Construction in Oxford at Miami University disrupts campus for two years
Miami University president Phillip R. Shriver says campus redevelopment will cause visible mess for about two years. Major projects include an art center on the former Western College golf course site, a new communications building, a heating plant, and remodeling at Gaskill Hall and Boyd Hall. Demolition of Carson House and Alumnae Hall occurred to enable growth and renovations, with traffic diversions planned during utility work.
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Oxford
Miami University
Phillip R. Shriver
Miami
Western College
Communications
Spring Street
Peabody Hall
Boyd Hall
Gaskill Hall
Carson House
Langstroth
Shriver
Patterson Avenue
Ben Roof Named Mr Senior Citizen of 1977 at Middletown Center
Ben Roof of 509 Regent Drive was named Mr Senior Citizen of 1977 during Father’s Day events at the Middletown Senior Citizens Center. Former Armco employee Roof was lauded for devotion to wife Rosa and family, community service, and leadership in the Armco Senior Citizen Retirees Club.
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Ben Roof
Regent Drive
New Middletown
Brehm
Roof
First United Methodist Church
Armco
Armco Senior Citizen Retirees Club
Middletown
Elmer Gruenloh
Estate to be Auctioned in Indianapolis Heiress Death
Auctioneer Earl Cornwell will auction the estate of the late Marjorie Jackson a 66 year old grocery heiress found shot to death in May in Indianapolis. The sale includes baby grand pianos oriental rugs jewelry two Cadillacs and much more with boxes and garbage cans of unexamined items from the house.
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Indianapolis
Earl Cornwell
Cornwell
Marjorie Jackson
Multiple Emergency Runs Reported Across City
A string of fire department medical responses lists numerous calls from different addresses. Victims include Lucille Bell 56 with pains treated and released, Eleanor Groshardt 69 with chest pains admitted in serious condition, and others with injuries or breathing difficulties transported to hospitals or treated on scene.
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Park St
Lucille Bell
Erie Ave
Eleanor Groshardt
Goldman Park
Charles Wooten
Burton Road
Kettering Hospital
Avis Swope
Kenridge Drive
Monroe St
Sarah Valandingham
Lawn Ave
Irene Hogg
N. Breie Blvd
Mabel Hammond
Sycamore St
Trenton
Forest Ave
Joan Wilmer
Boy killed crossing to mailbox in Hanover Township
An eight year old Hanover Township boy, Brian Davis of 1492 Millville Oxford Road, was struck and killed by a car while going to a mailbox in front of his home. Maryann Jacobi, 22, of 212 Main Street Oxford, drove the car. The driver faces no charges as the accident is investigated.
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Hamilton
Hanover Township
Brian Davis
Millville
Oxford Road
Mercy Hospital
Butler County
Butler County Sheriff's Deputies
Maryann Jacobi
N. Main St
Oxford
James Patrick
Deaths and funerals in Springfield and surrounding towns
Clarence Conarroe 68 died on arrival at Springfield Community Hospital. Retired sales manager, former Armco Steel employee, Camden native survived by wife Ruth Phillips and son Dan. Funeral plans incomplete. Ellen E. Conner 85, Wayne County resident, died at home. services 2 p.m. Saturday at Stubbs- Conner Funeral Home, burial Miami Cemetery. Charlie Fisher 88 of Dayton, native of Butler County, died at home. survivors include three sons, a daughter, a brother, and many grandchildren. Services 2 p.m. Friday at Colligan Funeral Home Hamilton. burial Collinsville Cemetery. Sidney M. Irvin died June 10 in Somerset, Ky. survivors include two daughters and two sons. Obituaries note further local deaths and funeral arrangements in Carlisle and Rose Hill areas.
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Trenton
Clarence Conarroe
Springfield
Springfield Community Hospital
Conarroe
Champion & Soronian Steel Vaults Co
Armco Steel Corp
Camden
Ruth Phillips
Dan
Wilson- Schramm
Middletown
N. Fourth St
Sarah Chasteen
Franklin
Conner
Waynesville
Miami Cemetery
Corwin Friends
Thurman L
Charlie” Fisher
Dayton
Hamilton
Butler County
Fisher
Mabel
Irvin
Warren
Clarence
Seven Mile
Ethel Kolb
Wilmer
Colligan Funeral Home
S. Third St
Collinsville
Lake Cumberland Medical Center
Somerset
Morris and Hislop
Science Hill
Woodstock Cemetery
Ineima . Croucher
Shafer Drive
Chapel of Memories
Rose Hill
Car chase ends with arrest after citywide pursuit
Charles Mason, 31, of 2000 Pearl St, was arrested after a 3 am pursuit through Germantown Road Verity Parkway Lafayette Avenue S Main Street 18th Avenue and the city limits. He faces four charges including driving while intoxicated driving while suspended eluding police and failure to register a motor vehicle.
