Excello Man Killed When Car Hits Pole
A 29-year-old Excello man named Tommie Ray Hicks died instantly when his car ran off S Main Street and struck a tree and a Cincinnati Gas and Electric pole. Middletown police quoted witnesses and the county coroner said death was instantaneous from multiple internal injuries. Hicks left a note of his employment at Harding Jones Paper Co and was said to be one of the plant’s best workers. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.
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Excello
S. Main Street
Tommie Ray Hicks
S. Main St
Harding- Jones Paper Co
Middletown
Hicks
Cincinnati Gas & Electric
Garret J
Boone County
Country Kitchen
Harding-Jones
Butler County
Darrell
Jake) Collins
John A. Crist
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Attorney Hurt in Night Power Outage Crash
A Middletown attorney, John A. Crist, 43, escaped serious injuries after his car crashed into a tree and a Cin cinnati Gas & Electric pole on Wayne-Madison Road. The impact caused a power outage affecting Williamsdale Overpeck New Miami Seven Mile and Trenton from just before 2 a.m. until about 4:30 a.m. Crist was listed in satisfactory condition at Middletown Hospital with a severe right cheek and left foot injury.
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Wayne-Madison Road
Augspurger Road
St. Clair Township
Collins
Williamsdale
Overpeck
New Miami
Seven Mile
Trenton
Crist
Middletown
Highway Official Dies In Crash
James Barnes 45 Warren County highway superintendent for Division 6 died early today when his pickup struck a wrecker on U S 42 near the Butler Warren line. The collision occurred as the wrecker driver inspected a cruiser. Barnes had a history of state service with a local family. He survived by wife Gloria and seven children and will be memorialized at Shorten Funeral Home with burial at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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End James Barnes
Warren County
Division 6
Ohio State Highway Department
U.S. 42
Butler-Warren County
The
Lebanon Post
Barnes
Frank St
Mason
William R. Adkins
Cincinnati-Dayton
Union Township
Ohio
Gloria
Marceline
Angela
Stephan
Denver
Colo
Gary
John
Marie Birney
Cincinnati
Eugene
Shorten Funeral
Rose Hill Cemetery
Middletown panel backs $7,250 starting salary for teachers
An advisory panel recommends a $450 raise to a $7,250 base for new teachers in Middletown, with a 12 day window for acceptance. The panel also urges a spring 1973 tax levy, maintaining one personal leave day and partial coverage for Blue Cross Blue Shield. The MTA backs the panel’s unanimous proposals as negotiations continue.
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Middletown Teachers’ Association
MTA
Board of Education
Fred van Scoyce
Armco Steel
M.B. Moroni
University of Dayton
Middletown
Butler Officeholders Ask For More Room
Hamilton Butler Count officials urged for more space as the 87 year old courthouse nears capacity. Probate Judge Walsh asked for extra court space on the second floor while auditors, treasurers, recorders, health and probation departments sought enlargements. Commissioners discussed rearranging or sharing courtrooms but offered no solution.
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Hamilton
Butler
Harry F Walsh
Piano Recital Tonight At Middletown Campus Auditorium
James Stork, 19, a Miami University Middletown freshman, will give his second piano recital tonight at 8 15 in Dave Finkelman Auditorium. He has studied piano since age five with Linda Lee Haggard and is sponsored by the campus music department. He plans to attend the Oxford Campus next fall.
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James Stork
Middletown
Miami University
Dave Finkelman
Stork
Lesley Lane
Linda Lee Haggard
Eye Oxford
Station Attendant Robbed at Hi Fy Station
Dennis Lee Eggenberg, 29, Hi Fy Station attendant on S Verity Parkway, reported midnight robbery at gunpoint. A man demanded his wallet and $25.50 after claiming a cigarette machine cheated him. Police questioned and briefly released a 20-year-old Lincoln Street man before rearresting him as a match for the suspect.
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Dennis Lee Eggenberg
S. Verity Parkway
Lincoln Street Mint
Eggenberg
Hodges to retire from Cincinnati Gas & Electric after 46 years
Chester Hodges director of community services for Cincinnati Gas & Electric in Middletown since 1965 will retire Thursday after nearly five decades with the company. He began in 1925 as a substation operator and rose to director of community services northern division. He serves on multiple boards and held senior Masonic and DeMolay positions. No successor has been named.
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Chester Hodges
Thincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Middletown
Nam
Hodges
Ardmore Drive
First National Bank
Junior Achievement, Civic Association
Ctizens
High 12
Masons of Ohio
Syrian Temple Shrine
Knights of Columbus and
Wise Temple
International Supreme Council and
Order of DeMolay
Mastodon's Head Found In Indiana
The upper part of a baby mastodon head was uncovered about three miles west of Angola in Steuben County. Dr. Jack Sunderman of Indiana University Fort Wayne said the head was in good shape with some teeth still in the bone.
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Angola, Ind
Angola
Steuben County
Jack Sunderman
Indiana-Purdue University
Fort Wayne
Middletown Establishes First Boat Rescue Squad
Middletown forms its first boat rescue unit to operate three boats from the Miami River Park. Led by Lester Dean Johnson, the 30 member roster includes Paul Rosell as captain, with Jack Slifer, William Roach, and Ed Barker among the officers. A practice run last week took 18 minutes. over the long weekend the boats will operate day and night from the park.
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Middletown
Boa
Miami River
Lester Dean Johnson
Johnson
Paul Rosell
Jack Slifer
William Roach
Ed Barker
Hosses
Hearing Date Set For Miami Car Suit
A Miami University senior, Robert A. Destro, sues university officials in Butler County Common Pleas Court asking to stop enforcement of campus car regulations. A preliminary injunction hearing is set for next Wednesday at 8 30 a m. The suit alleges students face grade withholding until a $15 fine is paid and seeks relief for all affected students.
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Destro
Freight train hits dynamite truck in Canton
A Penn Central freight train collided with a tractor trailer loaded with dynamite in Canton Ohio. Some dynamite spilled but no explosions occurred. Police and fire crews cordoned off the area near Third Street and Madison Avenue and evacuated several buildings.
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Canton
Ohio
Penn Central
Third Street
Madison Avenue
Kent State Receives Peace Study Planning Grant
The National Endowment for the Humanities awards Kent State University Center for Peaceful Change a $20,000 planning grant to develop an issue oriented curriculum. Dr. Raghbir Basi, center director, says the grant will aid program planning.
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Kent, Ohio
National Endowment For the Humanities
Center For Peaceful Change
Kent State University
Raghbir Basi
KAOS staffer Tom Muchmore wins campus award in year of change
Tom Muchmore a 20 year old Miami University Middletown sophomore received the campus newspaper KAOS first annual Outstanding Staff Member award at Verity Lodge. The paper reflected on a year of transformation under co editors James Barrett and Judy Pardy and praised improved campus event coverage and handling of national and international issues.
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KAOS
Tom
Tom Muchmore
Middletown
Miami University
Verity Lodge
James Barrett
Judy Pardy
C. Eugene Bennett
Bennett
Don Adams
Miami
God
Joseph Ayer
Barrett
Miss Pardy
Ayer
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Marshall
Central Avenue
McCoy-Leffler
Orchard Street
Funeral Home
Mary Lord
Midaletown
Commission
Dale Logsdon
William Denham
Arthur F. Reiff
Indiana
Aaa
Ben Ligon
Gulf Service
N. Main
Manchester
Morial
Kent State
Security
Strassburger
Carpet and Furniture Cleaners
West Middletown, Ohie
Eteets Niae
Muchmore
S. Breiel Bivd
Shopping Plaza
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