Gray Named By Becker Electric Service Manager
Robert H. Gray Jr. of Cincinnati has been named service manager for Becker Electric Co. He will lead the service and agency jobs departments as the firm expands with seven service trucks and a Middletown office. The company recently completed over $1 million in electrical construction and is beginning work on Taft Broadcasting Co. King Mills amusement park.
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Robert H. Gray Jr
Becker Electric Co
Cincinnati Electrical Contractors
Thomas R. Armstrong
Gray
Service
Agen
Becker Electric
Circle Drive
University of Cincinnati
Becker
Middletown
King Mills
Coney Island
Taft Broadcasting Co
Rolline Car Accident Involving Child In Middletown
A 20 month old girl Kimberly Harpe was treated at Middletown Hospital after a driverless car incident. Police noted neighborhood children released the brakes on Bobby Dye’s car at 3105 Keays Ave at 7 15 PM and the child returned home.
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Middletown Hospital
Kimberly Harpe
C. Lee Harpe
Keays Ave
Miami Honors Judge and Physician With Bishop Medal
Judge William T. Sheffield of Cincinnati and Dr. Richard F. Miller of Paden City, West Virginia, received the Miami University Alumni Association Bishop Medal for meritorious public service at the annual recognition dinner launching Alumni Weekend. Other honorees included Dr. Hardigg Sexton, Malcolm Owings, Edwin Meador, and Clyde Scherz for alumni program and university service.
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Oxford
William T. Sheffield
Cincinnati
Richard F. Miller
Paden City
W.va
Miami University Alumni Association
Miami
Sweffield
Wyoming
Miller
Hardigg Sexton
McGuffey Museum
A K. Morris
Malcolm W. Owings
Atlanta
Edwin H. Meador
Clyde Scherz
Bishop
Robert Hamilton Bishop
West Virginia
American Medical Association
America
Armco Steel Opens Free Information Center at Curtis and Forest
Armco Steel invites the public to tour its free Information Center offering slide shows movies and exhibits. The center, located at Curtis Street and Forest Avenue, operates weekdays 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and weekends 1:00 to 5:00 pm. Children and adults will enjoy the displays.
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Armco Steel
Curtis St
Forest Ave
Plane Crash Injures 3 near Middle Bass Island
A Cessna 172 owned by James R Farson of Ashland Kentucky crashed on takeoff from Middle Bass Island airport in Lake Erie. James W Dixon 4 of Ashland Kentucky was listed in critical condition at Good Samaritan Hospital Sandusky. James R Farson 45 of Ashland was in good condition at Magruder Hospital Port Clinton. Ray Griffith of Greenup Kentucky was treated at Magruder and released. The plane struck a cottage causing heavy damage with no injuries on the ground.
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Port Clinton
Ohio
Kentucky
Middle Bass Is
Lake Erie
James W. Dixon
Ashland
Gcood Samaritan Hospital
Sandusky
James R. Farson
Magruder Hospital
Port Clinter
Ray Criffith
Greenup
Magruder
State Highway Patrol
Farson
Head Start Parents Seek Open Meeting Over School Use
Franklin parents with 77 preschoolers in summer Head Start at Missionary Baptist Church urge an open meeting Thursday to resolve disputes over the aura Farrel school use. Franklin officials reversed a April agreement allowing the program in the building, requiring daily liaison staff. The association blocks teacher volunteers since the head instructor is not Franklin staff. Parents say enough has been done to place kids in the school and press board decision.
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Franklin
Missionary Baptist Church
Franklin School
Joyce Bond
Middletown
Franklin Education Association
Penn Central Scrambles for 200 Million Loan to Avert Crisis
Penn Central officials met in Philadelphia seeking a government guaranteed loan amid a severe financial emergency. The company warned bankruptcy remains a possibility as lawmakers and executives negotiated relief, while the Defense Department reversed a loan guarantee plan amid Congress uncertainty. The merged railroad reports assets over 6.5 billion dollars and 23.9 million shares held by 118,000 investors and 94,000 employees.
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Philadelphia
Penn Central
Penn Central Co
Washington
Wright Patman
Tex
House Banking Committee
Patman
Paul A. Gorman
Penn Central Board
Congress
Defense Department
Lriday
Drug Costs Rise for Adults Over Six in America
A Washington report shows drug expenditures for individuals over age six average three times higher than the national average for all Americans.
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Bill
Washington
Sukarno Dies at 69 Former Indonesian Leader
Former President Sukarno of Indonesia died today at age 69 in an army hospital after a period of illness. Family sources cited kidney stones high blood pressure a heart condition and circulatory difficulties as factors in the death.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Sukarno
Dutch East Indies
Three MFAC Students Featured in Cin cinnati Crafts Show
The Ceramics and Crafts Guild of Greater Cincinnati opened its third annual crafts show at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Middletown Fine Arts Center students Louisa Popp Adelia Sebald and Dorvthy Lehan had pieces accepted among 421 entries from 79 craftsmen.
