Possible Abduction Failed When Young Mother Jumps From Auto
Irene Bodkins a 19 year old Detroit mother and her husband Charles 22 with two infant children narrowly escaped an attempted abduction on Interstate 75 near Miamisburg Ohio. A car with two young men offered help and one drove away as the other guided Bodkins toward a lonely road. At Bevis a store she grabbed the children and leaped from the car while the kidnapper fled. The green and white 1955 Mercury with Michigan plates remains missing. The family was fed and housed at the Hamilton Hotel after police reunited them with the father at Patrol Station 9 on Route 4.
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Detroit
Bevis
Hamilton County
Irene Bodkins
Charles
Richard
Hamilton
Miamisburg
Baker to chair Ohio education commission after retirement
John C. Baker, president of Ohio University, who retires July 1, is named chairman of Ohio Interim Commission on Education Beyond the High School. The panel, second time Baker has led such a study group, backs a proposal in the Ohio Senate to give state universities some selection power via limited entrance exams. Charles W. Ingler of Dayton resigns as chairman effective July 1 but remains on the commission.
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Columbus
Ohio
John C. Baker
Ohio University
Baker
Charles W. Ingler
Dayton
Ohio Senate
Kennedys Mark Birthday Early at Glen Ora Estate
President and Mrs Kennedy celebrated the President's fourth birthday early at the Kennedy estate Glen Ora in Middleburg Virginia last weekend. Kennedy's birthday is next Monday.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Glen Ora
Middleburg
Dance Cancelled at Armco Park Round Dance Sale
Round Dance scheduled for tonight at Armco Park on Route 741 has been cancelled due to cold weather. Manager C. T. Murrell noted WLW star Bob Braun was to host. He added Friday’s movie drew 27, compared with 1,200 at a similar show last year.
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Armco Assa
C. T. Murrell
Bob Braun
WLW
Murrell
Two Cited In Crashes Inside City
Two persons cited in three city crashes totaling 800 in damage. Roy Cox 50 failed to keep distance on a Ger mantown Road chain reaction. Er Rose 23 and Rosie Hall 3107 Jefferson Road halted ahead with Hall signaling left. Kenneth Burnett 17 cited juvenile court for failure to yield after Canal Street crash. Police cruiser driven by Barrett 22 backed into Allen’s car on Yankee Road.
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Germantown Road
Avalon Drive
Roy Arthur Cox
Inie Rose
S. Main St
Franklin
Rosie Hall
Jefferson Road
Hall
Rose
Kenneth Burnett
15Th Ave
Canal Street
Verity Parkway
Robert Chamberlaine
Glencoe Ave
Ptl
David Barrett
Garfield St
Stanley Allen Jr
Navaho St
Barrett
Allen
Yankee Road
Sympathizers Seized In South Africa
In Johannesburg AP reports a nation-wide drive to stop a planned three day strike led by nonwhite and white sympathizers. Ten thousand nonwhites had already been jailed before Friday raids as leaders seek voting rights from the white minority government amid South Africa’s republic proclamation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johannesburg
South Africa
Sanford wraps Ohio River tour with goodwill vow
Gov. Terry Sanford left Cincinnati to return to North Carolina after a regional tour he described as a goodwill mission. He said the trip aimed to interest industries in North Carolina without raiding plant locations, noting it was not about luring plants but attracting branch operations. The tour began May 21 in Pittsburgh with stops in Columbus Dayton and Indianapolis.
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Cincinnati
Terry Sanford
North Carolina
Ohio River Valley
Sanford
Pittsburgh
Columbus
Dayton
Ohio
Indianapolis
Burglars Take 3000 From Credit Union in Cleveland
The Blessed Sacrament Parish Federal Credit Union on the southwest side was burglarized uncovering a 3000 theft Friday night. President James A. Dempsey said the building next to the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church had been closed since Thursday midnight. Police report the burglars forced two front doors and breached a wall to reach the credit union office, burning the combination off a vault and a small floor safe containing the money.
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Cleveland
Blessed Sacrament Parish Federal Credit Union
James A. Dempsey
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church
Credit Union
Woman Altered Welfare Checks To Feed Family
Mrs. Mary Banks, 21, of 1715 Pershing Ave, told Judge Arthur Fiehrer she altered relief orders after relying on $6.50 weekly and $13 aid for two weeks. Charged with forgery for changing amounts and the word medical to food. bound over by the Butler County grand jury, jailed until husband could hire Ted Repper. Judge refused suspension unless repayment of $127, citing risk of broader abuse. husband reportedly has tuberculosis.
