Downtown Summer Festival Offers 5000 Dollar Top Prize
Merchants stage the third annual festival with a $500 top prize and six $50 slips in seven treasure chests. Winners chosen Saturday at 3 p.m. from bandstand coupons. need not purchase. Mayor, chamber sponsor promise sensational values with booths and in-store sales. Central Avenue sealed from Main to Verity for three day event.
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Harold L. Scarberry
Mabley & Carew
Central Avenue
Broad Street
C. Richard Greathouse Jr
Middletown Area
Sounds of America
Bill Svarda
Moon Mullins
Ron Purvis
Electricians Strike At Project 600 Over Crane Supports
About 650 electricians failed to report to Armco Steel Corps Project 600 today amid a jurisdictional dispute with the ironworkers union. Kaiser Engineers operates the $350 million project and A L Gordon says negotiations are sought to resolve who installs overhead crane supports. No pickets were reported and other trades largely continued work.
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Armco Steel Corps
Ironworkers Union
A. L. Gordon
Kaiser Engineers
Gordon
Judge Donald Morris dies at 42 in Youngstown
Donald J. Morris ree, 42, a judge of the 7th District Court of Appeals in 1965, died of cancer at his home in Youngstown. Services are set for Wednesday at St. Charles Roman Catholic Church.
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Youngstown, Ohio
Donald J. Morrisree
7Th District Court of Appeals
St. Charles Roman Catholic Church
Bond Set In Counterfeit Case In Middletown
A Middletown man and two Chicago men were jailed after a weekend counterfeit money sweep. Robert M. Peddicord 33 Howard Woolum 26 and Garnie A. Neace 36 faced charges for possessing and passing counterfeit bills with 240 dollars in fake twenties traced to deposits. A preliminary hearing set bond at 2000 dollars and authorities recovered 32 counterfeit notes with plate L-235 serial F-48101931-B.
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Middletown
U.S
Cincinnati
Wadarday
Fire Damages City Loan Co Building Estimate $1700
The City Loan Co at 1021 Central Ave suffered a fire last night. Discovered shortly after 11 p.m. by night custodian Theodore Simpson. The blaze damaged the ceiling and an upstairs apartment floor. Building damage estimated at 1500 and apartment smoke damage at 200.
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City Loan Co
Central Ave
City Loan
Theodore Simpson
William Brandenburg
Vandals damage Maple Park School windows and laundry
Police brief reports vandals damaged Maple Park School breaking two windows. In a separate incident they poured water on the floor of a coin operated laundry on Baltimore Street.
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Maple Park
Baltimore Street
Rock damages home on Winona Drive at Cecil Taylor residence
Cecil Taylor of 102 Winona Drive reported a rock was throw n through a window causing an estimated 100 dollar loss to his home.
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Cecil Taylor
Winona Drive
Somone
Commission rejects doctors moral obligation on land payment
City Commissioners declined to pay Dr. Paul Woodward and Dr. David Gerber for a strip of land donated for right of way on Breiel Boulevard. They questioned whether an obligation existed and noted prior moral obligation votes had failed to pass. The panel expressed concern over setting a precedent and potential taxpayer liability.
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Surgical Arts
S. Breiel Boulevard
Paul Woodward
David Gerber
Surgical Arts Building Corporation
Charles Thompson
Breiel Boulevard
Thompson
Breiel
Woodward
Gerber
Clark
Ashworth Coal Co
Land Commission
Ashworth
Hatfield Coal Co
University Boulevard
Industry Wins Zoning Change for Local Plant Front Yard
City Commission approved an emergency ordinance reclassifying the Packaging Corp. of America plant front yard at Yankee Road and Baltimore Street from residential to industrial to allow rapid expansion. The plan calls for access to Garfield Industrial Park and aligns with the master plan.
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City Commission
Arthur Reach Seneral
Arene Eenee Peewee Ager
Packaging Corp. of America
Yankee Road
Baltimore Street
Commission
Law
Tilmon A. Ellison
City Planning Commission
Garfield Industrial Park
Swiss Youth Guests Sing for City Commissioners
Nine of eleven Swiss visitors greeted City Commissioners last night as part of a Jaycee led Experiment in International Living. The German speaking group thanked the city and performed two mountain folk songs. They presented Olten’s burgermeister with a guidebook while noting one traveler could not attend due to a Kentucky visit.
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Mitsingen
Smilen
Burgermeister
William Donham
Olten
Switzerland
Burgermeister of
Donham
Kentucky
Commission
Ohio River
Bean Concert Date Changed at Miami University
Piano concert by David Bean the university artist in residence was moved from 8 p m on Thursday to 8 p m on Sunday in Benton Hall Oxford Campus Miami University.
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Oxford
David Bean
Miami University
Benton Hall
University
Commissioners approve road vacate and parking request
The board vacated an unopened stub of Airport Drive in Hook Field Industrial Park to allow Blake iSteel Service to expand purchased lots for Roosevelt and Breiel widening. They will study One-Hour Cleaners request for short term parking on Tytus Avenue in front of their store where parking is currently prohibited.
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Airport Drive
Hook Field
Blake iSteel
Roosevelt and
Breiel
Tytus Avenue
Cigarette Machine Burglaries Reported Across City
Police logged four separate break ins yesterday at Woodlawn Avenue Craw Ford Street and S Sutphin Street. Burglars entered via windows stealing a cigarette machine stereo sets and batteries from service stations. Additional loot included a stereo valued at 600 and tools from a resident’s garage. Unknown total cash taken from a soft drink machine.
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Woodlawn Avenue
Craw
Ford Street
Robert Morris
Highley
S. ‘Sutphin St
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Greathouse
Woolum and
Neace
Martins Grill
Peddicord
Duff's
Charles Street
Secret Service
Pieratt
Jim Bohman
Journal
Virgil Clark
Mary Lord
Miss Lord
William Denham
Lord
James Curry Sr
Joe Lewis
Dan Kothe
Kothe
Chicago
S. Verity Parkway
Belvidere Avenue
Harwitz
of the Arts In
Vanderveer
AIM
Gordon Crawford
Yankee ‘Chine
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Pepsi-Cola
PEPSI
Shaddock
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