Franklin Master Plan Faces Retail Slowdown Amid Population Boom
Franklin planner Robert Little of Cincinnati told the Franklin planning commission that retail sales per capita fell over 46 percent from 1954 to 1963 while total retail sales rose 11 percent as the population nearly doubled. He warned some growth will divert to nearby cities but projected Franklin’s 1990 retail potential at 74 million with current census figures at 10.4 million in 1963.
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Franklin
Robert Little
Cincinnati
Little
Franklin Planning Commission
Tri-County
Warren
Butler
Montgomery
Butler County Building Passes Million Dollar Mark
Butler County building activity topped 1 million dollars for the first time in 21 months, with 96 permits totaling 81 189 410. Union Township led in valuations. Ross and Reily townships had no home permits. There were 28 new home permits worth 552 851 and five other permits for 55 240. For March 1966, total fees reached 3 786 with 56 new home permits and 40 other permits issued. Cables help Norwegian farmers plow nearly perpendicular coastal fields.
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Hamilton
Butler County
Ross Township
Reily
Union Township
Liberty
Lemon
Madison
St. Clair
Wayne
Red Lion Cubs Planning Trip to Warren County Museum
Red Lion Cub Pack 2 will visit the Warren County Historical Museum on April 12, leaving from the Methodist Church at 4 15 p.m. No den meeting is scheduled April 11. Revivals began at the Methodist Church last weekend with George Roads as evangelist and Howard Howatter teaching at 10 a.m. daily. WSCS meeting is canceled Thursday. Easter breakfast follows sunrise service at the church.
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Warren County
Methodist Church
George Roads
Howard Howatter
WSCS
Miami negotiates internships with industry
Miami University School of Applied Science is actively negotiating cooperative education internships in systems analysis and industrial technology with several companies led by George Bowers. Cincinnati Milling Machine Co. is the first to join. plans call for a 16 week rotating work term starting May 1, with students considered company employees off campus and earning about $100 weekly.
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Oxford — Miami University
School of Applied Science
George Bowers
Cincinnati
Bowers
Cincinnati Milling Machine Co
Miami
Monroe
Tom Maddox
Lemon Township
Data Corporation
Dayton
National Bank of Detroit
Glidden Company
Cleveland
Allis-Chalmers
Continental Can
New York
Scots Soldiers Nicknamed the Ladies from Hell
The term used for Scottish soldiers refers to their fierce reputation in battle, with the nickname "Ladies from Hell" highlighted as a colloquial epithet used in historical descriptions.
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Scotland
Hell
Warren County unemployment nearly doubles state average
The February 1966 Ohio report shows Warren County with an 11.6 percent unemployment rate from a 13 400 civilian labor force and 11 850 employed. Across 22 counties, unemployment fell 2.4 percent while total nonfarm employment rose about 30 000 versus 1964.
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Columbus
Warren County
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Willard P. Dudley
Bureau
Dudley
McGraw Farm Sold to Woody’s Qetis Owner at Wesl Valley
The 454 acre McGraw stock farm known as Lin Mac stables was sold by Metz McGraw to Woodrow Bowman, owner of Woody's Qetis, at Wesl Valley.
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Waynesville
McGraw
Metz McGraw
Woodrow Bowman
Woody
Franklin Girl Wins Contest in Ohio Writing Event
Brenda Amburgey of Franklin is named one of five winners in the Ohio Employment Service writing contest Ability Counts. The prize includes a luncheon in Columbus where Gov. Rhodes will present awards.
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Franklin
Brenda Amburgey
Truby Amburgey
Harriet St
Ohio
Ohio State
Linda McGray
Lebanon
Lin-Mac
Miss Amburgey
Marion H. Yechant
Franklin High School
Columbus
James A. Rhodes
Lebanon Youth in Washington Honored for Americanism Program
Joe S. Kersey of Leb anon attended a luncheon in the Capitol dining room with other outstanding high school students who won the American Legion Americanism and government program. Kersey, a freshman at Leb anon High, scored 94 on the test the highest for ninth graders in Ohio, as guest of Congressman Clarence J. Brown Jr.
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Lebanon
Joe S. Kersey
Greentree Road
American Legion
Capitol
Washington, D. C
Kersey
Clarence J. Brown, Jr
Lebanon High School
Ohio
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Franklin & Its Master Plan
Red Lion Cubs
U.S
Citizens Savings and Loan Association
Central Ave
J. W. Swearengen Evangelist
J. W. Swearengen
Wayne Gallup
Don
Trenton Nazarene Church
Barbara Lubberger
Thomas Lubberger
Anne Road
LeSourdsville
Wilbert Wasson
Mattie Wasson
Waneta Ave
Amanda Junior High School
Amanda Gym
Miss Lubberger
Young Wasson
Guthrie
Donny Leeds
Ruth Zecher
Pam Majors
Janie Combs
David Frentzel
Barbara Zecher
Nancy White
Jim Frentzel
Tom Leeds
Ohio State Employment Service
Metz McGraw Farm
Wesl ValLuliwnt
Bowman
Lowher Springboro Road
Clearwater
Fla
McGraw Construction Co
Middletown
McGraw Stock Farms
Sheen
Washington
Walburg
Insurance Agency
Middletown, O
Aki
Ford
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