Dean Mills Back Home From Hospital
Local notes recount family visits and anniversaries as readers share holiday tales. Dean Mills returns to 31 S Main after a twelve day stay at Akron Children's Hospital while Bruce Holland heads back to Lincoln Christian College after holidays with Vernon and Blanche Holland.
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Dean Mills
S Main
Akron Children’s Hospital
Dean
Gerald L Mills
Bruce Holland
Vernon
Blanche Holland
Mike
Holland’s
North Fourth
Bruce
Lincoln Christian College
Lincoln, Il
Rittman Board approves temporary 1971 appropriations
At a Monday night meeting the Rittman Board of Education elected William Forrer as president and Dallas Haulk as vice president for 1971. A temporary appropriation measure passed, covering general control, instruction, coordinated activities, auxiliary agencies, and operations with a total general fund of 1 243 452. Final 1971 appropriations will be set in March.
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Rittman Board of Education
William Forrer
Dallas Haulk
Forrer
General Control
Board of Education
William Adams To Speak At Chamber Banquet
William Adams will address the Chamber of Commerce annual banquet on Tuesday January 19. He will discuss teamwork for tomorrow. Adams, born in Birmingham Alabama, holds a Latin American Trade BBA from the University of Texas and served in Europe and Brazil with the Army Air Force in World War I. He rose from junior loan executive to sports and city editor in Texas and later led the Greater Cleveland Growth Association beginning January 1 1968. He also chairs the Cleveland Development Foundation and serves on multiple boards, with past roles in the American Chamber of Commerce Executives and the United States Chamber. An honorary USAF Reserve Captain, he received the Episcopal Bishop's Cross in 1968. Adams is married to Betty Low Pollard of Henderson Texas. they have a son and three daughters.
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William Adams
Chamber of Commerce
Adams
Birmingham
University of Texas
Europe
Brazil
Army Air Force
Alice
Victoria
Texas
Greater
Rittman Floods Seed $17,318 From 1969 Damages
The Rittman area will receive $17,318 as part of $684,159 in damages from 1969 tornadoes and floods. The funds are part of a larger payout to Ohio and its political subdivisions.
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Rittman
Ohio
Deadline for Rittman Citizen of the Year nominations
Nomination letters must be sent to The Citizen of the Year Committee, Rittman Chamber of Commerce, Box 330, Rittman, Ohio, with a 1 pm January 14 deadline. Previous winners listed from 1951 to 1969. Also notes Federal disaster aid advances and pending funds for Ohio local governments following July 1969 tornadoes and floods, with specific county and city allocations and pending engineering audits.
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Rittman
Rittman Chamber of Commerce
Rittman, Ohio
James Hile
Ralph Gwaltney
Minnie Bodager
R. D Wenger
Evalin Grant
W H. Hauenstein
Russell W. Frey
Antoinette Gaborsky
Lewis K Burnett
F O Kanehl
K. W Osborne
J W Frye
Ben Bodager
Glenn Parman
Lindsey Williams
A J. Broadhurst
Robert H West
G. H. Clippinger
W M Phillips
Ohio
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Wayne County
Medina County
City of Rittman
City of Orrville
City of Wooster
City of
Orrville
Wooster
Memorial service for Air Force Captain Schaffner
Memorial services were held for Air Force Captain William O. Schaffner 28 formerly of Rittman who died in a jet crash in the North Sea on Sept 8 The service took place in Chapel One Lockbourne Air Force Base Schaffner a Vietnam Thailand veteran and Royal Air Force exchange pilot was flying a single seat jet on a practice mission with other aircraft and the plane plunged into the sea off the east coast of England a three day search found no wreckage The cause of the crash was not determined He is survived by his widow Linda and three sons David Jack 6 Glennon Dwite 5 and William Michael 7 months his mother Elzear Schaffner of Columbus and sister Mrs Samuel E Milliron of Worthington His father the late Jack Schaffner formerly worked at the PCA and built the house now occupied by Carl Bradford’s.
