Chamber Hoping to Involve Entire Community in Future Plans
Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce unveils Operation People at the annual meeting on February 26 at Miami University Middletown. Executive director Robert G. White says the program will gather resident ideas for Middletown’s future while a two hour audiovisual presentation also previews 1970 programs and a coming 12 to 18 month rollout.
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Middletown Area
Robert G. White
Chamber
White
Dave Finkelman
Middletown
Miami University
Mansfield
Chamber of Commerce
Nixon
Washington
Dick and
Ann Albin
Albins
Heritage Room
Miami University Center
Oxford
Children’s Art Concert At Miami University Middletown
The Young People’s Concert at Dave Finkelman Auditorium Middletown Campus features a display of paintings by area children before and after the 11 a.m. Middletown Symphony Orchestra performance. The event includes the Traveling Art Show and pieces inspired by Peter and the Wolf. Tickets at the door are 75 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Finkelman
Middletown
Miami University
Tri Arts Committee
Middletown Public Schools
Middletown Fine Arts Center
Edison School
Peter and the Wolf
Taft
Lebanon School Board Ends Silence on Hartman Contract
The Lebanon school board released a four member signed statement criticizing superintendent George Hartman for not providing effective leadership. Hartman, with eight years in Lebanon, faces retirement pay concerns. supporters intend a petition for reconsideration. Board action leaves Hartman in position until June 30 with retirement pay possibly exceeding 13 400 annually.
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Junior N. Larrick
George Hartman
Hartman
Citizens Committee
Robert Olson
Lebanon
Freshman School Invites Parents For Week Of Visits
Middletown Freshman School launches family week led by Principal Don Reedy. Parents and community adults may register at the office to shadow a student’s day under a modular schedule with guided tours by student senate members. Visits run at least two hours with groupings by last name February 16 to 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Don Reedy
Reedy
Main Part Of TAG Plane Is Salvaged
The Coast Guard recovered the main wreckage piece of a TAG Airlines plane that crashed into Lake Erie on January 28 with nine aboard. The section raised from 60 feet of water is believed to hold the bodies, as Bramble's crane transports the wreckage toward Cleveland, about 20 miles from the crash site.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Coast Guard
Bramble
TAG Airlines
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Ambulance Added by Sheriff Expands Local Unit
Sheriff Harold J. Carpenter announced a seventh ambulance cruiser joins the fleet replacing a sedan. The ambulance carries aluminum stretchers portable resuscitation gear oxygen equipment and first aid kits all funded by the Sheriff’s Mounted Patrol with no tax cost. Trained officers will man the cruisers and the service remains free to users.
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Hamilton
Harold J. Carpenter
Sheriff's Department
Carpenter
Sheriff's Mounted Patrol
Red Cross
Group Takes Option On Florida Site Near Sanford
Local realtors Bob Keays and Tony Tenore report a Middletown group has taken a long term option on 2 200 acres near Sanford Florida. The plan is to form a syndicate to sell shares to area investors and hold the land for resale. The tract lies six and a half miles east of Sanford with frontage on State Rt 46 and Lake Jessup. Boeing Aircraft has 33 000 acres under option nearby.
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Sanford
Fla
Bob Keays
Tony Tenore
Middletown
State Rt. 46
Lake Jessup
Disneyland
Orlando
Cape Kennedy
Boeing Aircraft
Tenore
Fire destroys Alamo Apartments in Maple Heights
Fire officials say the Maple Heights Alamo Apartments were destroyed with losses near 250000 dollars. The Red Cross reports more than 100 people made homeless and about 90 percent of families lost all possessions.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Alamo
Maple Heights
Red Cross
State Board Approves Warren County Vocational School Plan
The State Board of Education approved a $4.165 million Warren County vocational school plan to serve students not pursuing college. If six districts adopt, a joint vocational board would be formed and voters must approve about 3.73 mills for funding. Operating costs are estimated at $413,852 with 725 to 980 students and 38 programs across agriculture business home economics health trades and industrial education.
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Warren County Vocational School
Warren County
State Board of Education
Franklin
Lebanon
Waynesville
Springboro
Derfield Union
Little Miami
Orin Souther
Lebanon Distills Hope for Future City Growth
At a Lebanon town meeting 1590 leaders and citizens voted to authorize a workable plan to seek federal grants for growth. Ohio Kentucky Indiana Regional Planning Authority urged annexation to curb urban sprawl as planners predicted Lebanon could reach 30 000 by 1990. Plans cover water sewers housing livable environment security and social needs with downtown redevelopment and new corridors around the high school and Ohio 123 Interstate 71.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave 170K
Journal
Charles Ball
Ohio- Kentucky-Indiana Regional Planning Authority
ORI
Lebanon
Lou Romohr
Sam Sharp
Ball
Robert Vogt
Vogt, Sage and
Pflum
Voght
Ohio 123
Charles Guard
Guard
Five Hurt In Bus Wreck In Preble County
Five Preble Shawnee School students were treated at Mercy Hospital after a school bus swerved to avoid a car on Somers Gratis Road and hit a tree. Injured were Douglas Charles 16 Steven Myers 17 Gary MacFarland 17 of Somerville and Cheryl Adkins 12 David Adkins 14 of Gratis. The driver Gene Kiracofe Camden drove into a ditch and the bus struck a tree after the near collision. 45 other children were taken to school for examination by a physician.
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Hamilton
Mercy Hospital
Somers- Gratis Road
Douglas ‘Charles
Steven Myers
Gary’ MacFarland
Somerville
Cheryl Adkins
David Adkins
Gratis
Preble County
D.W. Stover
Gene Kiracofe
Camden
Camden-West Elkton Road
Kiracofe
Marty Robbins Leaves Hospital After Bypass Surgery
Nashville AP reports country music star Marty Robbins was discharged after an operation on January 27 in which three leg veins were used to bypass clogged arteries near his heart. Robbins suffered a heart attack on tour preceding the surgery.
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Nashville, Tenn
Marty Robins
Grand Ole Opry
Robbins
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Richard Peters
John Schraffenberger
Armco Steel Corp
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Sounds of America
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Paper Board
Diamond National Corp
Dvgorak
Grieg
John Dobrozsi Jr
Ins., Inc
First Ave
Florida
State Board
Herbert Starick
Dayton
R. L. Wolpert Co
Clark Turner
Paul Rees
United Telephone
Bill Killen
Cincinnati Gas & Electric
Romohr
Marty Robbins
Kidd
Fred Parrella
Thomas Road
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Bloomington, Hinsis
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Delta
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