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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1971
Page
2
At MHS Parents meeting, black and white speakers argued over who should shape student welfare. A black parent warned against white control, while a black bus driver urged attention to students’ home lives. A white South-end resident urged comprehensive evaluation to heal racial, economic, and social fractures and avoid reopening old wounds.
Youths from Springboro Baptist Church marched through the town yesterday with signs and banners to announce a week of revival services. The revival runs from tomorrow through October 10 with guest minister Rev. Arnold Moon of Houstonville Kentucky and nightly singing at 7 30 p m.
TOLEDO Ohio AP Senator William B Saxbe says he believes Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts would be a strong running mate for President Nixon in 1972. He adds Brooke would make a real good candidate and notes many Republicans would want him as running mate.
Discussion continues as residents recount the Wednesday disturbance linked to a homecoming dispute. Parents call for stronger school authority while contrasting Black and white voices, with some urging unity and individual judgment over perceived collective blocks.
At 9:47 a.m. Mrs. Birdie Klaber, 45, at 213 Lytburn Road received oxygen for 15 minutes. At 3:43 p.m. Frank Cantrell, 35, at 1332 Fairmount Ave. was taken to Middletown Hospital by ambulance after falling ill.
A former Middletown resident, Dock Gibbs aged 26, is held in Powell County jail Stanton Kentucky after FBI fugitive warrant service. Gibbs was arrested on a traffic charge Friday night. FBI affidavit filed by Liberty Bonding Association of Cincinnati. He was accompanied by his father Felix Gibbs of Campton Kentucky and a young couple.
Industry shows interest in hiring LCI graduates from the Leba non Correctional Institution, with former inmates working as far as Florida California and Chicago. Ron Blair notes the graphic arts course offers three vocational credits, expanding from production to artistic silkscreening. Library display in Middletown through Oct 15 features student work and aims to place pieces in shopping centers. Blair mentions high demand and limited enrollment as 75 signed up, only 15 openings. The program runs long hours and connects to real shop work at the sign shop after training. Blair cites cost and potential of screen printing, stressing its artistic and vocational uses without requiring a four year art degree. The Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction commissioned silkscreen prints for geriatric departments in nine new hospitals.
Columbus officer Charles Sullivan who was fired after a duty raid arrest in Cincinnati was reinstated by the Columbus Civil Service Commission. A back pay award was ordered. The panel accepted that a sociology course research paper earned a passing grade, supporting Sullivan’s claim of academic work amid his arrest and the raid that produced heroin seizures.
Municipal Judge John B. Tracy will begin sending errant drivers to the Defensive Driving course run by the Middletown Safety Council. He said future policy will require those found guilty to attend or face loss of driving privileges for an extended period.
Tracy cited rising speeders hot-rodders tire squealers and excessive noise. Police Chief Frank Harbach says these offenses endanger lives and reflect a total disregard for residents. The judge announced the move as a forewarning to potential offenders.
Franklin Municipal Court, Judge John B. Tracy, disposed of over 100 cases in a busy session. DWI defendants were Larry Faulkner and Arlie Frasure, both fined and jailed with suspensions. Numerous motorists faced fines for speeding, no license, reckless or improper driving, and related offenses.
Substantial progress toward settlement of the three month old West Coast dock strike was reported Saturday while East and Gulf Coast longshoremen walked out. In New York more than 2,500 passengers carried their own baggage as four Caribbean cruise ships arrived.
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