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Air Force
William O. Schaffner
Rittman
North Sea
Chapel One
Lockbourne Air Force Base
Schaffner
Vietnam
Thailand
British
Royal Air Force
England
Jan
Ohio University
Linda
David Jack
Glennon Dwite
William Michael
Elzear Schaffner
Columbus
Samuel E Milliron
Worthington
Jack Schaffner
PCA
Carl Bradford's
Enumerators in Rittman Seek Help for City Directory
Enumerators are in Rittman to collect information for the new city directory. Residents are asked to cooperate by providing details on husband and wife occupations phone numbers addresses homeowners and children. Enumerators will carry letters of identification and city manager explanations. This is not an endorsement by the city or chamber of commerce.
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Rittman
Chamber of Commerce
Rittman Hit By Two Fires
Rittman was struck by two blazes over New Years weekend. The first burned Rittman Tire Supply at 4 26 am New Years morning, the second at 547 pm at Sherman S Dalbey’s home. Fire crews from Sterling and Chippewa Two deployed multiple units, six hours of effort, cause undetermined.
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Rittman
Sherman S. Dalbey
Lawrence ‘‘Buck
Dalbey
Maplewood Ave
Donuts Resume Sale Friday at Rittman Bank Square
Making Donuts Band Bossters will resume donut making Friday with Jane Donuts on sale by 3pm at the Rittman Savings Bank on the square and at Conley's. Watch for them.
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Rittman Savings Bank
Conley’s
Wayne Savings plans fifth Ohio office in Rittman on Main Street
Wayne Savings & Loan will open a new Main Street branch in Rittman, across from the shopping center near the Medical Center. The Rittman office, approved by the Ohio Superintendent, will start with three staff and offer the full Wooster area services, with features like a drive in window and a night depository.
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Rittman
Wayne Savings & Loan Company
Main Street
William J Drumm
Wayne Savings
Ohio Superintendent of Building and Loan Associations
Medical Center
North Main Street
Wooster
Daniel C Funk
Funk
Wayne Forrer
Forrer
Registration Opens At Wayne County Vocational School
Winter session runs January 4 to 7 from 1pm to 8pm at the Vocational School with January 8 session 8:30am to 5pm. Nursing Aide class tentatively January 11, Bus Drivers Training January 11. A full time Data Processing adult program to begin in February, one year long, 5 hours daily, 5 days a week, $425 per person with state support. Veterans possible, 5 high school credits may be earned. Contact F E Bartholow at 669-481 extension 64. Adult education office hours listed.
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Wayne County Joint Vocational School
F E Bartholow
IRS Offers Help to 30 Million In 1970
The Internal Revenue Service offers to compute income tax and retirement income credit for up to 30 million taxpayers filing 1970 returns. New rules aim to reduce common errors seen on 1969 returns and aid the elderly with retirement income credit calculations.
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Internal Revenue Service
IRS
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Fred Holland
Vic and
Marge Holland
Ft. Campbell, Ky
Fred
Peggy Lutz
W. Liberty
Tom Becerra
Janet Pratt
Mat Labo
Lunter
Orin Rufener
Jim Frye
John R. Simonton
Louie Kitts
John Lamson
Shelly Leatherman
Myron Smith
Bonnie Ramster
Peggy Simonton
Jeffery Dean Gould
Leona Adams
Ruth Haynes
Betty Wenger
Bill Adams
Helen R Workman
Ray Armhurst
Dave Rose
Norman Jensen
Robert Bauman
Sterling
Wadsworth- Rittman Hospital
Neil Edward
Walter Bauman
Raymond Drexler
Akron
William Bauman
Benjamin Cook
Neil
Dianna
Debbie
Cassey Workman
Wadsworth-Rittman Hospital
Barbara Dean
Bowling Green
Kenneth Dean
S. First
Rittman Press
Forrer & Haulk
West Hill
North Street
William
William 0. Schaffner
Wayne Savings & Loan
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