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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1968
Page
2
In Akron Ohio unionists threaten to keep a sick call strike until a dispute over hospitalization insurance payments is settled. Over 250 AFSCME members were off work as County Auditor C L Bower refuses to approve payment methods citing funding limits next year after promising coverage.
The Civic Association launches Project Heartbeat with a dinner for 500 volunteers in the Manchester Motor Inn senior ballroom. Over 3,500 workers will raise 675000 for 18 agencies, aided by a new $1.50 monthly dues and employer matching. New agencies include Middletown Red Cross chapter, Butler County Children’s Home, and Butler County Mental Health Association.
Rev and Mrs Sheets preach in Middletown Ohio sharing a sun rise across the Atlantic reminder of Christ coming. They announce services including Sunday morning 10 AM and evening 7 PM with midweek 7 30 PM at Rev Dean Sheets Box 23 Middletown Ohio.
Marie E. Zink 77 died at home 571 Columbus Ave Lebanon. Survived by husband Philip son David Lebanon and daughters Virginia Panfile Patricia Roth Dayton. Requiem High Mass 9 30 a m Friday at St Francis De Sale Burial Miami Valley Memory Gardens. Friends may call Oswald Memorial Home 4 to 9 p m tomorrow.
The obituary lists Miss Philomena Kettman aged 82 of 438 N Second St with a Requiem High Mass at 10 a m Friday at St Stephen s Church. Also noted is Mrs Bessie Clark 67 of 1140 Hunt Ave with services at 10 a m tomorrow at Pentecostal Highway of Holiness Church. World cloth production in 1963 reached about 90 billion square yards or 30 square yards per person.
The Rev. Frank E. Wiley aged 62 of 6583 Israel Somers Rd Camden died at Christ Hospital Cincinnati after an illness of three weeks. He served as pastor in Monroe Fairhaven Rushville and in the Air Force. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth four daughters mother and three grandchildren. Memorials to a Frank Wiley Scholarship Fund at Fairhaven Church. Arthur W Ward Hulse 74 of Haxtun Colo died of a heart attack while visiting in Camden area. services in Haxtun with local and Radford Funeral Homes handling arrangements.
Wiley Preston 64 of 824 10th Ave Middletown died at 10 45 a m yesterday at his home. Born in Mountain City Tennessee he lived in Middletown 40 years a World War II veteran and burner for Cohen Brothers. Survived by wife Mary four sons Edward Leon James and David all of Middletown two daughters Martha and Lois a Middletown mother Mrs Rachel Carter a sister Mrs Virgie Nixon 14 grandchildren three great grandchildren. Services 1 p m Friday Bethlehem Temple Pentecostal Church officiated by Elder A Bell and Rev Rudolph Pringle burial Woodside Cemetery graveside military rites. Arrangements Bailey Funeral Home. church tomorrow 7 to 9 p m.
Francis Elery Rothwell 65 of 295 Woodyard Drive Monroe dies Monday at Middletown Hospital. Services 2 p.m. tomorrow at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home with Rev Richard Schechter and Rev Harold Stafford officiating. Burial Spring Hill Cemetery Bethany. Visitation today 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Mrs Effie May Schrader 81 of 686 West Central Ave Carlisle died at Middletown Hospital at 215 am after a three week stay. She is survived by two sons Donald Carlisle and Phillip Franklin a brother Heber Bishop Cable Ohio another Melvin Bishop Lewisburg a sister Myrtle Ommert Norwalk and three grandchildren. Services Friday at 1 pm Eaton Funeral Home with burial in Fairview Cemetery West Liberty Ohio. Visiting hours at the funeral home tomorrow 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm.
An Organization of African Unity study reports 68 percent of Middle Africa's children leave school before six years of study. The survey highlights systemic barriers in education amid regional challenges.
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