This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 7 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1977
Page
6
Gov. Rhodes signs emergency lifeline bill aiding elderly and disabled Ohioans with incomes of 7000 or less. The program offers a 87.50 check or 25 percent discount for five winter months, covering renters and homeowners with splits in funding and eligibility.
A group called Committee of 50 voted to oppose a Cincinnati school tax levy. They fault the school board for opposing a desegregation suit filed by the NAACP and rejecting two of three proposals they presented at the Sept 28 meeting. Through former Mayor Theodore Berry they urged negotiations to settle the suit and to halt campaigning on race. The board sent the third proposal to the committee and took no action on the other two.
Fire Prevention Week guide from the National Fire Protection Association outlines an EDITH home escape plan. Steps include two exit routes from each room, a whistle alert system, sleeping with doors closed, easy to use upper floor exits, a distant assembly point, and using external phones or street alarm boxes to notify the fire department.
Ohio Public Works employee Jeff Hewitt polished the Christopher Columbus statue on the Ohio Statehouse lawn in Columbus to mark Columbus Day. He aimed for the monument to look its best for the holiday.
A 20-year-old from Columbus Indiana, Nancy Lyn Patton, was crowned Miss Columbus U.S.A. at a Columbus Day pageant in Columbus Ohio. Terri Lynn Heard, Pamela S. Dartt, Constance Means and Laura Rice were named runners up representing Montana Wisconsin North Carolina and Nebraska. Upcoming reunion plans include a Class of 1947 gathering at Lemon Monroe High School with a dinner dance at Forest Hills Country Club.
Vital births include a Cheatham girl in Miamisburg and a Taylor boy on Sunday. Dismissals cover multiple local residents and addresses including Agnew Collins Dukes Fulmer Hembree Howard Kash Lindsey Roberts Seevers Seigrist Suttles Woodrey Yost Ballard Blevins Bray Creager Doughman McGuire and Mays with hospital visiting hours noted for patients.
Columbus residents join Warner Communications QUBE in a national test market. Equipment will be installed in the first Columbus homes to offer 30 channels including nine premium options. Viewers use a five button console to test, vote, play games, and influence programming. Premium channels have no commercials and include two movie channels.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.