Kings Mills News Highlights Rain, Marines Leave, and School Update
Kings Mills recorded 1.35 inches of rain in under an hour as measured by C. E. Stephenson, US Rainfall Observer, on Friday July 11. Pvt Patrick Brayton son of Mr and Mrs David Brayton of Miami Street is home on a two day leave from the US Marines after training at Parris Island and Camp LeJeune. He will return to Camp LeJeune for engineering training before transfer to Camp Pendleton. The Kings Mills schools are installing a new dishwasher in the elementary building ahead of September opening.
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Alleen
Camp LeJeune
N. C
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Kings Mills
Airborne bait project reduces corn damage by blackbirds
An experimental bait using avitrol 200 will be applied by aircraft to standing corn in Butler and Hamilton counties to deter red winged blackbirds. Farmers pay about 2.20 per acre for three applications, with 1200 acres signed up and similar efforts in Muskingum and Coshocton counties cutting damage by half on 1050 acres last year.
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Butler
Hamilton County
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
U.S. Department of Interior
Ohio
Michigan
Muskingum
Coshocton
Bulls Swine Tops At Warren County Fair Grand Champions Named
The Warren County Fair highlighted beef and swine as top events with multiple grand and reserve champions across Hereford, short horn, Angus, Tamworth, Poland China, Hampshire, Duroc, Chesterwhite, and other breeds. Notable winners include Steve Beger Ohio 48 Lebanon grand champion male Hereford and Lucky Lane Farm Hillsboro female Hereford grand champion, among many others.
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Lebanon
Warren County
Steve Beger
Ohio
William Marstall
Franklin Rt. 1
Lucky Lane Farm
Hillsboro
Beverly Maddox
Mason- Bethany Road
Mason
David Gregg
Spring Valley
Ken Peters
Waynesville
Wilbur Campbell
Stark Road
West Alexandria
Poland
China
Ritchie Turner
Clarksville
Rt. 1
Hampshire
Lebanon Fair Moment Rita Willis Licks Cotton Candy
Rita Willis, a Lebanon toddler, tackled a cotton candy challenge at the Warren County fair in Lebanon. The 3 percent onlookers captured the moment as her mother Chris watches from the midway. The Willises live on Southline Drive.
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Rita Willis
Lebanon
Warren County
Rita
Chris
Willises
Southline Drive
Harris
Bull Ant Cause Of Pastor Death In Melbourne Crash
Melbourne coroner’s court heard a bull ant moved on Rev Charles Lewis Greenwood’s collar causing a driver to look away and collide with another car. The 77 year old clergyman died by misadventure. driver Louis Doubikin gave a statement at the hearing. Princeton University history noted.
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Melbourne
Harold W. Pascoe
Charles Lewis Greenwood
Louis Doubikin
Franklin Aggies Capture Grand Champions at Warren County Fair
Franklin Aggies members Dan Wade and Glenn Anspach won grand championships in Hereford and Angus divisions at the Warren County Junior Fair. Wade’s 1,030 pound Hereford sold for 1.39 per pound to IGA buyers. Anspach’s Angus earned reserve champion as its price was set by Warren County Democrats. Swine champion Jack Arnold led the first heavyweight class with animals averaging 235 pounds and priced at about 29.14 cents per pound.
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Franklin
Franklin Aggies
Warren County
Dan Wade
Ralph Wade
Factory Road
Springboro
Wade
IGA
Lebanon
Carlisle
Glenn Anspach
Roland Anspach
East St
Warren County Democrats
Jack Arnold
John Arnold
Pekin Road
Carlisle Girl Wins A Fulbright Grant to Germany
Susan J. Fershee of Carlisle, daughter of James G. and Mrs. Fershee, has won a Fulbright Grant to study in Germany for one academic year at Karls-Eberhard University in Tuebingen. A Marysville College graduate cum laude in German and French, she will receive tuition, insurance, round trip transportation, a book allowance and monthly living funds. She plans to pursue German literature and linguistics before returning next summer for a master’s in German literature and a college teaching career. She has worked four years at Monsanto Research Corporation translating German and French scientific articles.
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Carlisle
Susan J. Fershee
James G. Fershee
W. Lamar Drive
Germany
Marysville, Tenn
Susan
U.S
Karls- Eberhard University
Tuebingen
West Germany
Black Forest
Monsanto Research Corporation
Miamisburg
Lima irrigation project diverts Andes water to arid coast
Work begins on a $140 million irrigation scheme in Peru to divert water from the Andes through tunnels to a semi-desert coastal region, aiming to irrigate 147,000 acres.
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Lima
Andes
Peru
Lebanon Firm Is Taken Over In Stock Deal
Essex International Inc of Ft Wayne Ind completed ownership changes by acquiring Production Planning Works Division of Glass Appliances Supply Corp in Lebanon. The Ohio division makes gas manifolds for ranges furnaces boilers and other gas appliances.
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Lebanon
Essex International, Inc
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Glass Appliances Supply Corp
Essex Common
Ohio
National Zoo Survives Despite Historic Congressional Criticism
The National Zoo in Washington, DC, endures and grows after a 1892 critic blasted an appropriation, saying the public should not be taxed to fund shelter for snakes raccoons opossums bears and all the creeping and slimy things of the earth.
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National Zoo
Washington, D.C
FBI Still On Gratis Bank Job Investigation
The FBI in Dayton pursues leads on the June 25 burglary of the Gratis branch of Twin Valley Bank. Loot includes traveler’s checks. vault and safe boxes partially opened. Loss about 3700 dollars mainly facility damage. A Carlisle man previously linked to a 1967 hold up is in a federal penitentiary in Indiana.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dayton
Gratis
Twin Valley
Howard Butterbaugh
Carlisle
Indiana
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