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Butler County Welfare Department
Mary Banks
Pershing Ave
Arthur Fiehrer
Common Pleas Court
Butler County Grand Jury
Ted Repper
Repper
Fiehrer
Iro Bation Department
Deaths and Funerals for Sidney Griffith
Sidney Griffith eight of Columbus died at home. He was a retired farmer and survived by two sons a brother two sisters and eight grandchildren all of Columbus. Funeral services Sunday at 2 30 p m at the Methodist Church in Jackson Center Ohio. Friends may call Sunday after 1 p m there and at Schoedinger Funeral Home Columbus from 2 to 9 p m today. Burial in Glenn Cemetery Fort Jefferson. Rev William Calvert to officiate. Burial also noted at Woodside Cemetery with Middletown American War Mothers service at 7 30 p m tomorrow. Mrs Kurtz died Thursday night at her home.
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Sidney Griffith
Columbus
Ralph Miller
Middletown
Methodist
Jackson Center
Ohio
Schoedinger Funeral Home
E. State St
Glenn Cemetery
Fort Jefferson
William Calvert
Woodside Cemetery
American War Mothers
Kurtz
Services for Mrs. Ona Kurtz at McCoy Leffler Funeral
Services for Ona Elizabeth Kurtz, 73, of 20 Shafer Street, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the McCoy Leffler Funeral Home. The notice lists the deceased’s name and residence and the service time and venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ona Elizabeth Kurtz
Shafer St
McCoy + Leffler
Taylor to Report to Kennedy on CIA Probe
Gen Maxwell Taylor delivers his assessment to President Kennedy on U.S. intelligence activities with focus on the CIA. Report may be progress update. widespread talk of a CIA shakeup includes Allen Dulles departing and Taylor possibly leading a revamped agency. Ken nedy, Burke, and Dulles participate in the inquiry progress.
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Washington
Maxwell Taylor
Kennedy
Central Intelligence Agency
Taylor
Army
U.S
White House
Congress
CIA
Allen Dulles
U.S. Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
Dulles
Adm
Arleigh A. Burke
Naval Operations
Ohio trucker survives crash as bus passenger dies
In Bluffton Indiana an Ohio truck driver named Charles Shafter from Medina escaped injury after a collision with a Trailways bus. A bus passenger, Pauline Fair of Bradenton Florida, was killed and four others injured in the accident at the intersection of Indiana 224 and Indiana 1, six miles north of Bluffton.
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Bluffton
Ind
Ohio
Trailways
Charles Shafter
Medina
Pauline Fair
Bradenton
Fla
Here
Cleveland Transit Union OKs new contract with rider hike
The Cleveland Transit Union accepted a two year contract starting July 1 that will raise fares by about 3 million dollars overall. Union president Thomas P. Meany announced a 2-1 ballot margin in favor. The deal includes a 14 cent hourly raise this year and a 7 cent increase next year along with other benefits.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Transit Union
Thomas P. Meany
Cleveland Transit Board
Woman, 80, burned critically in kitchen accident
An 80 year old woman, Mrs. William Gilmore, received critical burns when her clothing ignited on a lit gas burner in the kitchen of her Alliance Ohio home Friday. She apparently reached across the stove to the burner.
Elizabeth Mason 75 of Oregonia dies at Clinton Memorial
Mrs Elizabeth Mason 75 of Oregonia Route 1 died at 8 am yesterday at Clinton Memorial Hospital Wilmington Survived by husband John four sons Charles Henry Jesse Howard a daughter Mira Runyon and three sisters Nellie McKinney Freda Mountjoy Susie Downhour Services set for 10 am Monday at Yale Funeral Home burial in South Lebanon Cemetery
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Yale Funeral
South Lebanon
Pyrl A Samuels funeral announced in Somerville
Pyrl A. Samuels, 73, of 104 S. Main St., will have a service at 2 p.m. Monday at Inman Funeral Home Somerville with Rev. Dale Bumgardner officiating. Burial follows at Somerville Cemetery. Friends may call tomorrow from 6 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. He died Thursday night at home.
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Pyrl
A. Samuels
S. Main St
Inman Funeral Home
Somerville
Dale Bumgardner
Samuels
Requiem High Mass and Services for Local Residents
Stephen Ribar aged 75 of 138 Howman Ave New Miami and James Smith aged 83 of 119 Gordon Ave Hamilton receive services Monday at St Laurence Church and Webb Harrell K Castor aged 64 of 1743 Greenwood Ave Hamilton at 2 p.m Colligan notes respectively.
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Stephen Ribar
Howman Ave
New Miami
St. Lawrence Church
James Smith
Gordon Ave
Hamilton
Webb
Harrell K. Castor
Greenwood Ave
Murray, ex-Atomic Energy Commissioner, dies at 69
Thomas E Murray, 69, former Atomic Energy Commissioner and consultant to the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, died Friday of a heart attack. A native of Albany, he served on the AEC from 1950 to 1957. William Troy, 57, literary critic and longtime New School teacher, died Thursday of cancer.
