Pie visitors and births mark Orrville holiday time
A pie delivery leads to a funny mix up with Lin and Cona Williams at the Zivick home. The piece also reports on the first birth of Jywell Ann Oplinger and a string of Christmas and New Year visits, student returns, and hospital stays across Orrville area.
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Lin
Cona Williams
John Zivick
Maxine
Sata Maxine
Cona
Lockie Bodager
Ralph Oplinger
South Second
Orrville Osteopathic Hospital
Kevin
Craig
Dean
Jywell Ann
Ashland College Mentor Chamber Speaker Brownson to speak
Ashland College athletic director Robert Brownson will address the Chamber of Commerce annual dinner where Citizen of the Year is announced. The event at Rawiga Country Club on Thursday January 20 at 7 p.m. Brownson, a 1948 cum laude graduate, rose from coach at Jeromesville to Ashland director of athletics in 1959. Letters nominating a Citizen of the Year are due Monday to Mrs Hazel Damron, with judges Paul Mailbach Les Monbarren and Robert Schwartzlander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Brownson
Ashland College
Chamber of Commerce
Rawiga
Brownson
Jeromesville
New London High
Ashland
Hazel Damron
North Main
Paul Mailbach
Sterling
Les Monbarren
Doylestown
Robert Schwartzlander
Akron
New Pastor James H. Cox Jr. Leads Freewill Baptist Church
Rev. James H. Cox Jr. begins his first pastorate at First Freewill Baptist Church in Rittman 141 Seneca. A native of Logan West Virginia he taught in Logan and attended Morris. Cox and wife Diana reside at 49 Murdock Drive with children James Benjamin 3 and Terry Baughan 1.
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First Freewill Baptist Church
Seneca
James H. Cox
Cox
Rittman
Logan
W. Va
Morris Va
Logan High School
Cleveland
Diana
Murdock_Drive
James Benjamin
Terry Baughan
Good Sport Meet and Club Meeting Scheduled
A Good Sport Meet and related Good Sport-Club gathering are set for Sunday at 2 p.m. at 165 Mill Street in Wadsworth, hosted by Mr and Mrs Oscar Mellett. All are invited to attend.
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Ands
Oscar Mellett
Mill Street
Wadsworth
Rittman Press Publisher Named Governor-Elect for Rotary District
Lindsey Williams publisher of the Rittman Press and other northern Ohio papers was named governor-elect for Rotary International District 665 for 1967-68. He will supervise 37 clubs and has served as district community service committee member and governor's representative.
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Lindsey Williams
Rittman Press
Ohio
Rotary International
Williams
Ritman Club
Twelfth Night Ceremony and Tree Burning in Rittman
The annual Twelfth Night ceremony and tree burning will be held Thursday at 6 30 pm at Industrial Street Recreation area. Residents are urged to place trees on the curb before then and city crews will collect them for burning. The event features Rittman High School music, prayers by church leaders, and lighting by the Fire Department under Chief Ronald Gohart. Organized by the Rittman Chamber of Commerce with city and local groups.
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Industrial Street
Rittman City Street Department
Rittman High School
Ben F. Boédager
Lawrence Orcena
William K. McComas
Lee Hance
Rittman Fire Department
Ronald Goodhart
Rittman Chamber of Commerce
City of
Rittman
Rittman Volunteer Fire Department
Rittman High School Music Department
Rittman Ministerial Association
Saturday Movie Old Classic at City Hall
City Hall will screen an old classic in color at 2 p.m. The Walt Disney cartoon Alice in Wonderland runs 74 minutes and is based on Lewis Carroll tales. Voices include Kathryn Beaumont Ed Wynn Richard Haddn Sterling Holloway and Jerry Colonna.
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Lewis Carroll
Kathryn Beaumont
Ed Wynn
Richard Hydn
Sterling Holloway
Jerry Colonna
Choir From Ashland College Performs At Rittman
The Ashland College Chapel Choir and The Ivy Leaguers will perform at Rittman Fine Arts Foundation on Thursday January 13 at 7 30 p m in Rittman High School auditorium. The 64 voice ensemble will sing Brahms Casals Pachelbel Lotti and Ness Beck in the first half and selections from My Fair Lady plus nursery rhymes in the second half with Earl Miller and John Gilbert at the piano.
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Ashland College Chapel Choir
Brahms
Pablo Casals
Pachelbel
Lotti
John Ness Beck
Earl Miller
John Gilbert
Music Teachers National Association
Iowa
Casals
Antonio Lotti
Jean Berger
Vinaver
Professor Rogers
Ashland College
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
University of Michigan
Orchestra
Coudlatt
Pierre Monteux
College of Idaho
University of Wisconsin
Ashland
Award Employees for Suggestions at Packaging Corp of America
Six employees received cash rewards for practical suggestions. Orville Hockensmith earned 60 dollars for faster hose handling on a roto gravure press reducing waste and downtime. Others, including Donald Egbert Clifford Ellis Jerrold West Kenneth Higgins and John Collins, received ten or five dollars for improvements in oil drip pans rewinder tools shield guards warning bells and housekeeping ideas.
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Packaging Corporation of America
Orvile Hockensmith
Donald Egbert
Clifford Ellis
Jerrold West
Kenneth Higgins
John Collins
Council weighs urban renewal study for Rittman area
The Citizens Committee on Urban Renewal urges a detailed survey citing deteriorating housing and few large industrial sites. Residents south of the Erie Railroad oppose the plan while committee members note limited multi acre parcels and emphasize eminent domain may aid blighted neighborhoods.
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Old Town
Citizens Committee On Urban Renewal
Council
City Hall
Lindsey Williams
Rittman
Williams
Rittman Area Industrial Development ‘Corporation
Chamber of Commerce
Erie Railroad
U S. Supreme Court
Witams
William Yauman Dies At 52
William E Yauman 52 owner of Triangle Restaurant dies after arriving at Wadsworth Rittman Hospital. He was a Navy WWII veteran and former gas station operator. Survived by wife Esther two brothers Roland and Robert and two sisters. Funeral services at Gillman Funeral Home with Masonic rites and burial at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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William E. Yauman
Triangle Restaurant
Gillman Funeral Home
Wadsworth
Green Cross Hospital
Cuyahoga Falls
Akron
William
Bessie Armstrong
Yauman
Naval Reserve
Church of Christ
State, Wadsworth
Esther
Roland
Clinton
Robert
Texas
Dolores Hodson
Helen Powers
Woodlawn
James
UF United Fund Meeting Open to Public
The United Fund will hold a community meeting in the Community Services Building on Monday January 10 at 8 p.m. The event is open to the public.
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United Fund
Community Services
Mixers Host Meeting With Miss Katherine Bruny
Merry Mixers will meet at 305 West Ohio with Miss Katherine Bruny as hostess on Wednesday January 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Bruny
West
Ohio
Memorial Gift To Wilson Moore At Ida Sue School
Delta Club members donate Montessori equipment to Ida Sue School Wooster as a Christmas gift for Wilson Moore a bus driver who helped form a Boy Scout troop for Ida Sue pupils before his death last year Mrs Charles Copas spoke on The Red Berry at December meeting hostess Mrs Richard Gish and slides on Medico shown by Mrs Leta Renata
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Wilson Moore
Delta Club
Ida Sue School
Wooster
USS Hope
Moore
Charles Copas
Richard Gish
Lois Retana
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Cornell University
Ithaca
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Otterbein College
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Troy
Mich
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Bob
Virginia” Simonton
Wadsworth - Rittman Hospital
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Carl Lind
Rita Hessidence
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Pete Hessidence
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