Springtime energy from West Sunset to Wadsworth
A jumble of community notes and greetings from Sandrock and nearby towns. Requests to join the Lions Club meet up, church rummage sales, hospital updates, and Easter visits fill the page. Births, trips to Cleveland and Honolulu, and school activities at Sacred Heart and local colleges are highlighted, with names like Dysinger Hughes Gotts and Bauman appearing amid springtime chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tha Dysinger
Sand
Wayne Dysinger
Bradley Hughes
Milton Hughes
Wadsworth Sacred Heart School
Cleveland
Floyd Craig
Mills Brothers Circus Comes to Rittman Next Thursday
The Mills Brothers Circus visits Rittman with 3:45 pm and 8 pm shows billed as the biggest traveling circus. Tickets at reduced Rotarian pre sale prices for children and adults, with proceeds aiding crippled and handicapped children. Local stores and pharmacies will sell tickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rittman
Mills Brothers Circus
Mills Brothers
Rotarians
Stepfields and
Wrights
Rutrhan
KayCee Drug
Doylestown
Matteson Pharmacy
Creston
Hartman Pharmacy
Seville
Maibachs
Sterling
Brennemans Pharmacy
Wadsworth
Services Friday For S E Troxel
Spurgeon E Troxel 87 of Rittman RD 1 died Tuesday at home after a long illness. He retired at 72 from Ohio Boxboard after 22 years as a stock furnisher. Survived by wife Mary two sons two daughters eight grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren. Services Friday at First Church of God with burial at Geyers Chapel near Smithville. Friends may call Thursday 7 9 p.m. at Gillman Haines Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Church of God
Spurgeon E. Troxel
Rittman RD
McGees Mills
Rittman
Ohio Boxboard Company
Mary
Jake W
Lynn E
Wadsworth
Daugh
Ters
Janet Noble
Rose Oxenrider
Leonard
George
Wauseon
Emen
Ravenna
Bessie Miller
Cottie Dunworth
Baltimore
Dovle D Miller
Albert I Henry
Geyers Chapel
Smithville
Purification Efforts Cost Over a Million at Local Plant
The Packaging Corporation of America and Ohio Boxboard Company have spent about 1.176 million to purify lagoon water discharges from a 500 acre site. Since 19, about 200k has been spent, with 70k in 1960 and 81k in 1961. Two major changes underway include three pumps circulating water at 3000 cfm to add oxygen and two aerators treating 15 percent of mill discharge, plus internal changes to cut waste fiber entering the lagoons. Up to 500k more may be allocated before completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Packaging Corporation of America
Ohio Boxboard Company
River Styx
Poll workers reduced to two per party for May primary
According to Republican committeeman Paul A. Baker a letter from Secretary of State Ted W. Brown states that primary elections allow reducing poll workers to four, two from each party. As a result only four poll workers will be on duty at each precinct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul A. Baker
Baker
Ted W. Brown
Rittman seniors plan post prom after Kismet theater trip
Rittman High School seniors and juniors prepare for a senior junior banquet week. They will dine at the Brown Derby in Akron then see Kismet at Goodyear Theatre. Post prom back at the high school gym will feature Carl Michaels band and Rotary Club hosted refreshments and prize drawings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rittman High School
Akron
Goodyear Theatre
Carl Michael
Richard Gillman
Rittman
Thany
Gillman
Harold Klotzle
David Wright
William F. Davis, Jr
William Maus
James Moore
Robert-Stoll
James Frye
Bob McComas
Ann Robinson
Gary Gasser
Gerry Fellows
Ruth Beatty
Rotary Club
Commissioners Adopt County Building Code in Wayne County
Wayne County Commissioners approved a county building code effective May 1 for unincorporated areas. The measure, passed Wednesday night, covers one two and three family dwellings and aims to extend uniform code adoption to cities like Rittman Orrville and Wooster. H Grant Sheets of Wooster named Building Code Superintendent with offices at 121 West North Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne County
