Toledo Goodwill tour visits new rehab center and more
Forty-one seniors toured Goodwill Industries in Toledo housed in a new twelve million dollar building funded by private donations and government grants. The center helps disabled individuals with interviews and work training toward reintegration into society, including former inmates. The trip also included a stop in Rome City Indiana to the former home of Gene Stratton Porter on Lake Sylvan, now state property with guides, and Porter's biographical note. The day included a Holiday Magic demonstration at the senior center, a Bible study, a craft program, and an all day community project with a noon potluck next Tuesday, plus an advisory board meeting at 7:30 p.m.
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Goodwill Industries
Toledo
Rome City
Ind
Gene _ Straton Porter
Lake Sylvan
Indiana
Doris Wagner
Wakeman
Lakewood
Ron Charity
Excused Juror Instructed To Listen In Damages Case
In Huron County Common Pleas Court the traffic accident suit brought by Walter L. Hainline of Norwalk against the late George K. Ryan was settled and dismissed just as testimony was to begin. The 1966 case names the executrix Mrs Lillian Ryan of Coshocton as defendant.
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Huron County Common Pleas Court
Walter L. Hainline
Norwalk
George K. Ryan
Coshocton
Ryan
Lillian Ryan
Hainline
Jury sits through case as settlement ends dispute
A Norwalk man refused to apply the law as questioned by Judge Robert J. Vetter, leading to an unusual excusal. The case settled with damages totaling $15 000, while lawyers Frederick Waugh and Raymond Watts represented the parties. Separately, tools and equipment valued at about $300 were stolen from a well drilling rig on Peru O Lena Road west of Olena.
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Robert J. Vetter
Norwalk
Vetter
Hainline
Frederick Waugh
Ryan
Raymond Watts
Sandusky
Peru-Olena Road
Olena
Randal Montgomery
Elvis Fife
Greenwich
Crash on Highway 78 Triggers Massive Explosive Blast
A car collided with a 20,000 pound dynamite laden truck on U S 78 near Waco Georgia. Five people were killed and about 35 injured as a crater opened in the road and woods fires spread within a quarter mile. The blast damaged a nearby gym where 200 people were singing. The truck driver warned bystanders to back away before the explosion.
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Waco
UPI
U.S. Highway 78
Atlanta
Birmingham
Ala
A.W. Fielding
Talmadge L
Adams
Cleve Heath
Bremen
David L. Smith
Troy F. Allen
Doyal T. Bell
Ivey Chandler
Chandler
Falke Heading Workshop At OU
Kendal L. Falke, Norwalk High School journalism teacher, to chair the Yearbook Division at the 26th annual High School Publications Workshop at Ohio University in June 2026. The event features speakers from The New York Times and Cincinnati Post and Times-Star, student newspapers, yearbooks, and a convocation on June 25. Reservations due by June 11.
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Athens
Kendall L. Falke
Norwalk
Ohio University School of Journalism
Falke
Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association
Syracuse University
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
William G. Blair
The
New York Times
Walter Friedenberg
Cincinnati Post
Times-Star
Tom K. Ryan
Workshop
J.W. Click
School of Journalism
Milan Historical Museum Opens Sayles Home Sunday
The Milan Historical Museum Board will open the Robert Sayles home on Sunday at the corner of Edison Drive and Front Street two doors north of the museum. The house reflects 1830s to 1840s canal prosperity with a weaving room, spinning wheels, and a dining room with a handmade Adams curly maple table set. Miss Leslie Conant will host summer hours, and over 6,000 visitors have already viewed the year’s displays and top national glass collection including a signed Moser Cameo.
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Milan
Ohio
Florence Bush
Avon
Helen Dane
Berlin Heights
Leslie Conant
Historical Museum
England
Japan
Hong Kong
South America
Steven and
Williams
Crown Milano
Mt. Washington
Dominick Labino
Sayles House
Theft and Vandalism Probed in Hartland Township
Deputies investigate theft and vandalism in Hartland Township involving two tractors and a combine at Hartland Center and Murray Roads. Gary Garwood reported the devices stolen and deputies found 11 radiator holes on one tractor and two on the other, likely punched with a sharp instrument.
