Middletown Homes Suffer Broad Lootings
A wave of burglaries across Middletown Sunday and yesterday yielded firearms, jewelry, electronics, cash, and household items with total losses varying by residence. Notable incidents include a $500 vandalism at a Ken Ridge Drive new home and $1,500 reported in loot from multiple addresses, with police citing unattended mail and newspapers as possible theft cues.
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Middletown
Ken Ridge Drive
Thomas Kimbrough
15Th Ave
Lafayette Ave
Kenneth Reckart
Charles Sr
Wilson St
Donald Cole
Vote for income tax increase to keep Middletown alive
A political message from the Live Middletown Committee chaired by Harry Holiday urges residents to vote yes on a May 20 income tax increase to support city government institutions and departments. The piece promotes Middletown as a desirable place to live and work.
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Middletown
Pol
Live Middletown
Harry Holiday
Stolen Mower and Refrigerator Reported at Elk Creek Road
Edgar Easterline reported to deputies that a power mower worth 75 dollars and a refrigerator valued at 306 dollars were stolen from his unoccupied residence at 4691 Elk Creek Road. An additional vandalism claim involved two large windows at 4843 Eck Road causing 75 dollars in damage. Don Gibson reported a 500 dollar amplifier stolen from the Pentecostal Church on Hamilton Middletown Road.
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Edgar Easterline
Lawn Ave
Elk Creek Road
Charles Blanton
Hetzler Road
Eck Road
Antohor
Don Gibson
Lebanon
Pentecostal Highway of Holiness Church
Hamilton
Middletown Road
Community garden idea for traffic islands prompts reader lark
The piece suggests a garden club could care for city esplanades with weed removal bulb planting and petunias. It also promotes local shops and services including First National Bank Sears Roebuck Greathouse Reed Klopps Maud Mullers Peck’s Flower Shop and Davidson’s Photo with holiday and product mentions.
Armco Sweeps Top Ad Awards For Third Year
Armco Steel Corp wins the top award for the best advertising series about steel service centers for a third consecutive year. G H McClure accepts at the Steel Service Center Institute meeting in San Francisco. Armco also takes second and third in best single ads with a four panel full color series built around Nobody. United States Steel wins best single advertisement. The industry trade group reports over seven billion dollars in annual sales and more than one million dollars spent on advertising in 1968.
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Armco Steel Corp
G. H. McClure
Steel Service Center Institute
San Francisco
Mills
Armco
United States Steel Corp
Deaths and Funerals in Middletown and Dayton Regions
Obituaries detail Anna Donathan 75 of 613 Auburn St Middletown died at Middletown Hospital after a week as a Raynold Bay Co retiree. Survived by daughter Whitt Kemplin 5 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. Services set 2 p.m. Thursday at Joseph K Baker & Sons with burial at Woodside Cemetery. Also mentions WWII veteran and local tennis partners including brother Joseph Herr and family. Requiem High Mass for a Middletown death at St Johns Church with burial in Woodside Cemetery. Schramm Funeral Home to host Rosary Thursday evening. Also notes John Roderer Shoes store in Middletown and Dayton area surviors and Dayton services incomplete.
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Anna Donathan
Auburn St
Middletown Hospital
Donathan
Middletown
Raymond Bay Co
Cleveland
Whitt Kemplin
Joseph K. Baker & Sons
Dean Sheets
Woodside Cemetery
American Legion
Post 218
Wildwood Country
Armco
Herr
Joseph
Margaret
James E. Jr
Deborah Grunner
Nancy Herr
St. John's Church
Schramm
Dayton
John Roderer
Mrs Corda Haney 68 Middletown resident dies at hospital
Mrs. Corda Haney 68 of 4008 Jewell St. Middletown died at 6 45 p.m. yesterday at Middletown Hospital. Born in Grassy Creek Kentucky she lived in Middletown 13 years. Her husband Sam died in 1951. Survived by three daughters, a sister and two brothers and two grandchildren. Burial planned at Grassy Creek Cemetery with visitation at Joseph R Baker & Sons Funeral Home tomorrow evening.
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Corda Haney
Jewell St
Middletown Hospital
Haney
Grassy Creek
Middletown
Sam
Treva Lykins
Douglas Howard
Reva Clay
Jeffersonville
Cora Elam
Bronson Barker
West Liberty
Berlin Barker
Grassy Creek Baptist Church
Joseph R. Baker & Sons
James Herr longtime Armco accountant dies at 57
James Edward Pete Herr 57 of 219 Aberdeen Drive died at 5 15 a m at Middletown Hospital after admission last Wednesday He had worked as an accountant for Armco Steel Corp since 1933 and served in the Army during the war.
