Three Teachers Added Warren County Faculty
Warren County Superintendent R F Hatfield announced three new teachers in Harveysburg and Mason with 13 vacancies still listed. Vacancies are mainly in high schools including science math English Latin commercial music industrial arts and vocational home ec.
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Warren County
Lebanon
R. F. Hatfield
Harveysburg
Mason
Hatfield
Dale Cahill
Wilmington
Wilmington College
Earl Grosnickle
Red Lion
Patricia Grosvenor
Dayton
Mason Board of Education
Fidelity class meets for wiener bake and church social
The Fidelity class of the EUB Church hosted a monthly meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Schenck with a wiener bake. Several local families and guests attended the event and other neighbors shared in Sunday activities including a covered dish dinner and social visits.
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Jacksonburg
Fidelity
EUB Church
Donald Schenck
Will Whitman
Lois
Jim Nesbit
Mary
Frank Schwarztrauber
Pleasant Ridge
J. D. Niswonder
Leonard Owens
Middletown
Fla
John Brelsford
Tony Martes
Burns Tablers
Catherine Brelsford
William Whitman
Forest Swisher
Tommy
Tony Mates
Patty Ellis
Harry Conrad
Kings Mills Alumni Set Meeting Friday at 8 P.M.
The Kings Mills High School Alumni Association will meet Friday at 8 p.m. in the school. President Mrs. Jo Adam announced the gathering and urged all members to attend as important business will be discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kings Mills
Kings Mills High School Alumni Association
Jo Adam
Community Notices From Tremont Area Social Visits
The column lists residents and relatives traveling to camps in Texas Wisconsin Michigan and Kentucky visiting relatives in Jacksonburg and Hamilton and hosting gatherings including a stork shower for Harold Woodrey Jr. and weekend guests from Blanchester Clarksville Oxford and German town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
A. M. Wilson
Donald
Fred Wilson
Camp Bliss
Tex
Walter Waites
Michigan
William, Willis
Clarence Kelley
Coney Island
Elwood Slough
Gerald Alexander
Pine Lake
Mich
Pearl Earnhart
Middletown
Walter Krug
Martha
Mary Pummill
Jacksonburg
Maurice Guy
Aaron Schenck
Harry Miller
Wisconsin
Barbara Guy
Phyllis Vennetton
Harold Woodrey, Jr
Jerry Cruse
Ora Day
Shirley Jones
Rosemary King
Alvin Vennefton
Clifford Burns
Earnest Reichel
Hamilton
Lois Perkins
William Burns
Oxford
Raymond Martin
Myrtle Slusser
Germantown
George Steinbricker
Russell House
House
Kentucky
Jenny Dunham
Harold
Harold Smithson
Blanchester
Roger Dunham
Clarksville
Abbey Theater in Dublin Burns to Ground
Fire destroyed the Abbey Theater in central Dublin. Five fire brigades labored to save the historic landmark as flames gutted the main building in a blaze that left the venue a total loss.
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Dublin
Ireland
Abbey Theater
Windfall Nine Million For Ohio Towns Highlighted By Attorney General
Ohio towns will receive a $9,402,390 windfall from surplus state revenues in addition to the $12 million appropriation for the current fiscal year. Atty. Gen. C. William ONeill ruled the windfall is separate from the legislative grant and must be distributed using the same formula as other local funding. The distribution uses 75 percent by county tax duplicates and 25 percent by 1950 census counts.
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Columbus
William O'Neill
O'Neill
Edward J. Kirwin
State Board of Tax Appeals
Kirwin
O’neill
FTC Probes Price Policy In New York
The Federal Trade Commission investigates pricing and advertising claims by New York City department stores after a BBB complaint. Macy’s claimed to save customers at least six percent for cash and Gimbels promoted cash or credit pricing with undercutting slogans, with the agency calling the claims misleading and unfair competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
New York City
Federal Trade Commission
Better Business Bureau of
R. H. Macy & Gimbel Brothers
Macy’s
And
Gimbels
Dewey Arrives in Manila for Three Day Visit
Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York arrives in Manila from Formosa for a three day stay. He plans a flight to Hong Kong on Saturday.
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Manila
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Formosa
Hong Kong
Monroe Grangers Hear Miami Student Talk
Monroe Grange heard Michael Papa dopolous of Miami University share impressions of the United States and the Greek Youth movement during a Monday evening meeting. Announced events included dances at LeSourdsville Lake on August 9 and July 26, a September 17 inspection by deputy Forest Valentine, a Grange Farm Bureau picnic on August 2, and a social committee driven program with baking and sewing contests won by Mrs. Roy Kettman, Mrs. John Mehl Jr., and Mrs. Joe Baird.
