Laird Promises Strong Countermeasures Over POW Retaliation
Defense Secretary Laird testifies on Capitol Hill that the U S will pursue strong countermeasures if North Vietnam retaliates for the failed POW rescue. He says actions to free prisoners are ongoing and denies policy shift, while Fulbright questions impact on peace prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Melvin R. Laird
U.S
Laird
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Capitol Hill
Senate
J.W. Fulbright
House Foreign Affairs Committee
William P. Rogers
North Vietnam
Republican Committee
Fulbright
Vietnam
Nixon
Sisted
Gore
Saigon
Spiro T. Agnew
Los Angeles
Gale McGee
Dwyo
United States
Government officials discuss prisoner release timing
In a tense exchange, the secretary says he does not wish to discuss the matter now while Fulbright calls the move a strong statement and a threat. Laird provides a brief remark, questioning why authorities waited to free the prisoners if methods to do so were known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laird
Fulbright
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Gore
Deaths And Funerals Robert L Harp 60
Robert L Harp 60 died at his New Carlisle home after a three week hospital stay. He was the son of Mrs Susan Kissinger of Middletown and his wife Violet preceded him in death last June. He leaves a brother Virgil of Franklin and three sisters Mrs Virginia Holaday of Franklin Mrs Jeanette Calpeter of Nice California and Mrs Pauline Werling of New Carlisle. Services set for 1 p m Friday at Trostel Chapman Funeral Home New Carlisle with burial in Glen Haven Memorial Gardens. Friends may call Thursday 5 to 9 p m at the funeral home. Arrangements incomplete at Zimmerman Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Harp
Susan Kissinger
Middletown
New Carlisle
Violet
Virgil
Franklin
Virginia Holaday
Jeanette Calpeter
Nice
Calif
Pauline Werling
Trostel- Chapman Funeral Home
Glen Haven Memorial Gardens
Private Services for Frank F Kontnier
Frank F Kontnier 83 of 166 Macready Ave Monroe died Tuesday at Logsdon Rest Home Hamilton. Private services will be held Friday at Joseph R Baker & Sons Funeral Home with Rev Gary Miller officiating. Burial is in Mourd Cemetery Monroe. Funeral home visitation Thursday 7 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank F. Kontnier
Macready Ave
Monroe
Joseph R. Baker & Sons
Gary Miller
Mourd Cemetery
Kenthier
Logsdon
Hamilton
Mrs Juanita Glossip dies at Middletown Hospital
Mrs Juanita Glossip 51 of 177 E Bryant Ave died at 2 15 am at Middletown Hospital where she had been a patient a week. Surviving husband William and brother Leo Izor of Springboro. Services 2 pm Saturday Eaton Funeral Home Dr H S Gessner officiating burial in Springboro Cemetery. Funeral home Friday 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
Juanita Glossip
E. Bryant Ave
Middletown Hospital
William
Leo Izor
Springboro
Eaton Funeral Home
H.S. Gessner
Gratis-Clevelands B Wilmot’s Death Notice
Gratis-Cleveland B Wilmot, 76, of 143 S Lafayette St Camden, died at 3 40 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gratis
Cleveland
Wilmot
S. Lafayette S
Camden
Obituaries for Mrs Ethel Cook Mrs Mae Hibbard and Mrs Ellen Cortelletti
Obituaries notice lists three women with ages and locations: Mrs Ethel Cook 70 of Newport Beach California formerly Hamilton with services at 10 a m Saturday. Mrs Mae Hibbard 67 of 620 Buckeye Street with services at 10 a m Friday at East River Road Baptist Church. Mrs Ellen Cortelletti 73 of Wayne Michigan formerly Butler County with services at 10:30 a m Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Cook
Newport Beach
Calif
Hamilton
Zettler
Mae Hibbard
Buckeye St
East River Road Baptist Church
Ellen Cortelletti
Wayne
Mich
Butler County
Proeschel
Funeral Let tor Man Crushed By Car
Graveside services for Mack Brewer Jr., 34, of 812 Fifth Ave., were set for 1 p.m. Friday at Evelyn's Crossing Cemetery near Campton, Ky. He died Monday from injuries after being crushed under a car he was working on at a relative’s home on Middletown-Oxford Road, Jacksonburg. Survived by wife Daisy, three sisters Berneda Lykie, Peggy Hall, Gene Tayto, a brother Paul, and two sons Robert and Danny at home. Arrangements by Porter Funeral Home Campton, Ky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mack Brewer Jr
Fifth Ave
Evelyn's Crossing
Campton
Brewer
Middletown
Oxford Road
Jacksonburg
Daisy
Berneda ‘Lykie
Peggy Hall
Heaven
Gene Tay
Services Friday For Victim Reed
Funeral notices say Harry Earl Reed, 67, of 2523 Benninghofen Ave., will have services Friday at 2 p.m. at Klaus- Weigel Funeral Home. Burial will be in Millville Cemetery. Reed died after his car struck a parked vehicle on Pleasant Ave near Fairview Ave Monday at 11 p.m. Burial follows at Millville Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Harry Earl Reed
Benninghofen Ave
Klaus- Weigel
Millville Cemetery
Mass Set For Crash Victims
A Mass of the Resurrection for Mr and Mrs Paul Menchen of 2378 Krucker Road will be at 10 am Friday at St Josephs Church. Burial will be in St Stephen Cemetery. Brown Dawson Funeral Home held a viewing Thursday evening. The Menchens were killed Sunday in an auto accident on Ohio 177 west of Hamilton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Paul Menchen
Krucker Road
St. Joseph's Church
St. Stephen’s Cemetery
Brown-Dawson Funeral Home
Menchen
Ohio
Planning meeting at St Marys Church for Rev Huser anniversary
A planning committee will meet at 7 30 p m Friday in the parish hall of St Marys Church Middletown to discuss plans honoring the Rev Sylvester Huser on his 25th anniversary. An open house is scheduled for December 6 at the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary’s Church
Sylvester Huser
Middletown
Franklin Board Lifts Ban On Girls Wearing Slacks
