Coon Hunter Killed In Fall From Tree
Delmar Dean Hollon 23 of Pershing Avenue died of a skull fracture when a tree limb broke while he and four companions treed a raccoon near Collinsville. He leaves a wife Helen and three children. Surviving relatives include his father Thresher Hollon and siblings. The accident occurred about 8 30 p m and responders reached the scene after 9 p m leaving Wooded fields of U S 127 and Ohio 73.
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Delmar Dean
Hollon
Carl King
Forest King
Cornelius Taylor
Johnnie Taylor
Yankee Road
Pershing Avenue
McGraw Construction Co
Wolfe Counity, Ky
Wounded Man Now Serious After Middletown Shooting
Raymond Paisley aged 33 was improving at Middletown Hospital about 36 hours after being shot during a resisting arrest at the Anchor Restaurant. He is in serious condition with gunshot wounds to face and head. officials still assess number of shots fired as two to four.
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Raymond Paisley
Hichland St
Middletown Hospital
Pusley
Anchor
Denver
Pussey
Robert
Highland Street
Ptl
Glen Shortt
Clarence DeHart Jr
DeHart
Raymond Pusley
Four crashes cause heavy damage with one injury reported
Four accidents produced heavy damage while injuring one person. Robert Fields Jr. of Hamilton, 28, suffered head cuts and jaw injuries after a 3 a.m. crash on Ohio 17 near Darrtown. Oswald Demmel, 25, Hamilton, was unhurt but charged with reckless operation after a 1:20 a.m. crash on Ohio 4 at Headgates Road. Louis Silveris, 32, Kettering, and Carlos Ponder, 27, Middletown, both involved in a 1:40 a.m. crash on I 75 north of the Ohio 63 interchange, with Silveris charged for following too closely. Wilburn Thomas, 40, Middletown, was cited for driving while intoxicated after his high‑speed Ohio 4 run ended with a backward roll and minor damage.
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Fort Hamilton
Robert Fields Jr
Ludlow St
Hamilton
Fields
Ohio
Darrtown
Oswald P. Demmel
Sixth St
Headgates Road
Demmel
Interstate 75
Ohio 63
Louis W. Silveris
Kettering
Carlos R. Ponder
Middletown
Silvern
Wilburn W. Thomas
Shafer St
Ohio 4
Thomas
Bill targets teacher led student rallies in California
Sacramento AP Assemblyman Louis Francis Republican San Mateo says he will introduce a bill to bar teachers from indoctrinating public school students in any doctrine that preaches overthrow of government and to prohibit partisan on campus activities. He cites teachers organizing student political activity including a mock session by Long Beach college professors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Calif
Louis Francis
San Mateo
Francis
Long Beach
Middetown High School Class of 1936 to Meet at Manchester Hotel
The Middetown High School Class of 1936 will gather tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Manchester Hotel to plan a class reunion. General Chairman Knight Goodman urges all class members to attend.
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Middetown High School
Manchester Hotel
Knight Goodman
Wilmington Sees Economy Holding Up
Wilmington officials see no hit to the local economy as SAC forces withdraw from Clinton County Air Force Base. Brig. Gen. O Clark reported Akron Canton’s Air National Guard unit will move here on July 1 with 110 to 160 permanent personnel. About 650 guardsmen may visit monthly for training weekends, and a training school could be established.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wlmington
Ohio
Strategic Air Command
Clinton County Air Force Base
O. Clark
Air
Ohio National Guard
Air National Guard
Akron -Canton
Clark
Red Cross reports early fund drive progress
Red Cross drive chairs report receipts of 4913.56 dollars, about 13 percent of a 39000 dollar target as eight divisions push ahead with campaigns started this week. Drive chairman Paul Deger praises workers, while open house at the chapter home 125 South Main Street plans demonstrations by 16 senior students from eight area high schools.
