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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1978
Page
5
Franklin church pastor Marvin Strom tests four sermon forms in Ohio State study. He finds a spoken sermon with music improves comprehension most, while both singing, or two speakers, shifts fall behind. The traditional spoken delivery lands last.
Middletown Area Survival Heartbeat reaches a milestone with 1 000 people trained in CPR. CPR coordinator Joan Sabo notes the 5 percent of a 20 000 goal, while warning a refresher course is needed even for last year’s trainees. Training includes film, instructions, and practice on manikins for all ages.
K Mart Corp. of Troy Michigan will construct a 1 million square foot distribution center near Warren in Trumbull County. It will hire 250 to 300 workers from Warren area, start construction early 1979, and begin operations in summer 1980. The center serves more than 200 K Mart stores in Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania New York West Virginia Virginia and Kentucky. It will be the eighth such center in the United States.
A Purchasing Executives Conference at the Middletown Campus of Miami University features E F Andrews of Allegheny Ludlum speaking on Politics and Problems in International Purchasing. Sessions cover Management of the Purchasing Function Planning For Results and MBO Motivation and Productivity and Control with experts including Harold F Puff John Douglas Raymond E Glos Victor F Phillips Jr and Charles R Crain. Contact Miami Center for Management Services Laws Hall Oxford 45056 or call 529 4129 for details.
Plans for a rock-a-thon at the Harlan Park Church of God are set for Oct 21 from 4 to 10 PM. Participants aged 30 and over will rock to raise sponsor pledges for the church youth choir’s 1979 tour, with Larry Bartlett in charge of entertainment and banjo and fiddle music featured.
Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers members meet this weekend and next to set a date for a nationwide strike against the Teamsters led mafia influence. Leaders say the action aims to free independent truckers and allow better living standards, with meetings scheduled in Ohio towns and a nationwide date to be announced after Oct 22. Armco Middletown crews could be affected, last national strike was in 1974.
Columbus Board of Education considers applying for an 8.97 million dollar state loan after auditor Ferguson flagged an 8.79 million dollar deficit threatening a November 22 closure. Buckeye Local in Crawford County already closed, with a $140,000 shortfall. The district faces near term cuts and a November levy on the ballot that could fund operations.
An Arts and Learning Forum on Finnish culture will be held Tuesday at Emmanuel's Lutheran Church 30 W Warren St from 7 30 to 8 30 p m. Rev Oliver Rajala pastor of St Jacob's Lutheran Church Miamisburg will present an illustrated talk. The event is open to the public at no charge.
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