Middletown schools study finds pay inadequate for staff
The Community Education Study funded by the Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce notes widespread dissatisfaction with pay among teachers and noncertificated staff. It contrasts perceived underappreciation with overall competitive wages in total compensation and suggests merit pay discussion and guaranteed summer employment for select teachers.
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Middletown Area
Middletown
Employe P
Chamber of Commerce
Butler County
Explosives tagged to trace bombers studied by agents
Federal agents demonstrated new tagging explosives with multi color laminated plastic and phosphor chips to identify type maker and manufacture date after detonation. Magnets retrieve particles for tracking. system aims to tag before use near security lines. Three million color combos and phosphor pellets distinguish 1000 variants.
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Seneca, Md
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Davis
Bureau
United States
AFT
Grisly murder and daylight robbery roil Ohio town
Georgetown, Ohio residents fear for their safety after a 16 year old girl’s severed head is found in Straight Creek and a Donohoe Drug Store robbery yields a large drugs haul. Local officials report false reports and worry as crime shakes a town of 3,000 and residents tighten doors.
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Georgetown
Ohio
Joseph Rose
Brown
Highland
Cincinnati
Straight Creek
John Donohoe
Cheryl Fossyl
Southern Hills Vocational School
Miss Fossyl
Rose
Brown County
Donohoe
Weather Outlook with Warm Humid Air and Showers
Variable cloudy skies and warm humid air persist through Saturday with a 40 percent chance of late afternoon thundershowers. Tonight’s low in the upper 60s and Saturday’s high in the mid 80s. yesterday’s high 88 and overnight low 68. Extended outlook shows showers Sunday and Tuesday with fair skies Monday.
Teen earns diploma amid boos and police escort at graduation
Kimberly Clark, 15, received her high school diploma at Hamilton Township High School in Columbus, Ohio, after suing the school board over participation. A police guard protected her during the commencement as she faced harassment from peers and a burglary at home. She plans to attend Ohio University next fall to study piano and clarinet.
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Columbus, Ohio
Kimberly Clark
Hamilton Township
Kimberly
Common Pleas Court
G.W. Fais
Fel
Clark
Franklin County
George Smith
Ohio University
Rocket pioneer von Braun dies
Dr. Wernher von Braun, the German born rocket expert who helped the U S reach the moon, died after a long cancer illness at 65. He had been in poor health since 1975, remained partially active at Fairchild Industries, and shaped U S space efforts from the Jupiter C to the Saturn V program.
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Washington
Wernher von Braun
United States
von Braun
Alexandria Hospital
Virginia
Fairchild Industries
Fairchild
Free World
Adolf Hitler
U.S
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