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Red Cross Fund Drive
Drive
Paul Deger
S. Main St
Open House
Dale Constiner
Red Cross
Directors Re-elected at Sorg Paper After 10 Percent Gain
Sorg Paper Co reports 1960 net income of 947061 and sales of 20343935, up from 1959. Directors and officers were re elected, with new director Dr Thomas S. Chambers of Chicago. Per share earnings reached 1.88 after preferred dividends on 461653 common shares. Book value rose to 19.65 from 19.35. Regular dividend of 17.5 cents payable March 24 and preferred dividend of 1.37 per share payable April 1. Records shown March 10 and March 14.
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Sorg Paper
Sorg Paper Co
W. B. Turner
Dayton
Donald G. Driscoll
Middletown
Thomas S. Chambers
Chicago
Joe Grundy Dies At 98 In Bahamas
Joseph R. Grundy 98, once a Republican senator from Pennsylvania, died while visiting the Bahamas. Known as the origin of Grundyism, he later worked as a lobbyist and led the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. He served a short Senate term in the late 1950s and promoted high tariffs and low taxes on industry. He was born in Camden, New Jersey.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Joseph R. Grundy
Pennsylvania
William S. Ware
Grundy
Camden
Two Way Project At Lebanon Old Burial Grounds
The Warren County Historical Society will work with Lebanon officials to improve and beautify the old Methodist-Baptist Cemetery on West and Blackburn streets. Elvis Nix plans improvements within limited resources and the society hopes to erect a marker for prominent founders buried there. Concerns rise over the South Lebanon cemetery conversion into a baseball diamond and loss of family grouping in tombstone relocations.
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Lebanon
Warren County Historical Society
Blackburn
W. A. Lukens
Elvis Nixon
Old
South Lebanon
Obituary for Amelia Cole 67 at Middletown home
Mrs Amelia Cole 67 died at 1 30 a m today at her home 324 N Broad St after two years of poor health She had been a Middletown resident 33 years born in Lee County Kentucky Surviving husband Oliver C Sr four daughters and four sons plus a sister three brothers 18 grandchildren 13 great grandchildren Services Tuesday 10 am at Riggs Funeral Home Rev Steve Faulkner officiating Burial Woodside Cemetery Friends may call Monday 2 5 and 7 9 pm
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Amelia Cole
N. Broad St
Middletown Hospital
Cole
Lee County
Middletown
Oliver C. Sr
Edward Coldiron
Springboro
Jess Bradley
Lebanon
Warren Elam
Owen Parsons
Edgar J
Clearwater
Fla
Fred
Silverton
Tex
Oliver Jr
West Middletown
Everett L
Franklin
W.M. Fosdick
Trenton
Hargis Stewart
Hamilton
LeRoy
Jack Stewart
Riggs Funeral Home
Steve Faulkner
Woodside Cemetery
Obituary list for local residents and church services
Mrs Leona Frances Kleine aged 74 of 834 Ross Ave has services at 10 a m Monday. John H Venneman aged 80 of 131 Chestnut St has Requiem High Mass at 9 a m Monday at St Joseph Church. Arthur Schmidtt aged 79 of 460 Emerson Ave has services 10:30 a m Tuesday. Mrs Clara Beaver aged 75 of 924 Greenwood Ave has services 10 a m Monday. Henry Rose aged 75 of 167 Highland Ave New Miami has services 2 p m Monday at New Miami First Church of God.
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Leona Frances Kleine
Ross Ave
John H. Venneman
Chestnut St
St. Joseph
Arthur Schmidtt
Emerson Ave
Clara Beaver
Greenwood Ave
Webb
Henry Rose
Highland Ave
New Miami
Miami Gridder Charged With Obstructing Mail
Federal officials charged Robert Lee Williams 20 of Dayton, a Miami University football standout, with obstructing the mails after he admitted taking a letter for a student, Richard Nolley, from campus mailboxes to fund spending money. Williams left Oxford after class and planned to surrender at his Dayton home today.
