Funeral for Scruggs Praised as Community Builder
Thousands attended the Franklin North Carolina funeral for Thomas Walter Scruggs 18 a popular Black athlete credited with aiding peaceful school desegregation. The service at First Baptist followed his death in a December car crash involving his brother, with leaders noting his unifying influence across races.
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Pranklin
N.C
Thomas Walter Scruggs
W. Thomas Lane
Walter Scruggs
Lane
Scruggs
First Baptist Church
North Carolina
Tom Raby
College Students Sign Up For Local Job Interviews Program
Middletown and Hamilton launched a joint effort to place local college graduates in town jobs. Twenty one Middletown students filled out forms and resumes were sent to area industries. Companies expected to interview three to fifteen students, with smaller firms planning to join in 1966. The program aims to benefit both students and employers despite draft obligations affecting interest.
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Middletown
Toledo
Alem
Hamilton Personnel Associations
The
Civic Association
McDade
Middletown Area College
Students to rate program in January interviews and forms
McDade urged students returning home during holidays or breaks to complete the Civic forms. He said participating companies, and most of them, will arrange for personal interviews.
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McDade
The
Civic
Infant burns source 90 percent as fire starts by children
In Alliance Ohio a fire started by children playing with matches left 20 month old Charles Freeman Jr burned over 90 percent of his body and in critical condition at Alliance City Hospital. Two other children were rescued unharmed.
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Alliance, Ohio
Charles Freeman Jr
Alliance City Hospital
Deaths and Funerals Cecil Hightman Dies at 79
Cecil C. Hightman 79 a Warren County farmer and noted Waynesville resident died yesterday. He became blind in 1916 after a farm accident and later built a broom shop on Lower Springboro Road. Surviving are two daughters two step daughters two sisters six grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Services set for Thursday at Stubbs Funeral Home with burial in Miami Cemetery Corwin. Arrangements by Proeschler Hamilton.
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Waynesville
Cecil C. Hightman
Warren County
Hightman
Lebanon
Dayton
Columbus
Lower Springboro Road
Laura
Eleanor Jackson
Waynesvile Rt. 3
Hazel Fox
Waynesville Rt. 1
Martha Edmiston
Florence Beattie
St. Petersburg
Fla
Elsie Hightman
Visalia
Mila
Death of Hobart Williams Jones in Ohio hospital
Hobart Williams Jones, 61, of Hamilton and stepfather of Mrs. Geraldine Cruse of Monroe, died at 6 a.m. yesterday at Fort Hamilton Hospital after a three month stay. He is survived by wife Edna, two sons Hobart Jr. of Carlisle Kentucky and Robert of Frankfort Kentucky, and daughter Mrs. Alliene Guenther of Oceanside California. Graveside services are set for 1 p.m. Thursday in Lexington Kentucky.
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Hobart Williams Jones
Hamilton
Geraldine Cruse
Monroe
Fort Hamilton Hospital
Emmett Muterspaw Sr. 77 Funeral in Springfield
Emmett E. Muterspaw Sr. 77 of 1345 Avalon Drive died Sunday in Miamisburg. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. tomorrow at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home with burial in Springfield. A brother Richard of Roanoke Virginia is listed as a survivor.
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Emmett E. Muterspaw Sr
Avalon Drive
McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home
Springfield
Muterspaw
Miamisburg
Richard
Roanoke
Services for Mrs Minnie Williams at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home
Mrs Minnie Williams 66 of 4006 Grand Ave dies Sunday at Middletown Hospital. Services set for 3 p.m. tomorrow at McCoy Leffler with burial at Woodside Cemetery. Calling hours 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sister listed as Mrs Eugene Belt of Dayton corrected. another sister Mrs John Enright of Middletown added to survivors.
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Minnie Williams
Grand Ave
McCoy - Leffler Funeral Home
Woodside Cemetery
Funery Home
Williams
Middletown Hospital
Eugene Belt
Dayton
Jean Belt
John Enright
Middletown
James O Wray longtime Middletown resident dies
James O Wray 72 of 3510 Tytus Ave died 8 p m yesterday at Middletown Hospital after a Christmas Day admission. A World War I veteran and former auto mechanic, he belonged to American Legion Post 218. Survived by wife Helen a stepson and a stepdaughter plus three sisters and four stepgrandchildren. Services set for 2 p m Thursday at Woodside Cemetery.
