Pay Fight Over Military Pay Boost Jangles Draft Bill
Congress wrangles a $2.4 billion GI pay compromise that shifts raises toward privates and lieutenants while limiting general officer increases. Senate negotiators cut $300 million from the House Senate total, risking a filibuster as the draft bill resumes in September. Generals get smaller gains off-base allowances, while recruits see a substantial base pay rise to about $4,872 a year.
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Washington
Senate
House
Gordon Allot
R-Corp
Senate Armed Services
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Stennis
Nixon
Congress
City Native Earns PhD to Join GM Styling Team
Thomas L. Black 28 son of Mr and Mrs William Black of 206 Orlando Ave earned a doctorate in industrial engineering with biomechanics from Texas A&M University College Station. He will move to Warren Michigan to join General Motors styling staff in Human Performance and Safety Engineering. He graduated from Middletown High School and General Motors Institute and belongs to Sigma Nu and Alpha Pi Mu fraternities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas L. Black
William Black
Orlando Ave
Texas A&m University
College Station
Tex
Foot boa constrictor found in Houston kitchen
Herb Isaacs Jr., 13, found a boa constrictor coiled around water glasses in his kitchen early Friday. Firemen trapped the snake in a 9 gallon can after it slithered under the refrigerator, and then carried it away with the lid clamped. Ownership unknown.
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Houston
Tex
Herb Isaacs Jr
Herb
Madam Zodiac to Entertain at Middletown Senior Center
Senior Citizens group at Middletown Area Senior Citizens center hosts Miss Delores Revelos aka Madam Zodiac tomorrow at 1 p.m. A 10:15 a.m. chorus rehearsal and noon luncheon follow. Throughout the week the center schedules Service Circle, card party, social events, crafts, knitting, dancing practice, advisory board and men’s groups with meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delores Revelos
Madam Zodiac
Middletown Area
Miss Revelos
P&p
Blast Cause Investigated at Canton Car Wash Fire
Canton police and firemen investigated a series of explosions and a fire at the Golden Carriage Car Wash on West Tuscarawas Street. Fire Chief L E Waddell said arson was involved and two men inside the building were seriously injured when the blasts occurred at about 1 20 a m.
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Canton, Ohio
Canton
Golden Carriage Car Wash
West Tuescarawas Street
L. E. Waddell
Ice Box Keeps Niche Back in 1928 Purchase Tale
Mr and Mrs Wallace Frayer bought a wooden ice box with porcelain enamel interior from J Glass at Middletown Ice & Coal Co for 48.25 in 1928. The box now sits in the kitchen of Mr and Mrs Ray Witte at 12% Eilen Drive as a family keepsake and relic of early refrigeration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Frayer
Middletown Ice & Coal Co
Glass
Frayers
Cleveland
Idth Ave
Ray Witte
Eilen Drive
Thant Cancels Planned Trips
United Nations Secretary-General U Thant cancels trips to Africa and Europe planned for the next two months on doctors orders. A spokesman said the decision does not reflect a change in Thant's condition. He took a week's vacation in July after a dizzy spell blamed on fatigue.
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United Nations, N.Y
U Thant
Africa
Europe
Thant
Two Women Suspected in Cash Sack Theft at W T Grant
A clerk at the W T Grant Store in Middletown Shopping Center reported two paper sacks with about 550 dollars in cash and unknown checks missing after helping a customer. The loss occurred late Friday when the clerk briefly left the drawer beneath a cash register to assist a woman who could not read hair dye labels.
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W. T. Grant
Middletown
Franklin Courts DWI Defendant Fined $150
Dayton motorist Steven Pahren, 24, received the heaviest penalty in Franklin Municipal Court with a $15 fine, costs, three days in jail, and a 30 day driving suspension for driving while intoxicated. Additional defendants faced fines for checks with insufficient funds, license issues, helmet violations, and traffic offenses. Thirty speeding defendants paid $797 in fines and bonds.
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Franklin
Dayton
John B. Tracy
Steven Pahren
Garry Watson
Penny L. Watson
Market Street
Germantown
Deaths And Funerals for Emma Eckert And Bergen Kin
Funeral services are set for Emma Alice Eckert 86 of Excello at Riggs Funeral Home Tuesday at 10 30 am with burial in Miltonville Cemetery. She died yesterday at Middletown Hospital and lived at 10 Ardmore Drive. Also noted are services Tuesday at Robarts Funeral Home Sarasota for an unnamed Bergen with burial in Manasota Memorial Park Oneco Florida. survivor details include Harold Bergen and other relatives.
