Middletown basketball coach Paul Walker retires after 41 years
Paul Walker, Middletown High School basketball coach for 41 seasons, announces retirement after a 698 game career. The Ohio figure led Middletown to five state titles, helped found the OHSBCA, and earned national coach of the year honors. He plans to step down as coach and teacher, leaving a legacy of sustained success and mentorship.
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Middletown High School
Paul Walker
Walker
Middletown High
Barberton
Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association
Ohsbca
Middletown
National High School Coaches’ Association
George Houck
Houck
Rayner Greene
Middies
Ohio
Pyee
Columbus
Jerry Lucas
Portsmouth
Lincoln Field
Press Association
Hardinster
Anchorage
Baby Left In Car In Ohio Parking Lot
An hours old healthy male baby was found in a cardboard box in a parked car outside a Cincinnati area supermarket in Harrison Ohio. The infant, tied to a Brookville Indiana woman, was reported in good health at Children's Hospital Cincinnati. the infant wore a red bandana as a diaper.
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Harrison, Ohio
Brookville
Ind
Children’s Hospital
Cincinnati
Alice Wuestefeld
Syria threatens Lebanon as Franjieh presidency looms
In Beirut Syria pledges no mercy to halt Lebanon's sectarian war as Parliament Speaker Kamal Assaad schedules a session to replace Christian President Suleiman Franjieh. Moslem and Christian leaders will attend while debate on replacing Franjieh advances amid ongoing fighting and casualties.
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Suleiman Franjieh
Franjieh
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Raymond Edde
Ain
Beirut
Syria
Lebanon
Abdullah El-Amin
Baath Socialist Party
High Cost of Living Pushes Poverty Level to $5500
The Labor Department raised the 1975 poverty threshold for a non farm family of four to 5500 dollars citing higher living costs. Census preliminary figures align at 5500 with a June or July release. In 1974 the level was 5098 and the poverty count stood at 24.9 million people, about 12 percent of the population.
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Labor Department
Census Bureau
Arno Winard
Bureau
Ohio GOP Weighs Ballot Listing Change After Law
State Republican committee members meet Thursday to decide how to handle the new law eliminating statewide ballot listing of individual party delegates. Gov Rhodes signed the emergency bill effective immediately, allowing parties to choose bloc voting or individual candidate listings for national convention delegates. Democratic rules already require names to be listed in congressional districts.
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James A. Rhodes
Democratic State Executive Committee
Ial
Don S
Auto plants run on regular schedules despite Teamster strikes
Detroit area factories resume normal operation under standard shifts with close watch on ongoing picketing by dissident truckers. Company officials caution the situation remains unsettled and many ifs cloud continued production.
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Detroit
American Motors Corp
Howard Hughes dies of stroke on private jet
Howard Robard Hughes a billionaire aviation pioneer dies of a stroke aboard a Lear jet en route from Acapulco to Houston. Pilots Roger Sutton and Jeff Abrams recall a frail, pale Hughes and a five hour runway wait before arrival. Summa Corp confirms the death as cerebral vascular stroke.
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Houston
Howard Robard Hughes
Hughes
Acapulco Princess Hotel
Methodist Financial Empire
Arelo Chereng
Summa Corp
Summa
Hughes Sederberg
Roger Sutton
Jeff Abrams
Florida
Acapulco
H. Hughes
Abrams
Sutton
S. Ns
Naley Carney
Middletown Weather Forecast Sees Clear Tonight
Clear skies and near calm lows are forecast for Middletown tonight with Wednesday expecting partly cloudy skies and highs in the 60s. The outlook calls for fair conditions through midweek.
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Middletown
Rhodes vetoes bill limiting church and fraternal group licensing
Gov James A Rhodes vetoes a measure that would require state inspection licensing for facilities used by churches fraternal and veterans groups for organizational functions. He cites no proven health hazards and possible revenue gains as too bureaucratic and unenforceable. House stalemate mirrors Senate approval.
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Ohio
James A
Rhodes
Cleveland
Jackson
Senate
House
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