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James Ochis Wray
Tytus Ave
Middletown Hospital
Wray
American Legion Post
Roanoke
Middletown
Helen
William Warman
Randall Edwards
Pompano Beach
Fla
Betty Skeen
Hillsboro
Emily Sams
Tina
Texas
McCoy-Leffler
Woodside Cemetery
Obituary Notices for Hamilton Area Residents
A list of local obituary notices with names ages and addresses noting funeral services today and tomorrow at various churches including St Stephen’s Trinity Episcopal and St Peters. Entries include Mrs Edna Bauer Mrs Anna Pearson Clark Gibson Agnes Fischer George Meier Victor Bolton John Baker Mrs Mary Geppinger Mrs Hilda Hildebrand Early Warner James Saunders and Paul Coyle with service times and locations.
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Edna Bauer
S. Front St
Webb
Anna Pearson
Rambo Harris
Second Baptist Church
Clark Gibson
Hamilton
Brown- Dawson
Agnes Fischer
Cape Coral
Fla
St. Stephen's Church
George Meier
N. F St
Victor Bolton
Campbell Ave
Brown-Dawson
John Baker
Hamilton- Eaton Road
Proeschel
Mary Geppinger
Pleasant Ave
Trinity Episcopal Church
Hilda Hildebrand
Sherman Ave
St. Peter's Church
Early Warner
Bambo Harris Homes
James Saunders
Oxford
Marshall-Smith
Paul Coyle
Arlington Ave
Colligan
Notable cultural figure Frederick Kiesler dies in New York
Frederick J. Kiesler, 75, famed sculptor architect and theatrical designer, died Monday of a heart attack in New York. Also reported were the deaths of Tom Stout, former Montana congressman and publisher, and Dr. Martin Grabau, 64, physicist who aided military research programs, both on Sunday in Billings and Tullahoma respectively.
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New York
Frederick J. Kiesler
Billings
Mont
Tom Stout
Montana
Tullahoma
Tenn
Martin Grabau
Ohio Draft Will Reach Marrieds
Col Raymond E Clouse said Ohio must dip into the 1 percent 26 year old married men pool next month as many in 1-Y will be reclassified. He said 60 to 90 days are needed to move men from LY to 1 A and about half of Ohio 1 Ys could shift due to Pentagon mental standards for graduates. Manpower figures show 19 457 Ohioans in the married non father group.
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Columbus
Ohio
Selective Service
Raymond E. Clouse
Pentagon
Clouse
Siamese Twins Given 50 50 Chance To Live
Doctors report signs of improvement in Siamese twin girls born Christmas Day and separated by surgery. The pair Sheila and Lisa Mantonya remain in critical condition with a 50 percent chance of survival. Their mother Rotyn, 20, is at Hollywood Hospital. the babies were delivered by Caesarean section.
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Los Angeles
Sheila
Lisa Mantonya
Rotyn
Hollywood Hospital
Gerald
Woman Treated After Accident in Two-Car Crash
Franklin woman Lavern Evans of 524 Tremont Court was treated at Middletown Hospital for minor injuries after a two car crash at S Main Street and Rt 73. Evans was a passenger in Robert J Evans age 43 of the same address, in a collision at 7 45 p m with Ethel Smith of 3757 Kenny Lane. Mrs Smith was cited for failure to yield.
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Franklin
Middletown Hospital
S. Main Street
Lavern Evans
Tremont Court
Long Island Man Shares Unusual Thanksgiving Recipe
A Long Island man reveals a turkey stuffing recipe featuring 15 pounds of Italian sausage 144 eggs 9 pounds of mushrooms and 3 bunches of parsley with cheese amount unspecified.
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Long Island, N.Y
Wife's kiss honors Navy flier after Viet Nam rescue
Mrs. William Brougher, wife of Lt. William Brougher, said she was a little jealous when dancer Joey Heatherton kissed him after rescue from the sea aboard the USS Ticonderoga during a Bob Hope Christmas show. The lieutenant ejected safely before his plane exploded. he is uninjured and based in San Diego.
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Newark
Ohio
Navy
Viet Nam
William Brougher
Brougher
Ticonderoga
Bob Hope
Joey Heatherton
Johnstown
San Diego
Calif
Miami University
Oxford
Soviets Plan Educational Upgrading
The Soviet Union will offer gifted students better facilities and more teachers. Special schools will emphasize physics chemistry mathematics biology radio engineering and mechanization and electrification of agriculture. The plan aligns curricula with the 10 year basic education and replaces much of Khrushchev’s added year.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Monay
Nikita Khrushchev
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MSGEE
Cecil Hightman
Proescher Funeral Home
Hobart Jones
University Office
Manchester Road
Sunset Street
Fat Nenvenel Beni
Mdeletown
Miami
Emmett Muterspaw
James O. Wray
TIME
David Halberstam
New York Times
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Halberstam
Elzbieta Czyzewska
Dodds Monuments
Sundeys
McCoy Leffler
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