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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1973
Page
2
Karen L. Redmond 21 was treated and discharged from Middletown Hospital after a car she drove north on Cincinnati Dayton Road swerved to avoid a dog, left the road, and overturned in a field. She was not cited.
About 100 members of the Myers family arrived in Middletown for their 16th reunion held during Memorial Day holidays. The gathering honors their parents Mr. and Mrs. Reese Myers, with church services planned at Mount Zion and a 3 p.m. feast at Triedstone Baptist Church.
Registrations for a summer band are open per Ken Amburgey Middletown Fresh man High School band director. Deadline June 1 call park office. Junior band grades six to eight rehearse Roosevelt Middle School Tuesdays and Thursdays 1 to 3 pm starting June 5. Senior band ninth grade and up plus adults rehearse Goldman Park office 6 to 8 pm starting June 5. Fridays concerts at Sunset Park 7 pm starting June 15. Season ends August 3. All members receive free summer swim passes.
Seventy four members of Lemon Monroe High School class of 1973 were honored at an all school assembly for achievement across academic, vocational, citizenship, leadership and athletic categories. Awards named include Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science, John Phillip Sousa Band, Beta Sigma Phi music, Arion National Music Foundation, Delta Chi Sigma home economics, and many more with cash prizes and savings bonds.
The Miami University Senate votes to study a credit no credit option and possibly form an academic appeals board for grades. It backs an early semester calendar and supports creating courses not for baccalaureate majors, urging regional campuses Hamilton and Middletown to participate. The council approves course development to speed degree completion, including unlimited credit hours and expanded proficiency exams for on and off campus work.
The Ohio AFL-CIO says it will oppose Gov. Gilligan's bill to create an industrial safety program and favors expanded federal enforcement. President Frank King notes the board's unanimous decision to back federal rules and urge a comprehensive safety plan for public employees. King questions state enforcement longevity.
A sports car caught fire in a basement apartment garage late yesterday at 3003 Grand Ave. Firemen assessed the blaze caused $1500 to the car $400 to the garage and $300 to other contents with total damage about $2200. Ted Colliver reported attempting to start his $4500 1969 model. the owner Sol Finkleman owns the building.
Mrs Miller was named chairman of Red Cross volunteers at a Middletown gathering honoring the 92nd Red Cross birthday. She will assume duties June 30, replacing Mrs William Leasure, with dinner arrangements by a planning group led by Mrs Richard Beebe and others.
A series of fires and medical calls from yesterday evening to early morning. At 717 Boylston St a fire caused by an electrical short circuit led to $100 damage to a car owned by Jeffrey Jana. Emergency squad aids Bryan Lewis at 2300 Queen Ave for an ill 8 month old. A TV short caused $6 damage at 806 Ninth Ave home of Mrs Helen Pallas. Mrs Mary Sutherland aged 46 was ill and transported to Middletown Hospital by ambulance. Dennis Roberts aged 89 of 809 15th Ave was ill and taken to hospital by ambulance.
Services for Theodore P. Lovelace 20 who died in a Woodlawn Ave apartment fire will be at 1 Friday at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home with Rev Lowell Lakes. Burial in Woodside Cemetery. Graveside services for the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Donald E Mack of 5700 S Dixie Highway Franklin were held today at Mt Pleasant Cemetery Peasttown with Rev Howard Sears officiating. Arrangements by Riggs Funeral Home. Hamilton deaths list includes Mrs Louisa Hudson 79 services 9 30 a m Friday Brown Dawson. Mrs Valada McKinney Riverside Calif formerly Hamilton services 9 30 a m Saturday Reading. Mrs Gladys McMahan 67 11 Harm St services 10 a m Friday Webb. Mrs Ada Dallas 89 Denver Colo formerly Hamilton graveside Greenwood Cemetery.
The American Cancer Society will receive the proceeds from a musical production of Cinderella to be presented Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. by youngsters from Peastown Elementary School at Dave Finkelman Auditorium. The script is by Mrs. Sylvia Malinak, whose fourth grade pupils presented the Wizard of Oz two years ago.
Coast Guard reports no trace of a Cincinnati man after a companion drowned in Lake Erie off Catawba Island. A 68 year old Napoleon resident was recovered by a Sandusky fisherman from the drifting vessel started from Gem Beach. The missing man’s identity and details about the other passenger remain unavailable.
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