Miss Ada Doty Teaches Generations at Gratis Elementary
Ada Doty approaches her 50th year of teaching at Gratis Elementary in the Preble Shawnee district. She began at Lanier Township School and Gasper School before joining Gratis in 1916. Over 2,000 pupils have passed through her classroom, with former students including Eileen Grice of Miami University.
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Nadine Kirkpatrick
Gratis
Ada Doty
Preble Shawnee
Maurice Walker
Lanier Township
la Inier
Gasper School
Adam
al Kiracofe
Kiracofe
Miss Ada
Miss Doty
Miami University
Ada
Eileen Grice
Lebanon Bond Issue Fight Continues for High School
Lebanon voters face a 1.75 million bond referendum for a new high school. The Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce and service groups lead a broad campaign with literature, signs, and a mother and child march planned for November. Jaycees mapped districts for door to door canvassing as inflation pushes costs higher and school population grows.
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Lebanon
Lebanon Area
Jaycees
George Hartman
Hartman
School board approves new 40 acre site for Miller Road school
The district reports 200 more students needed this year to 3,700 and projects another 200 next year. A 40 acre site at Miller Road and Rt. 48 has been bought with full utilities. The three mill tax funds the project, described as about five cents a day per person.
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Miller Road
Rt. 48
Six secrets of doing any job well
Reader's Digest highlights six practical rules to improve performance and achieve a glow from full effort. The November edition features the article Bring to It the Rainbow, now on sale.
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Reader’s Digest
Reader's Digest
First Miami Concert Friday by Miami Choraliers
Oxford campus concert marks first Miami University musical event of the year by the 75 voice all women Choraliers under John C. Wabrick Jr. in Benton Hall at 8 p.m. Guest pieces include works by Monaco Hovhaness Schuman Pinkham Hindemith Leich Holst Carter Hindemith Revicki Ku BIk Krenek Persichetti Bartok Cooper and selections from Frostiana.
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Miami University
Miami Choraliers
Ben
Everett F. Nelson
Women’s Choral Society
the Choraliers
God
Richard Monaco
Western College For Women
Alan Hovhaness
Howard Hanson
Roland Leich
Gustav Holst
Elliot Carter
Paul Hindemith
Roberto Revicki
Ror Nelson
Gail Kubik
Ernst Krenek
Vincent Persichetti
Bela Bartok
Jonathan Bing
David S. Cooper
Randall Thompson
Lebanon Institution Falls For Progress
C. T. Johnson watched the Johnson Funeral Home be torn down after 108 years to make way for an Early American style service station. Johnson retired this summer after 58 years as a funeral director and sold the property to an oil company. Wrecker Floyd Vickers began the demolition, uncovering 16-foot steel I beams. Johnson recalled paying forty dollars for a girder in 1936.
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Lebanon
C. T. Johnson
Wreckers
Johnson
Mer
Floyd Vickers
Hamilton
Vickers
New Carlisle Mothers Club Formed Diapers to Diplomas
A new group named Diapers to Diplomas Mothers Club has formed in Carlisle. Barbara Engel is elected president with Elaine Evans as vice president Juanita Abney as corresponding and recording secretary and Dorothy Dalton as treasurer. The club meets first Wednesday monthly. Committees include telephone chaired by Susan Susco project chaired by Tootsie Herold and program chaired by Betty Blanton with Sharon Johnson Marjorie Wells Barbara Engel and Juanita Abney as members. Mrs Wells to host November 2 meeting to discuss by laws and constitution.
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Carlisle
The
Barbara Engel
Elaine Evans
Juanita Abney
Dorothy Dalton
Telephone
Susan Susco
Project
Tootsie Herold
Betty Blanton
Sharon’ Johnson
Marjorie Wells
Court costs for indigent defense exceed 350000 in Ohio
State Auditor Roger Cloud reported total reimbursements to Ohio counties for criminal court costs reached 357,973.60 this year after a October distribution of 71,475.68 to 56 counties. The $900,000 appropriation funds this program, with Cuya hoga County receiving 138,418.42 and the ten largest counties claiming 77 percent of the total.
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Roger Cloud
Cloud
Supreme Court
Cuyahoga County
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