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New York
Thomas E Murray
Atomic Energy
Joint Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
Murray
Atomic Energy Commission
Albany
N.Y
William Troy
The
New School For Social Research
Former OSU Professor Dies During European Tour
Dr. James D. Grossman, 76, former professor and chairman of the department of veterinary anatomy at Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, died in a Istanbul hospital after brain concussion from a fall in his hotel room during a Europe tour. He lived in Westerville, Ohio.
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Columbus, Ohio
James D. Grossman
Department of Veterinary Anatomy
Ohio State University
College ‘of Veterinary Medicine
Europe
Grossman
Westerville
Istanbul
Turkey
Friend Kills Friend in Ohio Bedroom Shooting
In Columbus David B. Johnson 16 was shot and killed by a 13 year old companion Terry Wallace Friday night. Police said they were in Johnsons bedroom preparing to go to a dance when Wallace picked up a .22 rifle to examine it and it fired accidentally hitting Johnson in the right eye.
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Columbus, Ohio
David B. Johnson
Terry Wallace
Johnson
Wallace
Ohio Civil War explosive bullet use revealed
Department records show a scarce surplus of 33 350 explosive rounds issued for field use. Medical records indicate 130 wounds attributed to this type of bullet captured from Union troops, highlighting a less known facet of Civil War warfare in Ohio.
Bartender Fined For Selling Beer To 16 Year Old
Calvin Morris, 33, of Peasttown pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to selling a six pack of 3.2 per cent beer to a 16 year old in the 900 Club at 900 W Central Ave. He was fined 25 dollars and costs by Judge J T Lamb after police officer and deputy sheriff witnessed the sale. Authorities warned the incident reflects a broader problem of youths under the influence of alcohol and noted prior cases at other Middletown cafes. Other defendants fined by Judge Lamb included Frederick A. Franklin for intoxication and assault, and Henry T. Bohne for speeding.
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Calvin Morris
Peasttown Rt. 1
Ptl
Jack Crocker
J. T. Lamb
Morris
W. Central Ave
Bob Wright
Butler County Sheriff's Department
900 Club
Robert Economou
Butler County Domestic Relations Court
Middletown
Economou
Fairfield
Franklin
Ficers
Rebel Inn
Yankee Road
Broad St
Ohio
Kennedy Party Seeks Dent In Deficit From Dinner
Democratic National Chairman John Bailey says Kennedy’s fundraising birthday dinner will not clear the party deficit but will make a considerable dent. He notes the party’s debt peaked near $4 million and has since been reduced by more than half.
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Washington
John Bailey
Kennedy
Bailey
Burglary Charged in West Virginia Break-Ins
Leroy Oliver Jr. and Jack Walter of Ironton Ohio were charged with a series of break-ins in Monongalia and Marion counties. Ages 20 to 26, they were arrested early Thursday at an abandoned shack near Fairmont from which about $2,500 in stolen merchandise was recovered, Sheriff Clarence E. Johnson reported.
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Morgantown
W. V
Leroy, Oliver Jr
Jack Walter
Ironton
Ohio
Monongalia
Marion Counties
Fairmont
Clarence E. Johnson
City Manager Resigns in Painesville Ohio
Robert H. McGregor resigns as city manager effective August 1 after serving since January 1, 1960. He gave no reason but reportedly had disagreements with council members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Painesville, Ohio
Robert H. McGregor
McGregor
Memorial Day Closure for Middletown Liquor Stores
Middletown state liquor stores will be closed Tuesday in observance of Memorial Day an official notice announced today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Khrushchev Heads to Big Vienna Meeting
Premier Khrushchev boards a night train toward Vienna to meet President Kennedy next Saturday. Diplomatic sources note possible anti Western speeches in Czechoslovakia en route, while Kennedy meets De Gaulle in Paris. Western diplomats warn such speeches could affect the talks.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Vienna
Czechoslovakia
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
West
Sandusky Schools to Get TVs Under Airborne TV Plan
Sandusky Ohio superintendent Wallace Glenwright says all district schools will have television sets by September and join the Midwest Program of Airborne Television. He told the Board of Education reception was good and called the system ideal for education. Taped instructional programs are broadcast from an airplane over Indiana.
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Sandusky, Ohio
Wallace Glenwright
Sandusky
Midwest
Glenwright
Board of Education
Indiana
Madison Readies First Graduation
Madison High School prepares its first graduating class of 56 students. Baccalaureate tonight at 8 in the school auditorium with speaker Dr. F. Donald James of Miami University. Commencement Wednesday at 8 with address by Butler County schools superintendent John D. Blackford. Diplomats will be awarded by William R. Billett. Class speakers include David L. Meckler and Dallas Sturgill. valedictorian Pamela Eldridge.
