Deaths and Funerals for Mervin Gary and Julia Pettee
Mervin Gary 75 of Hillsboro formerly of Middletown died Monday at Highlands Community Hospital. Services and burial in Hillsboro arranged by Turner Funeral Home. Survived by wife Florence and three daughters five sons all of Kokomo Indiana. Julia Pettee 94 retired librarian author and historian died Tuesday.
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Mervin Gary
Hillsboro
Middletown
Turner Funeral Home
Gary
Highland’s Community Hospital
Florence
Kokomo
Ind
Julia Pettee
Goebel Rites Set At St Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Services for Mrs. Jeanette M. Goebel 56 of 7164 Wayne Trace Road Trenton will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church with Rev. Charles March officiating. Burial follows in Tucson Arizona. Friends may call after 9 a.m. at the church. Memorials may be sent to the church. She died Sunday at McCullough Hyde Hospital Oxford. Arrangements by Inman Funeral Home.
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Somerville
Jeanette M. Goebel
Wayne Trace Road
St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Trenton
Charles March
Tucson
Ariz
Obituary Notices for Messer and Brumley
Edward Messer aged 59 of 702 Ludlow Street will have services at 10 a.m. Friday conducted by Brown Dawson. Carey Brumley aged 76 of Seffner Florida formerly Hamilton will have services at 10 a.m. tomorrow conducted by Klaus Weigel.
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Edward Messer
Ludlow St
Brown-Dawson
Carey Brumley
Seffner
Fla
Hamilton
Klaus- Weigel
Austrian director G. W. Pabst dies at 82
Vienna report states G. W. Pabst, 82, renowned Austrian film director of Three Penny Opera fame in prewar years, died Monday. The brief AP dispatch notes other obituaries including Washington executive George E. Moore, 47, and retired Rear Admiral William Merrill Stilliphant, 66, among scattered regional notices.
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Vienna
G. W. Pabst
Washington
George E. Moore
Moore
Board of
Information For Industry Inc
San Francisco
William Merrill Stilliphant
Berkeley
Calif
William Leonard Crum
Yale
Harvard
University of California
Warren, Conn
Cleopatra slept beneath a mosquito net to ward off stings
The note describes Cleopatra using a mosquito net for protection from insect bites. It highlights ancient practices of personal protection and health measures.
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Cleopatra
Burglars Hit Middletown High School on Girard Avenue
Burglars pried a pay telephone from a wall and stole tools and personal items from a maintenance locker at Middletown High School on Girard Avenue. They entered by forcing a cafeteria door, then damaged a hall telephone and coin box.
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Middletown High School
Girard Avenue
Anna Stahl
Ninth Ave
Verity Tire Co
Verity Parkway
Open House to Honor Principal at Creekview Elementary
Creekview Elementary hosts an open house tomorrow from 6 to 9 p.m. to honor Ralph Mull, principal at Creekview and Blue Ball Elementary for six years, who retires after 38 years in local public education. PTO President Richard Naber and members Mrs. Trocy and Mrs. Bonniville lead the program in the school cafeteria. Mull previously taught three years in small district schools and was principal of Mayfield School for 22 years.
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Creekview
Ralph Mull
Blue Ball
Richard Naber
PTO
Robert Petrocy
Earl Bonniville
Mull
Mayfield
Canada population tops twenty million in 1966 census
Ottawa AP reports final 1966 census figures show Canada's population at 20,014,880, up from 18,238,247 in 1961 according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Inmate Foiled Escape Attempt at Ohio Penitentiary
Orville Leland Davis, 29, serving 20 years to life for armed robbery and financial institution burglary, tried to climb the high stone wall by ladders. Guards spotted him entering the chapel area, surveillance followed, attic ladders found and rope ladder disclosed. Davis held in a cor rection cell as investigation proceeds.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
Maury
Koblentz
Ernest L. Maxwell
Orville Leland Davis
Montgomery
Hamilton
Ters
Davis
Dayton
Lebanon Correctional Institution
Madisonville
Norwood
Hamilton County
Armco Memorial Day Picnic Draws Thousands in Rain
Over 7,500 Armco Steel Corp employees and families gathered at Armco Association Park for a Memorial Day picnic despite cold and rain. WLW personalities Zeke and Bill, Bob Braun, Judy Lawler and Cliff Lash performed. Wilsman Trucking and Armco Triangles won baseball games 18-4 and 17-5. Prizes included a color TV, portable TV, radio, mixer set, transistor radio, and fishing gear. A fish weighing 3 pounds 8 ounces won by Mrs. Leui Mannings Jr.
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Armco Steel Corp
Armco
Armco Triangles
Wilsman Trucking
Wilsman
Alicia Carberry
Garfield Girl Wins Scholarship for Nursing Career
Barbara Conyers, Garfield High School senior in Hamilton, has been awarded the Butler County Medical Society Women’s Auxiliary annual health careers scholarship of 350 dollars. She aims to study at Riverside White Cross Hospital School of Nursing in Columbus, affiliated with Ohio Northern University, after being chosen from 33 Butler County applicants.
