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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1969
Page
2
A Middletown Journal Q and A on the school tax levy renewal explains the system aims for the common good and requires taxes from all residents. It notes that 76 cents of each dollar come from business and industry while homeowners pay under 24 cents and basic textbooks must be funded from tax funds.
Middletown welcomes Ohio Sealy Mattress Co and PCF Foam Corp as new plants occupying old local facilities. Sealy, 50 percent production, 26 employees now. PCF Foam hiring seven now with full output near 25. Centralized to western Ohio markets Lima to Cincinnati.
The Rev. John Stone of Woodham Ferrers England proposes a coffee vending machine in the church chancel. He calls it symbolic of Christ feeding the 5,000 and notes no hot drinks are available on Sundays in the area.
Ezra Lovelace 74 died yesterday in Grandview Hospital Dayton. He lived at 415 Deardoff Road Franklin. Survived by wife Virginia son Richard and daughters Marilyn Day and Linda Briddell, stepson Emmett Lovelace, six grandchildren, brothers Kenneth and Bernard, sister Bernadine Corrill. Funeral 10:30 am Saturday Joseph R. Baker & Sons, Woodside Cemetery. Visitation Friday 3–5 and 7–9 pm Middletown. Burial Woodside Cemetery. Additional service for Kenneth Lovelace and Bernadine Corrill at Wilson Schramm Memorial Home 210 S Main St with Rev. Clifton Stearns at 10 am Saturday. Burial Woodside Cemetery. Visitation 7–9 pm Friday.
Mrs Margaret Myers aged 83 died at 5 a.m. today after a long illness. She lived at Garden Manor Rest Home since 1951 and was active in the First United Methodist Church Philathea Class and the Grandmothers' Club. She is survived by her son Robert of Middletown. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at Joseph R Baker & Sons Funeral Home at 11 30 a.m. Graveside rites follow at Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis with no visitations.
George Thomas Bud Young aged 49 formerly of Middletown died yesterday at Fairfield Nursing Home where he had been a patient for two years. He was a machinist for Shartle Brothers Co from 1936 to 1948 and was the son of the late Emery and Beatrice Young.
Dr. Frank R. Veal minister of Bethel AME Church Lockland and former president of Paul Quinn College in Waco Texas and Allen University in Columbia South Carolina died Tuesday in Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati after a cerebral hemorrhage. Funeral at Bethel AME Saturday at 2 p.m. Burial Beech Grove Cemetery Wyoming. Hall Jordan Memorial Chapel in charge.
Lester Urton 75 of 222 W Silver St dies Tuesday at Miami Valley Hospital Dayton. Army WWI veteran and retired Production Plating Co employee. Graveside rites with VFW Memorial Team Association at Oswald in Lebanon Cemetery tomorrow at 2 30 p.m. Visitation today 6 to p.m. Survived by wife Alla, sister Ann Callison of Dayton, and half sister Margaret Horner of Lebanon.
Walter Dutch Zech 69 of Butter Street Germantown Route 1 died on arrival at Grandview Hospital Dayton at 7 40 am He was a former Inland Manufacturing Co employee Surviving wife Veda brothers Everett Germantown Veryl Dayton Services set 2 pm Saturday at John Arpp Funeral Home with Rev J C Herbert officiating Burial Germantown Cemetery Funeral home hours tomorrow 4 to 9 pm
Mrs Ruth Helton 73 of 522 Long St private services Webb. George Aifken Sr 88 Richmond Ind formerly Oxford services 1 30 p m Oct 24 United Presbyterian Church Oxford. Mrs Elizabeth Stephens 85 Oxford formerly Hamilton services 2 p m tomorrow Marsha Smith. William White 78 226 Race St services 10 a m tomorrow Proeschel.
A schedule of Thursday meetings includes Ohio Bell Hecklers Club at 6 30 p m Germantown Road Frischs Tried Stone 83 Masonic Lodge and many others. Public bodies and clubs such as the Human Relations Council Oriole Nest 227 Toastmasters Alpha Council Jr OUAM Knights of Pythias Lafayette Lodge 37 Jefferson School PTA State Patrol Auxiliary and Volunteer Air Reserve Training Squadron announce times at various venues.
President Nixon will privately award Medals of Honor posthumously to the families of three servicemen killed in Vietnam. Edgar L. McWethy Jr. and Carmel B. Harvey Jr. died June 21, 1967, in Binh Dinh in a helicopter protection mission, both from Company B, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. Dale E. Wayrynen died May 18, 1967, in Quang Ngai as his platoon evacuated wounded. Families from Kansas, Illinois, and Minnesota accept on their sons’ behalf.
Ronnie Brown the 7 year old Genntown boy was bitten by a black hound Monday. The dog has not been located though the principal chased it away. If the dog remains unfound the boy will begin rabies antitoxin injections as a precaution.
A 19 year old Richmond Indiana youth Paul Brewer died at Mercy Hospital in Hamilton from injuries suffered in a two car crash on Ohio 725 at Quaker Trace Road Preble County on September 28. Donald W. Ewing 51 of Dayton died at the same hospital. Ewing's wife Gladys 50 remains in hospital with multiple injuries.
Fred C. Van Scoyoe receives appointment as assistant director taxes for Armco Steel Corp announced by controller G. E. Kauffman. A Middletown city commissioner, he has long served Armco in tax roles and holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh.
Stephen M. Young, an Ohio Democrat, joins nine U.S. senators in Brussels for the North Atlantic Assembly, the annual gathering of lawmakers from NATO’s 15 member nations.
Fragmented text presents an insurance related certificate with names and numbers, mentioning "Surplus" and "Expenditures" and a signature line for a superintendent of insurance in Ohio. Details are garbled and unclear.
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