Summer Vacation Ends as Pre School Activities Begin
School offices plan for a staggered return with Fenwick High hosts final registration tomorrow and a Cincinnati teachers meeting Wednesday. Middletown High welcomes new movers with registration tomorrow and Wednesday while orientation for juniors and seniors is set for Friday morning and sophomores follow at 10 30. Seventh graders at Amanda McKinley Roosevelt Manchester report Friday at 9 am along with seventh and eighth graders at George M Verity Middle School.
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Fenwick High School
Fenwick
Cincinnati
Middletown High School
H. H. Lawrence
Middletown High
Amanda, McKinley, Roosevelt
Manchester
George M. Verity
Strike Spreads To Interstate Folding Box Second Plant
The six day old wildcat strike at Interstate Folding Box Co. spreads to the Miamisburg plant. About 60 of 65 workers at Miamisburg stay off work in sympathy with Middletown strike. The union demands reinstatement and hearing for vice president Eugene Eakins, fired after alleged insubordination. Court injunction seeks $600,000 in damages. production halted for 220 workers nationwide.
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Interstate Folding Box Co
S. Verity Parkway
Interstate
Miamisburg
Bobby Bowling
Afl‘cio
Middletown
Eugene Eakins
Eakins
John F.kinder
Interstat
Company
Jerome Goldman
Cincinnati
Kinder
International and Company
International
Goldman
Miami grads urged to study other nations for U S world role
Ernest N. Mannino of the State Department urged Miami University graduates to grasp other cultures as America's future world influence hinges on such understanding. He received an honorary law degree as the largest Summer class, totaling 1,005 degrees, heard from 688 bachelor's, 316 master's, and one specialist. James L. DeWeese led as top graduate with summa cum laude in business.
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Oxford
America
Miami University
Ernest N. Mannino
U. S. Department of State
Office of Overseas
Mannino
State Department
U. S
Miami
Phillip R. Shriver
James L. DeWeese
Dayton Northmonth High School
Stop Signs Changed For Tunnel Job
City Engineer C A Boeke announced changes to stop signs on Wilson Street to ease access for Armco Steel Corp. workers at the Crawford Street gate during tunnel construction. Wilson becomes through street with Hill Queen and Roosevelt Avenues drivers stopping at Wilson. signs to revert in about nine weeks after Crawford tunnel completion.
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Armco Steel Corp
Crawford Street
C. A. Boeke
Wilson Street
Crawford Gate
Hill, Queen and
Roosevelt Avenues
Wilson
Boeke
Crawford Tunnel
Crawford
Roosevelt Avenue
Surgery Set For Victim In Accident
A Middletown woman 21 is scheduled for surgery after a two car crash in Trenton that injured her year old son Jeffery and another Trenton woman. Mrs Toby Mellett was treated with facial lacerations at Middletown Hospital. Raymond Craig 69 and Lois Pennington 43 were also involved with Craig failing to yield causing the broadside collision on Rogers Drive and Cranewood Drive.
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Middletown
Trenton
Toby Mellett
Fairmount Ave
Middletown Hospital
Jeffery
Raymond Craig
S. Main St
Craig
Rogers Drive
Cranewood Drive
Lois Pennington
GOP Women To Hear Logsdon At Luncheon
Cale Logsdon, candidate for Butler County commissioner, will speak at a Middletown Women’s Republican Club luncheon at Republican headquarters 1008 Central Ave tomorrow. Alberta Schrote, 2008 Flemming Road, is club program chairman.
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Cale Logsdon
Butler County
Middletown
Women’s Republican Club
Republican
Central Ave
Alberta Schrote
Flemming Road
Fire damages Franklin home by switch fire
The Franklin Fire Department reports smoke damage valued at 200 dollars to a home at 621 Lake Avenue after a fire sparked by an electric switch around 11 20 p m. local time.
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Franklin
Franklin Fire Department
Lake Ave
Fire alarms sound at local plant after air leak
Yesterday at 8 59 a m firefighters responded to 1824 Baltimore Street at Packaging Corp of America for an air leak in the dry system that activated an alarm with no damage. A second call at 9 35 p m found the alarm system out of order.
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Baltimore St
Twirlers Win Second At Nationals In Oxford
Four members of Shirley Sandusky Decker’s Blue Diamond NBTA team place second in national competition at Oxford Mississippi. The Black Panthers senior team from Hamilton place third in the national senior competition. Sheryl Longworth of Franklin, eight, placed in the juvenile division top five. Ted Mack presented trophies and medals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Sandusky Decker
Oxford
Miss
Black Panther
Blue Diamond Twirling
Debbie Freeze
Judy Scott
Sabra Taylor
Peggy Huening
Blue Diamond Twirlers
Black Panthers
Ted Mack
Divorces Granted in Butler County Court
Nathan Crane of 2403 Grand Ave. divorces Marie Crane. Billie J. Blevins of 910 Lorg Place divorces Walter A. Blevins. Sylvia June Combs of 3105 Roosevelt Ave. Apt. A divorces Robert Wayne Combs. All cases judged by Warren C. Young or Sylvia June Combs.
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Nathan Crane
Grand Ave
Marie Crane
Warren C. Young
Billie J. Blevins
Lorg Place
Walter A. Blevins
Erie Ave
Sylvia June Combs
Roosevelt Ave
Apt
Robert Wayne Combs
Man Held After Roundup By Officer
Willis Ray Ratliff, 28, of Dayton, jailed on grand larceny charges in a case involving the theft of two truck tires and a wheel from Doebler's Garage on Cincinnati Dayton Road. The tires and wheel, valued at 125 dollars, were found in his car trunk after Officer Alvin Bennett blocked the suspect on Harkie Street. Ratliff’s two accomplices fled. Bennett alerted REACT, drawing Middletown police.
