Woodside Cemetery. Memorials to charity suggested.
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Louis B. Lesch
Hannah Drive
Middletown
Mr. Lesch
Sellersburg
Ind
Armco Steel Corp
St. John's Church
Elks Lodge
Eagles Lodge
Mary
George
New Albany
Mary Edwards
Dayton
Gertrude Isler
Jeffersonville
McCoy Leffler
Stephen Calme
Woodside Cemetery
Seven Thousand Pledged in March of Dimes Walk
In Lebanon the Superwalk raised over 7000 in pledges for the March of Dimes. The youngest participant was Guy Thompson, 7, a Waynesville Elementary School student. Ken Hackman, 42, of Cincinnati, was the oldest walker. The senior citizens walk raised about 250 in pledges.
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Lebanon
Mian Valley
National Foundation
March of Dimes
Walker
Guy Thompson
Waynesville Elementary School
Ken Hackman
Cincinnati
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National Center
Combs
The
Safety Council Office
N. Broad St
Donham
Taft School
Mack
14Th Avenue
Yankee Road
Martha Logan
Smith Ave
Citizens Band
Walter Derrico Jr
Delaware Ave
16Th Avenue
Georgia Carpet
N. Clinton Street
Kodak Davidson
Mrs. Henning
Animals
U.S
Ea Tea
Richie
Louis Lesch
Karl Nein
Earl Nein
Bellevue Congregational Church
Washington
Nein
Bellevue
Wash
Eleanor
Janet Webster
Redmond
Suzie Nein
Mass
Phillip
Maine
Helen Sutton
Baton Rouge
Green Funeral Home
Cancer Society
Bellevue Congregational Church Memorial Fund
Richard Broyles
Franklin Services
Richard Lee Broyles
Franklin Lebanon Road
Peasttown
Hoyne
Third St
William Beasley
Broyles
Hudson Body Shop
Michael Scott
Violet Broyles
Norma Jean Boeckner
Thad
Brookville
Donald
Robert Custis
Robert J Custis
Custis Veterinary Hospital
Jewish Hospital
Hatfield Road
Custis
New Vienna
Wilmington College
Ohv State University College of Veterinary Medicine
South Pacific
Mary Ruth
Martha
David KR
Daniel BO
John Fo O
Marjorie Custis
Oswald Funeral Home
Sugar Grove
Wilmington
Selnese
UCC
St. Rt
Towne Mall
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