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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1973
Page
9
Middletown will recruit 17 and test 18 year olds for firefighter posts as Ohio allows full time work at 18. Testing is Sept 13 14 with applications due Sept 10. Starting salary rises from 9292 to 11166 after three years. women may also apply.
Three boys aged 17 and 16 were found inside the Spa Health Resort at 1850 Central Ave during a late night break-in. The watching deputy reported repeated incidents in recent weeks. They are held at the Butler County Juvenile Detention Center.
Fire log lists events from yesterday and today at various locations. Hubert O H air taken to hospital in fair condition after a medical incident at 3201 Tytus Ave. A vehicle fire on 911 Ninth Ave caused no damage. Gretchen Smith unconscious at 1119 Kunz Ave transported in serious condition. Trash fire at 127 Manhattan St. Auto fire at 3715 Sherman Ave caused $10 damage.
Brother James M. Kenny has been named to Xavier University's board of trustees to fill the vacancy created by the death of Rev. A. William Crandell. Kenny, already Fordham University's financial vice president and chief fiscal officer, will serve until 1975.
Madison residents join a legal clash over revised school dress rules. Mrs. Pam Baker seeks attorneys to challenge provisions allowing slacks for girls while banning miniskirts and shorts citing civil rights concerns. Her family ties to Madison High and Fairmont West are noted as she mobilizes community support via 424 1486.
In Lebanon the week of Sept 29 is proclaimed as Ohio Honey Festival Week by Mayor Lou Romohr and City Manager Charles Guard. The sixth annual Honey Festival begins Thursday and lasts three days with parades rides live entertainment and booths drawing thousands. Hours are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.
Obituaries list Willie Back 70 of 122 Baltimore St Trenton with services at Joseph R. Baker & Sons Funeral Home burial in Woodside Cemetery. William Noe 92 Hamilton formerly of Trenton died at Sunnybreeze Nursing Home in Hamilton. Survives include brother John and three sisters from Peoria. Other notices include Miss Smith Dover Ky and Dr Harvey S Galloway Mt Vernon Ohio, Basil Poole Cin cinnati, and local Hamilton deaths Leonard Brown Salome Smith Ethleen Smith.
Megacity Transit Lines Inc of Dayton wins approval from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to run a revised timetable. The plan adds 11 daily and four Saturday trips between Dayton and Hamilton, 13 daily and eight Saturday trips between Cincinnati and Hamilton, plus round trips connecting Lebanon, Dayton, Eaton, and Oxford on specified days. Contact Dayton for local departure and arrival times.
The Stanley H. Peltier family at 114 Ross St. hosted Jean Claude Michelet, 26, from outside Paris for a brief two day stay after a prior exchange visit. Michelet, traveling from Asia via Spokane and Middletown, then continued on to Disney World before returning to France.
Police report a Friday burglary at 630 Lafayette Ave where a television valued at 200 dollars a camera worth 150 dollars and a tape player valued 50 dollars were stolen. Detective units are investigating the break in.
Dr. Robert M. Wilson, 65, of 612 Stanley St., was reported in improved condition at Middletown Hospital today after head and chest injuries from a Sunday crash. His car left Alameda Circle and struck a wall at 16 Alameda Circle, the home of Dr. James Sawyer, with police noting he apparently blacked out.
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