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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1972
Page
2
A back to school feature for Middletown schools outlines a short parent test with true false and short answer items. It provides school start times, bus pickup tips, lunch prices, and a sample essay prompt, using the upcoming school year details and local menu notes.
Columbus Ohio. State Superintendent Martin W Essex says public school enrollment will fall this fall for the first time in decades. He cites a drop from 2432640 to 2429903 trend due to lower birth rates. high school enrollment rises as late 1950s births hit graduation. Nonpublic enrollment also expected to fall from 296500 to 278500, and transfers from nonpublic schools to public are noted.
Trenton native Donald Wayne Wright 43 of 3 W Page St died yesterday at the Cleveland Clinic after a two year illness. He retired from Armco Steel after 22 years due to illness. A Air Force veteran, he is survived by wife Myrtle Mickey and two daughters Nancy and Phyllis, both at home, and his mother Mrs.
Mrs Anna B Day 78 Mt Sterling Ky mother of Walter Trimble and William Trimble both of Middletown died yesterday in Mt Sterling after a heart attack. She is survived by two pistols Mrs Henry Tapp and iss Florene Day both of Mt Sterling, four grandchildren, nine great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren. Services set for 2 pm tomorrow at Eastin Richie Funeral Home Mt Sterling.
Kenneth Venters reported a thief took chrome wheels and hubcaps worth 75 dollars from a garage at the rear of 624 Catalpa Drive. Mrs. Mildred Estes reported a break in at 1010 Second Ave and five boxes of clothing and bedding valued at 600 dollars were taken.
A federal judge refused a delay in former Attorney General MitchEll's testimony in the Democrats 1 million civil suit over the Watergate break in and bugging. The same ruling blocks depositions of five men detained during the June 17 incident, while the grand jury investigates possible indictments. The case ties to Nixon re election efforts and figures like Lawrence F. O'Brien.
An unclear excerpt references a Watergate figure and a husband ordering a wife to give depositions with lines about washing and scrubbing. The readable fragments suggest a domestic context tied to a broader political scandal but lack coherent narrative or identifiable individuals beyond generic mentions.
Marvin Lee Quinn 22 of 1009 14th Ave Middletown Ohio faces pre sentence investigation after arrest by Middletown police on the Strip. Butler County Common Pleas Judge Fred B Cramer referred the case for investigation and report with disposition set for Sept 15. Quinn had pleaded innocent.
Police questioned four men after a fast moving fire at the Blue Bird Club in downtown Montreal killed 36 people and injured 54. The arson theory centers on someone throwing flammable material in a stairway near the top floor. Officials note exits jammed and panic as more than 200 tried to escape. Witness accounts describe smoke, heat, and people leaping from windows.
Honolulu AP Prime Minister Tanaka said the two day summit with President Nixon laid groundwork for a new course of friendship between Japan and the United States. He described it as a new beginning point and said Japan will honor the mutual security treaty while adjusting ties with Taiwan and moving toward normalized relations with Peking.
South Vietnamese forces claim over 180 North Vietnamese troops killed north of Saigon as a weekend clash on Highway 13 yielded heavy casualties on both sides. U.S. air strikes targeted underground fuel depots and bridges from Hanoi toward the Chinese border amid ongoing northern battles. Africa
The Associated Press reports rising traffic deaths during the Labor Day weekend. The tally began Friday at 6 p.m. local time and will run to Monday midnight. By Saturday afternoon, the death count reached 108.
In Munich a peaceful antiwar march of about 2,000 degenerated into street fighting. Police said 58 officers and at least three other people were injured as demonstrators used axes, wooden staves, iron bars, pipes and bayo nets in the center near Stadius. Thousands watched the clashes during Olympic Games celebrations.
The Dillon Construction Co of Akron will turn over keys to the Butler Metropolitan House Authority for a seven story elderly housing block at Clinton and Canal. The $1.9 million project, near the former city parking lot, has 125 apartments with kitchen living room bedroom and bath. Over 300 applications are being processed to select tenants by income. eligible include a couple aged 62 or older with income under 4500 a single 62 or older under 3200, or a 50 plus disabled person. Departure noted delays from a two week elevator strike earlier in the year.
Tomorrow is the final two days the city pools stay open with Sunset from noon to 8 30 p m today and Yankee and Douglas from noon to 7 30 p m. Tomorrow all three pools run noon to 6 p m Ed Cox supervisor of city pools says attendance was low due to cool weather Yankee Pool had the best attendance this season compared with 1967 with another cool summer.
Labor Day on Monday brings a half holiday for Journal staff with earlier deadlines. Sports news due by 8:30 am and obituaries by 10 am. The women's department closed all day. Want ads accepted until 9 am for Monday's edition.
A 36 year old Cincinnati man was fatally wounded Saturday in what homicide squad detectives call a game of Russian Roulette. Willie Hall was shot once in the head with a .32 caliber revolver at a residence in the Over The Rhine section.
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