Truman Budget Burden on Clermont County Taxpayers
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce estimates the 1952 1953 Truman budget would cost Clermont County residents about 392 per person, part of a statewide impact of roughly 643 per person and 16.6 million for the county. Federal spending would produce higher taxes than local property levies and school costs, with calls to cut waste or raise taxes and to press Ohio congressional members to cut expenditures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont County
Congress
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Ohio
Ohio Chamber
Weaver
America
United States
Robert A. Taft
John W. Bricker
Washington
Local Courier Note Recalls Long-Lost Rings and German Craft
Locust Corner correspondent Mrs Lulu Lipps recounts a 1906 gold wedding band lost in grass, later found near a smokehouse, and a 200 year old German crafted ring worn with braided hair locks. She displays two such heirloom bands and mentions other rings she owns. The tale ties family history to recovered heirlooms and vintage jewelry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lulu Lipps
Courier
Germany
Truck Tractor Slams Into Building Then Falls Into Coal Pile
A Bethel driver El bert Sells lost control of a truck on Main Street Wilmington Saturday. The vehicle struck a street hole pushed a building six inches damaging its foundation then toppled into a pile of stoker coal smashing the coal bin wall. Sells sustained a bruised right foot. the truck owned by C E Danbury Williamsburg reportedly had only two springs broken.
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Elbert Sells
Bethel
Wilmington
Sells
C. E. Danbury
Williamsburg
Clermont Insurer Warns of Torch Cloth Dangers
E. B. Hendrixson, president of the Clermont Association of Insurance Agents, warns residents about non flameproof brushed rayon garments. He recommends a home treatment using a borax boric acid solution, then air dry. Sheriff Dericks is praised for a campaign against torch clothing as inflaming risk grows nationwide.
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Clermont Association of Insurance Agents
Clyde B. Dericks
Clermont
Hendrixson
Ohio
Woman Injured in Third Suicide Attempt Near Edenton
Agnes Steiner age 30 of near Edenton was wounded in the hand Friday when a gun she was attempting to use for suicide fired while being positioned to her head. Deputies McNutt and Hutchinson transported her to General Hospital after an initial visit to a Pleasant Plain doctor. Sheriff Derick's office says she had previously attempted self harm twice.
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Agnes Steiner
Edenton
Charles McNutt
Frank Hutchinson
General Hospital
Pleasant Plain
Clyde B. Derick
Milford Indian Hill Pledge Water Trade for Emergencies
Milford and Indian Hill sign a ten year mutual water exchange contract for emergencies. Water cost 1926 cents per 100 cubic feet. A main link between systems exists and has been used under a short term contract during droughts.
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Milford
Indian Hill
Eastwood Speaks at Presbyterian Group Meeting in West Union
Earl E. Eastwood of Bethel, a GOP candidate for the Sixth District, addressed the Presbyterian Brotherhood Father and Son group in West Union Ohio. The event drew over 150 attendees from nearly 10 churches with a talk on spiritual guidance and war prevention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl E. Eastwood
Bethel
GOP
Presbyterian Brotherhood Father and Son
West Union
Mr. Eastwood
Highway Markers To Aid Civilian Defense Groups
Clermont County commissioners ordered signs for county roads to aid Civilian Defense units. The project includes 150 two way and 138 four way markers from Grote Manufacturing Company at a cost of 1874.40 dollars funded by a Willard Noble designated state auditor fund. Carl Rush, the county engineer, will supervise the road marking.
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Clermont Board of Commissioners
Grote Manufacturing Company
Bellevue
Willard Noble
State Auditor’s Office
Clermont County
Carl Rush
Kahle Seeks State Office
Harry Kahle, Clermont County businessman and chair of the Clermont County Republican Executive Committee, seeks the Republican state Central Committee seat from the enlarged Sixth District. He is a First National Bank of Batavia director with 21 years as a banker and active in Rotary and fraternal groups.