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Middletown Fine Arts Center
Ceramics and Crafts Guild of Greater Cincinnati
Cincinnati Playhouse
the Park
Louisa Popp
Adelia Sebald
Dorvthy Lehan
Cincinnati
MFAC
Four Hurt in $500000 Findlay Grain Elevator Blast
Four men were seriously injured in a grain elevator explosion and fire at Landmark Farm Bureau Cooperative, four miles east of Findlay Ohio. The victims were Larry Joe Cramer 20 Steven Cramer 24 Paul Hindall 16 and Larry Hindall 17 all in serious condition at Blanchard Valley Hospital. The blast damaged two silos a receiving room and drying area with fire following the explosion and Arcadia firefighters extinguishing the blaze.
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Findlay
Ohio
Larry Joe Cramer
Steven FE. Cramer
Fidlay
Paul Hindall
Larry Hindall
Arlington
Blanchard Valley Hospital
Farm Bureau
Hancock County
Arcadia Fire Department
Start of Summer Brings Cloudy Warm Weather
The day marks the start of summer at 3 43 p m with expectd considerable cloudiness and warmer conditions and a chance of showers and thundershowers. Highs will reach the 80s. Monday brings partly cloudy skies and mild conditions with a chance of showers.
WPEB News Wins Honors at Ohio AP Broadcasters Meeting
WPFB radio station earned two awards at the Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters Association annual gathering in Columbus. The news department won for best regularly scheduled news program and for best editorial in a market area under 225,000.
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WPFB
Columbus
Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters Association
Car-jacking at Whitt lot: wheels stolen from Main and Columbia
Police report a car was jacked up at the Whitt used car lot at Main Street and Columbia Avenue. Two wheels tires and hubcaps were stolen during the incident.
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Whitt
Main Street
Columbia Avenue
Summer Arrives As Heat Dangers Loom
Three weeks of above sixty degree days end today at 3 43 p m marking the official start of summer. The season brings extreme heat and humidity with more deaths than any other weather hazard and death tolls potentially reaching 600 in a severe heat wave. Guidance from the Environmental Science Services Administration urges slowing down staying hydrated and taking breaks from sun exposure to prevent heat related illnesses.
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Environmental Science Services Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
Man Dies After Fall at Middletown Home
William Carl Schafer 56 of 4304 Tytus Ave Middletown died yesterday at Christ Hospital Cincinnati after brain surgery in May The World War II Air Corps sergeant was an aviation and automotive expert and worked at Surfside Inn He is survived by a daughter a mother a sister and a brother Funeral arrangements are incomplete Also Ruth Schultz 55 formerly of Middletown died yesterday in Cleveland Surviving daughter two sons two sisters and a brother Funeral arrangements incomplete
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William Carl Schafer
Middletown
Tytus Ave
Christ Hospital
Cincinnati
la Veterans Hospital
Schafer
Surfside Inn
Hamilton
Trenton
Peggy Schafer
Miami
Fla
Viola Schafer
Byron, Ill
Gracie Mossman
Byron
Louis Schafer
Columbus
Ruth Schultz
Cleveland
Linda Gessler
Paul
William
Seattle
Connie Coghlan
Rose Beatty
Detroit
Bud Hester
Theft Reported of Radio and Taillight from Parked Auto
Lynn Tankersey of 1642 Lamberton Street reported the theft of a radio and a taillight from his parked car totaling 40 dollars.
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Lynn Tankersey
Lamberton St
Graveside services set for infant Madia Puckett in Trenton
Graveside services for Madia Lynne Puckett four month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Vernon Puckett 6308 Elk Creek Road will be Monday at 1 pm at St Johns Cemetery Trenton with Rev William C Meyers and Rev J Steve Faulkner officiating Visitations were at the McCoy Leffler Funeral Home basement windows and vandalism reports note six others broken today from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 Doug Russell of 6129 14th Ave reported the infant was dead on arrival
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Madia Lynne Puckett
Vernon Puckett
Elk Creek Road
St. John’s Cemetery
Trenton
William C Meyers
Steve Faulkner
McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home
Doug Russell
14Th Ave
Local incidents report two medical calls and a fire
Yesterday at 10:58 a.m. Mrs Harriet Young, 65 of 1328 Woodlawn Ave ill, was taken to Middletown Hospital by ambulance with fair condition. At 4:31 p.m. Mrs Ron Gill, 6, ill, was taken to hospital by ambulance with serious condition. At 7:09 p.m. a fire in Grover Elkins apartment bedroom on Garfield St burned a box spring and mattress due to careless smoking, damage about $70.
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Ara
Central Ave
Harriet Young
Woodlawn Ave
Middletown Hospital
Walton Court
Ron Gill
Garfield St
Grover Elkins
Bundestag Passes Bill Count Marks Two Decades
In its 20th year since first meeting in September 1949 the West German Bundestag has enacted 2 244 bills and filed 56 000 pages of legislation reflecting a high volume of parliamentary work.
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Bonn
Bundestag
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Miami Men's Club of Greater
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LAMPY
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Union S
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2Nd Ave
Studio
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Mobile Home Court
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Carlisle Shopping Center
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WPEB
Joseph R. Beker & Sons Funeral Home
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