Memorial Day Parade Opens Downtown Middletown
Four area high school bands and 22 Dayton shrine groups march in Middletown Memorial Day parade along Verity Parkway from Smith Park to Woodside Cemetery. Lemon Monroe High School joins with its marching band. Float entries include the Middletown Shrine Club featuring the Doty House king and queen. Grand marshal Bob Armbruster leads with aide Mrs. Glenn Henderson. A cemetery procession follows, with speaker Rev. Robert G. Graham of Harlan Park Church of God.
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Middletown
Dayton
Lemon Monroe High School
Theiddletown
Bob Armbruster
Glenn Henderson
Sarge
City Emergency Squad Sets New Run Record
The city fire department emergency squad surpassed 196 runs, reaching 199, amid reduced private ambulance service from Shoemaker Ambulance. Capt. Bob Bush praised crews for rapid responses as city ambulances enter their third year of service dating back to May 1974. Last year the squad handled 2,014 calls with a three minute average response.
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Stanincinaems Aia
Shoemaker Ambulance
Bob Bush
Striking Aeronca workers face unemployment benefit limits
IAM Local 2535 members on strike at Aeronca Inc face uneven aid. While 300 workers collect strike benefits and some receive food stamps, 40 laid off office staff including secretaries and engineers are largely ineligible for unemployment compensation under Ohio law, as the strike is plant specific. The dispute enters its third month with no settlement and limited progress in federal mediation talks.
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Sta Rs
Aeronca Inc
International Association of Machinists
IAM
Ohio Bureau of Employment Compensation
Aeronca
Parade of Trucks Moves Portman Equipment to Monroe Facility
Portman Equipment Co. of Middletown moved its service organization to an 11,300 square foot building in the Miami Valley Industrial Park Monroe. The parade featured 13 flatbed trucks and service vans loading office equipment fork lifts repair gear and $80 000 in parts inventory. The Cincinnati division will reopen at the new site Tuesday at 7 a.m.
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Doty House
Middletown
Portman Equipment Co
Ninth Street
Miami Valley
Monroe
Clark
Main Street
Portman A Co. of
Cincinnati
Services for Mrs Blossom moved to Meadowlawn Church of God
The death of Mrs Blossom of 2807 Inland Drive is reported with services now set at Meadowlawn Church of God at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Visitation at the Sneed home is scheduled from 5 to 9 p.m. Monday.
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Blossom
Inland Drive
McCoy-Leffier
Meadowlawn Church of God
Sneed
Buddy Poppy Sale Nets $329 For Veterans Group
The Buddy poppy sale conducted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7596 and its Ladies' Auxiliary on May 21 22 raised $329. Mary Lloyd, top seller, will receive an award at ceremonies at the post today.
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Buddy Pasate
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7596
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Mary Lloyd
No trace found of man or canoe in Miami River search
Aerial and water searches on the Great Miami River failed to locate George Burkey a 62 year old Miami man missing since last Saturday during a solo canoe trip toward Hamilton. Police and civil defense units conducted the operation near Miami River Park using a 12 foot silver canoe with a cut off stern for mounting an engine.
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Miami River
Miami
Butler County Sheriff's Department
George Burkey
Hamilton
Butler County
Miami River Park
Burkey
Franklin VFW installs officers in post 7596 ceremony
Franklin Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7596 installs new officers led by Green Gilbert as commander succeeding Green Turner. Other officers named include Delbert Hamblin as senior vice commander William Clark junior vice commander Ernest Lakes quartermaster Elmo Murray Marshall Kilgore William Powell trustees Joe Clemmons adjutant Vestal Cole surgeon Herb Kidwell advocate and Rev Eugene Sparks chaplain. Citations for meritorious service were directed to Coy Adams the Rev Mr Sparks Powell Bobby G Bogie Murray Clemmons and Auxiliary members Stella Turner Viola Hamblin Peggy Gilbert Mary Lloyd Jane Murray Connie Clemmons.
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John Lovely
Middletown
Clemmons
Vestal Cole
Herb Kidwell
Eugene Sparks
C N
Coy Adams
Kes
Woman Ejected In Roosevelt Bresel Crash
Harriet Jackson, 39, of 606 15th Ave, was westbound on Roosevelt when Gary Barker, 26, of 6055 Manchester Road Franklin, rear ended her car. The impact forced the Jackson vehicle off the road into a utility pole. she was treated for shoulder and head injuries and released from Middletown hospital. Barker faces careless driving charges. Damages totaled 2000 to Jackson and 1800 to Barker. both cars were demolished.
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Roosevelt and
Bresel
Harriet Jackson
15Th Ave
Roosevelt
Gary Barker
Manchester Road
Franklin
Jackson
Middletown Hospital
Barker
Queen Margrethe II Arrives in Virgin Islands for Six Day Visit
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark has arrived in Charlotte Amalie in the U S Virgin Islands for a six day royal visit, meeting local officials and surveying regional affairs.
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Charlotte Amalie
Virgin Islands
Margrethe II of Denmark
U.S. Virgin Islands
Passenger Hurt in Germantown Road Two Car Crash
A Springboro woman Deborah Snider 18 was treated at Middletown Hospital for injuries from a two car collision at Germantown Road and Carmody Boulevard at 6 10 p m yesterday. Mitchell Scoville 18 Franklin and Gary Suttles 20 Franklin were involved. Scoville left turned in front of Suttles vehicle. Both drivers were cited for failure to yield. Suttles car damage about 500 Scoville about 350.
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Springboro
Middletown Hospital
Germantown Road
Carmody Boulevard
Deborah Snider
Parker Drive
Mitchell Scoville
Martz-Paullin Road
Franklin
Gary Suttles
Franklin St
Ille
Scoville
Three Hurt in Rear End Collision on First Avenue
A noon near‑Collision on First Avenue left Dale Wills 39 of 5840 Pent Concere Road Trenton and Ge Reeves 21 of Lot 70 Catalina Mobile Home Park injured. Wills was stopped east of Canal Street when hit. Each driver and a passenger claimed injuries but refused treatment.
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Yesterda First Avenue
Dale Wills
Trenton
Ge Reeves
Catalina Mobile Home Park
Wills
Canal Street
Early deadlines noted for tomorrow in Journal
The Journal will observe early deadlines Monday with news and obituaries due by 10 a.m. and women’s and men’s news by 8:30 a.m. Classified ads for Tuesday must be submitted by 9 a.m. tomorrow.
Principal Mann to resign. Lincoln reception set
Thomas Mann, Lincoln principal since 1969, resigns to join Net Set Tennis Club in Hamilton as tennis pro. Laurens Petersen of the PTO announces a farewell reception Wednesday in the school gym for parents, former students and teachers to bid farewell.
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Thomas Mann
Masring
Lincoln
Hamilton
Laurens Petersen
The
PTO
Emergency Medical Run Responds To Overdose Nearby
At 7 am a fire and EMS unit from 1337 Central Ave responded to a call involving a 45 year old woman found with a Valium overdose. The patient was transported to a hospital in serious condition for treatment. Also listed were a 71 year old with chest pains and a 39 year old with pain issues.
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Central Ave
Charles
Ana
Vervece Prive
Donna
Paine
D.m
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Doty Addition
Verity Parkway
Smith Park
Woodside Cemetery
Sheckler
Russell Dwyer
New City
Polly Blossom
Story & Clark
Norris
Germa
First Ave
Franklin Vfw
Union Sanitary
Lewis Carrol Grimes
Brezel
Ohio
Park St
2Nd Ave
Grand Ave
Gideon Rd
Trenton Shopping Center
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