Big Drive Aims to Cut July 4 Traffic Toll
State and county officers launch a multi day traffic safety push starting at 6 p m to curb deaths and accidents in Butler County and surrounding areas. Ohio highway patrols 16 troopers along with 3 desk dispatchers and a patrol plane join efforts with Sheriff deputies and a mounted patrol to enforce speed limits and monitor roads through the holiday period.
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Butler County
Ohio Highway Safety
J. Grant Keys
State Patrol
Ohio
E. P. Goffos
Paul Pell
City Accepts Armco Land Donation for Stevens and Sunset Extensions
Armco Steel Corp donates about 14 acres for Stevens Avenue and Sunset Street extensions, bringing Armco’s total local contributions to 22 acres. City officials, awaiting a deed in days, note plans call for 4 lanes initially over a 100 foot right of way with potential six lanes later. no construction start date given.
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Stevens Avenue
Sunset Street
Armco Steel Corp
Logan T. Johnston
City Commission
William W. Denham
Armco
Johnston
Denham
Public Must Help Says Fireworks Sales Hard to Curb
Police Chief Joseph Blackmore warns that despite visible fireworks sales at gas stations stores and trunks enforcement is hampered by public indifference. He notes violations of Ohio law and city ordinance with fines from 25 to 500 dollars and says most arrests are rare due to lack of complaints and confiscations depend on offenders being caught with fireworks.
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Joseph Blackmore
Journal
Ohio
Blackmore
Indiana
Kentucky
Happy Valley Opens Six Night Franklin Pageant
Franklin opens the six night celebration with The Happy Valley pageant at Franklin High School athletic field. The show traces the community from Indian settlers to the atomic age in 14 scenes with 350 cast, 290 feet of scenery, and 100 props, preceded by a queen coronation and followed by fireworks. Youth Day activities include age group contests, a wheels parade, an all star softball game, and a dog show. The oldest resident will be honored with a pioneer luncheon and a restoration ceremony at the tomb of Franklin's founder Gen Williams C Schenck.
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Franklin
Happy Valley
Franklin High School
Sharon
Fourth Street
Harmon Field
Connie Hetzler
Nancy Honicker
Antioch Shrine Mounted Patrol of
Dayton
Middletown
First Methodist Church
Schenck Simpson
Gates i
Franklin National Bank
Williams C. Schenck
Navy hunts for missing Ohioan officer after crash
The Navy searches for Lt Lawrence M. Kane 28 after a fighter plane crash into the Atlantic near Jacksonville. Kane from Cortland Ohio was on night qualification missions from the carrier Saratoga and was attached to the FV-101 Fighter Trainer Squadron at Boca Chica. He and his wife resided in Key West.
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Key Weps
Fla
Navy
Lawrence M. Kane
Jacksonville
Kane
Cortland
Ohio
Saratoga
Boca Chica Nava
Key West
Posthumous Award Honors Sam McAdow
S J McAdow longtime Park Board chairman who died in February honored by National Recreation Association for outstanding contribution to the recreation movement. The posthumous award citation was presented to board members in 1954 and followed his leadership in park development from 1947 onward. He helped expand summer programs and park areas while supporting Knothole and Pee Wee football. The NBA citation was signed by Grant Titsworth. The piece also notes the Mexican War Chapultepec battle ending the campaign and blocking U.S. entry into Mexico City.
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S. J. McAdow
Park Board
National Recreation Assn
McAdow
Sam
Arlene
Akerman
Tom Carlson
Parks and Recreation
R. C Dowling
J. B. Strickland
Carlson
Jaycees
NBA
Grant Titsworthy
Armco Park Origins and 1920 Establishment
Armco Park began in 1920 when Armco president George M. Verity saw the need for outdoor health and fun space. The city will cut about 32 acres from the northwest corner for the Stevens Avenue extension. The park has since grown on 400 acres from Manchester Road to Central Avenue and now hosts Wildwood Golf Course Fresh Air Camp Armco Girls Holiday House Forest Hills Club House and the former Coach's Woods, with about 109000 yearly visitors. Over 40 years Armco has spent more than one million dollars on development and maintenance.
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Stevens Avenue
Armco
Forest Hi's Club
Armco Park
Coach's
City considers options for dog control in nine Ohio cities
Manchester City Manager Charities Thompson closed yesterday’s session with a report detailing three dog control alternatives. A dog warden job costing $70 weekly, vehicle setup at $2700. policing dogs with equipped cruisers and possible pounds. or partnering with the Humane Association of the Miami Valley to avoid warden and pound costs.
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Thompson
Ohio
Humane Shelter
the Humane Assn. of
Miami Valley
North Middletown Private Sewer Sparks City Debate
City commissioners and City Manager Charles W. Thomson questioned who authorized a private group to connect four years ago to the North Middletown sewer. Donald S. Jordan, Sadie E. Jordan, and James Robinson sent a notice claiming an assessment exemption for their private sewer. Jordan declined to answer questions but agreed to meet privately. commissioners voted to permit the arrangement.
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Ciy
Charles W. Thomson
North Middletown
Donald S
C. Jordan
Tytus Ave
Sadie E. Jordan
Ave
James Robinson
Rillers
North Ve Town
Jespense
Donald Jordan
Jordan
Finch and Tregoff Hit By Two Setbacks in Retrial
In Los Angeles the retrial of Dr. R Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff on murder charges remains in jury selection as prosecutors again seek the death penalty. In Washington the Supreme Court denied Tregoff’s bid to disqualify Judge Le Roy Dawson. The defendants are charged with murder and conspiracy in the slaying of Barbara Finch.
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Los Angeles
R. Bernard Finch
Carole Tregoff
Washington, D.C
Supreme Court
Miss Trezoff
LeRoy Dawson
Finch
Barbara
Tropical Storm Aims For Hanoi In Viet Nam Conflict
Typhoon Dave diminished to a tropical storm and moved across the Gulf of Tonkin toward northern Viet Nam. The U S 5th Air Force Weather Wing reported the storm, which killed over 100 in the Philippines, zigzagging toward the coast north of Hanoi.
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Tokyo
Dave
Gulf of Tonkin
Viet Nam
U. S. 5Th Air Force
Philippines
Hanoi
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Wildwood Drive
Manchester Road
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Sunset
Stevens and Sunset
Board of Education
Sutphin Street
Logan Johnston
William Denham
Weith
By Fritz Lalendorf
The
Franklin Recreaton Assn
Bernie Berutti
Gary Fitzgerald
Tom Hawthorne
Decker
OLD Farm Brand
Cole Slaw
Baltimore St. Dial
Trimble’s
Flav-O
Castleberry
Borden
Mello 3
Sam McAdow
Chapultepec
Mexico City
Manchester
Tregoff
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