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Sheriff's Department
Hartland Township
Gary Garwood
Collins
Hartland Center
Murray Roads
Auto Smashes Into Pole Near Bellevue Injures Driver
Gary L. Bogner, 16, rural Republic, complained of injury after his car hit a telephone pole on Prairie Road southeast of Bellevue. He reportedly lost control on a curve, slid left of center, then off the road into the pole. Bogner was charged with speeding.
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Gary L. Bogner
Rural Republic
Prairie Road
Bellevue
Bogner
State Highway Patrol
Honors and awards highlight quiet campus achievements
Miss Kaye Carnicom awards French Club honors to Jackie Savage and Tina Zannieri who plan to study French in college. Sue Riley receives a Future Teachers of America scholarship. Ohio Tests winners are listed by subject with Debbie Barry and many others as first-place finishers. President's Fitness Awards go to nine athletes. In Davis Cup action, Onny Parun faces Joaquin Loyo Mayo in Mexico City with Marcelo Lara vs Jeff Simpson in another singles match as the series opens.
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Kaye Carnicom
French Club
Jackie Savage
Tina Zannieri
Sue Riley
Teachers of America
Jeannette Freeman
Ohio
State Department of Education
Debbie Barry
Jud Savage
Allen Ellett
Art Hanson
David Hershey
Betsy Downer
Mary Heckleman
Mexico City
UPI
Onny Parun
New Zealand
Joaquin Loyo Mayo
Mexico
Marcelo Lara
Jeff Simpson
Area Death By Own Action In Milan Township
Milan Rolland H Uther 61 died by hanging at his Jeffries Road home near Milan Friday afternoon Erie County Sheriff reports He had been in poor health and despondent He stepped from a pickup truck into a storage shed found by wife Marie He was a lifelong Milan farmer member of Milan Presbyterian Church and Woodsmen of the World Survived by widow four sons and four daughters 15 grandchildren and a brother Funeral services 1 30 p m Monday Rawle Funeral Home burial Milan Cemetery.
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Milan
Rolland H. Uther
Jeffries Road
Erie County Sheriff's Department
Uther
Sheriff's Department
Marie
Milan Township
Milan Presbyterian Church
Woodsmen of the World
George P
Harold R
Paul A
Wayne H
James
Wilma) Wade
Norwalk
Richard
Helen) Hainline
North Fairfield
Betty L. Holt
San Antonio
Tex
Nora M
Robert
Rawle Funeral Home
Francis Moyer
Milan Cemetery
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Baggett Trucking Co
North Carolina
Gene Kirk
Audie Murphy
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Los Angeles
Arlington National Cemetery
Historical Home
Roaches Athens
Star View Drive
West
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Presents
Rock Hudson
Lowyn Mayer
Burt Kennedy
Frank Sinatra
George Kennedy
Dingus Magee
Panavision
Metrocolor
Wilfred L. Smith
Washington St
U.S. 224
Huron-Ashland
Smith
Robert Z. Burnett
Etna Green
Ohio Highway Department
Rita L. Wiles
U.S. 20
Mabel S. Herd
Elyria
Thomas W. Dennis
Mechanicsburg
Bob Gerken
Tom Schwartz
Robert Sindlinger
Dan Carnicom
Janet Kuhlman
Linda Brothers
Dave Ensminger
Sue Hakes
Pam Wetzel
Cathy Johnson
Chuck Derby
Rudy Martinez
Maria Garza
Jane Meyers
Tom Betz
Clair Ross
Neil Bailey
Ray Borsick
Mike Flickinger
Glen Gang
Bill Kennedy
John Reed
Roger Sandifer
Jim Summerlin
Mike Sutter
Parun
Brazil
UPI News Service Member
Audit Bureau of Circulation and Ohio Newspaper Association
Herman Schaafsma
Jack E. Brown
Herbert M. Griffiths
Robert Witt
Monroeville
New London
Willard
Huron
Erie
U.S
East Main ST
Bonnie
Clyde
Steve McQueen
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