Jazz Fest Salutes Swing At Newport New York
Sunday at Newport Jazz Festival featured four small groups at Carnegie Hall and a Harlem street fair. Big bands played in the evening including Count Basie with Joe Williams reuniting for five numbers and Benny Carter leading a 19 man Swing Era era group performing Honeysuckle Rose.
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New York
Carnegie Hall
Harlem
Count Basie
Joe Williams
Basie
Benny Carter
Harry Edison
Benny Morton
Dickie Wells
Tyree Glenn
Jimmy Nottingham
Budd Johnson
Milt Hinton
Jo Jones
Teddy Wilson
Maxine Sullivan
Carter
Jones
Philharmonic Hall
Bobby Rosengarden
Billy Taylor
Thad Jones-Mel Lewis
Rosengarden
Dick Cavett
Gary McFarland
David Frost
Bad Jones
Mel Lewis
State Department
Russia
Grandparent Plan Funds For Foster Grandparents Granted
ACTION awards 497805 to the Corporation for Ohio Appalachian Development to run a foster grandparent program. It will place 200 volunteers with 400 disadvantaged children in eight facilities including Scioto County Youth Rehabilitation Center Portsmouth and Mt. Vernon State Hospital. Volunteers must be 60 plus in good health with income limits and receive support services.
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Action
Citizens Service Corps
Corporation For Ohio Appalachian Development
Scioto County
Portsmouth
Gallia County
Saunders Attends National Metalcasting Seminar
Arlen E. Saunders of Athens among 66 participants at the 1972 American Foundrymen's Society seminar for metalcasting instructors at Kansas State College of Pittsburgh. Attendees toured equipment shops and learned mold making and metal pouring techniques with funds largely provided by the AFS for education in foundry work.
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Arlen E. Saunders
Athens
American Foundrymen’s’ Society
Kansas State College of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh-McNally
KSC
AFS
Craftsmen Talk About Their Work Arts-Crafts Fair Drawing Crowds
At the Mountain State Arts and Crafts Festival near Ripley two masters Bernice Coffman and Jones Cottrell showcase weaving and lathe work drawing crowds. Coffman weaves on a four-harness loom she plans to patent it and continues weaving roadside fairs. Cottrell, a Clay County native, crafts hand carved wooden items including rolling pins and toy tops during fairs nationwide and laments slow metal work on banjos priced at 85 dollars.
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Ripley, W. Va
Bernice Coffman
Jones Cottrell
Ripley
Cedar Lakes
Coffman
West
Shooting range at Dillon State Park remains unused
Ohio's Dillon State Park shooting range cost 175000 to build but has never opened. No operator bids were received when advertised three years ago, despite efforts to attract concessionaires. The facility includes a 40 by 40 foot shooters building with basement range and full sportsman amenities.
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Zanesville, Ohio
Ohio
Dillon State Park
Zanesville
Natural Resources Department
Rhodes
William Nye
Department
Dillon Park
Church Session Ends In Cincy
The Church of the Brethren wraps its annual convention in Cincinnati after six days addressing abortion housing seminary solvency missions and hymnals. Delegates approve housing mortgage use and urge data sharing, declare Nigeria’s Brethren autonomous, and affirm future indigenous missions. They also back hymnals and state a nuanced abortion stance and closer ties with American Baptists.
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Cincinnati
Church of the Brethren
Bethany Theological Seminary
Brethren
Appalachia
Washington, D.C
Nigeria
West African Republic
Fischer Absent Delays Spassky World Title Match Start
The Bobby Fischer Boris Spassky world championship series postponed to Tuesday after Fischer failed to arrive in Iceland from New York. Officials warned of forfeiture if he misses noon Tuesday. Negotiations over extra gate receipts and media rights linger.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
International Chess Federation
Fischer
New York
Max Euwe
Spassky
Icelandic Chess Federation
New Gilligan arrives with changes in Ohio governance
Governor Gilligan adopts a new public image and policy approach after staff reshuffle led by chief aide John Hanson. The aim is closer public involvement, improved communication, and reduced media dominance in scheduling and outreach.
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Associated Press
Columbus, Ohio
Gilligan
John Hanson
Ohio
John J. Gilligan
Hansan
J. Ronald Castello
Hanson
James Friedman
John McDonald
State Welfare
Parma
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By Mary Campbell
Akron
Cottrell
Clay County
Shép
By David Tomlin
O’bleness Memorial Hospital
Miles Sinclair
Shade Route 1
Charles Bocook
Edna Brooks
Dean Sager
Janice Bush
Margaret Stalder
Donald Barnhart
John Zimmerman
Stewart
John Humphrey
Glouster
William Waymer
Carla Rutter
Nelsonville
Gladys Burson
Shade
Ronald Hamilton
Debra Johnson
Steve McKinney
Edith Reed
James Mathena
James Lee
Jerry Kimes
Rickie Edwards
Richard King
Alfred Cline
John Osborne
Charles Dennison
Melvin Devaule
Lena Blackford
Chris Lomax
Bennie Bruce
Carl McKibben
Fostoria
Ohio Bankers Association
Jack Gilligan
Athena Theatre
The
Athens National Bank
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