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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1972
Page
2
Cincinnati officials consider bike patrols for beat policing to improve community ties and cut crime. Councilman Charles Taft urged City Manager E. Robert Turner to adopt bicycles alongside existing scooters, citing Baltimore’s 50 percent crime drop where officers ride bikes.
Louis R. Cromwell, 69, formerly of Middletown, died at his Fairfield home after a heart attack. Survived by daughter Patricia, son Richard, brother Howard, and two grandchildren. Private services at Zettler Funeral Home Hamilton with cremation. Calls Sunday 6 to 9 p.m. Melvin Miller, stillborn at Middletown Hospital. Graveside services at Woodside Cemetery officiated by Rev. Billy Ball. Arrangements by Joseph R. Baker & Sons Funeral Home. A third obituary scheduled for Lebanon Cemetery with arrangements by Oswald Funeral Home.
Infant Miller, daughter of Mr and Mrs Gerald J Miller Sr, is noted in a local birth notice. The brief entry records the newborn within the Miller family in the community obituary and birth records context.
Three men and a juvenile from Trenton were arrested near Elk Creek on N Miami Street for growing two marijuana plants and possession. Eldridge Young and Faulkner face $2000 bonds and were to appear before Judge Vincent Sisson.
Plumbers Supply Co a wholesale distributor of plumbing and heating equipment opens its third store at 2520 Atco Ave expanding operations with a $200,000 investment and creating six new jobs. Vice president Herman Warner notes the firm handles most major lines and serves about 1 000 contractors in Southwestern Ohio.
Hamilton Butler County commissioners asked County Sanitary Engineer Jim Hinchberger to draft preliminary plans and cost estimates for a countywide water system and to explore federal funding. The measure could serve all county residents and participating cities, with reviews of contracts with Middletown, Hamilton, and other suppliers. Frank Hobbs of Williamsdale voiced support for the program.
Clarence Foster Boon Warner 92 of 129 East Street Monroe died Wednesday at home. Services will be at 10 am Monday in the Monroe Chapel of Riggs Funeral Home with Rev. Gary Miller officiating. Burial will be in Mount Cemetery at Monroe. The chapel will be open Sunday from 5 to 9 p.m.
Annie Mae Williams 61 of 1207 Askew St died Wednesday at Josephine Nursing Home Dayton after an extended illness. Born in Georgia she had lived in Middletown 30 years and belonged to New Era Baptist Church. Survived by son Jack Carter five stepsons a step daughter a brother two sisters three grandchildren and a great grandchild. Services 11 am Monday at New Era Baptist Church burial Woodside Friends. Memorial Chapel Sunday 6 to 9 pm.
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Coomer of 104 Lake Ave Wilmington was stillborn Thursday at Clinton Memorial Hospital. Surviving are the parents paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Charles Coomer of Lebanon and the maternal Shelby Robertson of Lebanon.
John Boggess, formerly manager of Mohican State Park in Ashland County, will take over as manager of Oxford Hueston Woods State Park on Monday. He succeeds Jack Kingery who resigned in July to enter private business in Florida. Boggess is a 1958 Hamilton High School graduate and holds an associate degree from the National School of Forestry and Conservation in Washington, D C.
Mrs. Hilda Heitfield 73 of 1100 Allen Ave Mass of the Resurrection 1 30 a m Saturday at St Ann s Church Mrs Betty Johnson 69 of 216 Hancock Ave private services Joel Payne 40 of 1938 Allstatter Ave services 11 a m Saturday Brown Dawson farewells announced in notices
Waynesville driver trainer Charles Gene Hopkins 38 owner of Hopkins Motors Lebanon died from injuries at Mercy Hospital Columbus after warming up a horse at Scioto Downs. He raced trotters for years at Lebanon Raceway and Latonia. Survived by parents a sister Wanda Cox and brother Leroy. Burial at Miami Cemetery Corwin following services at Full Gospel Tabernacle Ferry Road.
Lt. Jack Walsh assumes duties as the new commander of highway patrol Post 9. He succeeds Lt. T. W. Rice who will attend the Northwestern University Traffic Institute. Walsh, of Cedarville, is a Lakeland Community College and patrol academy graduate, and has served in Marietta, Springfield, Chardon, and Norwalk. He is married with three children.
Butler County police said intruders forced open a front door to gain entry to Clement Ebbing's mobile home at Town and Country Trailer Park on Hamilton Cleves Road last night. Deputies reported nothing appeared to be stolen.
A 29 year old Oxford driver, William W. Osborne, died at the scene when his northbound car failed to stop for a stop sign and struck a tree on US 27 near Ohio 130. Passenger William J. McCaughey was injured and hospitalized in fair condition. Osborne’s death marked Butler County’s 33rd traffic fatality of 1972. his body was sent to Marshall-Smith Funeral Home in Oxford.
The 1st District Court of Appeals in Cincinnati will hear the appeal by Butler County Prosecutor Richard Wessel challenging a lower court ruling that set aside Dee Brenneman's sentence in a Hamilton narcotics case. Brenneman argues his rights were violated when Judge Marrs did not consider probation or early release.
Two Hamilton men were jailed in Middletown to face municipal court hearings after a state patrol stop on Ohio 4 near Middletown. Roger Cox, 21, charged with driving while intoxicated and absent without leave from the Marines, and Eddie Wysong, 25, of 205 Main St., charged with carrying a concealed weapon, a .22 caliber pistol.
Among Napoleon's cavalry marshals Michel Ney was lauded as the bravest of the brave, a leader famed for bold charges and tenacity on the battlefield.
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