Lightning Strikes Two Franklin Homes Causing Property Damage
Franklin reports two homes struck by lightning with no injuries. Charles Chasteen family home suffered window damage and scorched walls after a TV lead in wire caused a fire. Later, Zelma Hogg’s residence on Main Street saw interior damage and curtains ignited, total damages estimated at $150 to $300.
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Franklin
Charles Chasteen
Howard Harville
Zelma Hogg
N. Main St
Harville
Hijacked Venezuelan Airliner Flew to Cuba with Hostages
A commandeered Venezuelan airliner refueled in Merida Mexico on a 24 hour circuit of Latin American airports and then flew to Cuba with four hijackers and 38 hostages aboard. Radio Havana said the plane landed in Cuba at 6.25 p.m. EDT with all passengers reported safe. The hijackers had demanded freedom for 79 political prisoners, which Venezuela refused.
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Merida
Mexico
Cuba
Radio Havana
Venezuela
Seven Die As 50-Foot Boat Sinks Off Rhode Island
A 50 foot party boat with 25 to 30 aboard sank four miles south of Point Judith near Narragansett. Coast Guard reports seven dead with 16 rescued and a Navy team dispatched to investigate. Survivors say the vessel broke up after sinking near Wickford and Point Judith.
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Narragansett
R.I
Point Judith
Coast Guard
Wakefield
Navy
Wickford
Police Briefs Report Vehicle Thefts and Stolen Goods
Mrs Vivian McConnell reports 30 music tape cassettes valued at 150 stolen from her parked car. Robert Milton reports a 250 camera taken from his parked vehicle.
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Vivian McConnell
McKinley St
Robert Milton
S. Sutphin St
New fluorescent I sticker aids rescue for elderly disabled
A program distributes fluorescent I decals to alert emergency crews that an invalid lives in a home. Grace Hutchinson, 65, deaf mute, lives at 112 S. Clinton with her late husband. Firemen plan more decals at other elderly buildings and offer free stickers via the Middletown Area Association of Life Underwriters and fire department.
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J. Ross Hunt Towers
S. Clinton St
Grace Hutchinson
Allie Hutchinson
Town House
N. Verity Parkway
Middletown Area Association of Life Underwriters
Fire Department
N. Clinton St
James L. Mattson
Mattson
J. Ross Hunt
Butler Metropolitan Housing Authority
Clinton Street
Edgewood senior wins grant for paper technology at Miami
John A. Dickerson a Edgewood High School senior wins a renewable Miami University paper technology scholarship. The first year pays 630 dollars rising to 1110 dollars by year five with potential total over 4000 dollars. The fund is supported by paper companies through the Pulp and Paper Foundation.
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Trenton
John A. Dickerson
Edgewood High School
Miami University
Oxford
John Dickerson
Maple Ave
Edgewood
Miami University Pulp and Paper Foundation
Aeroneca union votes to accept contract awaiting NLRB ruling
Aeroneca Independent Union members vote 358 to 255 to accept a two-year contract. The status hinges on a National Labor Relations Board hearing Tuesday where the IAM will seek to represent Aeronca workers based on a member poll and employee signatures.
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Aeronca
Aeronca Inc
National Labor Relations Board
Emory Atkins
Germantown
NLRB
Atkins
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
IAM
Middletown Man Reports Robbery By Trio Inside Car
Millard Marcum 53 said two men and a woman hid in his car and forced him to drive to a park at Baltimore Street and Lafayette Avenue where they hit him and cut his face and stole 221 dollars. Cliff Dye of the Butler County sheriff's office stopped him later at LeSourdsville and he was taken to Mercy Hospital in Hamilton.
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Middletown
Millard Marcum
Mohawk St
Baltimore Street
Lafayette Avenue
Historic Cemetery to Host Memorial Day Ceremony
The historic cemetery near Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church north of Peasttown will host a Memorial Day service next Sunday at 2 30 p m. Jim Blount Hamilton Journal News editor will speak honoring soldiers buried from Revolutionary and Indian wars. Col Eldon Hutchison World War II Army chaplain returns to deliver the address with a color guard and War Mothers to be presented by a Doty House Boy Scout.
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Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church
Peasttown
Jim Blount
Hamilton Journal-News
Butler County
Col. Eldon Hutchison
Mt. Pleasant
Col. Hutchison
Doty House
Six Injured as Car Skids on Rain Slick Finley Street
A 21 year old woman and five children were injured when her car left rain slick Finley Street and struck a tree at about 8 05 p m One child was listed as serious Cynthia Smallwood 6 of 2904 Finley St remained in Middletown Hospital ICU Doris Smallwood Victoria 5 Deborah 3 Diane 1 and Viola Collins 15 of 2229 Fernwood St were treated or released after minor injuries
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Finley Street
Cynthia Smallwood
Finley St
Middletown Hospital
Doris Smallwood
Victoria
Deborah
Diane
Viola Collins
Fernwood St
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Franklin View
Second Street
Chasteen
Aeroneca
Westinghouse
Meatkeeper
Melampy
Joe Cox
American Legion Post 218
Your Heart Association
Oscar Koeppel
Butler Co. Heart Association
Verity Hall
McKnight Drive
Union Sanitary
Union Sanitary Sweepstakes
Back Swanson
Cin
Dayton Rd
Union Sanitary 5
Park St
Ind Ave
Grand Ave
Gideon Rd
Mobile Home Court
Trenton Shopping Center
Cartiste
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