Old Rugged Cross Tops Middletown Hymn Poll
The Old Rugged Cross was Middletown Seventh-day Adventist Church members’ favorite hymn with 15.8 percent. How Great Thou Art followed at 11.7 percent. Teens and children showed distinct preferences, and ministers offered varied picks. The national poll will be featured by Voice of Prophecy and Faith for Today.
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Middletown
Seventh-day Advantist Church
Frank W. Gifford
Rugged Cross
Jesus
United States
Canada
Voice of Prophecy
Faith
Adventist Church
Old Rugged Cross
Suspect In Shooting Surrenders By Phone
Hamilton sheriff’s officers moved to Columbia Missouri to return Ronald Adkins 22 who called a public phone to say he would surrender He was detained with a 17 year old Richmond Indiana youth not implicated In the Fishville Tavern shooting Ova Earl Wright 24 died at the scene and Ralph Wilmot 27 wounded in a gunfight after Adkins allegedly waved a pistol A first degree murder warrant had been issued Wright funeral services set for Wednesday at Brown Dawson Funeral Home.
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Hamilton
Columbia
Cliff Hyde
Ronald Adkins
Lee Ave
Hyde
Columbia Police
Adkins
Missouri City
Richmond
Ind
Fishville Tavern
New London Road
Ova Earl Wright
Fourth St
Ralph Wilmot
Haldimand Ave
Mercy Hospital
Wilmot
Wright
Garret J. Boone
Brown Dawson
Greenwood Cemetery
George Bray
Germantown
Franklin man gets five years probation for shooting
James P. Prater, 42, of Franklin, pleaded guilty to shooting with intent to wound and received five years probation from Butler County Common Pleas Judge Arthur J. Fiehrer. He must pay 2700 in restitution to Archie Holcomb, 31, of Middletown, wounded Nov 4 at Gibby’s Tavern.
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Hamilton
Franklin
Butler County Common Pleas
Arthur J. Fiehrer
James P. Prater
Sterling Court
Archie Holcomb
Girard Ave
Middletown
Gibby’s Tavern
Charles St
Florida Governor At GOP Dinner In Dayton May 16
Butler County Republicans plan a $125 per plate fundraiser May 16 at Wampler's Arena north of Dayton. Speaker will be Florida Governor Claude H. Kirk Jr. with 11 Miami Valley counties taking part. The dinner begins at 7 5 p.m. and tickets are sold by local committee members led by Quentin R. Reeder. Kirk notes mark two party era. he has served on the Republican Governor's Association executive committee.
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Butler County
Dayton
Florida
Claude H. Kirk Jr
Brookes D. Billman
GOP
Miami Valley
Wampler’s
Kiloh Springs Road
Middletown
Quentin R
Ted) Reeder
Harold Agee
Robert A. Davies
Jack Frisbie
Roger Gillespie
Chester Hodges
Mary Jones
J.black Little
Calvin Lloyd
Peter M. Mengel
Gerald D. Porter
William E. Rathman
J. B. Strickland
Morris Turkelson
Kirk
Democrats
Nixon
Republican Governor’s Association
R. H. Grant Jr
Piano Pupils In Recital At Taft Museum Cincinnati
Elementary piano students from Middletown and nearby performed in a recital at Taft Museum Cincinnati organized by the Ohio Music Teachers Association. Julie Keck played A Waltz for Judy and Judy Reinhold performed Sagebrush Serenade. Barbara Goodman played Romanza Sonatina, Susan Derrick On My Pogo Stick, and Sally Swisher Sonata Opus 76. Helen Berger chaired the event.
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Middletown
Vincinity
Taft Museum
Cincinnati
Ohio Music Teachers Association
Judy
Julie Keck
Judy Reinhold
Barbara Goodman
Susan Derrick
Sally Swisher
Helen Berger
Monroe High Band Boosters honor seniors and unveil uniforms
The Lemon Monroe High School Band Boosters banquet honored senior bandsmen and announced 1968 69 officers. The group previewed proposed blue and white uniforms made by a Cincinnati firm. Earlier Saturday the marching band won a second place trophy in Dayton Loyalty Day parade.
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Christin Young
Ancil Evick
Jack Chamberlain
Elbert Tannreuther
Thespians Club
Cincinnati
Car Crash North of Wetumpka Kills William Kendrick at 24
William Kendrick age 24 of 1122 14th Ave died last night when his car left Athens Hill Road eight miles north of Wetumpka Alabama. Elmore County highway patrol said he was racing another car and lost control. Kendrick worked for Armco Steel Corp and his wife is a bank bookkeeper. The couple had left Middletown Friday to visit his mother.
