Golf scorekeepers share PGA meet memories in Akron
Maxine Wenger and Sal Heames served as scorekeepers at a recent Akron PGA tournament rubbing elbows with top players. Anecdotes include Billy Casper Sam Snead and Tony Lema. golfers joked and relaxed, while Maxine noted a few tempers. A separate local item recalls a theft from a Rittman Beverage fund and community updates on residents visiting and births.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxine Wenger
Sal Heames
Akron
Billy Casper
Maxine
Sam Snead
Don
January
Weisong
New Band Director Dennis Antram Brings Rich Musical Background
Rittman High School introduces Dennis Antram as the new band director. A Baldwin Wallace graduate with a bachelor of music education, he played trombone in college ensembles, toured with a choir, and held leadership roles in Phi Mu Alpha and Kappa Kappa Psi. He will reside with Mary Peete and begin duties August 8 from 8 am to 4 pm.
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Rittman High School
Dennis Antram
Antram
Baldwin Wallace
Berea
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Phi Mu Alpha, Music, Honorary
Kappa Kappa Psi
Malvern High School
Carrollton
BW College
Mary Peete
Sheldon Avenue
Ween
Accident Victim In Hospital In Ohio Town
Edward Herald aged 19 of Wadsworth, an employee at Packaging Corporation of America, is in intensive care at Akron General after a two car crash on North Main Street Extension Mennonite Road near County Line Road. Michael Misura suffered head cuts but was not hospitalized. Misura, heading to work at E J Paisley Plg Seville, was charged with improper passing.
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Edward Herald
Wadsworth
Packaging Corporation of America
Akron General Hospital
Herald
Rittman
Michael Misura
East Sunset
North Main Street
Mennonite Road
County Line Road
Misura
E. J. Paisley Plg
Seville
Wooster
Eight Vie For Council As Filing Deadline Nears
The city council race narrows in on an eight candidate field as August 10 deadline looms. New: Edwin J. Brophy joins Kenneth L. Robbins Harry K. Griner. Returning candidates are Clarence C. Kunkler Joseph P. Angelo Delone E. Bowman Jay L. Griffith and Edward R. Ramsey. Three council seats are up for election.
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Edwin J. Brophy
West Ohio
Kenneth L. Robbins
East Sunset Drive
Harry K. Griner
South Third
Clarence C. Kunkler
Grandview
Joseph P. Angelo
North Fourth
Delone E. Bowman
East Ohio
Jay L. Griffith
Edward R. Ramsier
Board of Education to review public affairs letter in next meeting
Rittman Board of Education president Ed Taylor said the board will discuss a letter from the public affairs committee at the upcoming meeting. He noted a 25 member advisory education study committee and two public affairs representatives on it, and urged citizens to request answers through board members or the superintendent.
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Rittman Board of Education
Ed Taylor
Taylor
Education Study Committee
Rittman
Education Committee
Éducation Study Committee
W. H. Hauenstein
Public Affairs Committee Seeks New Middle School
A sub-committee of the Public Affairs Committee invites members of the Educational Study Committee to meet at City Hall at 8 p.m. Thursday to discuss an alternate plan for a middle school near the high school. The group urges discussion with school officials to address concerns about a bond issue and school growth in the 1960s with a lower cost project lacking gymnasium and library facilities.
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City Hall
F. O. Kanehl
Rittman
Kanehl
Educational Study Committee
F.L. Frank
Joseph S. Felix
Russell W. Frey
E. R. Ramsier
Education Study Committee
Board of Education
Board of Education and School Administration
CATV Row Drags on as City Balks at Poles
Ohio Central Telephone Company refuses to permit new CATV lines on existing poles under a joint-use deal with Ohio Edison. Armstrong Utility of Kittanning plans service with a 300 foot tower costing $40,000, but delays continue as City Manager Laughlin resists parallel poles. He criticizes the monopoly and hopes council action next week.
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Ohio Central Telephone Company
Willard Laughlin
Frank Quatman
Ohio Edison
Armstrong Utility Company
Kittaning
Penn
Kittman Council
Dex Sedwick
Armstrong
Laughlin
Rittman School Board Meeting Set for Wednesday Evening
The Rittman board of education will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the home economics room at Rittman High School to discuss district matters.