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Robert Lee Williams
Dayton
Miami University of Ohio
U.S
Graham Hunt Jr
Richard L. Nolley
Miami
Wiliams
Nolley
Williams
Dayton Fairmont High School
Willams
Oxford
Postal Ca
Greenfield Wife Killed In Crash Near Albuquerque
Mrs. Wanda Newman, 20, was killed when an auto rear ended a sand truck near Albuquerque. Her husband Paul, 23, injured, was en route to a new Air Force assignment on the west coast. The couple hailed from Greenfield, Ohio.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Wanda Newman
Paul
Air Force
Newmans
Rt. 2
Greenfield
Ohio
Tractor Tragedy Near Hamersville Claims Farmer
In Georgetown Ohio a tractor overturned fatally injuring Leonard J Geerth 52 at his Hamersville area farm on Friday. Sheriff William Utter said the death was discovered by Geerth’s wife.
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Georgetown
Ohio
API
Leonard J. Geerth
Hamersville
William Utter
Geerth
Nebraska Justice Wenke Dies at Capitol at 63
Adolph Wenke 63 a member of the Nebraska Supreme Court since 1943 collapsed and died at the State Capitol amid a heart attack. Paul Wittgenstein 73 one armed concert pianist noted for Ravel's left hand concerto died in a New York hospital. Zales N. Ecton 62 Montana Republican who won the U.S. Senate seat by popular vote died after a long illness, with political career ending after 1942 defeat by Mike Mansfield.
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Lincoln, Neb
Adolph Wenke
Nebraska Supreme Court
State Capitol
Manhasset N.Y
Paul Wittgenstein
Maurice Ravel
Roseman
Mont
Zales N. Ecton
Montana
U.S. Senate
Ecton
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Bomb Kills Cyclist On Havana Highway
(AP) A militiaman was killed Friday night when his motorcycle struck what appeared to be a bomb lying on a highway near Havana. The blast killed the rider and damaged the bike, with authorities investigating the device.
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Havana
New York City Records Warm March Day
Nature pushed spring forward by 17 days as New York City reached 64 degrees. The prior March 3 high was 63 degrees, set in 1923, marking a city record for the date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Nature
City
Pair of city accidents and fires tap firefighters
Police say two rear end crashes occurred within an hour with drivers Cordie Kash and Normal Kinser cited for braking and distance violations. A car fire on Tytus Avenue caused $200 damage. another blaze on Central Avenue after a prior fire at Broad Street led to further losses.
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Cordie M. Kash
Hetzler Road
West Middletown
Jean Kinser
Todhunter Road
Middletown
Sutphin Street
Martha Wombold
Tytus Avenue
Richard Beckett
Franklin Sr
Central Avenue
Broad Street
David Cook
Vermont Ave
Judge Rules NYC Auto Ban Was Illegal
New York AP report notes Magistrate Benjamin H. Schor ruled Mayor Wagner's private auto travel ban after the snowstorm illegal. The decision voided the charge against Henry Haladay for driving to work to test the ban, stating the mayor is not a cop and the order was not legal.
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New York
Robert F. Wagner
Benjamin H. Schor
Schor
Henry Haladay
Dayton contractorarrested on insufficient funds warrant
Dayton contractor John M. Blades, 58, was arrested at the police station on a warrant alleging insufficient funds after a bad 61.56 check to Hatfield Coal Co. The complaint was filed by Edward Hopple. Also charged were a 16-year-old Central Avenue girl for delinquency and runaway and Robert Curtis, 33, of 603 Ninth Ave., for investigation in a Kroger steak shoplifting incident at 1915 S. Main St.
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Dayton
John M. Blades
Edward Hopple
Blades
Hatfield Coal Co
Central Avenue
Butler County
Robert Curtis
Ninth Ave
Kroger
S. Main St
Henry’s Drive-In Night Man Missing $117
George Viachos operator of Henry's Drive In reports his night employee failed to appear and $117 is missing. The incident was noted as a loss by the business owner who vowed to review guard procedures and investigate the disappearance.
