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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1958
Page
5
A moving truck for the Mt. Crab firemen's festival shed equipment, scattering parts along the road. William Pence of Rt. 2 Batavia narrowly escaped injury as a falling limb struck his car headlight and fender while Deputy Sheriff Sam Rouvier investigated.
Robert P. Kitchen of Peter Kiewit Co. explains that current publicity about the Ohio River dam project causes confusion. He says only 60 experienced men are needed for initial coffer dam work, with local unskilled labor to be plentiful in 1959 after excavation and lock building contracts are awarded.
Residents of Batavia are asked to cooperate with interviewers beginning this week to compile facts for the first Batavia Community Directory to be published in July. The directory will include family data, town history, pictures, a classified business directory, and church representation.
Batavia Mayor J. F. Paschal performed a marriage last Saturday. The couple were Laddie Hyde aged 21 and Ronald Foster aged 23, both of Route 2 Batavia.
Clyde W. Park former head of English at the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering has been named editor of the Lincoln Library of Essential Information published by Frontier Press Co. He has served ten years as a contributing editor handling biography usage and English literature and will oversee editorial policy with the staff. His serial work on Ulysses S. Grant’s boyhood appeared in The Courier last winter.
Summerside Road in Union township will be joined to the county system after a survey to set a 00 foot right-of-way for a 1.71 mile project. Work starts immediately. The board also ordered slow signs on Clough Road to curb speeding and heard thanks from Williamsburg police chief and the county dog warden for stray dog efforts.
A fire at Milford American Legion Hall on Water Street near Main caused over 20000 in damage after a motor defect in the refrigeration system ignited behind the bar. Fire Chief Paul Bosch said damage included store rooms and part of the dance floor plus wiring. Howard Wilhite and Daniel Campbell alerted responders, and several hours of effort followed as members began removing Legion property and cleanup crews worked through the morning. The hall, completed a year ago, may require repairs before resuming meetings or the next festival planned on Legion grounds.
The Amelia Chamber of Commerce will host Day at Coney Island on June 25 with prizes including a bicycle radio and Bulova watch funded by local merchants. Tickets from Amelia merchants grant entry at the gate for prize draws. events include knothole teams games and a school band concert.
University of Cincinnati invites singers to join a summer chorus and choir ensemble directed by Dr. Robert L. Garretson. The groups will perform on campus and in the community in July. Rehearsals begin Monday, June 16, and membership is open to high school students and other adults, not required to be UC summer school students.
Linden Chapter Order of the Eastern Star plans a reception for Mrs Etta Sprague deputy grand matron of Ohio Grand Chapter District 22 at the high school auditorium Friday June 13 at 8 pm Mary Jordan Fayetteville is worthy matron and James Jordan is worthy patron.
The notice outlines rehearsal times from 7 to 8 30 p m for the chorus and 8 30 to 9 30 p m for ensembles in Room 127 McMicken Hall. Miss Patricia A Schramm is the accompanist. Applications are available from high school choral directors or by writing Dr Garretson at the University.
Judy Seipelt 16 of Williamsburg selected as one of 30 Teen Fashion Council models for Pogue's Department Store Cincinnati for 1958 1959 after a June 7 Netherland Hilton Hotel contest with about 500 entrants Judges included Jane Lynn George Palmer Willie Thall and Clyde Thornhill Judy will be a senior and is active in church Rainbow Girls music and sports Her professional modeling goal and her parents Mr and Mrs Harold Seipelt Williamsburg real estate agents are noted
Will Stroup of Milford chairs Clermont County's 1958 59 United Appeal with District A 5 leaders from Miami township. Ray Schumacher and Mrs C Roger Nisbet head Loveland area efforts, while Milford coordinators Arthur Daughters Earl Konrad and L T Stephen lead specialty and house to house drives. Total leadership for Miami township to be announced. The drive funds 116 Community Chest agencies and 16 Red Cross services in Clermont County and the Cincinnati five county area.
Congress votes four million dollars for the Ohio River dam at New Richmond as part of a one billion Federal works program. The action also assigns eleven million for the Markland dam near Warsaw Kentucky and funds the Geenup Kentucky project at eleven million. Planning and preliminary work begin immediately.
Negotiations by the Board of County Commissioners, led by Prosecutor Ralph Hill and Attorney Forrest Ely for Mrs. Pearl Hoban, secure a one year option on 3.49 acre Hoban property along the Little Miami River near Miamiville. The option costs 100 and the county could buy the land for 10,000 to advance the Miami Goshen Stonelick water system as engineers report failed test wells nearby.
Changes in ministerial assignments in the Wilmington District of the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church at Lakeside were announced this week by Bishop Hazen G. Werner. Clermont County changes include Batavia Don C. McManis Belfast Roy Locher from Beaver Felicity Ralph T. Bowman Milford John E. Longsworth Jr. from St. Clairsville Moscow Jimmy C. Dunaway Owensville Robert L. Hayes from Decatur Perintown Mary L. Wagoner Williamsburg Donald L. Albasin from Magnetic Springs Pharisburg Chilton A. White from Owensville to Hamersville and Wesley Clarke from Batavia to Mount Fort Heights. Cincinnati.
In Clermont County Common Pleas Court Judge James E. Lang presides as jurors find William E. Lyle 47 of Williamsburg not guilty of driving while under the influence. Lyle was arrested March 17 by Police Chief Robert Vice.
Mr and Mrs Howard Malott of Milford have purchased Village Market from Harry Norris in Withamsville. The store becomes Parkview Market and will be modernized with no personnel changes. Mr Malott has 27 years in food business and 25 years as manager of the Milford Kroger store.
The Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Jessee returned from Houston Texas where 47 000 attended two sessions of the Southern Baptist Convention at the Coliseum. He wore a Stetson on the trip noting the hat stays on and is comfortable for rough conditions.
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