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Middletown Journal

Location

Middletown, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Apr 17, 1977

Page

12

Beauty queen seeks Floral Trail crown after Playboy feature

Rhonda Shear 22 failed to win reinstatement as Floral Trail queen in Civil District Court. Judge Melvin Duran dismissed her suit while noting she may pursue a damages claim against the festival sponsor. she claimed she was promised queen status despite no contract. A spokesman said she was never formally chosen and her Playboy photo hurt her chances.

New Orleans Rhonda Shear Playboy Melvin Duran Miss Shear Leon Rittenberg Duran New South Louisiana David Chan Mary Lou Demarest Floral Trail Floral Trail Society

Franklin Methodist church banquet themed Self Discipline

Franklin United Methodist Church will host a Fathers, Sons and Friends banquet on Tuesday April 26 at 6:30 pm at Third and Main. Guest speaker Rusty Clifford, Fairmont East High School coach, will discuss Christianity and athletics. a Reds 1976 World Series highlights film will be shown. Tickets are 1 for children under 12 and 2 for others. Reservations by April 22.

Franklin Franklin United Methodist Church Rusty Clifford Fairmont East High School Kettering Ball State University National Organization of Fellowship of Christian Athletes Christ United Methodist Church Cincinnati Reds Gene Chipper Benny Clarence Aspenleiter Thomas Hayes Patrick Hemenger Stanley Kolb William Morris Robert Layman

MHS youths place 6th in tourney

Middletown High School students Karl Kiehler and Patricia Lemmons tied for sixth in a Cincinnati Engineering Society math tournament. Sixty seven students competed, top six to receive cash awards at a May dinner. Fiehler and Lemmons are noted for high honors as the school’s math department under Mrs. Louise McBain leads four annual contests.

Middletown High School Karl Kiehler Patricia Lemmons Engineering Society of Cincinnati Greater Cincinnati MHS Fiehler Harlan Fiehler Vandeveer St Miss Lemmons Richard Lemmons Burton Road IHS Louise McBain

Franklin trustees set bid opening for Hunter fire substation

Franklin Township trustees will open bids at noon Tuesday for a substation to serve the southwest part of the township. The site on the west side of Dixie Highway just north of Ohio 122 sits in a proposed Middletown annexation tract. The board assured a Stonyrill subdivision resident that annexation would not affect township ownership. A three year contract with Hunter firemen is under negotiation after the old term expired. Trustee President Harold Baker noted a negotiation session is scheduled for tomorrow. Four bids were received for a new road department equipment trailer. the lowest bid came from Valley Equipment Co. of Dayton at 3,500.

Franklin Franklin Township Hunter Fire Department Franklin Township Dixie Highway Ohio Middletown Stonyrill Hunter

Man buys paper. gets live red hen instead

In Wenatchee Washington Vern Neal Jr. paid for a Wenatchee World at a local vending machine but received a red hen instead. He kept the bird and took it to Rocky Beach Dam where he works as a fishway attendant.

Wenatchee Wash Vern Neal Jr Wenatchee World Neal Rocky Beach Dam

Jordanian King Hussein to visit Houston and Rice-Rittenhouse

The Rice-Rittenhouse Hotel will host King Hussein of Jordan and aides for a five day visit starting April 30 with thirty rooms and six suites reserved. A Jordanian embassy press officer calls the trip semi business in nature.

Houston Rice-Rittenhouse Hotel Jordan Hussein Michael Hamameh

Disputed biology text to remain in use after judge ruling

In Sellersburg Indiana a ninth grade biology textbook Biology A Search for Order in Complexity will stay in use despite a judge ordering its removal. The court found it advanced religious views conflicting with state guidelines while district officials plan to appeal if directed.

SELLERSBURG, _ Ind Herman Miller West Clark God Robert Hendren Superior Court Michael T. Dugan Indiana Civil Liberties Union Hendren EF. Thomas Marsh Jim O'Neal State Textbook Commission

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