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George Viachos
Henry
Verwoerd Accepts Invitations to France and Germany
South Africa Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has accepted invites to visit France and Germany, announced by the Foreign Ministry. The announcements confirm planned international trips amid ongoing diplomatic engagements.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Hendrik Verwoerd
France
Germany
Foreign Minstry
London Parliament bell Big Ben in 1854 Pi
The article notes Big Ben, the large bell of the clock tower at Parliament in London, reaching a notable milestone in 1854. It records a historical fact about the bell and its setting in Westminster.
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The
of Parliament
London
Fight Victim In Hospital In Middletown
A fight victim identified as Jandeg Talmadge Burnett, 411 Cooper Alley, Middletown, is in hospital with scalp and right eyebrow lacerations. Police report he would not name his attacker and location of the fight remains unknown. Robert Hill, 57, 90 Garfield St., received nine stitches for a right eyebrow cut after ER care and was later jailed following a police pickup at the Chili Parlor, 9 N Clinton St.
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Jandeg Talmadge Burnett
Cooper Alley
Middletown
Burnett
Rober Hill
Garfield St
Chili Parlor
Clinton St
Corwin Man Injured As House Burns Up
Elzie Scott, 70, is in satisfactory condition at Miami Valley Hospital Dayton after a fire destroyed a small frame house in Corwin last night He suffered severe burns to his legs and was alone in the house at the time of the blaze.
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Waynesville
Elzie Scott
Miami Valley Hospital
Dayton
Corwin
Blameless in Rio Crash Say Navy Inquiry
A US Navy Court of Inquiry absolved pilots from blame for the 1960 Rio de Janeiro collision that killed 61 people. Findings cite factors including ground controller judgment errors, imprecise traffic methods, and weather. The Navy plane carried 38 aboard. 35 died. The Brazilian airliner also perished with all on board.
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Washington
US. Navy
Navy
Rio de Janeiro
Secretary of the Navy
John Connally
U.S. Navy
Rio
Sugar Loaf Mountain
Latin America
Buenos Aires
Dwight D. Eisenhower
South America
Eisenhower
U.S
19 Years And No Lost Work Due To Illness
Nolan Graydon Elson, 67, a telegraph messenger for 19 years, has not missed a day of work. He walks to stay sturdy and on Saturday he works 12 hours as a meat market clerk. On Sunday he rests and sees his girlfriend occasionally.
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Atlanta, Ga
Nolan Graydon Elson
Vic tor Bronislawski marks 112th birthday with chores
Gardner Mass AP Vic tor Bronislawski celebrated her 112th birthday with her usual household chores. A presidential birthday message from President Kennedy thrilled her, joining salutes from Presidents Truman and Eisenhower since she turned 100. She has living descendants.
Two Men Sentenced to 60 Days Each on Shoplifting
In Butler County, Municipal Judge J. T. Lamb ordered Vernon Crenshaw and Theodore Herndon to six days in the county jail after convicting them of stealing six sweaters from John Ross Store and two pairs of men’s slacks from J. C. Penney. Crenshaw, 22, of Columbus, and Herndon, 23, of 1709 Sycamore St, were arrested on Main Street and Manchester Avenue respectively. Minor injuries occurred to Crenshaw and Herndon during the incident, while two women at 1913 Casper Avenue were treated for minor cuts at Middletown Hospital.
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J. T. Lamb
Butler County
Vernon L. Crenshaw
Columbus
Theodore R. Herndon
Sycamore St
Disturbance leads to fine for 21 year old
Wendell Roe aged 21 of 1917 Casper Avenue was fined $50 and costs on disorderly conduct and intoxication charges after a Thursday night disturbance. Police responded to a report and found Roe intoxicated at the scene.
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Wendell Roe
Casper Ave
Roe
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