New Tuesday bus run links Middletown to Cincinnati
Price Hill Coach Lines of Fairfield inaugurates a Tuesday morning bus from Middletown via Excello Trenton to Hamilton with Cincinnati connections. An evening return departs Hamilton at 6 25 for Middletown via Overpeck Trenton and Excello. Additional express trips run daily to Dayton and south to Hamilton and Cincinnati.
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Miami University Fall Registration Opens Campus Sees 15 Percent Rise
Middletown campus reports a 15 percent enrollment rise from 1,855 last fall as overall university numbers increase about 200 to 14,500. Freshman applications up 9 percent while acceptances lag. Registration schedules vary by campus with extended hours across Middletown Oxford and Hamilton.
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Oxford
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Hamilton
Girl driver charged after Central Avenue crash
A 14 year old girl was charged with failure to yield at a stop sign and no license after her car collided with John Holland 21 of 206 Alamo Road on Central Avenue at 8 20 p m. Owner James Dozynecki 2421 Central Ave was charged with allowing an unlicensed driver.
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Honor for 4 police Three officers and a lieutenant to receive commendations
Acting Chief Robert R. Walton will award commendations to Patrolmen Doug Hampton Garry Watson Steve Downey and Lt. Earl Smith for courage during the Sept 7 incident. Hampton shot the rifle from George Brown’s hands as Brown threatened them. Brown, bound over to the Butler County grand jury on felonious assault, was released on recognizance. The award marks the third commendation for Smith.
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Garry Watson
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Earl Smith
George Brown
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Butler County Grand Jury
Fairfield Echo appoints Rex Richardson as managing editor
Rex Richardson, 25, copy editor at the Middletown Journal, is named managing editor of The Fairfield Echo. He will assume full-time duties. The Echo is a weekly publication. Richardson has worked at The Journal since 1973 after stints at the Hamilton Journal-News and previously held roles in sports and government reporting. He lives in Fairfield with his wife Judy Marie and their son.
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Miami University
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Sioux Drive
Day care center may stay open under new federal rules
The First Baptist Church day care center at 4500 Riverview Ave faces possible loss of welfare contracts under draft federal interagency rules. If adopted, stricter staffing ratios could force withdrawal from welfare programs, pushing welfare children to private homes and effectively closing the best local facilities.
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First Baptist Church
Robert Moore
Baptists’ Center
Riverview Ave
Department of Welfare
Welfare Department
Dorothy Glynn
Glynn
Moore
Two Girls Arrested for Forgery Cashing $100 Check
Police report two girls aged 14 and 17 were jailed after allegedly cashing a stolen check. The 14-year-old faced a delinquency forgery charge, the 17-year-old a delinquency complicity to forgery. They took blank checks, forged a signature, and cashed a $100 draft at a bank. The second check was torn when frightened. Later, a 17-year-old woman reported a man stole her four month old baby. the man’s brother said he would return the child.
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Jake Lowe
Lowe
Solid wastes may fuel future like coal at Franklin plant
An experiment at the Franklin solid waste facility tests turning nonrecycled refuse into pelletized fuel compatible with coal. The fuel, called Black Clawson pellets, weighs about 40 pounds per cubic foot and yields roughly 13.5 million BTUs per ton. Initial tests at Wright Patterson Air Force Base show sulfur and emissions on par with coal, with favorable particulate results. Public and defense customers in discussions include Dayton Power & Light and Cincinnati Gas & Electric.
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Franklin
Howard R. Creelman
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Creelman
Air Force
Black Clawson
Department
Dayton Power & Light Co
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Man Charged in Extortion Threats Against Judge Marrs
Hamilton county authorities charged 29 year old Ledell Truett with two counts of extortion and one of bank robbery after a stakeout in a park led to his arrest. He allegedly sent letters demanding money to Judge Marrs and a bank manager and claimed a contract on the judge’s life. Truett told police he wrote the letters.
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Butler County Common Pleas
Robert L. Marrs
Marrs
Citizens Bank
Ledell Truett
U.S
Burton Perlman
Cincinnati
Truett
Thomas Rentschler
FBI
Common Pleas Court
Fred B. Cramers
Write-in Willie White Jr. Files for City Commissioner
Willie White Jr. 48 of 1207 Prospect Ave. filed a form to be eligible as a write-in candidate after failing to secure ballot signatures. Three of five commissioner seats will be open this fall and six candidates will be on the ballot.
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Commission
Fire Crews Respond to Dual Emergencies at Two Homes
At 6 02 a m a fire incident at 1920 Highland Street sent Margaret Meyers 47 to hospital with arm pains for treatment. Earlier at 12 40 a m Brady McCoy 56 was taken by private ambulance from 34S Main Street to hospital after pains and later released.
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