Kidney Awareness Day Dinner to Launch Drive
A Kidney Awareness Day dinner and program will be held Sunday Feb 26 at the DAV Hall to launch a March door to door fund raising drive for the Kidney Foundation of Greater Cincinnati aiding Middletown kidney patients. Tickets are 4 for adults and 2 for children with donations tax deductible.
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DAV
The
Kidney Foundation of
Greater Cincinnati
Middletown
Stanley Stock
Kidney Foundation
Fred Slezak
Wlws-Fm
Ann Slezak
Steven Ebbesmeyer
Rosemarie Slezak Ebbesmeyer
Velma Klamp
Stolen Beer and Wine Reported at Harris Grocery and Other Thefts
Police reported beer and wine valued at 25 dollars stolen from Harris Grocery at 1204 Askew Street. A Citizens band radio worth 100 dollars was taken from Greg Blevins’s car at 3505 A Road. John Steele said his billfold was taken Saturday at Buster's Bar on Charles Street. About 25 dollars damage to James Cheeseman’s car from attempted glove compartment break in. A television worth 90 dollars was stolen from Kathy Rakestraw at 826 10th Avenue yesterday. Two tires on Dave Castle’s car at 610 Cleveland Street were damaged Friday.
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Harris
Askew St
Citizens Band
Greg Blevins
John Steele
Village Drive
Franklin
Buster
Charles Street
James Cheeseman
Garfield St
Kathy Rakestraw
10Th Ave
Dave Castle
Cleveland St
Coal walkout hurts Conrail amid severe winter weather
In Columbus, Conrail president Richard Spence says the eight week nationwide coal strike cost the railroad system 56 million dollars in lost coal traffic and contributed to about 1000 layoffs. He notes storms delayed operations but trains stayed mostly running, with 100 locomotives sidetracked and up to 258 engines disabled at times.
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Columbus, Ohio
Conrail
Richard Spence
Columbus
Consolidated Railroad System
Spence
West Virginia
DP&L seeks 19.1 percent electric rate hike in Ohio
Dayton based DP&L asks the Ohio Utilities Commission to approve a 19.1 percent rate increase, adding about 5 million yearly electric revenue. Residential bills in 200-750 kWh use would rise roughly 3.18 to 6.14 monthly, currently 10.93 to 32.76. If not approved, DP&L warns finances would deteriorate. emergency collection of 15 million sought for 1978.
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Dayton, Ohio
Deas Utilities Commission of Ohio
Local man found dead at home in Middletown
A 58-year-old Middletown man named William McKee was found dead yesterday afternoon in a chair at his 2800 Tytus Ave home. Believed to have died of natural causes within eight to 24 hours, a paper girl flagged the incident after failed door and phone checks. Police were alerted and arrangements are pending at Wilson-Schramm Memorial Home.
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Middletown
Tytus Ave
William McKee
Union chief sees end to coal strike
United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller said he believes a tentative settlement of the 61 day nationwide coal strike can be reached by Tuesday. In an interview with the Charleston Gazette he noted only a few areas of disagreement remain. Meanwhile, further disturbances were reported in the Appalachian coalfields.
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Associated Press
United Mine Workers
Arnold Miller
Charleston
W.va
Miller
Appalachian
UMW Mining Talks Night Move Amid Strikes and Assaults
Fire calls report multiple injuries with hospital transports in Ed Cogan, Myrna Mann, Al Egleston, and Steve Ross. UMW members continue attacks on non union mining sites. Miller eyes a tentative contract after Washington talks resume Monday amid cautious optimism and federal mediation concerns.
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Eldora Drive
Ed Cogan
Young St
Myrna Mann
Apt
N. Verity Pkwy
al Egleston
Columbia Ave
Steve Ross
Franklin scholar Bergen Evans dies at 73
Bergen Evans, Franklin Ohio native and Northwestern English professor emeritus, died after a prolonged illness at Highland Park Hospital. A 1957 Peabody Award winner, he hosted TV programs The Last Word and Down You Go and wrote The Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage and Comfort Words.
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Highland Park
Franklin
Ohio
Bergen Evans
Northwestern University
Evans
Miami Univerisity
Harvard
Oford
Highland Park Hospital
Chicago
Deaths and funerals in Middletown and Warren Ohio area
Deaths and funeral notices for John R ee 64 of 306 Park St Middletown killed Friday night on Girard Avenue. survivors include wife Hazel and seven sons. Also death of Sally Mae Wikoff 80 of Warren after long illness with services in Warren and burial at Pineview Memorial Park. Other notices: Susie F Crout 79 of Franklin with service in Eaton and burial in Camden. Rollie Harrell 66 of Franklin at Eaton Funeral Home with burial in Woodhill Cemetery. Memorials to American Cancer Society and Miami Valley Lung Association.
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Middletown
Girard Avenue
Joseph R. Baker
Germany
John Ree
Park St
R. Lindsey
Asheville
N.C
Union Chapel United Methodist Church
Moose Lodge
Hazel
Judi Everhart
Lexington
Robert
David
Charles
Paul
James
Franklin
Mike
John
Fort Knox
Sally Mae Wikoff
Trumbull General Hospital
Warren
Ohio
Wikoff
Clay City
William
Pat Kollar
Girard
Forrest Bowman
Robert H. Roberts
Pineview Memorial Park
American Cancer Society
Rollie Harrell
E. Second St
Grandview Hospital
Harrell
Stone Container Corp
Franklin and
Franklin Transfer Co
Myrtle
Barbara Weiss
Patti Pade
Chicago
Eaton Funeral Home
Edward Bates
Woodhill Cemetery
Miami Valley Lung Association
Greenfield Road
Southfield
Mich
U S waits on Vietnam envoy expulsion as spy case unfolds
Washington reports no official word from Hanoi after Cyrus Vance ordered Dinh Ba Thi, head of the Vietnamese U N delegation, to depart the United States. The envoy was named an unindicted co conspirator in a case tied to transmitting confidential U S cables to Hanoi. The Vietnamese U N mission contests the U S jurisdiction and says Thi will continue duties.
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Washington
Dho Ra
Vietnam
Hanoi
Dinh Ba Thi
United Nations
United States
Department
John Trattner
Cyrus A. Vance
Thi
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
U.S
Woman locked for 47 years dies in France
In Bethune France an elderly woman Madeleine Delton aged 70 dies in a psychiatric hospital after being kept in an unheated room by her sister for 47 years. Marie Louise 72 confessed she locked her sister behind red windows in 1930 claiming she had lost her mind after their mother died. Neighbors never knew of her existence and she went unnoticed through World War II.
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Bethune
France
Madeleine Delton
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PUCO
Sai
UMW
Thursda
Bennis Saunders
Kley
Rockefeller
John Lindsey
Sally Wikoff
Susie Crout
Jane Ingram
Goldie York
Dayton
Raymond Northern
Alice Krietzer
Glendale
Ariz
Steve Crane
Bobtown
Frank Crane
Leonard Crane
Germantown
Tandy Corp
Ste Petan Ae
Ronald Louis Humphrey
Lamay Low
Truong Hung
Union Sanitary
John W. Sauter
Lewis Street
2Nd Ave
Santon Shopping Center
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