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Rittman Board of Education
Rittman High School
Rittman Education Study Committee Expands Members
The Rittman board of education plans a 25 member education study committee with a meeting date set by August 10. Four new members join the panel: William Creson, Mrs. Walter Marquardt, Kenneth Robbins, and Norbert Reffert, joining 21 earlier appointees. The panel will advise on bond issues and educational opportunities while the board seeks a new principal for Rittman High School.
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Rittman Board of Education
Rittman High School
Ed Taylor
William Creson
Walter Marquardt
Kenneth Robbins
Norbert Reffert
Skip Hilty Serves As Chamber of Commerce Secretary
Mrs Mildred Hilty 18 year Rittman resident and ex Girl Scout leader takes the chamber post replacing Hazel Damron. She has long aided PTA minstrel shows art directed community projects and works as a homemaker and real estate representative for S L Wiles. The Hiltys live at 117 North Third with two children Scott and Jane.
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Chamber of Commerce
Mildred Hilty
Rittman
PTA
Cranford
N. J
Miami University
Oxford
Chamber
Skip
S. L. Wiles
Kenneth
Good Supply and Equipment Company
North Third
Scott
Ashland College
Jane
Hilty
Smithville
Wayne County Joint Vocational School seeks November bond
The Wayne County Joint Vocational School board passed a resolution of necessity to place a 1,955,000 bond issue on the November ballot. The plan funds a new vocational school with equipment and an operating levy, aiming to leverage about 1,100,000 in federal and state matching funds for a total project cost near 2,400,000 shared by 10 Wayne County districts. Site options were discussed with Dr. John Miller noting possible locations north and south of Smithville.
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Wayne County
Rittman
Chippewa
Doylestown
Dalton
Northwestern
Triway
Southeast
North Central
Green
Three Injured In Bloody 94 Crash Near Medina
Three Rittmanites hospitalized after a three car crash at Route 94 and 18 north of Wadsworth. Leonard Preattle 52 driver of the Preattle car broadsided by Donald Johnson 19 of Medina while Bonnie Preattle 18 and Mike Preattle 20 sustained cuts and injuries. Johnson faced traffic signal violation charges. a baby in the Johnson car escaped injury.
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Medina Community Hospital
Leonard Preattle
West Hill
Mike
South Main
Bonnie Preattle
Wadsworth
Preattle
Donald John
Son
Medina
Johnson
Prentise
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Iran
Rittman Beverage
Eleanor Glassner
Eleanor
Connie Bowers
Idabelle
Les Bowers
Toni Rupp
Connie
Phoenix
Ariz
Sam Bergers
Dennis
Stanley Berger
Norton
Shawnee Lake
Indian Head Lodge
Canada
Alvie Burns
Sardis
Frank Burns
Lake Louise Banff
Calgary
B. C
Mildred
Lew Burnett
Points Northwest
Donna Jean
Art Bauman
Evelyn
Pete’ Hessidence
Frank
Marge Weber
Johnny Bauman
Joan Hessidence
Myron Weber
Bob’s Lake
Westport
Penna Jean
Karen Chapman
Karen
Wadsworth-Rittman Hospital
Peggy
Cliff Chapman
West Sunset
Frank McComas
South Main Street
Amanda Sue
Orrville Osteopathic Hospital
Linda
Vance Nussbaum
Massillon
Valerie Kaye
Vance Alan
Jim
Kate Hile
John Kunkler
Bloodmobile
Robert Parkinson
Sfort
Thurs
Carni
Harold Davis
Sterling
Ronald Goodhart
Richard Hummel
Osage Park
Zella Siders
M. C. Haught
John Trent
Roland Chenal
Carl Tomassetti
Sandy Tomassetti
Dave Hill
Glen Turner
Mass Robinson
Donald Ritchey
Robert Arnold
C. E. Rhonemus
W. H. Havenstein
Havenstein
Skip’ Hilty
C of C
Brethren Church
Hazel Damron
Johnon
William Tyson
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