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William Kendrick
14Th Ave
Wetumpka
Ala
Athens Hill Road
Elmore County
Armco Steel Corp
First National Bank
Middletown
Davidson finalist in International Science Fair Detroit
Carolyn A. Davidson daughter of Mr and Mrs William S Davidson of 3105 Poinciana Road is named a finalist for the International Science Fair in Detroit Michigan May 15 18 Miss Davidson a Middletown High School junior earned the finalist spot at the Scenic Hills Regional Science Fair in McConnelsville for her project Cloud Chamber Depth Calculations and Focal Point Elimination by Holography She also won a first place physics medal NASA certificate for research and a U S Army certificate for outstanding achievement The International Fair includes entries from 28 foreign countries and all 50 states with each regional fair sending two finalists
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Carolyn A. Davidson
William S. Davidson
Poinciana Road
Detroit
Mich
Miss Davidson
Middletown High School
Scenic Hills
McConnelsville
NASA
U. S. Army
The
International Science
Distraction Causes Crash Near West Alexandria Road
A driver, David Bowling, 17, and a passenger, Theodore Lockard, 16, were hurt after Bowling eying yelling girls failed to stop for a car on Rt. 122. Bowling was charged with failing to stop within an assured clear distance. Harold Caldwell, 28, was treated and released for head contusions from an earlier Rt. 122 crash.
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David Bowling
Strebee Road
Theodore Lockard
Bowling
Alexandria Road
Rt. 122
Virginia Eckhardt
Middletown Hospital
Harold Caldwell
S. Main St
Diamond Union Standoff Shrugs Off Talks At Diamond Fiber
Local 844 of the United Papermakers AFL-CIO wages strike against Diamond Fiber Products on W Central Ave enters its second week. The union claims no talks are scheduled after rejecting Diamond National’s “unfair” final offer tied to area contracts.
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Claude Ingram
The
United Papermakers & Paperworkers, Afl-Cio
W. Central Avenue
Ingram
Diamond National
Miami Valley
White demonstrators picket North Side churches in protest
About a dozen White demonstrators picketed the United Methodist Parish of the Holy Covenant and Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church during Sunday services in Chicago. Placards read Confess Your Racism The Church is Racist and 11 a.m. the Hour of White Racism The Rev Robert J Harman and Rev William H Taylor preached sermons against racism.
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Chicago
North Side
United Methodist Parish of the Holy Covenant
Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church
Lukens Names Madison Senior to Air Force Academy
Madison High School senior Kasimir Oganowski II has been appointed to the Air Force Academy by Rep. Donald E. Lukens. Oganowski, a straight A student, is son of Kasimir and Mrs. Oganowski of West Middletown and held NHS membership, Varsity M Club leadership, and class vice presidency. Others from the area were named to service academies and military placement.
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Kasimir Oganowski II
Madison High School
Air Force Academy
Colorado
Donald E. Lukens
Oganowski
And
Kasimir Oganowski
Knoll Woods
West Middletown
Lukens
Service Academy
Madison
Air Service Academy
Arthur Felts
Hunt Ave
Hamilton
Robert W. Chatman
Rialto Road
West Chester
Harold P. Newhart
S. Main St
Oxford
Michael Barr
N. W. St
Mason
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Milton E. Roger
S. Eastview Parkway
U. S
Man Injured In 2nd Crash In 30 Minutes
Cincinnati man Dan Buop 51 was treated at Middletown Hospital for hand cuts and body bruises after a gyro glider crash at Hook Field. Earlier, about 4:20 PM, the craft flipped when blades struck the ground two feet off the runway. The tow car driver Daniel Lobaugh took Buop to the hospital.
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Cincinnati
Hook Field
Middletown
Dan Boop
Buop
Daniel Lobaugh
City Crews Maintain Trash Pickup Schedule South of Central
City public service crews stayed near their schedule collecting 291 loads of refuse south of Central Avenue last week. Street Superintendent Carl Dennin said the total matches last year and praised the crew as rounds continued with little debris at the curb.
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Central Avenue
Carl Dennin
Dennin
Central
Penn Central Railroad
Best way to boost old car life is price check on new models
A simple tip urges comparing the price of a new car to improve an old vehicle. It suggests price awareness can guide maintenance or replacement decisions.
Ministers and wives return from two week Holy Land tour
A group of ministers and lay leaders returns home today after two weeks touring Cyprus Beirut Jerusalem Athens Rome Paris and London. The party from Yankee Road First Church of God includes Rev and Mrs Rodney William Rev and Mrs Cecil Majors Mr and Mrs Wilson Forney Mr and Mrs Osa Agee with Mrs Isaac Gibson of Middletown and Rev Ballard Johnson of Springboro.
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Holy Land
Cyprus
Beirut
Lebanon
Jerusalem
Israel
Athens
Greece
Rome
Italy
Paris
France
London
England
Rodney William
Cecil Majors
Wilson Forney
Osa Agee
Yankee Road
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Udy
Montgomery County
Vic Cassano
Darke
Miami
Preble
Shelby
Champaign Clark
Clinton, Greene
Montgomery
Butler
Warren
Logan
GOV
Claude Kirk JR
Monroe
Judy McCormick
Alabama
Mr. Kendrick
AF Academy
Science Service
Carolyn Davidson
Hubert “Hobe”’ Adams
Democrat
L. Little
Adams
Cyprus St
Trenton
Ohio
Pol. Adv
Diamond Union Firm
Robert J. Harman
William H. Taylor
Barracuda
Sol Schneider
Price
Central Ave
South Main Street
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