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Women’s Auxiliary
Butler County Medical Society
Barbara Conyers
Garfield High School
Hamilton
Conyers
James Conyers
Hilda Ave
School of Nursing
Riverside White Cross Hospital
Columbus
Ohio Northern University
Butler County
Garfield High
National Honor Society
YMCA
Mercy Hospital
Gordon Smith
Monroe
Ex Hamilton College President Robert McEwen Dies
Clinton New York AP Robert Ward McEwen former Hamilton College president dies at 60 after long illness in St Luke Memorial Hospital He retired last June after 17 years as president Ordained in 1930 he taught religious history at Hamilton Born in Loup City Nebraska he earned a BA from Macalester College and advanced degrees from the University of Chicago
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Clinton
N.Y
Robert Ward McEwen
Hamilton College
St. Luke's Memorial Hospital
Presbyterian
Hamilton
Loup City
Neb
Macalester College
St. Paul
Minn
McEwen
University of Chicago
Jury selection in Butts compensation case proceeds
The Workmen's Compensation case brought by Mildred Butts against the Middletown Eagles Lodge 528 and Elmer A Keller enters jury selection in Butler County Common Pleas Court. The suit claims Cecil George Butts died while performing lodge duties and that he was a paid employee. the State Compensation Bureau previously denied the claim. Lawyer Aftor Jack Casper represents Mrs. Butts.
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Butler County Common Pleas
Fred B. Cramer
Mildred Butts
Erie Ave
Fraternal
Order of Eagles Lodge
Middletown
Elmer A. .Keller
Ohio Bureau of Workmen's Compensation
Cecil George Butts
Butts
Man Beaten Robbed Here in Middletown Night Crime
A 53 year old Middletown man, Robert Fenton of Woodlawn Avenue, was beaten and robbed of $22 then dumped from a car in front of 3110 Andrew Street near Scotty's Tavern in Amanda. He recalled meeting three men at the tavern before the assault. Russell Hayes witnessed the victim being thrown from the car and helped him to his home before authorities were alerted.
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Middletown
Andrew St
Robert Fenton
Woodlawn Ave
Bill Fisher
Sheriff's Department
Amanda
Fenton
Russell Hayes
Andrews Street
Hayes
Death of James Brockman Revives Classic Song Fame
Songwriter James Brockman died May 22 in a California convalescent home at age 80. He wrote classics such as I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles and Down Among the Sheltering Palms and later worked in Hollywood as a motion picture songwriter after vaudeville and musicals. He also penned songs including Strumbery Pick Hample Pies Golden Gate I Fall Down and Go Boom I Know What it Means to be Lonesome and As Long as the Shamrock Grows Green.
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Santa Monica
Calif
James Brockman
Brockman
Hollywood
Strumbery
Golden Gate
Big Game Hunt Topic For Kiwanis Club Meeting
Homer D. Leffler will discuss Big Game Hunting in India at tomorrow noon’s Kiwanis Club meeting at the Manchester Motor Inn. Guests include Rev. J. Herschel Caudill and his guest Rev. John Larmour of Birkenhead England representing his denomination.
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Homer D. Leffler
India
Kiwanis Club
Manchester Motor Inn
J. Herschel Caudill
First Church of God
John Larmour
Birkenhead
England
Versatile actor Claude Rains dies at 77 in New Hampshire
Claude Rains a top film and stage star dies at Lakes Region Hospital New Hampshire after long illness He age 77 with a career spanning over 30 films and stage work in London and the United States He received four Oscar nominations for Notorious Mr Skeffington Casablanca and Mr Smith Goes to Washington.
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Laconia
N.H
Claude Rains
Stage
Rains
Lakes Region Hospital
Washington
Casablanca
Louie
Humphrey Bogart
England
Australia
United States
Hartford
Conn Rains
London
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Commencements Today For Monroe Madison and Madison
Commencement ceremonies are set this evening at Lemon Monroe High School and Madison High with diplomas and senior awards. 450 graduates at Middletown High begin at 8 pm tomorrow in Wade E Miller Gym, with an 8:45 am assembly and awards. President Robert H Reardon of Anderson College will speak at Lemon Monroe. Knight Goodman will give the Lemon Monroe address. James Frentzel leads student speakers.
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Lemon - Monroe High School
Fi Ae
Madison School
Middletown High
Wade E. Miller
Robert H. Reardon
Anderson College
Indiana
Lemon-Monroe
Knight Goodman
Knight Goodman, Inc
James Frentzel
Valerie Waldner
Parry Pergram
Ruth Zeeher
Dennis Miller
W. E. Davis
Tom Maddox
Harding Jones
Board of Education
James Finley
Harold L. Stafford
Monroe Methodist Church
Madison High
Darrell K. Root
Pamela K. Houwnshell
Sally Jean Thornberg
Sandra Kay
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Jeanette Goebel
U. S
Melampy
Armco Memorial
Sherman Adkins
Bob Sortman
Barbara Thorson
Andy Kall
Leui Mannings Jr
Bob Dennis
Chuck Day
Raymond Bailey
Don Hawthorne
Garfield
Franks
Wieners
Bologna
Oscar Mayer
Deckers
Carver Beef
Clorox
Folger’s
U.S
Lks
Cecil Butts
Eagles Lodge
Anthony Adverse
Mr. Rains
G.B.S
Rosemary Clark Schrode
Pennsylvania
Sandwich
Madison
Insurance With Service
Moon
Adrion
S. Broad
Ff. H. Swinehart
Clark
Ailend Lelantiididelits
Central Avenue
North
Verity Pkwy
SES, Inc
Apviatus
Thur
Sat
Grant
Middletown Shopping Plaza
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