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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1977
Page
2
Deaths and funeral notices for Frank C Grantley William M Gracy John R Keller Wilbert South and several Hamilton area individuals list survivors, service times, and burial locations. Details include occupations church memberships and family relations across Otterbein Home Middletown Franklin Lebanon and Hamilton communities.
Health secretary Joseph Califano asked for an investigation in 20 major cities to find federal employees improperly receiving AFDC benefits. A DC study identified 1,712 HEW workers on local welfare rolls, with 136 cases under civil or criminal review. He urged immediate similar checks nationwide and outlined Carter welfare reform aims to reward work and reduce fraud.
The Lemon Monroe High School graduating class of 1972 will hold a reunion on October 22 with an 8 p.m. dinner at the Four Seasons Party Room on Germantown Road. Reservations are due by October 1, with $15 per couple and $7.50 per single. Send checks to Mrs. Robert Kilburn, 129 East Ave, or call 529-8975 for details. A section for 1972 members will be at this Friday's homecoming game.
Friends and associates set up the Betty Wolfenberger Memorial Fund in Oxford to develop a Story Center in the Heckert Media Center at McGuffey Laboratory School. The former Miami faculty member taught in Trenton Middletown and Hamilton before joining Miami in 1961. Contributions should be mailed to Phyllis Griffith at the McGuffey Laboratory School, Miami University.
Ohio education officials report 129 vacancies among 690 vocational agriculture positions. Experienced farmers are being trained for a month at Ohio State University to fill classrooms as declining farm numbers influence teacher retention and career shifts into agribusiness.
The Defense Committee Against the Klan won a permit for an October 15 peaceful rally on the Ohio Statehouse grounds to oppose the Ku Klux Klan. Spokesmen say members were not involved in Labor Day clashes between anti Klan protestors and police at the KKK rally.
Butler County commissioners and common pleas judges dispute remodeling needs for the courthouse in a plan funded at 1 082 000. The judges seek extra facilities including a second elevator jurors room and new probate and domestic relations spaces while commissioners push annex moves and safety upgrades.
City Manager Dale Helsel will be guest speaker at the Industrial Council of the Middletown Area Safety Council meeting at Forest Hills Country Club Wednesday at noon. Topic is How to Raise Your Taxes Have an Accident for the 1977 78 year. Jim Wander of Akers Packaging Co. chairs. Open to the public with reservations required today.
Israeli armed forces along the Lebanon border went on heightened alert amid clashes between Israeli backed Lebanese Christians and Palestinian guerrillas in south Lebanon. Arafat urged Arab leaders to act as fighting rages over the Tel Shreika ridge near Khiam and Marjayoun.
A series of medical incidents and injuries were logged from 2:33 a.m. to 9:34 p.m. at various addresses. Victims include Ruben Foster aged 18 with back injury, Ernie Craft 65 choking, Mike Carter 17 with BB wound, Barbara Ridge 16 sleepy, Michelle Woodard 16 eye pain, Jaanita Peace 20 leg injury, Ricky Holder 12 bleeding gums, Cathy Williams 12 seizure, Chester Smith 79 unstable, McKelvan Watson 20 drowsy, and an unnamed 1826 Sherman patient with heart chest pains who signed out. Several were transported to hospital, others treated and released or not transported per condition. Authorities note multiple locations citywide and no fatal outcomes reported in the brief.
A Middletown resident, Fred Long, 64, was treated at Middletown Hospital after a two car crash at the University Boulevard and First Avenue intersection around 6 15 p m. His car was struck by Herschel R Zornes 36 of Whitesville W Va who reportedly ran a red light. Long had the green light and was traveling east on First Avenue. Zornes was charged with running a red light.
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