Sky Watch Seeks More Volunteers At Easton Post Sixth Week
Easton Air Post enters its sixth week with 114 volunteers on a 24 hour shift. Leaders call for 50 more citizens while 34 are needed immediately to relieve double shifts and 16 extra will be needed when school starts in three weeks. Local volunteers in Rittman may contact Roger Hessiden ce or Jerome Dannemiller or J. J. Just in nearby towns. The report recounts duties including aircraft flash calls and logging craft details as observers like Mrs. Jamison and Miss Osborne monitor the skies amid mentions of a past “flying saucer” misidentified as a fair spotlight.
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Sky Watch
Easton
Easton Air Post
Rittman Press
Easton Post
Juliette Lima
Baston Air
Doylestown
Janice Osborne
Jamison
Janice
Air Defense
Defense Filter Center
Jim Waggaman
Carl Benchoff
Jim
Canton
P Ww Hoadley Opens New Restaurant
Rittman welcomes Hoadley family as they prepare to open Hoadley’s Home Restaurant at 187 Main Street next to the E and J Cafe. Mr and Mrs P W Hoadley will run the establishment with Mrs Nellie Hoadley bringing extensive restaurant experience. The family, long in painting and repair work for high structures, recently finished projects for Ohio Boxboard and Morton Salt and now reside at 120 S Main St.
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Ohio Boxboard Co
Morton Salt Co
Main St
Rittma
Zanesville
Wayne County softball league opens with three games
The tournament began Wednesday night at Wooster Ground field with three games. Thursday to Saturday feature tilts including Smithville versus Wooster, Buehlers versus Shearer Farm Equipment, and Hope versus Fredericksburg. Wayne County team Shireve Merchants and Smithville Merchants lead after nine teams. final standings list Wooster Buehlers, Smithville Merchants, Shearer Farm Equipment in top four.
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Wayne County
Ir Groundg Field
Wooster
Smithville
Wooster Buehlers
Shearer Farm Equipment
Hope
Fredericksburg
Rittman
Mitten
Shireve Merchants
Smithvide Merchants
Wooster Beuhlers
Walter E Filkins Injured in Wooster Collision
Walter E Filkins of Wooster was taken to Wadsworth Municipal Hospital Thursday evening August 14 at 9 45 p m by Gillmants Ambulance Service after a collision just south of the 604 and 94 intersection south of Rittman. He suffered a fractured leg.
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Walter E. Filkins
Wooster
Wadsworth Municipal Hospital
Gillmants Ambula Ce Service
Rittman
Polio Case Reported in Rittman Amid School Guidance
One new polio case, Jerry Hess, 17, in Rittman was hospitalized 11 days after the previous case. The county health department notes no other confirmed cases this week and prepares guidance for schools. The advisory urges vigilance for symptoms and outlines when to pause athletic events between areas with differing polio incidence.
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Rittman
Jerry Hess
Donald ‘Hess
S.’ Seneca Street
Children’s Hospital
Damon Hall Dies at 71 in Rittman Area
Damon C Hall 71 died early Sunday at Mennonite Old Peoples home south of Rittman He had lived in Rittman 25 years and at the home two months Funeral plans are pending as Harold Hall son currently traveling in Florida has not been located per Proderick's Funeral Home statement
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Damon
Dan) C. Hall
Old Peoples Home
Rittman
Halls
Harold
Florida
Proderick
Blood drive hits higher goal in rural area
In the Rittman Daylestown and Creston region the Red Cross Blood mobile collected 149 pints, beating the 120 pint target at the American Legion hall on August 14. About 25 of 183 scheduled donors missed appointments, four walked in, with Mrs. W W Bodager and Mrs Clarence Kunkler lauding volunteers. County and local coordinators praised the workers and donors, noting strong signups from Doylestown Chippelwa area and Creston Canaan township.
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Rittman
Daylestown
Creston
R Cross
American Legion
Kyrte County
Bipod
Harold Makinson
Wooster
Wanda Emerson
O. V. Slate
Doylestown -Chippelwa
Carl Slater
Ohio Giant Sunflower Stuns with 1142 Foot Height
The report highlights R. Dy. Danford claiming a towering 1142 foot sunflower on E. Ohio, part of a crop of similarly tall sunflowers in the area. The piece notes others of the same extraordinary height and a multi blossom specimen, illustrating the unusual garden growth.
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Ohio
R. Dy
Dan” Danford
Tas
E. Ohio
Schools Delay Opening Days In Wadsworth Medina Talks
Board of Education met Tuesday night at North Street school to review polio and health views and decide opening delays for Wadsworth and Medina district schools. A conference with school heads in Medina last Thursday, attended by local officials, announced later openings. Local football practice is rescheduled from August 20 to September 1, with PTA support letters cited. A delayed start could affect the holiday vacation period and state funding requires at least 180 days.
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Rittmad
Board of Education
North Street
County Board of Health
Wadsworth
Médina
W. H Hauenstein
H. Burkholder
Sydney
Henson
Medina
Behrehs
Medina County
Vernon Isham
Havenstein
Ashton Hall
J. W. Frye
P. T. A Vete
Cleveland
Addition To Be Dedicated At Evang United Church
A cornerstone laying ceremony will honor a new 38 000 addition to the Ev United Beens church in Ster rie next Sunday at 1 p m Rev B S Arnold of Beach City Ohio conference superintendent will officiate with an address Assisting him Rev S W Ellis Music will be by the church quartet C C Balentine Ernest Breeaul Maibach and Charles Coy with Mrs Lucille Rauch enberg They report the addition is under construction by Kauffman 45 and will be two stories high
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Tor the Ev
United Beens Church
Sterrie
B.S. Arnold F
Beach City
Hio
S. W. Ellis
Churchen
C. C. Balentine
Ernest Bree Aul Maibach
Notice of Physical Examinations at Rittman High School
Notice states examinations will be held Wednesday August 27 at 3 30 p m at Rittman High School. The event invites eligible students to undergo physical examinations as required.
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Rittman High ‘School
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Jerome Dannemiller
J. J. Just
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William E. Marshall
Edward Bidinger
P. Ww. Hoadley
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State Board of Health
Damon Hall
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