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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1973
Page
13
Workers from Armiel Construction Co recessed a brass compass in wet cement at the street corner in front of the Barnitz Bank yesterday morning. Bank officials and a city map guided the placement with a due north direction, joking that if the placement is wrong the city maps are wrong.
Winter City Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend denial of a zone change for the 60 acre Bachmann Tract from D-3 and D-4 to C-3. Absent commissioners William Davidson Warren Printz drew objections from Roosevelt Development Corp attorney Barry Levey about voting with two members missing. The City Commission will receive the denial recommendation.
A cleanup drive in Lemon Township starts Tuesday with junk collections south of Oxford State Road. Police Chief Tom Shannon says residents have called about the schedule as the road crew, police and volunteers sweep from the Trenton bridge to Yankee Road on Wednesday May 30 and Yankee Road to Blue Ball on Thursday. Volunteers are still needed to remove large junk items and towed autos with two dump trucks operating from about 9 a.m. daily.
City Manager Dale Helsel announced a sympathy walk request will receive a public hearing with 30 days of publicity, earliest possible July 3, and final decision after the hearing or at the next meeting. Commissioners must vote 4-1 to overrule the planning body. they rejected the proposal citing zoning adequacy and potential environmental and traffic impacts.
Middletown school board to hear a status report on the math program from several teachers. Board president Howard Schueller invites parents and teachers to attend and discuss arithmetic during the 7:30 p.m. meeting at the administrative offices on Girard Avenue.
Edgewood Board of Education accepted a $13,490 state grant to fund an instructional aide program for disadvantaged students. A $5,888 federal grant for library books and media materials was also approved, along with Central Reserve Life of North America as student insurance agent for kindergarten through sixth grade at $2 and upper grades at $3 per student.
Tickets for this weekend's production of Three Penny Opera can be reserved every evening this week from 7 to 9 p.m. Ron Fetzer, president of the Campus Community Players, said reservations are by calling the Middletown Campus of Miami University or visiting the box office at Dave Finkelman Auditorium during those hours.
The Korean wife of a Midwest Army man received U S citizenship in Cincinnati after 12 years in the United States. Jeong Ja Ferrara will join Capt James Ferrara in Germany on an American passport as the Army transferred him overseas. A waiver of the five year residency was granted for military relatives abroad. Ferrara has served seven years and they married in December 1971 in Middletown.
Yesterday at 12 37 p m a fire call at 1710 Lawn Ave led to Miss Nancy Oligee 25 sustaining a head injury from a fall. She was taken by ambulance to Middletown Hospital where she was treated and released.
Leo Hinkle aged 18 of 2000 Yankee Road and Danny Richardson aged 20 of 2007 Hill Ave were held on $500 bond after telephoning bomb threats to Water Refining Co. Calls were made to company offices Friday and yesterday. They were to appear in municipal court.
Hamilton Ohio Charles F Kurfess House Minority Leader will address the Hamilton Area Young Republicans at their monthly meeting. Now in his ninth term he will report on General Assembly legislation and his past advisory role on school finance and property tax relief. The 8 pm gathering takes place in the Civic Room of the West Side Federal Savings and Loan Association at Main and F streets.
Sam Warmoth of Monroe will address the annual Memorial Day services at Woodside Cemetery Monday at 11 45 a.m. He serves on the VFW National Security Committee and the final committee meeting is Thursday at the American Legion at 7 30 p.m. Service groups must send a representative for pre parade planning.
An 18 year old youth was arrested yesterday afternoon in connection with a garage fire at 316 Young St. Kenneth E. Scott of 308 Young St. was accused by Jim Davis of 4905 Dickens Ave. with arson. Davis owned the property where the garage and its contents were destroyed Sunday. Estimated loss was 600 dollars to the structure and 800 dollars to contents.
The Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce moved to establish a Retail Council to coordinate programs benefiting service and retail merchants citywide. Harold Kramer said the council will function like the Chamber's Industrial Council and a steering committee will meet May 31 to propose operating rules and officer elections.
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