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Monroe
Michael Papadopolous
Miami University
Monroe Grange
United States
Ralph Line
LeSourdsville Lake
Hanover Grange
the Lake
Forest
Roy Kettman
John Mehl, Jr
Eugene Shubert
Liberty Township
Franklin Social News Highlights Local Meet and Visitors
Forty two members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce held a dinner dance at Franklin Golf Club with Lloyd O’Hara and Loren Minich as guests of honor. Lee W. Scholl and Roy Fitzgerald staged a comedy skit. Aviation man Lee W. Scholl returns home for a two week leave. Local clubs held meetings at Chautauqua and homes, with activities by Lutheran and WCTU groups. Various residents were noted visiting, hosting, or ill overseas in Kyoto Japan.
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
Franklin Golf Club
Lloyd O’hara
State Jaycees
Loren Minich
Dayton
Minich
Dayton Junior Chamber of Commerce
Roy Fitzgerald
Gerald Miler
Lee W. Scholl
Naval Aviation Ordnance Test Station
Chincoteague
J. D. Scholl
United Lutherans
Miami Valley Chautauqua
Carl Jones
Franklin Wctu
Chautauqua
Jeannette Fels
Ernestine Roudebush
Lillie Tick
Neva Clifford
Earl Biggs
Lutheran Missionary Society
Thirfield Ave
Rush Nears Deadline for Second Half Tax Payments
Lebanon County Treasurer George B. Johnson warns that only about half of the second half real estate tax has been paid. A deadline of Friday July 20 is set with all mail postmarked by midnight accepted without penalty. Receipts require a stamped self addressed envelope. office hours are 8:30 to 4 with a lunch break, closed daily except Saturday.
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Lebanon
George B. Johnson
Boy Kyle Batterson Found Drowned Near State Route 540
A six year old boy, Kyle Batterson, the foster son of Mr and Mrs Herman Levan of Jerusalem Monroe County, was found dead in a shallow stream near State Route 540 nine hours after he was reported missing from home.
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Bellefontaine
Kyle Batterson
Herman Levan
Jerusalem
Monroe County
First production C-97 freighter delivered to Air Force
Boeing announces delivery of the first production C 97 multipurpose freighter to the Air Force in Seattle. The handover marks a milestone for the company and the military aviation fleet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Boeing Airplane Company
Air Force
Seattle
Air Tour Added To Fifth Annual Preble County Plowing Contest
Preble County plans for a third annual plowing contest air tour and demonstrations are nearly complete. The event on July 26 at the New Westville airport features an air tour starting at 9 a.m. covering 40 miles with 10 farms, four planes available, level land and contour plowing contests, a noon 4-H Band show, and a 1:30 p.m. contour plowing contest. If weather turns bad the events shift to July 28.
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Preble County
County Implement Dealers’ Association
W. O. Campbell
C. C. Bowen
W. H. Christman
A. B Flory
Gram
Tom Hayes
H. L. Lincoln
Civil Air Patrol
A. H. Morton
Jules
Bowen
Class Picnic Slated in Jacksonburg Unity Meet
Unity Class meeting is set for next Saturday July 21 at 6 30 p m. Wieners hake and covered dish supper will be at the roadside park north of Gratis with rain backup at the church.
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Jacksonburg
Gratis
West Elkton Ladies Aid Meets Midweek
West Elkton reports the Ladies Aid Society will meet Wednesday afternoon with hostesses Mrs. Effie Francis Mrs. Lucy Wetzel and Mrs. Dolly Francis. Several local families and residents are noted visiting relatives and enjoying gatherings including a Friends Church annual picnic at Ft Saint Clair with services and Sunday school held on the grounds.
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West Elkton
Ladies Aid Society
Effie Francis
Lucy Wetzel
Dolly Francis
Elmer Back
Janis Back
Carl
New Jersey
Alice Phares
Doris Withrow
Middletown
Beverly Summerlet
Eaton
Earl Wilson
Cramer Wilson
Bill Shelley
Camp Breckenridge
Lora Stubbs
Jim Thompson
Mary Wilmont
Geraldine Johnson
Lyle Day
Hudson, Mich
Day
Jimmy
Hobart Holton
Mary Nancy
Kath
Robert Duncan
William Duncan
Friends Church
Ft. Saint Clair
Millionaire Red Back In Prison After Bail Ruse
New York dispatch reports Frederick Vanderbilt Field, heir to the Vanderbilt name, jailed again for an indefinite term. His fellow Civil Rights Congress bail fund trustees Dashiell Hammett and W Alphaeus Hunton remain confined as they await appeal. Eleven other Red leaders with revoked bail face possible release if they post $140000 untainted bail. Field and the two trustees face likely extended detention as judges schedule a full panel review.
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New York
APP
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
Civil Rights Congress
Dashiell Hammett
W. Alphaeus Hunton
Red
Fieeld
Hammett
Hunton
Thomas W. Swan
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Cape Verde area tremors recorded by three universities
Three university seismographs in New York and Cleveland detected sharp earth tremors centered about 4,000 miles away, likely near the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic off Africa. Fordham and John Carroll figures matched, with Fordham noting shocks at about 4:16 and 4:24 a.m. EST and a distance around 3,900 miles southeast of New York.
