Swimming season opens with pools ready for 1 pm start
Municipal pools Sunset Yankee Road and Douglas open tomorrow at 1 pm daily 1 to 9:30 pm at Sunset and 1 to 9 pm at Yankee Road Douglas. Admission 60 cents adults 25 cents kids under 18. Family season passes total 30 with tiered member pricing. Swimming lessons registrations run June 9 13 at Sunset 10 noon and at Yankee Road Douglas. Five and six year olds enroll July 14 18.
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Yankee Road
Douglas
Park Department
Suspicious Barn Fires Probed in Pennyroyal Hill Area
Franklin and Springboro fire officials inspect three barns burned and one damaged by fire from midnight to 2 am in Pennyroyal Hill. Losses include Middleton farm on Upper Springboro Road at 5,000 dollars and John Kindred farm on Pennyroyal Road with two sheds burned. At Robert White farm on Weaver Lane a mare a colt and two calves were killed along with a year’s hay. arson investigator to be called in.
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Franklin
Springboro
Pennyroyal Hill
Richard
Berger
Middleton Farm
Upper Springboro Road
John Kindred
Pennyroyal Road
Robert White
Weaver Lane
White
Fire incidents report arm injury and vehicle fire
At 11 51 a m at 3209 Bexley Drive Kelly Frazier 2 of 1514 Fairmount Ave had an arm caught between a filler pipe and car back fender and firefighters extricated the arm with no serious injury. At 540 p m at First Avenue and Broad Street a car owned by Garland Garrett 2310 Longfellow St suffered a fire caused by an underhood backfire and was extinguished before firefighters arrived with damage about 100 dollars.
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Bexley Drive
Kelly Frazier
Fairmount Ave
First Avenue
Broad Street
Garland Garrett
Longfellow St
Millett Named Chairman of Educational Testing Service
PRINCETON New Jersey AP John D B Millett chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents was elected board chairman of Educational Testing Service a nonprofit organization devoted to educational measurement and researchguest to lead the agency in its ongoing work.
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Princeton
N. J
John DB. Millett
Ohio Board of Regents
Educational Testing Service
High alumni dinner dance adopts casual dress
Lemon Monroe High alumni will hold a luau style dinner dance at Howard Johnson's Village Sharonville tomorrow night from 6 30 to 1 with Polynesian and American dishes.
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Lemon-Monroe High
Howard Johnson
Sharonville
Fenwick Scholars Awarded High School Honors
The top scholars at Fenwick High School were honored at an awards assembly. Gold promerito went to Elizabeth Spellmire Rose Marie Hume and Ted Braun. Silver promerito went to Dennis Dineen John Rooster and Sarah Akers. Additional awards covered languages bookkeeping typing shorthand student council and various Latin and summa cum laude honors.
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Fenwick High School
Elizabeth Spellmire
Rose Marie Hume
Ted Braun
Dennis Dineen
John Rooster
Sarah Akers
Jack Bors
Sara Rodreguiz
Eleanor Evert
Rosemary Pavlick
Mary Kennedy
Kathy Amatulli
W. Gregory Johnston
Charles Murask
Jean Sedlock
Kathy Hume
Mary Lou Schramm
Nancy Pettebaum
Joan Strohman
Edward Braun
Steven Hornback
Daughters of America Revolution
Barbara Wenzel
Keith Neu
Patty Davis
Melinda Welsh
Francis Sayers
Sally Kally
Teresa Witte
Cathi Orth
Crisco
Rosemary Dineen
Betty Crocker
Claudia Brandenburg
Janet Galeese
Lane Sherry Fening
Rose Ann ‘Chase
Jennifer Guyler
Mary Ann Hornback
Kathleen Murphy
Mary Rose Waddles
Armco Association
Lou Agoston
Pet Amatulli
Middletown High’s 1969 graduates mark final old-site ceremony
The 94th Middletown High School commencement honors the largest class yet, the 1969 cohort, in a nostalgia-filled ceremony as the old campus hosts its last graduation before moving to the Breiel Boulevard site. Principal H. H. Lawrence and Supt. Howard Cromwell announce changes. Diplomas highlight the event with emphasis on student achievements and upcoming relocation.
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Fred Sennet
Bessie Hoover Smucker
Middletown High School
Middletown High
Breiel Boulevard
Manchester Road
Girard Avenue
Mary Jurkowitz
H. H. Lawrence
Board of Education
James Finley
Lawrence
Howard Cromwell
Cromwell
Tape theft warning precedes car tape player heist
Thomas Saunders of 2103 Linden Ave reported a prospective buyer asked if the tape player went with the car. The man allegedly replied I’ll have to steal it, and Saunders said the thief took a tape player worth 130 dollars and tapes valued at 130 dollars the following day.