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Willis Ray Ratliff
Dayton
Doebler
Cincinnati-Dayton Road
Ratliff
Harkie Street
Monroe Ptl
Alvin Bennett
Bennett
REACT
Middletown
Youth Shot In Foot In Franklin Bridge Fracas
A Franklin youth, Earl William Quillen, 17, was treated at Kettering Memorial Hospital for a gunshot wound to a foot after a dispute on the Second Street bridge. Police said five men argued on the bridge and fled in two cars near 1 am.
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Franklin
Kettering Memorial Hospital
Second Street
Earl William Quillen
Pennyroyal Road
Star
River Street
Engineer Max Mitchell to speak at Middletown Rotary
Dayton chief engineer of the Miami Conservancy District will address the Middletown Rotary Club at the Manchester Motor Inn tomorrow noon. He will discuss the district history and future plans for the organization.
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Max Mitchell
Dayton
Miami Conservancy District
Middletown
Sunday Fair Attendance Sets Ohio State Fair Record
A Sunday crowd of 215 257 packed the Ohio State Fair grounds, surpassing the previous one day mark of 212000 set two years earlier. In four days the fair drew over half a million visitors with Jill Snyder 18 earning the Miss Wool crown and Doc Severinsen named honorary member of the All-Ohio Boys Band. Harold Anthony and Ansil Copeland won horseshoe contests in Class A and B while John E Wilson of Newark showed the largest squash at 185 pounds and Fran Coon plus Wilson exhibited a 57 pound pumpkin and a 59 pound watermelon.
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Columbus, Ohio
Jill Snyder
Columbus
San Angelo Tex
All-Ohio Boys
Johnny Carson
Doc Severinson
Harold Anthony
Arcanum
Ansil Copeland
Akron
John E. Wilson
Newark
Fran Coon
Ashville
Wilson
Sounds of America band plays at All-American Soap Box Derby
Thirteen Middletown area students in Akron for the derby rehearsal kept the Sounds of America band busy at the derby award dinner. The 3,200 attendees heard an overture of Tijuana Brass music and a patriotic medley. Band members hailed from Lemon-Monroe Middletown and Fenwick high schools. Kent State University alum Shaun Combs sang.
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Middletown Area
Akron
William Svarda
Sounds of America
Tijuana Brass
George M. Cohan
Herb Alpert
The
Tiajuana Brass
Svarda
Sounds
Paul Myers
Dan Stoutenborough
Scott Messinger
Lemon-Monroe High School
Steve Rains
Harold Lane
Middletown High School
Mark Trotta
Tom Hampel
Kevin Lawson
Jeff Brehm
Paul Schumacher
Jim Allen
Fenwick High School
Shaun Combs
Middletown High
Kent State University
Wake-up Life Saver Saves Brewer Near Railroad Crossing
Ronald L. Brewer 19 was found lying on Penn Central tracks at Waneta crossing by Arthur Baker who alerted the Butler County Sheriff's department. Brewer was rescued before a train passed. he was jailed for public intoxication at Middletown police headquarters.
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Ronald L. Brewer
Middletown City
Waneta Avenue
Arthur Baker
Brewer
Penn Central
Waneta Crossing
Butler County Sheriff's Department
Cliff Dye
Sheriff's Department
Baker
Seneca St
Middletown
Local Marriage Licenses Reported
Denny Ray Myrick 28 telephone installer Proctorville Ohio and Barbara Rae French 28 7615 Germantown Road. Lawrence Carl Krizan 23 welder 1938 Wilbraham Road and Sharon Lynn Harrison 19 beautician 2224 Sheffield St.
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Denny Ray Myrick
Proctorville
Ohio
Barbara Rae French
Germantown
Lawrence Carl Krizan
Wilbraham Road
Sharon Lynn Harrison
Beautician
Sheffield St
Carpenters Return to Middletown High School Project
Carpenters back on jobs after union accepted the contract ending an 86 day strike. Foreman reports crews at the new Middletown High School site with more expected to return, delaying completion and pushing use of the $4 million facility to June. A Kaiser Engineers spokesman notes about 9 percent of carpenters have returned to Armco Steel Project 600 work.
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Carpenters
Middletown
Carpenters Union
Dee Af Nee
New Middletown High School
Kaiser Engineers
Armco Steel Corp
Deputies Check Pair of Break-Ins
Deputies reported two weekend break-ins. Glenn Fields at 7083 Franklin Madison Road faced entry but deputies could not confirm any theft. John Brown of 415 E Page Ave Trenton reported soda bottles tossed at his Sohio service station on Ohio Route 122 near West Alexandria Road but no entry was gained.
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Glenn Fields
Franklin-Madison Road
John Brown
E. Page Ave
Trenton
Brown
Sohio
Ohio Rt
West Alexandria Road
Masonic Group Meeting Canceled Then Rescheduled
The Middletown Past Matrons Association of the Order of Eastern Star canceled the August 29 meeting at 6359 Todhunter Road. The next gathering is set for October 3 at 4504 Creekview Drive.
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Middletown Past Matrons Association
Order of Eastern Star
Helen Idle
Todhunter Road
Maude Wilson
Creekview Drive
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Twirling
Weith
Butler County Courts
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