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Emma A. Eckert
Emma Alice Eckert
S. Main St
Excello
Riggs Funeral Home
Don R. Rochersperger
Miltonville
Eckert
Middletown Hospital
Ford
Bishop E Hilliard 78 Dies After Two Year Illness
Bishop E Hilliard 78 of Europa Mississippi died after a two year illness. Surviving wife Hosea two Middletown daughters Eva O Neil and Esther Greene and Buffalo daughters Flora Daniels Geneva Mack two sons Robert E Europa Haywood and Willie B Buffalo six grandchildren seven great grandchildren. Services set for 2 30 today at Liberty Methodist Church Europa with Rev Walter F E Prusett officiating. Linzy Roberts Funeral Home Winona Mississippi handling arrangements.
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E. Hilliard
Europa
Middletown
Hosea
Eva O'Neil
Esther Greene
Flora Daniels
Geneva Mack
Buffalo
N.Y
Robert E
Haywood
Willie B
Liberty Methodist Church
Walter FE. Prusett
Linzy Roberts
Winona, Miss
Myrtle C Seamon dies at 81 in Germantown
Mrs. Myrtle C Seamon 81 of 219 E Warren St Germantown died Friday at Grandview Hospital Dayton after 28 years in Germantown and a prior residency in West Elkton. Survived by daughter Mrs Floyd Hollenbaugh and son Francis of Germantown, sister Mrs Lena White of Harrison Ohio, five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral Tuesday 10 am at John Arpp Funeral Home with Rev J C Herbert. visitation Monday 7 to 9 pm. Burial Fairmount Cemetery West Elkton.
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Germantown
Myrtle C. Seamon
E. Warren St
Grandview Hospital
Dayton
West Elkton
Seamon
Floyd Hollenbaugh
Francis
Lena White
Harrison
Ohio
John Arpp
J. C. Herbert
Fairmound
Death of Maude Bergen in Sarasota at 84
Maude Bergen 84 widow of Roy C. Bergen former vice president of Spencer Bergen Motor Co died Saturday morning in Sarasota Florida where she had lived since 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude Bergen
Middletown
Sarasota, Fla
Roy. C. Bergen
Spencer Bergen Motor Co
Three Middletown Lawyers Attend American Bar Association Meet
Three Middletown lawyers returned from London where about 8 000 attorneys and judges gathered for the annual American Bar Association meeting. Attendees were Judge Fred B. Cramer William Rathman and Richard A. Wilmer of the Butler County Common Pleas Court. The six day gathering opened at Westminster Hall with greetings from Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone and speeches by Chief Justice Warren E Burger and outgoing ABA president Edward L Wrights.
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Middletown
American Bar Association
London
Butler County Common Pleas Court
Fred B. Cramer
William Rathman
Richard A. Wilmer
England
Barristers Inns of Court
Law Society of Solicitors
Westminster Hall
Lord Hailsham
Saint Marlylebone
Great Britain
U.S
Warren E. Burger
Edward L. Wrights
Librarian James Hunt Named Chief at Cincinnati Library
James H. Hunt, state librarian of Hawaii, was hired Friday as chief librarian of the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library. He succeeds Ernest I. Miller. the system runs 37 branches with about three million books.
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Cincinnati
James H. Hunt
Hawaii
Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Ernest I. Miller
Central State official resigns to lead Washington program
E. Oscar Woolfolk, Central State University vice president for academic affairs, resigns to head the Cooperative Academic Planning Program in Washington DC, an Institute for Service to Education project aiding black colleges. He will return to Central State for 1972 73 as chemistry professor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilberforce
Ohio
E. Oscar Woolfolk
Central State University
Institute For Service To Education
Washington, D. C
Woolfolk
Central State
Industrialist Frazer Dies at 79 in Newport
Joseph W. Frazer automobile executive and co founder of Kaiser Frazer Corp died of cancer at his Newport home at age 79. As Willys president in 1939 he pioneered economy priced cars and helped develop the Jeep used by the U S Army in World War II. In 1945 he joined Henry J Kaiser to form Kaiser Frazer Corp, briefly the nation's fourth largest passenger car maker. The firm halted production in 1953.
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Newport
R.I
Joseph W. Frazer
Kaiser-Frazer Corp
Willys Overland Motors, Inc
Frazer
Jeep
U.S
Henry J. Kaiser
Kaiser-Frazer Corps
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