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Harry Kahle
Tooms
Republican State Central Committee
Portsmouth
Clermont County
Republican Executive Committee
Kahle
GOP
First National Bank
Batavia
Rotary Club
Clermont
Brown
Adams
Highland
Pike
Scioto
Ross
Pickaway
Fayette
Marines Take Three In Clermont County Draft
The Marine Corps drew three men Tuesday from Clermont County’s Selective Service quota of 23. Bill McManus, clerk of the board at Batavia, reported remaining inductees sworn in by the Army. Sixty applicants are slated for pre-induction February 18, with 16 to report for induction February 29.
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Clermont
Marine Corps
Clermont County
Bill McManus
Batavia
Army
Jury Indicts Man For Holding Against Will
A grand jury charges a man with holding his ex wife against her will after forcing entry into her Miamiville home and imprisoning her for two hours. Also named are two brothers in a family mistreatment case and several other indictments and ignored cases presented in a Day's Session before Judge Britton.
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Harry Britton
Miamiville
Carroll Cofield
Britton
Lima State Hospital
Orville Halbisch
E. B. Cunningham
U. S. District Court
Charles M. Kleem
Charles Walker
Don Sherman
John Norman
Arthur Ritter
Bernard J. Adams
Ris
F. Ruppley
Batavia
Anita Allison
Mt. Pisgah
I. N. Williams
Felicity
William Rich
New Richmond
Roberta Andrew
Milford
Ralph Homan
Bethel
J. Schubert
Dorothy Wunderlich
Witliamsville
George Fritch
Missing Branch Hill teen Betty Addis sought by sheriff
Clermont County officials request search for Betty Addis a 16 year old girl who fled from her Branch Hill home more than two weeks ago. She has dark red hair about five feet six inches tall weighs 115 pounds and bears a seriously burned hand from a recent accident. Her disappearance is being coordinated by Sheriff Clyde B Dericks.
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Branch Hill
B. Dericks
Betty Addis
Newtown Youth Faces Rape Charge in County Case
Clarence J. Cook Jr of 15 Oak Street Newtown is jailed in Clermont County on a rape charge. He surrendered after a habeas corpus release by Judge Otis R Hess as the incident originated in Clermont County. His 17 year old companion, also involved, appeared before Juvenile Court Judge Orville Halbisch.
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Clarence J. Cook, Jr
Oak Street
Newtown
Clermont County
Batavia High School Senior Engaged to Local Man
Tavia today announced the engagement of his daughter Faye to Michael Hutchens son of Mr and Mrs Cornelius Hutchens of Route 5 Batavia Miss Hurdle attends Batavia High School and Mr Hutchens studies at Olivet Nazarene College Kankakee IL and is a former Batavia school graduate
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E. J. Snider
Owensville
Joan Hessler
Ted Naegle
Cincinnati
Ressurrection
Price Hill
Tavia
Faye
Michael Hutchens
Cornelius Hutchens
Batavia
Miss Hurdle
Batavia High School
Mr. Hutchens
Olivet Nazarene College
Kankakee
Batavia School
Batavia Armory to Close as State Reassigns Armories
The Associated Press reports the Batavia armory, once training site for Company B, Ohio National Guard, and 32 other state owned facilities, will be closed to military use. Ohio will repurpose remaining 67 armories for guard units with eight more under review. Tentative plans aim to convert seven armories into civilian defense centers per Adj. Robert E. Henderson of the Civil Defense Organization.
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Associated Press
Batavia
Company B
Ohio National Guard
Ohio
Adj
Robert E. Henderson
Civil Defense Organization
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C. J. Weaver
Ohio General Assembly
Columbus
Sterling Foundation
Blaine Moore
Elk Lick Road
Blaine
Joseph
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Torch
Cloth Danger
E. B. Hendrixson
Eastwood
Presbyterian Group
Queen City
Price Hill Church
Sgt
Dennis J. Snider
Fort Ord
California
West Coast
Cincinnati Bell Telephone
Clyde
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