Patience and a Bluff Guide Summer Park Leaders
Summer playground supervisors stress park leaders are not babysitters but key organizers with duties from planning to keeping order. Leaders like Mary Howard and Dianne Wood share stories of boredom, heroics, and drug awareness as they manage 2 to 50 children daily. Pay scales from $1.27 to $1.60 an hour are noted, with calls for raises to reflect the work.
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Bobby Sherman
Summer Park
Mike Bonham
Bonham
Blevins
Dianne Wood
Eastern Kentucky University
Goldman Park
Youth Corps
Bingo Games May Be Gambling Says Middletown Police
Middletown police warned bingo operators they could be prosecuted if all three elements of gambling are present: payment of something of value, for a chance to win something of value. City Law Director Tilmon Ellison outlined the criteria last Friday.
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Middletown
Tilmon Ellison
Telephone Burglar Hitting Ohio Bell Office
An intruder broke into an Ohio Bell office at 4316 Jewell Ave where supervisor Gordon Jump said doors were forced and a six foot crowbar was used to pry a drawer with records open. Nothing was taken and a prior incident is recalled.
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Ohio Bell
Jewell Ave
Gordon Jump
Jump
Clerks and Banks Alert to Doctored Twenty Dollar Bills
Local clerks and banks watch for cornerless twenty dollar bills as a passer uses a fake currency. Officials warn that rough corner alterations could pass as genuine money, noting the public focus on corner figures over the portrait.
New York Trip Ends In Crash Near Home
A Goldman Avenue mother reports two injury accidents in 2% months near her home and says she may move unless more stop signs are added. Gail Augspurger, 30, and her family were returning from Rochester when another car pulled in front of them. Her son Michael, 2, fractured a collarbone and was treated at Middletown Hospital. Other included injuries and car damages involve Mary Hopper, Kathryn Walters, Mina Bluhn, Nelson Hilley, and John McGuire in separate incidents on Goldman Avenue, Park Drive, Kensington Street, and Oxford State Road with several injuries and hospital treatments.
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Ron Blevins
Miami University
Goldman Avenue
Gail Augspurger
Goldman
Rochester
N.Y
Park Drive
Michael
Middletown Hospital
Brentwood and
Mary S. Hopper
Lamberton St
Hopper
Kensington Street
Mina Bluhn
Highland St
Kensington
Nelson Hilley
John D. McGuire
S. Sutchin St
Oxford State Road
Sharon Stokley
Navaho St
Major Fire Destroys Three Buildings in Oxford
A major fire destroyed the Oxford Shoe Shop at High and Main streets and spread to an apothecary store and the Masonic temple. About 75 firemen from Oxford Millville and College Corner fought the blaze beginning around 9 30 am, with the shoe store consumed before arrival and condition still out of control.
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Oxford
High
Main Streets
Millville
College Corner
Ohio Traffic Toll Rises With 24 Dead Over Weekend
The Associated Press reports 24 people died in Ohio traffic accidents over the weekend, the worst toll since the Fourth of July period. Among victims were five pedestrians and three motorcycle riders, with most fatalities under age 30.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Middletown Board considers 1972 school budget of 13.7 million
Supt. Robert K. Johnson will present a 13,697,250 budget to four remaining board members. The rise over 1971 stems from inflation and higher academic costs. Bus drivers challenge triple-busing pay plan while a pilot junior English program and pregnant student evening classes are proposed to cut costs and maintain reach.
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Middletown
Ohio Association of Public School
Alberta Brashears
Kenneth Sexton
Lewis Hill
Middletown High School
Hill
Paul Ruark
68 ACRES Monroe Annexation OK'd
Monroe village annexes a 68 034 acre tract owned by Jon B. and Helen N. Brock at 381 MacEady Ave. Monroe. Mayor Gordon Reed spoke in support as commissioners approved the action with no opposition noted.
French Students Arrive for Three-Week Middletown Visit
Eleven French students arrive in Middletown after a 27 hour bus trip from Brattleboro Vermont for a three week stay with the Experiment in International Living. City officials welcome them with a proclamation and keys. Activities include a Reds game a Jaycee meeting at LeSourdsville Lake tours of Columbus Wright Patterson and Yellow Springs a pool party and a goodbye trip to Pittsburgh and Washington DC.
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Brattleboro
France
Middletown
Mary Lord
Manchester Motor Inn
Reds
LeSourdsville Lake
Rodger Ingham
Jaycees
Columbus
Wright Patterson Air Force Base
Yellow Springs
School of International Training
Pittsburgh
Washington, D.C
Charges Remain Undecided in Franklin Shooting Case
Franklin Warren County prosecutor James Ruppert will decide if charges are filed after the Friday shooting of 17 year old Terry Lee Abshear of 51 Wilson Drive. Abshear remains in Middletown Hospital with neck wounds as details are withheld pending the prosecutor's ruling expected by tomorrow.
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Franklin
Warren County
James Ruppert
Frank Harbach
Terry Lee Abshear
Wilson Drive
Abshear
Middletown
Child Drowns After Boat Capsizes on Miami River
Abigail Pence, 2, of St Paris, Cham pign County, drowned when an outboard motorboat capsized in the Miami River at Troy. Five adults and two other children were rescued. Police said the boat overturned during a turn and no one aboard wore life jackets, though there were life jackets in the boat.
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Troy
Ohio
Abigail Pence
St. Paris
Champaign County
Miami River
Annexation Transfers Acreage for Millville Developments
Commissioners approve transfer of 158.25 acres at Morman Road and Ohio 129 to Millville for a mixed use development. The land owned by Stephen Emerick and Walter E Gross lies between the village and Queen of Peace subdivision toward the east, slated for a shopping center light industry and housing.
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Morman Road
Ohio 129
Millville Road
Millvile
Stephen, Emerick
Waiter E. Gross
Queen of Peace Subdivision
Board approves OKI payment for July August
The board passed a resolution authorizing a $6,491.60 payment to the Ohio Kentucky Indiana Planning Authority for the county’s July and August obligations including Hamilton and Middletown.
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Jeri Spencer
NOR Journal
Mary Howard
Barnitz Park
Miami Park
Elaine Shaver
McKinley Park
Diane
Cathy Brown
Springhill Park
Cathy
D. Wood
M. Howard
E. Shaver
Bulletin
Orcie Spencer
Ave
Margie Birchwell
First Ave
Trenton Lion’s Carnival
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Washington
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Sheckler
New York
Homeowners Policy
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Ohio Highways
U.S
Monroe
Brock
Miami
Beckwith
Truckload Freezer Sale
Cremeans Appliance & TV
E. State ST
Trenton
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