Gazette News-Current from Xenia, Ohio • Page 10

-I -I" Three-quarters of a century life squad of banking served by Xenians M. By RANDY BLACKABY he i cages that withdrawals was done with first white coal in Xenia and can remember tiir THE XENIA DAILY GAZETTE Thursday, September 9,1976 XENIA Jerry Willis, 1483 Cheyenne 8:52 a.m. Tuesday, taken to Greene i a i a admitted, good condition. Kirk Anderson, 16, son of Philip Anderson, 25 Sexton 5:07 p.m. Tuesday, taken from Cox Football Field, Dayton to GM1I, treated and released.

FAIHBORN Samuel M. Becker, Dayton, 1:17 p.m'. Tuesday, assisted at scene of auto accident in used'car lot of Lang's Chevrolet, 1001 N. Broad no removal. Lucille Pine, 439 W.

Funderburg 3:44 p.m. Tuesday, to GMH, admitted, fair condition. a i Springfield, 11:54 p.m. Tuesday, taken from 500 W. Funderburg Rd.

to Springfield Mercy Medical Center. Office is entered The Conrail Railroad System office at 332 S. Detroit St. was hit by a burglar between Friday and Tuesday, Xenia police reported. Entry was made by knocking a hole in an overhead garage door and unlocking it.

Taken was a 3V 2 horsepower gasoline engine valued at $150, police said. By RANDY BLACKABY DAILY GAZETTE Sllll Wriltr Can you remember when bank loans were 4 per cent, U.S. Savings Bonds paid 2V4 per cent and only farmers and merchants and a few wealthy people used checking accounts? Two employes of Citizens First National Bank remember those times as they mark 30 and 45 years of iron cages that separated tellers and depositors. One thing hasn't changed in the Greene St. bank the Jt's the same one originally installed.

bank withdrawals was done with first white coal in Xenia and pen and ink instead of with took it home. computers and Winter Today, loans for cars, recalls his early appliances and homes are employment in such commonplace. But Winter without the comfort of air conditioning. When Spring Valley National Bank merged with can remember time when all the bank notes held could be placed in one hand and were kept in a small wooden box. what's news A grain storage and marketing tour will be held Wednesday, 9:30 a.m.

to 3:30 p.m. in Madison County. First stop will be at the Miller farms, Crawford and Foster-Redman Rds. Information is available from the county extension office of tl Main and Greene Sts. change three times.

First a multi-windowed building village to handle operations (he a i was -assr Rainbow Girls to install Saturday a a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Chapman, 472 Thelma will be installed as worthy adviser of Xenia Assembly No. 60, Order of Rainbow for Girls, p.m. Saturday.

The ceremony will be held at KELLEY CHAPMAN TYPMfi MA1NG ENDING COPYING COLLATING Money-Saving Prices! koptjkaT Beaver Valley Masonic Temple, Beavercreek. Other officers to be installed are Lynn Jenkins, worthy associate adviser; Tami Baynard, Charity; Nancy Strous, Hope; Tonya Hanlin, Faith; Rhonda Collins, Love; Gerilyn Camp, Religion; Kathy Merriman, Nature; a I a i Michelle Johnson, Fidelity; Debbie Haddix, Patriotism; Tina Polakovics, Service; Jenny Dudley, treasurer; Mary Collins, recorder; Cindy Davis, drill leader; Tyra Hanlin, chaplin; Janeiie Edinger, outer observer; a i i a confidential observer; Kelly Kester, musician and Janice Edinger, choir director. Auxiliary officers are Blanche Watkins, American flag bearer; Jackie Brown, a 'Colbert, Shanna; Ross, Talema Perkins, Sally; Hendricks, Debbie Joyce Edinger and Marie Blankcnship, Melodye Dean, installing officer; Vicki Sidders, first marshal; Brenda Liming, second marshal; Sherry Benner, chaplain; Paula Zink, recorder and Mary Collins, musician. Mrs. Mary Moore will be mother adviser.

of maintennace, will complete 45 years, almost half the time the bank has been in existence. Winter joined the bank staff in 1946, having worked part-time prior to that. J.A. Chew was president of the bank then. But Ward remembers further back than that, when R.D.

Adair served as bank president. and both remember well the 22 years K.W. Sparr served as president between 1950 and 1972. Sparr remains chairman of the board. When Ward and Winter began working for the bank the building at E.

Main and GreeneSls. was the only one owned by the institution. Today there are six facilities, including the Greene St. drive-in, soon to be replaced by another in the Xenia urban renewal area. Both men recall the days when the bank employed only eight people and banking was not the specialized field it is today, requiring 85' employes.

IN 1946 the bank's assets totaled 54,323,076, Winter recalls. The institution's holdings today are 10 times that. A Brink's truck, complete with armed guards, picks up and delivers money at the bank BuMVinter and Ward can 'rem'emb'er'- carrying bags of change to the express company two blocks east of the hank, where it was shipped to Cincinnati, Ward recalls the brass spittoons that used to adorn the marble bank floors and a Winter's father, Erskine Winter wa, undated the a for a ber of vears iuE NKus ss lts mone and lhe bank employes recall cutting lar sheets money and lhen having 'he cashier and bank president sign them on the back. Posting of receipts and SKSSSMB a wheelbarrow. The vault was rigged with a tear gas bomb and workmen triggered it, making the Spring Valley branch a tearful place for several days.

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