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Charles Mason
Pearl St. Ptl
Richard Quinn
Germantown Road
Quinn
Verity Parkway
Lafayette Avenue
Lafayette
S. Main Street
18Th Avenue
S. Verity
Mason
Odean Hensley
Earshel Philpot
Spain's center coalition wins free election in Spain
Spain's first free election in 41 years results with Adolfo Suarez's center coalition projected to win 170 of 350 lower-house seats and 106 of 207 in the Senate. Coalition allies gain a working Senate majority. Socialist Workers party and Communist party win significant seats, with coalition partners to be named.
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Madrid
Spain
Adolfo Suarez
Center Coalition
Rodolfo Martin Villa
Suarez
Chamber of Deputies
Cortes
Senate
Juan Carlos
Popular Alliance
Manuel Fraga _Iribarne
Socialist Workers Party
Felipe Gonzalez
Martin Villa
Communist Party
Flynt hearing date scheduled in Cincinnati court
U S District Judge Carl Rubin set June 29 for a hearing on Larry Flynt motion to reinstate Herald Fahringer and Paul Cambria as his defense lawyers in the case accusing him of disseminating material harmful to juveniles. Flynt seeks dropping the indictment as unconstitutional amid a prior trial where he was convicted of pandering obscenity and engaging in organized crime and faces prison and fines. Cambria and Fahringer had been barred for not being Ohio bar members.
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Cincinnati
U.S. District Court
Carl Rubin
Hustler Magazine
Larry Flynt
Herald P. Fahringer
Paul Cambria
Bake Sale By DeMolay Mother's Club Planned Saturday
The Middletown Chapter Order of DeMolay Mother's Club holds a bake sale Saturday at 10 a.m. in Towne Mall. Proceeds support chapter activities and community projects.
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Middletown
Order of DeMolay Mother’s Club
Towne Mall
PROMISES members honored at Grand Lake retreat
Sixty eight PROMISES members and families attended the Grand Lake retreat where Harold Byrd and Ed Seamon were honored for eight years as treasurer and for leading the 1976 Japan mission. Also honored were Mr. and Mrs. Yasutada Takahashi and Kei, long active in PROMISES as they move to Miami University housing for Takahashi’s doctorate. The Scheuflers and sons Alan and David were recognized. Scheufler has been called to pastor Springboro United Methodist Church.
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Promises
Grand Lake
Harold Byrd
Ed Seamon
Japan
Yasutada Takahashi
Kei
Howard Stalker
Takahashi
Miami University
Lowell Scheufler
Alan
David
Scheufler
Middletown First United
Glenn Opposes Indochina Aid in Senate Amendment
Senator John Glenn argues the amendment to the International Development Assistance Act bans any foreign aid to Laos Vietnam and Cambodia and bars reparations. He says the US should not send aid to those countries due to human rights concerns and mistreatment of missing in action.
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Washington
John Glenn
Ohio
Senate
Administration
Laos
Vietnam
Cambodia
Glenn
Hanoi
Richard M. Nixon
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Church Parsonage Break-In Shocks Lemon Township
The Ridgecrest Church of God and its adjacent parsonage at 6342 Hamilton Middletown Road were entered early in the week. Three church offices were broken into. cash was taken and papers scattered. Parsonage damage noted but nothing reportedly stolen. Investigations by Lemon Township police and Butler County sheriff continue.
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Ridgecrest Church of God
Hamilton-Middletown Road
T.R. Martin
Body in trunk identified in Highland County case
The Highland County coroner identified the burnt car victim as Vicki A. Hancock, 26, an unemployed Columbus dancer. She was struck on the head and shot twice in the chest and left in the trunk of a 1967 car found after a fire in western Highland County near Hillsboro.
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Hillsboro
Ohio
Highland County
Columbus
William Terrell
Vicki A. Hancock
Here
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Western Alumnae Council
Friends of
Fisher Hall
Ellen Conner
Ellen E. Conner
Thurman Fisher
Sidney Irvin
Carlisle
Sidney M. Irvin
Gross Lumber Co
Oney Lee Reece
Jo Ann Spence
Arnold of
Earl of
Cambria
Fahringer
Flynt
William Morrissey
Ohio Bar
Jos. R. Baker Funeral Home
Jos. R. Baker, Jr
Manchester Avenue
A.F.O
Thomas E. Haines
First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Clem Burton
Robert Luetje
TIMEX
Parma
Courthouse Plaza
Centerville
Southtown
Indochina
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