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NEW York
Cape Verde Islands
Fordham
Columbia
John Carroll Universityholg
Cleveland
Henry Fr. Birkenhauer
Ian Carroll
Atlantic Ocean
Africa
Joseph J. Lynch
Taft Says He Needs Party Blessing Before Running
Sen. Robert A. Taft declared he will not seek the presidency unless the Republican Party clearly wants him. The Ohio senator, on his way to Washington, did not elaborate and noted he declined speaking in California out of respect for Gov. Earl Warren. Taft was hosted by Herbert Hoover at Bohemian Grove.
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San Francisco
Robert A. Taft
Republican Party
Ohio
Washington
Taft
Herbert Hoover
Bohemian Grove
California
Earl Warren
GOP
Kee's Widow Wins West Virginia Seat
Mrs. Maude Elizabeth Kee, widow of late Rep. John Kee, was elected to fill his unexpired term in West Virginia's delegation. She won 30,339 votes to 21,648 for Cyrus H. Gadd in 377 of 394 precincts, keeping the state Democratic.
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Bluefield
W. VA
West Virginia
Washington
Maude Elizabeth Kee
John Kee
Kee
Congress
Cyrus H. Gadd
Princeton
House acts Truman bid for stronger price control
The House backed presidential request for authority to broaden price control while maintaining a 10 percent beef rollback. It bars two extra 4 percent cuts in live beef prices slated for August and October and preserves parity rules battling farm price cuts. Other proposals to end or restrict rollbacks were rejected.
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Michael V. DiSalle
Agriculture Department
Gas Price War Ends as SOO Raises Akron Prices
AP reports Standard Oil of Ohio lifted Akron gasoline prices back to normal levels, signaling an end to the local price war that had pressured stations to cut prices.
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AKRON
Standard Oil of
Ohio
School Board Club Sets Bleacher Construction
Germantown booster club officers met with the Germantown Board of Education to plan donation and building of bleachers for 800 seat football field capacity. Club members will fabricate seats and John J. Dupp Company will supply hardware, with control and maintenance by the booster club. Construction will start soon on the barn side of the field. Discussants included Dick Eagan president, J B Adams vice president, Gene Althoff secretary and Harry Spyker treasurer.
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John J. Dupp
Dick Eagan
J. B. Adams
Gene Althoff
Harry, Spyker
Local Youths Held On Theft Charge
Two Middletown boys were arrested and charged with stealing a purse containing 27 dollars from a case operated by Mrs. Susie Nunnamakers in Avalon. Deputy sheriffs said the youths took the purse from beneath a counter and later used 13 dollars at a Middletown carnival before returning the remaining money. they were turned over to juvenile authorities.
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Middletown
Susie Nunnamakers
Avalon
Emanuel
Richard Schultheiss
Nannamaker
Government Will War On Upping Prices
Washington AP report says the federal government will crack down on price collusion and coercion by merchants. Attorney General McGrath warned prosecutions and possible grand jury actions under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to stop efforts to raise prices through group action.
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Washington
McGrath
Justice Department
Road roller scrapes 295 slot machines for scrap
In Columbus the State Liquor Board ordered a road roller to haul away about 295 seized one armed bandits from 59 violators. Enforcement chief Rutkowski said the machines will be rolled into scrap for the State Salvage Section after being inventoried by type brand and serial. Money inside was removed to a special trust account, total not disclosed.
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Columbus
William C. Bryant
State Liquor Board
Anthony A. Rutkowski
Polio Increase in Akron With Nine-Three Cases
Two new polio cases reported at Children’s Hospital bring Akron season total to ninety three, surpassing last year’s tally for this date. Local health officials monitor spread as case count rises.
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Akron
Children's Hospital
Senate Passes Postal Leave Bill to Boost Leave
The Senate approved a bill to raise annual leave for most postal workers and cut sick leave, with a graduated scale based on service length. Civil Service leave would shrink to 13 sick days and 20 to 26 annual days. The Postal Field Service now has 15 annual and 10 sick days, costing an estimated 25 to 30 million dollars annually. If enacted, savings in Civil Service amount to about 175 million dollars yearly. The bill heads to House conference with President Truman.
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Washington
Senate
House
Civil Service
Postal Field Service
Senate Civil Service
Civi
Truman
Catholic Women Meeting Planned at Holy Name Church
The Ladies Society of Holy Name Church will entertain Middletown Region NCWC members Tuesday evening July 31 at the rectory. A covered dish luncheon is served at 6 30 p.m.
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Trenton
Ladies Society of Holy Name Church
Middletown
National Council of Catholic Women
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Tom
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W. R. Marberger
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Harry and Swight Lanthrop
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Carl Chilton
Cal Cough
Wilbur Christ
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SCVTL
Scotts
SCUTL
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