Price Hill Press 10/02/19

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PRICE HILL PRESS Your Community Press newspaper Price Hill and other West Cincinnati neighborhoods

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2019 ❚ BECAUSE COMMUNITY MATTERS ❚ PART OF THE USA TODAY NETWORK

Ivory House restaurant to open in Westwood Polly Campbell Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Police investigate multiple slayings at Cabinet Supreme Savings & Loan Association in Delhi Township on Sept. 24, 1969. Four women were killed in a bank robbery . ENQUIRER FILE

‘SENSELESS’ SLAUGHTER

50 years ago, four killed in Delhi bank robbery Jeff Suess Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Helen Huebner asked her husband, Joe, to drive her downtown to McAlpin’s to grab her paycheck for $42.50. He circled the block before she could cash it at the bank next door, so on their way back home in Delhi Township they stopped at Cabinet Supreme Savings & Loan Association on Delhi Pike. Another car pulled up behind them. Luella Stitzel and Henrietta Stitzel, two sisters-in-law on their weekly shopping trip, stopped to do some banking. The three customers entered the brick savings and loan building, located at what is now the parking lot for an O’Reilly Auto Parts store. It was just after 11 a.m. on a cool Wednesday morning, Sept. 24, 1969. Fifty years ago, the quiet West Side community lost its innocence. Joe had been waiting awhile. Glancing in his rear-view mirror, he spotted three young men leaving the savings and loan. They got into a light blue 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu. The man with a beard was carrying two purses, one a red plastic handbag Joe recognized as his wife’s. Joe entered the building to fi nd the lobby empty. He called out, “Helen, are you hurt?” He heard a moan, then silence. Straight back and to the left in the small offi ce was a 6-by-10-foot concrete bank vault. Inside he found the bodies of four women, one was his wife.

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If you think Westwood – Cincinnati’s largest neighborhood – is stuck in a never-changing time warp, you should see what’s going on right now. New businesses, neighborhood activities, refurbished houses. A brewery, a coff ee shop, and coming soon: a chic, modern restaurant that will serve fresh food and serve as a neighborhood meeting place. Frank Eversole and Rick Pouliot have been right in the middle of the changes in the neighborhood. Eversole has lived in Westwood since 2004, and Pouliot since 2009, when they started EP Investments to refurbish homes in the neighborhood. They’ve been married for 4 years. Seeing that the neighborhood needed some new places to eat, especially something modern and nice but accessible, they decided to take the plunge and do it themselves. In a former Huntington Bank, they’re now starting construction on a new restaurant called Ivory House. They are fi nancing it themselves and hope to open by Feb. 1. The rest of the building now houses a childcare center, and there’s room for more offi ces. They have been responsible for more than four million dollars invested in Westwood real estate in the last 10 years, said Eversole. This year, they’ll invest about 1.5 million. “We really love this community,” said Pouliot. “We feel very at home here.” They bought and rehabbed one of the big houses on Montana Avenue that they use for parties and neighborhood events. Westwood’s re-invention is the inspiration for the Ivory House. One of Westwood’s most famous historical residents was James Gamble, the co-founder of Procter & Gamble, inventors of Ivory Soap. (Get it? Ivory House?) He was also on the board of the bank that originally occupied the space at 3002 Harrison Ave. “We will be an urban, front-facing See RESTAURANT, Page 5A

Joseph Huebner waited outside while his wife, Helen,cashed her pay check. THE ENQUIRER/RAN COCHRAN

The Enquirer called the slaying “brutal and senseless.” Col. Paul Fricker of the Hamilton County Sheriff ’s Department said, “This is the most vicious crime we have seen.” See ROBBERY, Page 4A

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Frank Eversole and Rick Pouliot of EP Investments, who are working to open Ivory House restaurant in Westwood. POLLY CAMPBELL/THE ENQUIRER

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