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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1969
Page
15
Inside the three story Middletown Hospital wing as part of a 2.25 million expansion, mechanicals are 70 percent done, plastering started on the middle floor, door frames set on the top floor, and partitions nearly complete on the lower floor. The project is slated for spring completion.
Stanley Sorrell and his campaign filed with the Butler County Elections Board for a hand recount of all 23 precincts in Middletown's City Commission race. Sorrell trailed James Saunders by 110 votes. Saunders had 5 187, Sorrell 5 077, and Tom Blake won with 5 636. A $230 deposit was posted, with the option to recount more than seven precincts if allowed by the board.
Franklin faces setbacks as 23 names are pulled from the annexation petition for a 1235 acre area southeast of the city. A second petition shows 35 residents oppose annexation. Public hearing moved from Dec 23 to Jan 6 1970. City Manager Eichholz says residents may benefit from joining the city.
Logan T. Johnston, Armco Steel Corp. board chairman, named chairman of the 1969 Butler County Christmas Seal campaign. He serves on Carnegie Mellon University trustees and supports Miami University, with ties to Middletown campus. Campaign groups include seniors, Westover residents, and area high schools. Seals fund tuberculosis and respiratory disease programs with the slogan Use Christmas Seals It’s A Matter of Life and Breath.
Hamilton teachers threaten a strike unless Dr. Lester L. Dickey rejects a $25,000 pay raise for retiring superintendent. A separate group calls for resignations of three board members who backed the increase. The board planned to revisit a 6.7 mill levy, voters to decide Dec 9, with an $11 million 1970 budget.
Dr. Glenn Willis 32 of 254 Woodyard Monroe remains in critical condition at Middletown Hospital after a two car crash at Route 63 and Yankee Road Wednesday. Willis, a dentist, suffered leg and chest injuries and was previously listed as serious.
Post 218 of the American Legion seeks public cooperation to offset negative effects of the moratorium on war protests later this month. Citizens are urged to fly the American flag on Veterans Day and keep car and porch lights on from Nov 11 to 15 to show support for the government and President Nixon’s peace efforts against North Vietnam.
Williams and Mrs McWilliams sentenced for second degree homicide by motor vehicle in the death of 15 year old Dennis Pfister. Each fined 500 with 30 days jail suspended, costs shared, and a three year suspended sentence stipulation. The March crash on U S 27 near Ringwood Road occurred as the boy rode in a panel truck.
Marion Groves, 56, died from wounds after a Sept. 15 shooting at a Dayton water plant. Ted Perzanowski, 58, shot Groves and Charles Sellars, 38, then killed himself with Sellars dying hours later.
James F. E. Allen of Columbus Ohio will become executive vice president of Post Newsweek stations in Florida and general manager of WLBW TV Miami. Board Chairman Larry H. Israel said Allen, then president of Westinghouse Broadcasting Group W, will take the post November 17.
Riverside AP report tells how a 1945 check for 26.18 payable to Eastman Kodak Co. was cashed the same year but lost by the payee for decades. It reappeared recently on a postal clerk’s desk marked Banks Drug Co. in Riverside after the firm closed.
Rabbi Meyer H. Marx of Temple Beth Sholom is tapped to chair the third annual ecumenical thanksgiving service to be held November 25 at 7 30 p m in Miami University Middletown. The Interfaith Council of Middletown sponsors the event uniting Catholic Greek Orthodox Jewish and Protestant clergy and lay leaders.
A special committee of university and community representatives will propose a program to mend the split between Ohio University and Athens after arrests in narcotics investigations near campus. The effort aims to restore relations and address local concerns.
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