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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1969
Page
9
Members of the Middletown Senior Citizen Center announce their first Christmas bazaar on Saturday December 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the new quarters 195 Columbia Avenue. Co chairmen are Mrs Phoebe Schmidt and Mrs Mabel Reed. Handmade articles and baked goods will be sold.
Mrs Luverta Barlow 65 former Middletown resident died Wednesday at Harrison Ga Surviving are a son Harlow and three sisters Lillian Iverson Bernice McCuller from Middletown two brothers W J and C H Wilcher also Middletown and seven grandchildren Also noted is Mr Barnett Mathews Ala native survived by wife three brothers and sister five sons two daughters 28 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren He died Tuesday
Funeral services for Walter Barnett 81 retired Detroit lumber dealer and father of Ezekiel Barnett will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the Church of Christ of Detroit. Burial will be in Westside Cemetery at Inkster.
Anna Blevins 40 of 107 Normal Drive died on arrival at Middletown Hospital after a heart attack. She worked six years for Sorg Paper Co and 16 years for Maxwell Paper Co. Survived by husband Bernam, a son Donald, daughter Brenda Neace, parents Walter and Helen Hitte, eight brothers, three sisters. Services 10 a.m. Tuesday Eaton Funeral Home. burial Springboro Cemetery. Visitation Monday 4 to 9 p.m.
Services for Mrs Florence McGraw 61 of 8528 Trenton Franklin Road are at 10 a.m. Monday at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home with burial in Woodside Cemetery. The service follows visitation today 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. She died yesterday at Middletown Hospital. An obituary note corrects two surviving sisters names as Miss Elizabeth Carpenter Franklin and Mrs Lucile Kalbe Middletown.
Jack Long age 49 of Ridgelawn Avenue to service 10 a.m. Monday at Klaus-Weigel. George Paullus age 75 of Hanover Street to a Requiem High Mass 9 30 a.m. Monday at St. Josephs Church. Clinton Alston age 67 of Dayton formerly Hamilton to service 11 a.m. Monday at Zettler. Fred Stretch age 86 of Greenwood Manor Nursing Home to private services Campbell.
Police continued their probe after a car left in a driveway at 3401 Glencoe Ave was attacked with soft drink bottles. Occupants tossed bottles toward the house and then fled. no damage was reported.
Charles Ball of the Ohio Kentucky Indiana Planning Authority spoke at the Hamilton Association of Trade and Industry about prioritizing an outer belt from Trenton to New Richmond via Lebanon and Clermont County. He cited traffic forecasts, funding splits, and the impact on the Hamilton Middletown triangle, noting the plan is a discussion document awaiting adoption.
A Journal newsboy, Nevin Rude aged 14, was struck on Vannest Avenue by a neighbor’s car while crossing Sunset Street with his sister’s dog. He will be off paper routes for five days after hospital treatment for facial bruises, a right arm and hand injury, and a left hip. The driver Miss Brenda Sebastian, 19, was not cited. vehicle damage valued at $15.
A Monroe woman Virginia E. Elizer 44 of 365 Britton Road was found at home after driving on Cincinnati Dayton Road Blue Ball and striking four mailboxes a vehicle in a Kenny's Cary-Out parking lot and leaving the scene She faced charges of driving under the influence of drugs and leaving the scene The Lebanon Post State Patrol Monroe police and Lemon Township police investigated the incident.
Fire runs reported yesterday at 705 19th Ave Allen Phelps 60 ill taken to Middletown Hospital treated and released at 9 40 p m 1310 Young St Dorothy Fair 39 ill taken to Middletown Hospital admitted condition today fair Today 12 45 a m police report at Airport Inn Germantown Road car gone on arrival
Seven Mile resident Bart Bowling reported losing his billfold containing 80 dollars in cash and a 128 dollar check. Police returned the wallet intact after two teens found it and turned it in. In other news, nine floodlight bulbs worth 31.60 were stolen from Garden Manor Nursing Home, and Darrell Caudill found his 12 volt car battery stolen from his stalled vehicle on Ohio 122.
A Middletown woman, Carmalita Scott, 28, was treated and released at Middletown Hospital for a suspected spider bite received while watching TV at home. She reported the bite at the City Building, then fainted in a police car en route to the hospital.
Mrs. Doris I. Magaw of Trenton filed a 250000 damage suit in Butler County Common Pleas Court over the death of Arnold L. Magaw 36 at Waneta Avenue crossing south of Middletown on November 30 1967. She alleges Penn Central failed to maintain lights or signals and to warn of the train, and kept a hazardous right of way by weeds and brush.
More than 350 area youths led by Dick Ross and Steve Schnabl will canvass Middletown on Sunday to raise funds for world hunger relief through the CROP campaign. They will solicit donations designated to multiple relief organizations at the Church of the Ascension with gifts by mail sent to the Middletown CROP HQ.
Franklin officials estimate the warehouse fire at Container Corp. caused up to 125000 in damage. The blaze started Thursday and burned through the weekend as investigators delay due to heat and fatigue. Volunteers aided by Carlisle, Clearcreek, and Hunter departments aided Franklin firefighters.
Louis Elvis Frederick 46 of Ohio Rt. 350 was fined 500 dollars and costs and sentenced to six months in jail with 300 dollars of the fine suspended on probation after being found guilty of delivering barbiturates. He was arrested Nov. 17 while passing amphetamine pills to another person. nearly 2,000 pills found on him and about 5,000 at his home. Sheriff Roy Wallace said Frederick had been under surveillance.
Deputies questioned Clyde Oberle 21 of Western Row Road Mason after he was beaten and robbed of his shoes and forty dollars. Oberle told of leaving a Half Way Inn incident with two companions and a ride by two white men that ended with a severe assault in the Woodsdale area.
Two Franklin residents were injured when their southbound car went left of center on Elk Creek Road and struck a bridge abutment near West Alexandria Road. Driver Gary Lamb, 20, and passenger Robert Hormell, 22, were treated at Middletown Hospital and dismissed.
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