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Dayton Daily News from Dayton, Ohio • 20

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Dayton Daily Newsi
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Dayton, Ohio
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WKKtKKKHKBKKBWffittttttiKWmmml to W' pHUpBI Ohio Bell's S2 Million Kettering Record Processing Facility Main Library at Third and St. Clair Also $2 Million Project DAYTON DAILY 17 NEWS Sept. 20, Fag-e 20 Welder's Sizzling Torch Is Symbolic of Dayton Area's Construction RAIN, SNOW STAY AWAY Builders In High Gear facility of Ohio Bell Telephont Co. on Woodman Dr. in Kettering, and Rike-Kumler's million-dollar branch store in Kettering at E.

Dorothy Lane and Woodman Dr. In addition, there are the millions of dollars worth of road work done this summer. COMMUNITIES have undertaken numerous projects, uch Montgomery county has seen some Jj5.7 million worth of new construction get under way this yaw, Much of it won't be compleied until next year, however. AMONG THE more notable projects under way now are the S2 million main library at Third and St. Clair the $2 million records processing Construction people are in the countdown phase of the 1961 season.

They're counting the days and weeks before heavy fall rains set in, then frost and snow. These seasonal phenomena signal the end of construction on most nuKiile (Mm and workers are rushing now to either finish completely or jet their project enclosed before winter. as street widening and re-surfacing, too. More spectacular is the multi-million-dollar U. S.

Route 3.i superhighway project continuing its westward progress toward the downtown. Next year?" There'll be plenty more of the same. Tens of millions of dollars more in new construction will be started. Much of it is on the drawing boards now. Toward Downtow Multi-Million Dollar Rt.

35 Superh ighway Moves STAFF PHOTO BY BILL SHEPHERD. mm, mmmm BlsWsa I i. mil ill! ml in I I ill III ill I HI III I ill hi i ii i i mm mmwm fltuaM jsssl Rike-Kumler's Million-Dollar Branch In Kettering at Dorothy Lane and Yoodman Dr. Is Among Major Projects Iking Completed RBMHI IBs. llili MUY HWIS Ni She Hat Time MRS.

I I III 1 1 A Belter Mlts. in NOLtm Sim Helps In hurch Work MltS. RKKTHA RIGHT She lust Witiil lo l.earn III II Mtltlst He's Waited Since 1911 XAROME CMOMBUi He Ee Stepping Stone FRED BATES He Has HtM) I ullege nuns LEI BROW He Wants lo hxphiln IMsjgf School Life Begins Again at 607 Had to Go to Work9 By BOB Wil I Daily Wnh Sixty-year-old Henry Harris went hack to school last night to leam reading, writing and arithmetic. Harris was one of many enrolling for pie-high school study at the Dayton night school's extension center at Highview elementary school, 2101 McArthur Ave. "I've been waiting since 1914 for an opportunity like this," Hams said.

Strangely enough, for years ll.irns has been dialling the class rooms where he now will study. He is High-view school's assistant custodian. RAMUS, of 211 HoUtfld Ave, admitted he has been jealous of tht children attending Highview school. "I wish I had had the same opportunities youngsters have today," he said. The janitor said his education was interrupted In the neventh grade IT veers ago In Birmingham, Ala.

'My mother and fattier ttod. and 1 had to go to Harrta said. His first job as in a groctiy store making 10 cents a day. time since 'va been In school," she said, "but I'd like to leant some mora." She said tl)t education would he beneficial in conducting her church work. MRS.

MARY DAVM. of IT rt tlao wants bMlfl stii'iies to help her carry out church work activities. She said she finished grade school. Mrs. Davis said her two daughters have ftnJahtd then- formal education one is a high school graduate, the other attended college for two years.

"Now, 1 have time for srhoal," she said. Mrs. I.IH Hunter. of Mot' who has iir i hit dren, ald, "I want to learn an thing I i in re eihieaUaa will mike imp a heller niolher, anil will hern lit I In- i lulitn n. I (loll want Ihein lo gel ahenil of no in ggU, Mrs, llunier quit sdiool in the fourth grade, and was mauled at the age of Like moat of the other STTlillll she said she registered tat studies because "this ll tht first nance I've had to go hark io school." "I Just want to learn," nid Mrs.

Lee Bertha Kight, 33. of 3070 Nicholas who plans to resume where her five years of school-log left off. Mrs. Kight went to work taking In laundry, and later carrying lumber in a box factory following the death of her lather. RAMME CAMPBELL iTWBSrf Ave hop, the pre-high school comic will be his stepping stone to more education, lending to his becoming an electrical engineer.

Campbell dioppod out of school in the seventh grade, and went lo work when his father became ill. One of ihe youngest enrollces is Fred Hates, '2. of Heth ltd. He is a )Xu graduate of W'ellslon high school, and wants to use the pre-high school count ai a "refresher'' so he can go to college, "i Rm to bettor njnstlf," Bates mm, tm got th nionev in gn lo college now He said the jobs he held since grnituallon haven't gotten him very far. Mrs.

Ida English. of luella Ave had her education interrupted by a marriage at iht age of lfi. 1 it been a Jusig "Now, I've got a rhanc pick up where I left elf," he aid. With more education, Harris said, "I feel I ran do better than I have done." The course he Is registering for stree the thren Its. anil classes are held ten nights a week for weeks.

Although the night school for adults offers high school English, homemaking. mathematics and interior deeorsfmg courses, the maionty of last night registrations wera for the pre-high school studies. mom IKW PICKED ss a sue for adult education (lasses when area residents voiced their need, snd the school PTA and the Highview Civic council promoted the project. l.ee Blown. of MIS Germantown St icnined for the pre-high school course.

The foundry worker said he has four children in school. When the kids ask me a question, I want to lie able to explain things to he said. Brown education was slopped In th fifth grade al arroll-tnn. i. a when his father died.

He said he went to work to care tnr his mother and four sisters..

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