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OOVER.NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO Loveabie linage promoted Ohio's 'sweetheart city 9 yearns to embrace nation LOVELAND, Ohio (AP) Loveland, Ohio, wants to become for St. Valentine's Day what the North Pole has become for Christmas, This Cincinnati suburb yearns to be the nation's heart throb, welcoming all those romantics who want to be married in the town that bills itself "The Land of Love." "We get young people driving in from all over the state," said Mayor Viola Phillips, who last year married between 125 and 150 couples. "Sometimes they come knocking on my door at 1 a.m., saying they've come just to get married in Loveland. Some days I'll have three marriages in one day." The image of a garden of love is one the town is trying to promote in order to retain its individuality. Its rapidly growing population of 8,400, living in close proximity to Cincinnati, still wants to retain a small town image, the suburb's first woman mayor said.

"We've always been known as the 'Sweetheart of Ohio' and we like the im- age," said Mrs. Phillips, mother of two and grandmother of four. "Marrying people is the gun part of my job, and I guess I marry more than any other mayor in the state." Even the Chamber of Commerce has come up with a scheme to give Cupid a boost. For the past few years it has been actively encouraging sweethearts to send their valentines to Loveland for a special stamped message appropriate for tomorrow: "There is nothing in this world so sweet as love." This mail campaign is historically apropos, too. The town was named for James Loveland, an area businessman who became the town's first postmaster.

Last year, the Chamber as a goodwill gesture processed about 1,500 valentine cards with the Loveland postmark and its message of love. Cards arrived from every state and four foreign countries, said Doris Pfiester, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. "Things have been a little slow picking up this year," Mrs. Pfiester said. "We'd like to see the idea spread even farther than it has.

We think that it's really a lovely custom to have." Cincy bunk bandit nabbed in a hurry CINCINNATI, 'Ohio (AP)- Charles R. Wright 38, of Cincinnati, was scheduled for arraignment before a U.S. magistrate today on two counts of bank robbery, the FBI said. Wright was arrested by Cincinnati police Wednesday for the $6,000 robbery Tuesday of a Central Trust bank branch and for the Oct. 29 holdup of a downtown First National Bank branch.

Police said they were tipped by. a caller who recognized Wright's picture in The Cincinnati Enquirer. The photograph was taken by the bank's automatic camera Tuesday. Police said they recovered the money which was covered with red dye from a device tellers inserted in the loot. Boys caught in middle of shootouti police call off citizen 'cruising 9 Best Heidi Biggs of Belleville, 111., reads nine-foot telegram signed by 300 residents of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada wishing her well on a trip to Hawau she begins this weekend with her mothejr.

When Sudbury heard of Heidi's dream of the trip, it sent $2400 to make it possible. Heidi is terminally ill with cancer. She's 14. (UPITelephoto) The Washington Post ALEXANDRIA, Va. Alexandria's "ride-along" program, In which citizens ride with police officers to observe their work, will be suspended Indefinitely because of an Incident In which two young participants were riding In a police car when It was involved in a high-speed chase and shootout.

More than 2000 Alexandria residents had participated in the three-year program without becoming involved in a serious accident. Recently, however, Ptl. M. J. Sailer had two youths, aged 11 and 14, in his cruiser as he and another officer in a second car chased an armed motorist.

Under department regulations, no citizen is to be brought to the scene of a crime In progress, Instead, the officer Is supposed to drop off the civilians In a safe place and radio another officer to pick them up. But in this chase, Nathaniel Hunt and Layton Ennis, were huddled on the cruiser's rear seat and floor during the exchange of 19 pistol shots and four shotgun blasts by police, pellets from which shattered the window above their heads. The department requires parents of participants under 18 years of age and all adults to sign a waiver, which states emergency procedures, before they can participate in the program. Lois Hunt, Nath'aniel's mother, said in a telephone interview that the release from the signed waiver "said right there in black and white thai they were not going to take any civilians Into crimes In progress." "I really don't think they should shoot a shotgun right over the head of an 11-year-old boy, "she added. Insurance firm seeks repayment St.

Paul Insurance Co. of Lakewood has filed action in common pleas court to recover it paid on an Insurance claim. The complaint alleges that on March 16, 1971, Hiawatha King of Baltic broke into the Newcomerstown home of Dale Porcher, who held a policy with the company, and stole personal property. The insurance firm paid the $600 claim for the stolen items and wants reimbursement from King. The Local and Lovable Bank toys: JOIN J-R CARRIER OPENINGS NOW AVAILABLE IN Uhrichsville Dennison Midvale Tuscarawas i (We are presently accepting applications for all areas) Yes, I'm interested and would like to know more about the opportunities offered by becoming a Times-Re- I porter carrier.

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