Chamber of Commerce launches positive image campaign
Middletown plans a think positive campaign to boost its image as a good place to work and live. Richard W. Slagle chairs the effort, highlighting five focus areas learning helping self reliance building and relaxing with programs from Industrial training to Junior Achievement and community activities.
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Ted Pollard
Middletown Area
Armco Steel Corp
New Chamber
Chamber
Middletown
Slagle
Agle
Wallace Frayer 81 Former Scout Leader Dies in Ohio
Wallace M. Frayer, 81, longtime Middletown resident and former Scoutmaster, died Thursday at Huron Road Hospital in Cleveland. He served in the Mound Builders Area Council from 1930 to 1938 and retired from Armco Steel in 1957. Survivors include wife Vernye, son Duane, sister Eva Claypoole, and two grandchildren. Services Monday at First United Methodist Church in Apollo, Pa. Memorials to church, Mound Builders Council, or Jefferson Lodge.
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Wallace M. Frayer
Middletown
Huron Road Hospital
Cleveland
Pennsylvania
Mr. Frayer
Boy Scout 3
Mound Builders Area Council
Armco Steel Corp
Roundhouse
Young Fellowship
First United Methodist Church
PTO
Garfield School
Jefferson Lodge 9
F&am
Vernye
Duane
Eva Claypoole
Apollo
Bodenhorn-Shafer Funeral Home
Mound Builders Area
Man pinned between cars at Illmans Market incident
John Evans a 52 year old resident of 803 Fourth Ave was pinned between two vehicles in the Illmans Market loading area on University Boulevard Friday afternoon. Donna Williams 27 of Monroe said she shifted from brake to accelerator while baby cried causing Evans to be caught between the Evans vehicle and Williams car. Evans treated at Middletown Hospital for leg pains and released with no injuries or citations reported.
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Middletown Hospital
Illman’s Market
University Boulevard
John Evans
Fourth Ave
Donna Williams
Sunset Court
Monroe
Evans
Fire and Incident Reports From Local Areas
Fire records show Wellington Road Glen Hoover age 83 with high fever admitted in fair condition at hospital. Earlier a dirt in furnace caused smoke on Meadow Ave with no damage. Gasoline spill from auto accident on Germantown Road. Golden Smith age 74 injured right ankle after a fall from a step. air splint applied and admitted in fair condition. Cohen Bros Inc light fixture shorted. no damage reported.
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Wellington Road
Glen Hoover
Meadow Ave
Germantown Road
Grand Ave
Golden Smith
Woodlawn Ave
Cohen Bros. Inc
Middletown Chamber backs hospital expansion initiative
The Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce votes to support Issue 22 in the November election. If approved the hospital would gain principal use status in the D-1 zone and proceed with expansion including a new parking structure. President William Long says zoning will enable needed health care growth.
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Middletown Area
William Long
Chamber
Long
Young man makes death by own action attempt at park
A 28 year old man shot himself in the head at Miami River Park around noon yesterday after expressing despondency. He drove to Middletown Hospital for treatment. police recovered a .32 revolver from his car. The man initially claimed accidental discharge. He is in satisfactory condition this morning. Identity withheld.
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Middletown Hospital
Miami River Park
Nutrition supervisor appointed in Middletown program
Alene Pope named site supervisor of the Senior Nutrition Program run by Butler County Council on Aging. The program serves a hot weekday meal at Murchison Chapel for residents 60 and older, with social activities and voluntary contributions. A self protection talk is planned with Hamilton Police Bureau members, and Pope plans banking and other senior topics. Pope is a Middletown lifelong resident and Livingstone College graduate active in Bethel AME Church and Eastern Star.
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Alene Pope
S. Main St
Middletown
Butler County Council On Aging
Murchison Chapel
Pope
Livingstone College
North Carolina
Bethel Ame Church
Order of the Eastern Star, Amaranth Grand Chapter
PHA
Hair match ties Cox trial to 1972 Clifford death
Hair found on a broken wood fragment near the victim’s body matched Mrs. Frankie Clifford’s hair color texture and characteristics. Ed Hopkins, testifying in Gary Cox’s first degree murder trial, said the hair’s features aligned with Clifford’s. Dr. James Swinehart testified the knife blade likely caused hemorrhaging but did not pierce vital organs.
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Hamilton
Frankie Clifford
Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification
Ed Hopkins
Badin High School
James Swinehart
Butler County
Name on police list corrected for Middletown officer nominees
David Wynn, 25, of 501 16th Ave., was named by the Police Department as a candidate for Middletown patrol officer. The journal had listed him as William Wyn. Wynn, a data processing employee at Square D Co., was the sole Black member of the six on the eligibility list from which four were chosen.
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David Wynn
16Th Ave
Police
Middletown
Wynn
William Wyn. Wynn
Square D Co
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Carol Lafayette
Betty South
Franklin
Reva Brandenburg
Lottie Prater
Bara Boo
Wis
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West Liberty
Joseph R. Baker & Sons
Howard Sears
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Frank K. Hummel
Crawford St
Mr. Hummel
Diamond National
St. Mary’s Church
Gerald
Fortville
Ind
John
Bay View
Ney
Therese Dunn
Ralph
Germantown
Middletown Cemetery
Wilson-Schramm Memorial
Morton Lewis
Vine St
West Middletown
Joseph R. Baker & Sons Funeral Home
Minnesota Street Church of God
Hazel Winkelman
Hazel Anna Winkelman
Girard Ave
Juanita Duvall
Mildred Winkelman
Richard
Thomas Ocias
West Alexandria
John Ocias
Mesa
Ariz
McCoy- Leffler
Paul Bergdall
Sugar Grove Cemetery
Philomena
Imfeld
Philomena _ S. Imfeld
Montgomery Ave
Carlisle
Ford
Cincinnati
Charles
James
Daniel
Robert
Leonarda Mandzak
Aurelia Nel
Celia Worsham
Holy Trinity Church
Ralph Kerans
Ralph M. Kerans
Ridgeville
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National Cash Register
Dayton
Lebanon
Jessie
Candy Bailey
Waynesville
Ridgeville Community Church
Ray Shelton
Helen Smith
Helen B. Smith
Ohio
Billie Catha
Florida
Irene Eichenlaub
Edna Bennett
Gladys Stauffer
Pittsburgh
Paul Fields
Herschel Fields
Teaksville
N.Y
Oswald
Mae Vincent
Fairfield
Mass
St. Joseph’s Church
Alex Rawlings
N. E St
West Side
Christian Science
Christian Science Reading
Central Ave
Studio Theatre
Cremeans Appliance & TV
Trenton
Journal
Area News
COX
Dodds Monuments
Verity Pkvy
14Th Ave
Bud) Steller
Mgr
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