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Thomas ‘Saunders
Linden Ave
Saunders
Bricks damaging Emil Schubert home and theft report
Police brief details bricks broken three windows at 1002 S Main St Emil Schubert reports $200 in damage to antique vase and two candle holders. Betty Madden reports stereo record player and 14 to 20 new albums valued at $300 stolen from her apartment at 1829 Lamberton St.
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S. Main St
Emil Schubert
Betty Madden
Lamberton St
Grand Avenue Church pastor resigns after 17 years of service
Rev. Clifford Hutchinson, longtime pastor of Grand Avenue Church of God Tabernacle, resigns effective Aug. 31 after 17 years. He plans to work with Hope Hill Children's Home in Kentucky while engaging in evangelistic travel. He recalls surviving cancer after doctors gave up and credits prayers and God’s power for his longevity.
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Grand Avenue Church of God Tabernacle
Hutchinson
Hope Hill Children’s Home
Hope, Ky
Church of God
Anderson
Ind
Bayridge Christian
Kendleton
Texas
Houston
America
Grand Avenue
Yankee Road
Mr. Hutchinson
Middletown
Morehead
First Church For God
R. C. Caudill
Henry Howard
Tattoo Recalled In Narcosis Case In Fairfield
A pharmacist testified he recalled a Hamilton woman with a tattooed finger who used a false name to buy paregoric at a Fairfield store. Richard Darlington identified Wanda Sue Bannon as the seller who signed as Darlene Scott. Bannon pleaded guilty to illegal procurement, saying her husband forced her to obtain the drug for his use.
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Hamilton
Richard Darlington
Springdale
Darlington
Holiday Drive
Fairfield
Butler County ‘Common Pleas
Arthur J. ‘Fiehrer
Wanda Sue Bannon
Parkamo Ave
City to announce 1969 pay raise amount Tuesday
Middletown city officials may disclose Tuesday the size of the 1969 pay raise for city employees and its total cost. City Manager Dan Knothe said a news release on the raise is possible, with council planning to retroactively apply the increase to June 1.
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Middletown
Dan Knothe
the Journal
Joe Lewis
Mary Lord
Dudley Inwood
Ray Brown
Fred van
Scoyoc
Yarger & Associates
Falls Church
Yarger
Boy Falls From Car as Mom Leaps in Franklin
A Franklin three year old fell from a moving car last night after his mother driving the vehicle leaped out to grab him. The crash left both cars lightly damaged. Mrs Cherry Hayes 21 of 715 S River St was cited for driving left of center. Kenneth Hayes the boy fell from the right rear door as Hayes turned from Main onto Sixth. Lloyd Coffey 29 of 105 Chestnut St was the other driver. Caskey noted two young women rode with Hayes. The matter was set for Monday June 30 at 10 a.m. for disposition.
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Franklin
Sixth Street
Main Street
David Caskey
Caskey
Cherry Hayes
S. River St
Kenneth
Bannon
Lexington
Fiehrer
Lloyd Coffey
Chestnut St
Hayes
City official improves after heart attack at City Building
Louis F. Gump, 56, superintendent of redevelopment in Middletown's department of community development, was improved but visitors were not allowed at Middletown Hospital. He is making a satisfactory recovery after a heart attack Monday, said R. Paul Christiansen, director of community development. Gump is out of intensive care, where he was placed earlier. He was taken to the hospital after collapsing at the City Building Annex.
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Louis F. Gump
Kensington Court
City Department of Community Development
Middletown Hospital
R. Paul Christiansen
Gump
iMonday
Christiansen
iAnnex
Svarda Starts Own Music Firm
William E. Buddy Svarda 28 long time Fenwick High School band director resigns to form William E. Svarda Associates to compose arrange and adapt songs for bands and orchestras. He will plan direct performances and radio ads and continue as musical director for Ohio Junior Miss and Sounds of America. His studio will be at 14004 Riverview Drive.
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William E
Buddy) Svarda
Fenwick High School
Svarda
Fenwick
William E. Svarda
Ohio
Sounds of America
Rotary
Akron
Middletown
University of Cincinnati
Conservatory of Music
Riverview Drive
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Wade E. Miller
New Middletown High School
MHS
Darrell Ff. Linder
Findlay
Linder
Cess
Goa
Wendt
Grand Avenue Church
Rev
Clifford Hutchinson
Tatoo
Kothe
Boy
Mom
William Svarda
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