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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1970
Page
16
An 18 member freshmen panel at Middletown Freshman High, guided by Dean Donna Jo Treadway, explored race relations amid incidents at the school. Discussions covered segregation, objections, and a potential student court, with students stressing cooperation to improve the school climate.
A 23 year old Illinois woman Kathleen Swisher of Deerfield slashed her wrists more than 70 times and jumped or fell from a second story window at 3242 W Church St in Oxford yesterday afternoon. Coroner Dr Garret J Boone ruled death by self action. She arrived in Oxford to visit her sister Lizabeth Ann Swisher.
Corydon Iowa. Nighttime traffic moves faster through the intersection of Iowa 2 and U S 65 after new rules. The owner of a drive in theater at the intersection has been forbidden by Wayne County District Court to show any more X rated movies.
Middletown leaders meet Miami officials to discuss the proposed conversion of the Miami University branch campus at Middletown into a state community and technical college. Armco Steel calls for a citizen study group to weigh affiliation with Miami versus a new college, while Miami supports whichever Middletown desires and favors maintaining a three campus system in Butler County. A public hearing on Ohio higher education master plan is set for Dec. 7 in Columbus before legislative action in January.
KAOS, the Miami University Middletown campus student paper, resumes after a two week suspension. The campus Communications Board voted to reinstate the paper until the end of the current fall quarter, following a prior suspension by Campus Director C Eugene Bennett.
Verification remains for a few groups but plans are set for Santa’s ride through Middletown. Participants assemble at 10 am at Holy Trinity Church lot on Clark Street, with the parade starting at 11 am. It follows Clark to Central, west on Central to Main, south on Main to First Avenue, then east to Verity.
Negotiations stall with no talks scheduled as Middletown firemen and city remain $150 apart per man per year. Local 336 captain Johnson cites offers to firemen well below comparisons with Cincinnati Hamilton Dayton and Springfield and notes city manager and commission refuse to discuss. Parade plans include Fenwick High School floats and a 25 foot Christmas tree lighting with a KAOS publication flap and campus newspaper governance debates.
A public hearing to approve the second year application for federal funding of the South and Prospect neighborhood project programs will be held tonight at 7 o'clock prior to the City Commission's weekly meeting. Also on the agenda is the second reading of a retirement ordinance setting the retirement age at 65 and four resolutions to appropriate property for Roosevelt Avenue. The meeting will be held in the commission chamber at the City Building.
For the tenth consecutive year Santa Claus lands by helicopter at the Middletown Shopping Center at 10 a.m. Friday in a roped-off parking lot area. He then visits Santa’s House to hand out candy to children as Merideth Renwick, the center president, says the event officially opens the Christmas season.
Lt. Ed Poling, 63, yesterday resumed duties in the detective section of the Division of Police after an apparent heart attack on July 11 and a hospitalization.
Adam E. Dunn of Rt 1 Peebles sues in Butler County Common Pleas Court seeking participation in benefits under the iAct. He alleges a back injury on Jan 19 1968 while employed by Kaiser Engineers at Middletown. He had filed a claim and later an adjustment request after a second injury was disallowed.
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