The Journal Herald from Dayton, Ohio • 26

JOURNAL 11EIULD Mondar, 18, 1969 Possum Creek Reserve at If Threshing Time I i 1 i I 1 -4lvVrV- 'J tAl 11 fr -2r 'a- rv; i 6 4 V. x'fJ i --as- I. Old Time steam tractor and thresher in replay of "haj'ing time I 1 Oldtimer Chews Away; Sleek Gadget Rained Out riqA Washington," said Holp, who lives near Brookville and supervises a couple of cemeteries in Clay Township. Yesterday, Holp's old-time farm equipment was doing its stuff at the Possum Creek Reserve for the benefit of city children in a program arranged by the Dayton-Montgomery Park District. The idea was to contrast By William Barringer Journal Htrold Staff Writer Homer F.

Holp shoveled some more coal into the boiler, turned a valve on his 1892 Six Horse Advance steam-driven tractor, tooted the whistle, and sat back to watch the machine drive a thresher, also made in 1892. "I brought that tractor all the way from the state of MMM(ajaMMMaWMMMaif grain-threshing methods used in the days of steam-powered farm machinery with the sleek, air-conditioned efficiency of a modern combine. And as it turned out, the old reliables won a clear victory. A light rain dampened the harvested grain, and the modern combine was unable to handle the wet hay. It just sat there, looking forlom, while the steam thresher chewed its way through a wagonload of oats.

The rain also held down the size of the crowd. Dean Mutter, administrative assistant to parks director Richard Laww-ill, said this was the second year weather interfered with the threshing bee, although yesterday's drizzle did not discourage an estimated 200 people from visiting the reserve. Mutter said the park district plans to develop the Possum Creek reserve Into a replica of the rural life and agricultural techniques of the 1880s. iCv 1 Xenia Group Asks Commission Vote Homer F. Holp adjusts his 1892 Six Horse engine Blacks, Whites Grope, Then Unite-in Baha'i XENIA Initiative petitions seeking a November vote on a charter amendment to enlarge the Xenia city commission from five to seven members have would be elected to four-year terms, as they are now.

a 1 1 this year, Burnett asked city commission to place the same question on the ballot. Commissioners refused, but agreed to appoint a charter review committee next year, also at the suggestion of Burnett. The final product-pure grain been filed at city hall. The 71 sets of four-page petitions contain 1,292 signatures, according to O. Jay Burnett, chairman of the Xenia Improvement Committee, who filed the petitions with Finance Director Arthur S.

Curlett. Grand Jury Indicts Suspect In Shooting Death of Wife blonde hair. White hands explored thick lips. They were two figures in a drama ending the Dayton Baha'i community's regional Youth for One World conference at the YMCA yesterday. For the 150 attending youth members of the world religion, By Catherine Martindale Journal Herald Staff Writer The two blindfolded figures groped about the stage, feeling the walls, the air, seeking a way out.

They touched, drew back, touched gain. Black hands stroked long ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT 10 OFF ON EVERYTHING Must Move Out For FAIR Everything Reduced Nothing Reserved HALLUM FURNITURE Inside Fairgrounds 6 Days 9 to 9 Sunday 1 to 6 Kammer Ave, on two counts of armed robbery and two counts of grand larceny. He is accused of holding up a City Loan and I Savings Co. branch office at 3801 W. Third St.

William C. Early of 408 Geneva Road on two counts of shooting to kill. Lee G. Johnson, 52, of 626 Da-jkota on two counts of assault they were the black race and the white, groping together. Suddenly, the blindfolds were off.

They drew back, seized sticks, flailed at each other. "Devil!" "Murderer!" "Savages!" "Betty Crocker!" Mocking each other. Mocking society. Mocking themselves. Susan Leich and Joseph My-dell from the Manhattan Project repertory company in East Village, N.Y., drew together, laughing drunkenly at the world.

They became the some of-my best friends are Negro liberal with the taken-to-lunch black. They failed again. Again ihe sticks cracked sharply against one another. "Baha'i." The name of their common religion a religion that teaches that all religions, from Christianity to Buddhism, are but different manifestations of the same God. The Montgomery County grand jury has indicted Willie R.

Lattimore 47, of 144 N. Gettysburg for second degree murder in connection with the killing of his wife. Lattimore allegedly shot and killed his wife May 22. Her body was found on a bed in their home. Lattimore had been charged with first degree murder.

The grand jury also returned indictments in 21 other cases. Persons indicted include: Larry C. Flynt 26, of 4290 Linden for pointing and a deadly weapon. It was Burnett's committee which last year promoted an initiated vote to cut Xenia's municipal income tax from 1 percent to one-half of 1 percent. "We want a seven-man commission to give the city better representation," Burnett said yesterday.

"Also, one or two men on the commission would find it a lot more difficult to control a seven-man commission." THE PETITIONS ask that the proposed charter amendment, if approved by voters, become effective Jan. 1. Under provisions of the amendment, the two additional members of city commission would be elected in November, 1970, and initially serve one-year terms. After that, all commissioners THOMAS L. ANDERSON, 22, of 203 Rawson Drive, New Carlisle and Robert E.

Gray, 20, of 115 S. Main Bellbrook, for unlawful possession of narcotic 8 drugs Police allegedly found mai ijuana in a car in which the vo were riding. The grand jury considered 32 cases during the session. It ignored seven and passed over t'iree. discharging a firearm and assault with a dangerous weapon.

The chargns stem from a July 4 incident at Flynt's Talk of the Town lounge, 217 N. Main St. JOHN R. FITCH, 23, of 1014 01 that certain loot; for back-to-school from our collection by Bo Jests wool cable cardigan made in Hong Kong Cavalon Drapery Cleaning SPECIAL 8.00 If In I 1 1 3 A 1 i which has 2,000 "communities" in the United States and 25,000 worldwide. They came together, black and white, joyously telling of their faith.

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