Nixon sets flexible wage price limits for construction
President Nixon signed an executive order creating craft by craft wage and price boundaries for the construction industry. The plan reinforces Davis Bacon Act pay levels on federal projects and uses 12 member Construction Industry Stabilization Committee to oversee settlements and enforce compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon
White House
San Clemente
Calif
Labor
James D. Hodgson
Construction Industry Stabilizattion Committee
Savings and Loan Boards Hold Rate Line at 5 Percent
Local savings associations keep 5 percent passbook and certificates despite a draft move by banks to cut rates. Middletown Federal and American Savings suspend 5 percent certificates for an unspecified period as Citizens and others offer higher term packages. Officials say no moves planned for now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Federal
Federal Savings American
Last & Loan
Savings & Loan Association
Girl Scout Camping Consolidated At Camp Ross This Summer
The Great Rivers Girl Scout Council votes to shift all resident camping to Camp Ross south of Hamilton for the summer to operate more economically. Troop and family camping will remain at Stonybrook near Waynesville. Camp Ross will serve the same number of girls previously reached by both sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Ross
Great Rivers
Children Need Properly Fitted Shoes for Growing Feet
Article warns that tight shoes harm developing feet and may cause bunions corns and arch weakness. It urges regular foot checks and professional fitting by trained specialists to avoid costly corrective efforts and future foot problems.
Another Girl Gets Scout Office in Explorer Post
Cindy Conn was elected vice president of Explorer Post 15, a Aqua Sports sponsored unit for girls focusing on scuba diving. She is the third girl to hold office in the area, with official recognition set for April 1 when girls join the Exploring division of the Boy Scouts. Other officers named were Terry Marchetti as president, Tim Smith as second vice president, and Lee Taylor as secretary treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cindy Conn
Mound Builders Area Council
Explorer Post 15
Aqua Sports
Cindy
Boy Scouts of America
Scout Receives Life Rank at Christ Methodist Church
Mike Fitzgerald earned the Life Scout rank at a court of honor held at Christ Methodist Church. Other advancements went to Jerry Meadows John Miller Steve Landis Dennis Stone Paul Morgan and Dave Schnelle. Members received patches and medals for hiking the Little Miami Trail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Fitzgerald
Christ Methodist Church
Jerry Meadows
John Miller
Steve Landis
Dennis Stone
Paul Morgan
Dave Schnelle
Little Miami Trail
Tool theft probe widens at Middletown plant yard
Police investigate weekend thefts totaling over 3000 dollars from Charles Shook Construction Co sheds at the Middletown sewage plant on Oxford State Road. Loss includes 10 tooll chests two power saws and an air hammer. Additional break ins across Butler County include tape recorders at Amanda Elementary School a portable TV and other items from apartments and a coffee table.
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Charles Shook Construction Co
Middletown
Oxford State Road
Lemon Township
Butler County
Leona Dengler
Shurz Road
Jacksonburg
West Middletown
Butler County Farm Bureau
U.S. 27
Taylor Road
College Corner
Enterprise Baptist Church
Seneca Street
Woodrow Stewart
Rialto Road
West Chester
Beckett Road
Middletown High 1941 Class Reunion Planned Tonight
Members of the Middletown High School class of 1941 meet at 7 30 p m today at the Civic Association to discuss plans for a June reunion. Carl Frye, class president, invites all interested in helping.
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Middletown High School
Civic Association
Carl Frye
Armed Bandits Hit Firms in Middletown and Oxford
Police report two groups of armed robbers struck in Middletown and Oxford. At Lamark Drug Store Middletown two Black suspects stole 97 dollars at 9 13 p m. In Oxford two similar pairs targeted the King Kwik Market and College View Motel taking 50 to 100 dollars each.
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Lamark Drug
Central Ave
Middletown
Oxford
Central Avenue
Yankee Road
City
Mildred Davis
Andeen Riley
Lincoln St
Ptl
Urban
College View
Oxford-Millville Road
Robert Bowling
W. Spring St
Joseph Statum
Delinquent Youths Committed by Ohio Juvenile Court
Three Middletown area youths were ordered committed to the Ohio Youth Commission in Columbus by Butler County Domestic Relations Juvenile Judge David Black. Robert Pennington, 15, and Carl Tabor, 16, pleaded guilty to delinquency involving auto theft and stealing a vehicle while Gary Lee Proffitt, 15, was found guilty of operating without a license leaving the scene of an accident and violating probation. Kenneth Dunn, 19, pleaded guilty to failing to support two minor children and received a suspended six month sentence in the Cincinnati Workhouse with probation.