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James Edward
Pete) Herr
Aberdeen Drive
Middletown Hospital
Herr
Armco Steel Corp
Mrs Iene Smith Jacobson 71 Middletown native dies in Florida
Mrs Iene Smith Jacobson granddaughter of Isaac Hale tobacco merchant dies at Holy Cross Hospital Fort Lauderdale aged 71. She lived in Middletown and Dayton before moving to Florida in 1963. Survived by husband Einar. Funeral Thursday at Wilson Memorial Home with burial tomorrow at Woodside Memorial Home. In lieu of flowers, contributions to Middletown Butler County American Cancer Society requested.
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Iene Smith Jacobson
Isaac Hale
Middletown
Holy Cross Hospital
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Woodside Cemetery
Memorial
Middletown-Butler County
American Cancer Society
John B. Roderer Sr Dies at 93 Founder of Dayton Shoes
John B. Roderer Sr, founder of the John Roderer Shoe Stores in 1915, died yesterday at his Dayton home at age 93. He started his shoe business on Germantown Street in West Dayton and retired in 1945, passing leadership to his sons.
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John B. Roderer
John Roderer
Dayton
Mr. Roderer
Germantown Street
Trapshoot Manager Will Speak Here
Hugh McKinley, manager of the American Trapshooting Association in Vandalia, will address the Middletown Sports men's Club at its regular meeting at 8 p.m. tonight. Dean Chenault is president of the club.
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Hugh McKinley
American Trapshooting Association
Vandalia
Middletown Sportsmen’s Club, Inc
Dean Chenault
Funeral services for Luis A. Roscoe at Webb Funeral Home
Miss Luis A. Roscoe age 72 longtime Fort Hamilton Hospital administrator died Sunday in Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati Burial at Rose Hill Memorial Park Roscoe served as administrator from June 1938 until retirement in 1957 Services set for Thursday at 2 p.m.
After 26 Years Dead GI Is Home
Pfc. Winford Humphries, 24, of Georgia, killed July 23, 1943 in the South Pacific with the 37th Infantry Division, is laid to rest at Newbridge Baptist churchyard near Cleveland. His remains were found in 1967 on New Georgia Island and identified after dental and pathology work. his casket arrived at his family farm and lay in state.
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Cleveland, Ga
Georgia
South Pacific
Winford Humphries
Newbridge
Cleveland
Allce K. Humphries
Humphries
37Th
Army
Leslie B. Kreger
Virginia Beach
Navy
Munda
New Georgia Island
Solomons
White County
Butler Commissioners Back County Sanitary Landfill Plan
Butler County commissioners heard a 100 page study favoring a county owned landfill as the cheapest long term waste solution with incineration as a less economical alternative. The plan requires regional cooperation and an estimated landfill cost of 1.39 million versus 5.89 million for a county wide incinerator. A meeting with city village and township representatives would be held within 30 days.
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Hamilton
Butler County
Valentine W. Seifert
Dayton
Moulenbelt & Seifert
Seifert
William Denham
Middletown
Commission
Oxford
Dale Logsdon
Donald&. Bacon
Denham
Kent Repertory Tour to Visit Lemon Monroe High School
The Kent State touring repertory company visits Lemon Monroe High School starting tomorrow. Ten Ohio high schools host the group organized in 1967 to produce and train in theater. Dr. Zucchero and Dr. Erdmann lead informal classes. "In White America" plays Thursday at 7 30 p.m. and "Beggar's Opera" Friday at 8 p.m.
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Kent State University
Lemon-Monroe
Ohio
Monroe
William
H. Zucchero
Louis O. Erdmann
White America
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Manchester Ave
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Garfield St
Kenneth Johnson
Alameda
Waits
Robert Campbel
Hampton Place
Virginia
St. Nicholas
Santa Claus
Vatican
Walter Weber
Round
Charlotte
First National Bank
Cincinnati Reds
First National
Customer Service Dept
E. Greathouse
Greathouse
Sears Roebuck
Sears
Ted Williams
Reed Klopp
Reed Klopps
Maud Mullers
Hallmark
Maud Muller
Pecks Flower Shop
Mr. Peck
Eastman Kodak
Davi Dsons
Davidsons
Mother
James Herr
Davidson
Photo Shop
Middletown Shopping
Irene Jacobson
John Roderer Sr
Cal
Midco Supply
TYTUS
Luis Roscoe
John William Dunne
Great Britain
Sol Riegel
Journal
Kent Repertory
LMHS
Citizen’s Savings & Loan Association
Ins Cen Ave
Savings and Loan
Verity Pawy
14Th Ave
Robert Konthier
Mgr
A.M
P.M. Sundeys
P.M. Te
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Cient World
McCoy Leffler
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