Franklin school board votes to allow all girls including elementary students to wear conservatively cut dress slacks or pants suits, with jeans still banned. Superintendent Dewitt Terry notes the dress code remains, new lights planned at Pennyroyal Elementary, bids approved for four new buses, air conditioning for high school rooms, and a planned sandwich line for junior high. Free lunch reimbursements rise from 4 to 34 cents per lunch, serving 4080 meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juanita Abney
Franklin
Dewitt Terry
Barbara Hanns
Hanna
Edgewood School Board
Carlisle
Lebanon
Terry
Pennyroyal
Herlinger Truck Sales
Cincinnati
Coy Myers
Myers
Four Ws of Education Highlight Middletown Schools
Supt. Robert K. Johnson told about 250 area service club members that the hands of children are the hands of the future and outlined the four Why Where What Who of education. Archbishop Kakovos attended the Middletown luncheon at the Manchester Motor Inn amid talk of local schools’ breadth and needs. The Middletown system covers 45 square miles with 25 schools, 13,886 students, 782 teachers and staff, and transportation challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert K. Johnson
Manchester Motor Inn
Kakovos
Middletown
Sts. Constantine and Helen
Johnson
Life Squad Trains on Drug Abuse Help Project
About ten life squad members from Middletown Franklin and Butler County attended a two hour training session at Anthony Wayne School in Franklin sponsored by Project 422 HOPE. Dr William Scott explained symptoms and first aid for drug abusers while Sgt Russell Dwyer briefed on drug slang and abuse patterns. The session addressed unpreparedness and was the only one scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Project 422- Hope
Middletown
Life Squad
Middletown Life Squad
Franklin
Butler County
Project 422-Hope
Anthony Wayne School
William Scott
Russell Dwyer
Youth Draws Two Terms in Mansfield Reformatory
Hamilton youth Steven D. Murphy, 20, was sentenced by Judge Robert L. Marrs to two consecutive indeterminate terms in the Mansfield Reformatory after being found guilty of unarmed robbery and pleading guilty to breaking and entering related to a July 24 robbery of William A. Young and a Oct. 16 burglary at King Kwik Market. Also, Timothy Yeary was sent back to finish a previous term for probation violation, and James and Dorothy Adkins were referred for pre-sentence investigation after pleading guilty to grand larceny in a motorcycle theft case from Fairfield on Nov. 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Butler County Common Pleas
Robert L. Marrs
Mansfield Reformatory
Steven D. Murphy
Ross Ave
William A. Young
Hamilton-Scipio
King Kwik Market
Timothy Yeary
Fairfield
James
Dorothy Adkins
Big June Found Guilty Of Narcotics Charges
Hamilton Middletown man Big June Williams aged 45 of 1411 Jacoby Ave Middletown was found guilty by a Butler County common pleas jury on three narcotics counts. Arrested May 21 at Armco Steel Corp main gate officers found syringe needles pills and a liquid substance in his lunch box with sentencing deferred on another narcotics charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton — Curtis
Big
Williams
Jacoby Ave
Middletown
Court of
Butler County Common Pleas
Arthur J. Fiehrer
Fiehrer
Armco Steel Corp
School board reframes goals for future administration
The board president outlines plans to redefine goals for the school system. He cites a memorandum to colleagues as basis for study and invites citizen involvement. The process aims to establish goals and priorities guiding the district’s future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
New Gift of Fruit Inspires Hope Across Regions
A fresh initiative titled Gift-O-Fruit aims to deliver nutritious fruit baskets to communities, supported by local NGOs and volunteers. The project emphasizes healthy eating and community spirit, with plans for partnerships, distribution hubs, and public awareness campaigns.
Midtown Bomb Strikes Soviet Offices in Manhattan
A pipe bomb exploded outside Aeroflot and Intourist offices in midtown Manhattan at 3:20 a.m. Shattered windows affected the three story building and two adjacent structures. Two anonymous calls claimed responsibility and quoted Never again as part of a Jewish Defense League protest. No injuries were reported. police found a 10 inch pipe device and searched the area with no further devices located.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Midtown Manhattan
Aeroflot and
Intourist
Russia
Soviet Union
Jewish Defense League
League
East 49Th Street
Park and
Madison Avenues
Hearing Set On Suspension of Hamilton Police Chief
Hamilton Police Chief George V. McNally seeks a hearing after a seven day suspension by City Manager Howard F. Wilson. The appeal argues the action is unreasonable arbitrary capricious and unlawful under the city charter civil service rules and constitutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
George V. McNally
Howard F. Wilson
City Civil Service Commission
Gerald F. Huber
Civil Service
McNally
U.S
Civil Service Rules
Formica Plant to Close in Cincinnati in February
Formica Corp will close its Spring Grove plant in February, a landmark since 1913, as it exits the industrial laminated plastics market. About 400 workers will be offered transfers to the Evendale plant where 2,000 are employed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Formica Corp
Spring Grove
Evendale
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Tampa
Fulbright Presses
By Carl P. Leubsdorf
Demilitarized Zone
Pentagon
Zimmerman Funeral Home
Juanita
Phanksgiving
Trading Post
Manchester
Motor Inn
Middletown, Ohio
Hearts of Schools
Chicago
Armbruster Florist, Inc
Grand Ave
Formica
Wilver Don
Don
St. Main St
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