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Hamilton
Middletown
Ohio Youth Commission At
Columbus
Butler County Domestic Relations
David Black
Clude Robert Pennington
Crawford St
Gary Lee Proffitt
Waite St
Carl Tabor
Franklin-Madison Road
Pennington
Proffitt
Tabor
Kenneth Dunn
Garfield St
Cincinnati
Local man arrested for threatening phone calls and bomb threats
Nicholas Taylor, 23, of Apt. 1 401 McKinley Ave was arrested by Union Township and Hamilton police on charges of making threatening telephone calls and false fire alarms. He allegedly phoned bomb threats to Lakota High School on Tylersville Road and the Five Points Supermarket at 2511 Grand Blvd after months of investigation by Cincinnati Suburban Bell T employees with local officers.
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Hamilton
Union Township
Nicholas Taylor
Apt. 1
McKinley Ave
Cincinnati & Suburban Bell T
Taylor
Lakota High
Tylersville Road
Five Points
Grand Blvd
Deaths And Funerals Mrs Virginia Millard
Mrs. R. Virginia Millard 57 of 911 Fourth Ave. will be laid to rest at 2 30 p m Wednesday at Wilson Schramm Memorial Home with Rev Robert McNamara officiating Entombment follows at Miami Valley Memory Gardens Friends may call Tuesday 2 4 and 7 9 p m The family requests memorials to Butler County Heart Association Mrs Millard died Monday at Middletown Hospital.
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Virginia Millard
Virginia’ Millard
Fourth Ave
Wilson- Schramm
Robert McNamara
Miami Valley Memory Gardens
Butler County Heart Association
Millard
Middletown Hospital
Young GOP Urges Vote-18 Action in Middletown
Middletown Area Young Republican Club adopted a resolution urging the City Commission and the Ohio General Assembly to back ratification of the 26th constitutional amendment extending voting rights to 18 to 21 year olds for state and local elections. The measure, supported by area high school students, cites 533000 affected Ohioans and seeks copies to Columbus leaders including Sen. Lukens and Rep. Armbruster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Commission
Ohio General Assembly
Middletown Area
Young Republican Club
General Assembly
Columbus
Donald E. Lukens
David Armbruster
Randy Moorhead
Club
Australian troop drawdown in Vietnam announced
Prime Minister William McMahon told the House of Representatives that Australia will withdraw 1,000 of its 7,000 troops in South Vietnam before November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canberra
South Vietnam
William McMahon
House of Representatives
Funeral services for Barney Park Sehorne
Barney Park Sehorne 79 of 8420 Henrickson Road dies at home. Services set for 2 p.m. Thursday at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home with burial at North Cemetery in Monroe. Visitation at the funeral home Wednesday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.
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Barney Park Sehorne
Henrickson Road
McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home
North Cemetery
Monroe
Sehorne
Mrs Laura McIntosh dies in Dayton after brief illness
Laura McIntosh 64 of South Lebanon died Monday at St Elizabeth Medical Center Dayton after a brief illness. Survived by her father Floyd a son John Hill Lebanon two sisters Edna South South Lebanon Virginia Robinson Indiana a brother Bailey Potter Indiana and four grandchildren. Services 2 p m Thursday at South Lebanon First Church of God burial in South Lebanon Cemetery from 6 to 9 p m.
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Lebanon
Laura McIntosh
South Lebanon
St. Elizabeth Medical Center
Dayton
Floyd
John Hill
Edna South
Virginia Robinson
Indiana
Bailey Potter
South Lebanon First Church
James Sebastian Service Set for Wednesday
James Sebastian aged 16 son of Mr and Mrs Clayton Sebastian of 3168 South Seventh Street will be laid to rest at 2 p m on Wednesday in Brown Dawson.
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James Sebastian
Clayton Sebastian
S. Seventh St
Brown-Dawson
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Dick Capozzi
Caposs
Scout
Bern’s
Yankee RD
Heawer
Nashville
National Welfare Rights Organization
Tennessee Capitol
Middletown, Oxford
Laura Williams
Crawford
Young Gop
Barney Sehorne
DODDS
Verity
14Th Ave
Ledeton Cemetery
Charles
Bud) Steller Mer
John Dobrozsi, Jr
Ins., Inc
First Ave
U. G
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