Petaluma community helps paralyzed high school player
Robbie Star, a 15 year old St Vincent's High School athlete, was paralyzed from the shoulders after a football practice. Petaluma residents raised over 15000 for his medical bills at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, with support from students, the Mothers Committee, a KTOB auction, and even figures like President Nixon. The boy expressed gratitude and said he feels fine after moving from recent surgery and life in a wheelchair.
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California
Robbie
St Vincent’s
Fies
Santa Clara Vaile Medical Center
San Jose
White House
Mike Gonzalez
St. Vincent's
Louis
KTOB
Mothers Committee
Nixon
Billy Casper
Ester Walter Cronkite
Mike McCoy
Notre Dame
Jack Benny
Fatther
Town considers banning X rated films at drive in
North Smithfield Rhode Island AP reports the Town Council raised the theater license from 160 to 16000 dollars per year in a move to end X rated movies. Councilman Robert E. Mowry moved to impose the fee arguing the Rustic Drive-In cannot operate profitably under the new charge. The theater run by Esquire Theaters of America Inc. says it cannot survive the higher fee and questions the legal viability of the plan.
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North Smithfield, RA
Robert E. Mowry
Esquire Theaters of America, Inc
Obituary of Theodore Alex 78 Greece native with Middletown ties
Theodore Alex aged 78 of 6151 West Alexandria Road died 12 15 p m Monday at home after an extended illness. Born in Greece he lived in Middletown fifty nine years worked 1915 1958 for Armco Steel Corp as a stainless steel sample grinder. Survived by wife Bernice and brothers Gus Nick of Greece. Service 2 p m Thursday at Sts Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church Rev Militon Ethimiou officiating. Burial Machpelah Cemetery Mt Sterling. Friends may call McCoy Leffler Funeral Home Wednesday 7 9 p m prayer 7 30 p m. Memorials to a favorite charity appreciated.
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Alexandria Road
Alex
Greece
Middletowne
Armco Steel Corp
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Bernice
Gus
Nick
Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church
Milton E’thimiou
Machpelah
Mt. Sterling
McCoy-Leffler
Services for Donald Hawkins Held at McCoy-Lefler Funeral Home
Donald Wheatley Hawkins 66 of 2023 Sherman Ave. will be laid to rest at Woodside Cemetery after services at 10 a.m. Wednesday at McCoy-Lefler Funeral Home with Rev. Roger Ashley officiating. Visitation at the funeral home Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Memorials may go to Christ United Methodist Church. Hawkins died Monday at Middletown Hospital.
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Donald Wheatley Hawkins
Sherman Ave
McCoy-Leffler
Roger Ashley
Woodside Cemetery
Emily
Christ United Methodist Church
Middletown High forms Parent Involvement Council
A 12 member steering committee drafted a constitution for ratification at a Dec. 2 meeting. The group aims to foster positive relations among parents teachers and students and to encourage involvement in all school activities while avoiding a traditional PTA structure.
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Middletown High School
Parent Involvement Council
PIC
Doris Harrison
The
Journal Today
Orville Williamson
Anne Patrick
Harrison
Famous Soviet Spy Rudolf Abel Dies After Cancer Fight
Moscow reports Rudolf Abel died of cancer after years of intrigue and defection scandal. Abel, an alleged KGB colonel, guided a spy network in the United States before being exposed, later praised by Soviet outlets without formal confirmation of death. The case paralleled a failed 1960 summit and a high profile espionage saga.
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Rudolf Abel
United
Canada
Brooklyn
Reino Haybanen
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Secret Police
Abel
Pravda
Molodoy Kommunist
Sverdlovek
Paris
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harold Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
Powers
Powers-for
Four Pennyroyal Area Fires Classified as Arson
Franklin fire officials say four fires in the Pennyroyal area were arson. A total of three houses burned, two unoccupied, with damage estimates from $500 to $3,000 and ongoing police investigations.
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Pennyroyal
Franklin
New Plant Planned On Ohio 4
A kitchen cabinet firm seeks a 7.8 acre site on Ohio 4 across from Rockdale in Butler County for a showroom type plant. The Butt Williams Leigh Products Corp plans a three phase build with initial completion by next September and final phase by 1975. Investment projected at 1.3 million with up to 200 employees pending county rezoning approval by the county commissioners.
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HAMILTON — A_ kitchen cabinet
Ohio 4
Hamilton-Middletown Road
Rockdale
Butler County
Mayfield School Office Door Damaged. Burglary Reports
Police report extensive damage to the Mayfield Elementary principal’s office door and an outside door during a break in night. In nearby incidents Kenneth Meehan reported $36 stolen from the Kinnamon Shyers service station at 1706 Woodlawn Ave and Nora Lunsford reported a garage entry at 904 Baltimore St with no items taken.
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Mayfield Elementary School
Kenneth Meehan
Kinnamon - Shyers
Woodlawn Ave
Nora Lunsford
Baltimore St
Million Duck Stamp Sales Set Fiscal Record in 1970
Interior Department tally shows over two million duck stamps sold in fiscal 1970, the highest since 1959, generating more than six million dollars in income for the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife.
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Washington
Interior Department
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife Reports
Death Car Driver Tries 2 Escapes
Youngstown police tighten watch on James Anderson after a runaway car killed seven and injured eight. Mabel Belcher, 60, died from injuries as victims include Letanea Williams, 12, Joseph Legree, 68, Al Satterwhite, 43, Orpha Hoffman, 79, Gloria Bankston, 30, and Eunice Foster, 78. Anderson, jailed for driving without a license, allegedly escaped restraints twice at South Side Hospital before being subdued.
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James
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Anderson
South Side Hospital
Dar
Slow Car Hits Woman In Downtown Intersection
A 7 year old Miami sburg woman Myrtle Seidenstricker was injured when struck by a car at Vail Avenue and Clinton Street at 7 50 p m She suffered injuries to her left elbow right ankle and right hip and was treated at Middletown Hospital The driver Dorothy Powers of 425 Yankee Road was driving south on Clinton at a very slow speed and struck her while she crossed Clinton Street in the middle of the block
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Miamisburg
Vail Avenue
Clinton Street
Myrtle Seidenstricker
Miami Ave
Middletown Hospital
Seldenstricker
Dorothy Powers
Yankee Road
Clinton
Pennsylvania Farmer Rears Dumpkin Weighing W0 Pounds
A Pennsylvania farmer reportedly raised a Dumpkin creature that reached a weight of W0 pounds, drawing local curiosity about the unusual crop pavilion or livestock novelty.
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Pennsylvania
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