Memorial Day Parade And Service In Middletown
The Rev Huser will speak at a memorial service at Woodside Cemetery if weather allows after a parade and flag-raising ceremony. The program features school bands, honor guards, and multiple religious leaders with parade routes through North Broad Street to the cemetery.
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Sylvester Huser
St. Mary's Church
Middletown
Woodside Cemetery
War Memorial Plaza
Clifford Hutchinson
Grand Avenue
American Legion Post 218
North Broad Street
Legion
Tom Brown
Brown
Broad
Central
Main
14Th
Cemetery
Manchester Hotel
Lemon-Monroe
Riggs
Fenwick
Columbia Avenue
Roosevelt
Rainbow Girls
Girl Scouts
Let's Go Home And Prepare A Place veteran graves keeper Joe Cox
Joe Cox dedicates 40 years to marking and registering veterans graves at Woodside Cemetery Middletown. As official graves registration officer for American Legion Post 218 and the fourth district he recalls World War I service and the slogan let’s go home and prepare a place. The World War I plot expanded to include Spanish American and Civil War soldiers with 309 added markers. A new northern site will hold 16 more graves as the three veteran plots grow.
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Joe Cox
Middletown
Woodside
Cox
Journal
Salendorf
Woodside Cemetery
Joe
American Legion Post
218
The
Legion
327Th Field Artillery
France
Ohio Department of the Legion
Korea
Spanish American War Vets Parade Honor Ride Middletown
Seventy year old Spanish American War veterans in Middletown but one rides in tomorrow’s parade as grand marshal Charles Conarroe. Bert Duvall and Wally Gray recall Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Riders and the Ninth Cavalry’s role in the Cuba campaign.
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W. W
Wally” Gray
A. E
Bert” Duvall
Charles Conarroe
Middletown
W. D. Saxton
W. D. Carmichael
John Clark
James Campbell
United Spanish War Veterans
Bert
Dayton
Hamilton
Franklin
Florida
Rough Riders
Teddy
San Juan Hill
Ninth Cavalry
John Hansbrough
Bert Duvall
Wally Gray
Journal
Lalendorf
All Three Schools To Use Shop Next Semester
Jody Butts reports that Middletown High School opens a vocational shop next fall serving 450 students, one third of the school body. The program draws students from Middletown Lemon-Monroe and Fenwick high schools, with 18 from Lemon-Monroe 40 from Middletown and 11 from Fenwick in the vocational group.
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Jody Butts
Middletown
Lemon-Monroe
Fenwick High
Fenwick
New vocational building eyed for crowded school shop
Clyde D. Pierson and A. E. Minnich discuss staffing gaps in the vocational program as three areas remain unfilled. Federal rules and state subsidies require seven years of trade experience, making industry pay hard to beat for qualified teachers.
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Clyde D. Pierson
A. E. Minnich
Minnich
Pierson
Clyde Pierson
Journal
Vocational program aims to train select Middle town students
Pierson explains an enlarged vocational program offering job specific training within 30 miles for students not planning college. Eligibility requires an aptitude test ninth grade industrial arts teacher recommendation and parental consent. The coordinator says the goal is to train a few to perform jobs well rather than mass training.
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Middletown
Pierson
Memorial Day Court Schedule in Middletown
Middletown Municipal Court will not hold a session tomorrow due to Memorial Day. The City Building clerk’s office closes all day. Civil session starts at 9 30 am Tuesday, followed by the usual Monday criminal session. Judge J T Lamb returns to the bench this week.
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Middletown
Registration Dates Set for Middletown Summer Programs
Middletown school officials announced summer registration with multiple start dates. Junior and senior high registration is June 6 at Middletown High School in room 106 for 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. enrollments respectively. Driver training, junior high reading and arithmetic workshops on June 13, elementary typing classes and science day camp begin dates noted. A second typing class for sixth graders runs July 25 to August 19 at Middletown High School. Junior community resources workshop also July 6 at 8 a.m. at the high school.
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Middletown
Middletown High School
Oneida
Wildwood
Taft
Middletown Fresh Air Camp
Flags Down in Memorial Day Parade Plans
City may struggle to display flags for Memorial Day as new light poles lack brackets. About 400 48 star flags exist, some worn, with no 49 or 50 star flags ready. Officials will price new flags and brackets, weighing costs before July 4 decorations.
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Charles Thompson
Thompson
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Central Avenue
Main Street
Manchester
First Avenues
Broad Street
City Commission
William Denham
Hawaii
Alaska
Kenny Jeffreys
Survey Of Families Is Planned
About 25 to 30 Middletown families will be called in the coming weeks for interviews in a population problems study. The survey focuses on women in a specific age group and may interview fewer than called. Miss Estella Schafer and Mrs. Catharine Brune will conduct interviews in Hamilton. The project by the University of Michigan Survey Research Center is funded by the Scripps Foundation with Rockefeller Foundation support. The aim is better understanding of maternal health family planning and child bearing to forecast population trends.
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Middletown
Estella Schafer
Trenton
Miss Schaefer
Catharine Brune
Hamilton
Scripps Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
University of Michigan Survey Research Center
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Huser
National Guard
Honor Guard
Memorial Day Committee
National Guard Co
Charles Connarroe
Richard Leichty
American Legion
Selma McKeller
Hubert Hopper
Robert Frazier
Bill Cisco
Eva Sechwall
Roda Warmoth
VFW
Corthin Boyd
Pearl McKinney
Car
Lemon- Monroe
Sons of Legionnaires
Hunter Clark
Clint Orr
Daughters of America
Miami Valley Council
Roosevelt Junior High School
Rainbow
Rainbow Advisors
American Red Cross
American Citizens Club
McKinley Junior High
By Fritz Lalendorf
Teddy Roosevelt
Arthur MacArthur
Douglas
Cuba
Wally
Cincinnati
Warren County
Queen City
Hillsboro
Custer
Little Big Horn
Tampa
Walter Reed
Panama
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