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Madison High School
F. Donald James
Miami University
John D. Blackford
Butler County
Darrell Root
William R. Billett
Madison ‘Board of Education
Dana Heaton
Pleasant Ridge Evangelical United Brethren Church
Patricia Morris
Mr. Heaton
David L. Meckler
Crash Near Waynesville Causes Suit
Two accident lawsuits were filed in U. S. District Court for Louisville against Cincinnati driver John Edward Botte. The suits seek a total of 27000 dollars for injuries to E. A Zahn and his wife Ruth, from a July 23, 1959 collision on Route 42 near Waynesville. Zahn seeks 16500 dollars for severe and permanent injuries to his right arm elbow and hand and other injuries. Ruth Zahn seeks 10500 dollars for severe and permanent injuries to her right leg and knee left knee head fingers and forehead.
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U. S. District Court
Louisville
Cincinnati
Route 42
Waynesville
John Edward Botte
Belleair P
Highway 42
E. A. Zahn
Ruth
E. A Zahn
Ruth Zann
School Bus Fine Leads Traffic Row in Municipal Court
A 22 year old man from Middle town faced a $10 fine for passing a school bus as part of 18 traffic offenders in Judge J T Riley’s municipal court. The heaviest penalty went to Bud Lainhart 35 jailed 3 days fined 100 dollars and costs and had driving rights suspended 60 days except work. Other cases included two speeders over 100 mph Harold Chitwood 21 Dayton fined 80 dollars and costs and Charles Davis 26 Kettering forfeited 35 bond. Additional fines ranged from 10 to 25 dollars for offenses such as parking on highway passing at intersection failure to yield and no operator’s license. Forfeited speeding bonds listed multiple drivers from Columbus Dayton Miamisburg Hamilton Cincinnati and Lebanon.
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Franklin—Dolly Dimple Rutledge
6Th Ave
Middletown
J. T. Riley
Bud Lainhart
Mentz Road
Harold Chitwood
Dayton
Charles Davis
Kettering
Ralph Bolling
Cincinnati
Winford Rose
Carlisle
Stephen Micheline
Hubbard
Cecil Truett
Miamisburg
Charles Turner
Columbus
Kenneth Werner
Errast Green
Lebanon
Rita i Klenke
Hamilton
Lonnie Isaacs
Anthony Amicon
Joseph Donisi
Clarence Wilson
Richard Ball
Rospert Kidd
Murder Charge Filed in Cincinnati Slaying
Carl Bobby Roseman, 23, of Cincinnati is indicted on a first degree murder charge for the bludgeoning death of Robert Gau, 46, a supply company clerk. Police say Roseman, a laborer, confessed to killing Gau and taking a cashbox after Gau refused him credit for sand and gravel on April 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Carl Bobby
Roseman
Robert Gau
Gau
Two Lebanon Teens Hurt in Route 122 Wreck
Two Lebanon residents escaped serious injury when their car overturned on Route 122 near Route 741 in Warren County at 11 35 p m Friday. Driver Warren E Gregory 17 of 465 Deerfield Ave Lebanon and passenger Nikki Perrine 18 of 304 Ridgewood La Lebanon were treated at Middletown Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebanon
Warren County
Warren E. Gregory
Deerfield Ave
Nikki Perrine
Ridgewood la
Gregory
Middletown Hospital
Police Briefs Charge Two Men in Local Incidents
Freder ick Franklin, 53, of 1700 Columbia Ave., faces assault and battery charges and was jailed on drunk and disorderly counts when a new warrant was served in his cell. Neighbors reported he beat his wife and used abusive language toward officers. Dale Miller, 42, of 224 Baltimore St., was arrested for assault and battery and released to Ross County authorities. he is reportedly receiving hospital treatment in Chillicothe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Franklin
Columbia Ave
Franklin
Dale Miller
Baltimore St
Ross County
Chillicothe
Officers Arrested on Disorderly Conduct and Accident Report Failures
Leon Wells aged 33 of 2005 Howard Ave and James Graham 36 of 612 20th Ave were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and failure to report an accident respectively. Both men were released on $10 bonds and face a Monday court appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Wells
Howard Ave
James Graham
20Th Ave
Democrats rally for Kennedy at birthday dinner
About 6,000 Democrats gathered behind President Kennedy rallying against Republican attacks on his support for tractors trade and new spending. Kennedy headlined a $100 plate birthday dinner two days early, aiming to reduce the party debt of about $2 million from ticket sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kennedy
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Drug
Dept
Manchester
Manchester RD
Green Acre
Bai
Lebanon, Ohio
Ona FE. Kurtz
Gen. Taylor
Bright-O, Inc
Hamilton, Onie
Elizabeth Johnson
Associated Press
OSU
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Spment
Lamb
Frederick A. Franklin
Ray
Henry T. Bohne
Grand Ave
John Dobrozsi Insurance Inc
First Ave
Dodds
Verity
14Th Ave
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Madison
JFK
Woodlawn Ave
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