Frank Taggert
Robert Norton
Myron Steiner
Rittman
Orrville
Wooster
H.grant “Sheets
West North Street
Committee to Promote 20 Mill School Levy Passages
Tom Haines was chosen to lead a local citizens committee to back the 20 mill school operating levy in the May primary. The group was formed Wednesday night by PTA, Rittman Education Association, Chamber of Commerce and other interested citizens, with Frank Fetzer named secretary treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Haines
PTA
Rittman Education Association
Chamber of Commerce
Frank Fetzer
Medina County weighs financing big River Styx Lake project
Medina County Commissioners met with Chippewa Subdistrict leaders of the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District to discuss a 300 acre lake and 920 acre park near River Styx. They propose a $300000 loan to be repaid from park revenues with annual payments as low as 15000, funded by camping, concessions, and gate charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medina County
Chippewa
Muskingum
Browning
Hoffman
Muskingum Conservancy District
Plessant Hill Lake
Mansfield
Atwood Lake
New Philadelphia
Tappan Lake
Cadiz
Seneca—Lake
Cambridge
River Styx
Rittman
Conservancy District
Wadsworth
Medina
Muskingum District
Nita Haley Rittman Child Dies After Fall In Akron Hospital
Funeral services are set for Nita Marie Haley two year old daughter of John Haley Jr and Merrial Helms Haley at Gillman Haines Funeral Home in Rittman. Burial will follow in Rittman Cemetery with viewing after 7 p m Friday. Nita was born September 21 1960 in Rittman and died Wednesday night at Akron Children s Hospital from injuries from a fall at her Hickin Avenue home. She is survived by two sisters Pamela paternal grandparents John Haley Sr of Columbus and Henry Helms of Rittman and maternal grandparents Henry Helms of Rittman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Beres
Akron
General Hospital
Jill Lynn
Ben Bauman
Lois Bauman
Gillman-Haines
Nita Marie Haley
John Haley, Jr
Akron Childrens Hospital
Hickin Avenue
Rittman Cemetery
Rittman
John L. Je
Merri] Helms Haley
Rittman High School
Haley
Columbus
Rubbermaid
Wooster
Howard A. Bair American Legion
Knights of Phythias
Moose
Boy Scout
Pamela
John Haley Sr
Henry Helms
Chamber Board Hails Membership Drive Progress
The Chamber of Commerce board met in a special session on Thursday and heard L. K. Burnett report that the membership drive is ahead of last year. The group aims to reach 30 members, a 50 percent increase over year-to-year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
L. K. Burnett
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eacnes
Sandrock
Robert E. Hanze
West Sunset
Ruth Krabill
Miss .CaroylIn Wald
Honolulu
Hawaii
Will
Joseph Chaimpo
Linda Melenbacker
Phyllis Burnette
Bowling Green State University
Karl Melenbacker
Virgil Burnettes
Rex Gotts
Chine Marie
Wadaworth Hospital
Lisa
Van
Tom
Dan
Steve
Lions Club
Williams Restaurant
W H. Hauenstein
C. G. Haulk
Ladies of
Milton Presbyterian Church
Glen_ Mar_Camera
Wayne Carey
Wooster Community Hospital
Donald Rose
Orrville Osteopathic Hospital
Dave Bernhardt
Ohio University
Mrs
Ed Bernhardt
John Rohrer
Wade Rohrers
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester
N.Y
Daughters of America
Union Hall
Rattman Ministerial Association
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Douglas Southworth
Charles Grant
Niantic
Conn
Brett
Candy
Eric
Jim
Laura Jean Frye
Marietta
Laura Jean
Wilma Tschelter
Winona Lake
Ind
Sharon Lance
Grace College
Winona—Lake
Mills Brothers ~Circus
S. E. Troxel
Gay Griner
Melanie Pratt
Parkview School
Gay
Harry Griner
Melanie
Mel Pratt
Commissioners
Nita Haley
Wita_Haley
Chamber
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