Ebright Pushes Local Government Reform at Rotary Meeting
State Treasurer Don Ebright, a governor candidate, urged return to local control and citizen responsibility. He warned centralized taxes and subsidies erode local self-government and cited declining voter participation since 75 percent a half century ago. He praised Ohio University leaders and urged school programs to foster civic duty. In other items, Conrath Bean chapter of Disabled American Veterans will meet, and Arthur Stadler Jr. and Leta Mae Nelson received a marriage license.
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Don Ebright
Athane Pataru Mlhih
VL Geis Feueloeid Auteur Y Sr Enenre Rotarians
Ohio University
Ebright
Ohio
Washington
Columbus
John C. Baker
Paul Ballard
House of Representatives
Peple
Conrath Bean
Armory
C. J. Ailstock
Two Hundred Hear GOP Speakers at Mechanicsburg Meeting
About 200 people attended a Mechanicsburg School meeting Monday to hear state treasurer Don Ebright and Congressman Thomas A. Jenkins. Ebright assailed the Lausche administration over civil service, Aid for the Aged, and budget waste while Jenkins defended McCarthy era accusations against the Washington state department and urged returning Bob Taft to the Senate. Local candidates and officials were listed among attendees at the event sponsored by the Athens County Women’s Republican Club.
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Mechanicsburg
Don Ebright
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ebright
Frank J. Lausche
Jenkins
McCarthy
State Department
Washington
Louis Johnson
Joe Stalin
Lausche
Ohio
All
Bob Taft
Senate
P. F. Good
Athens
Good
Paul Smith
William Warren
Congress
C. Stanley Mechem
Earl M. Baughman
O. C. Bibbee
Don Campbell
Franz Woodworth
Joe Hardy
Nora Atkinson
Anna Evans
George Ford
Miles Howe
Ray James
Wayne Ward
Claudis Chappel
Ralph Elliott
George Bateman
Ray Bobo
John Dowler
Ed Lasch
John Newcomb
W. H. Wakefield
Athens County Women’s Republican Club
Margaret Wakefield
Athens County
Republican Women's Club
Absentee Vote Deadlines Outlined By County Clerk
C W Gross, clerk of the board of elections, explained absentee voting deadlines. Apply by 6:30 p m Thursday, vote by Friday noon. disabled voters by noon Friday. Judges must call results to the board immediately after counts, or a representative will attend at the judge’s expense.
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C. W. Gross
Board of Elections
Gross
Board
Kiwanis Hears Music Pupils at Athens Club Meeting
The Athens Kiwanis Club heard four Athens High School soloists under Music Director W. C. Fingerhut. Ruth Ellen Sands played a clarinet solo Adagio and Tarantella by Bugs Bunny. Ruth Wickline performed Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream by Mendelssohn on French horn. Charles M. Frank and David Lewis contributed trumpet and trombone selections Morceau Symphonique by Guilmant and Stars in the Velvety Sky by Clarke.
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Athens Kiwanis Club
Hotel Berry
Athens High School
W. C. Fingerhut
Ruth Ellen Sands
Ruth Wickline
Charles M. Frank
David Lewis
Miss Sands
Bugs
Miss Wickline
Mendelsohn
Lewis
Clarke
Frank
Guilmart
Athens residents noted in sheltering arms hospital list
Delle Finsterwald and Lavina McGarity of Athens receive major and minor surgery respectively while listed along with Mrs Wanda MacDonald and Mrs Marie Bochert also in Athens for medical care. Others named include Mrs Lois Crabtree Ottie Munn Bernie Shanklin of The Plains and Raymond Moody of Millfield with several entries incomplete.
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Lois Crabtree
Athens
Ottie Munn
Bernie Shanklin
the Plains
Raymond Moody
Millfield
Bricklayer Considers Retirement After 50 Years of Work
Early River, 72, a veteran bricklayer and builder, plans retirement to devote time to his 40 acre Stewart area farm. He has worked across Ohio and West Virginia, studied at Tuskegee Institute, and raised daughter Katherine who graduated Rome Canaan High School with honors.
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Stewart
Bebee
Lord Dunmore
Pickaway Plains
Hockingport
Federation
Rome Township
Mr. Rizer
Cornelius Rizer
Alabama
Probosco Rizer
Young Early Rizer
Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
Ohio
West Virginia
Athens County
Katherine
Rome
Canaan High School
Two Drivers Fined After Patrol Arrests
Jon Alfred Gant, 22, of Chilli cothe was fined $5 and costs after being arraigned by Mayor W. P. Mickle for permitting friends to ride on the outside of his 1937 coupe when State Highway Patrol arrested him. Russell Shaffer, 24, of Athens Route 2, received $15 and costs for unsafe operation after patrolmen cited him following a Sunday accident at Route 50 A junction with Route 33.
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Jon Alfred Gant
Chillicothe
W. P. Mickle
Gant
State
Highway Patrol
Russell Shaffer
Athens
Shaffer
Mickle
Repair Shop Operator Asks Judgment in Court
Ralph Perry proprietor of Perry Radiator Repair Shop in Nelsonville seeks judgment for labor and costs totaling 45.65 against Alex Ross of Gloucester. The award was in Justice of the Peace Floyd Brown's court and is now appealed in common pleas court. Perry seeks money for radiator work done on Ross' car after Ross returned for further repairs following dissatisfaction.
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Ralph Perry
Perry
Nelsonville
Alex Ross
Glouster
Common Pleas Court
Court of Justice of the Peace
Floyd Brown
Ross
Sugar Spill Floods Hill Road After Truck Rollover
A tractor-trailer driven by John W. Edwards from New Castle overturned at the foot of Sharpsburg Hill on Route 50A spilling sugar in brown and powdered forms across a field. Edwards and a passenger Junior Travers were uninjured. vehicle damage was extensive. Sugar partially saved. cleanup completed by 3:30 p.m. after patrols reported.
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Sharpsburg Hill
John W. Edwards
New Castle
Edwards
Junior Travers
Ex-Athenian Dies Monday in Charleston
Donn Voorhees 54 longtime Charleston Daily Mail assistant city editor and former Athens and Albany resident died unexpectedly at his home near Charleston. A 1915 Athens High School graduate he studied journalism at Ohio University leaving in 1926. He later worked as telegraph editor at Charleston Gazette before joining the Charleston Daily Mail staff in 1938. During World War I he served in France with field artillery. Survived by his widow two daughters and a son.
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Donn Voorhees
Charleston Daily Mail
Ohio University
Charleston
Athens
Albany
Athens High School
Ohio U
Charleston Gazette
Charleston Press Club
France
Field Artillery
Voorhees
Two Wills Admitted In Probate Court
Wills admitted to probate in Athens County Court and Record include Elmus Wilson's will naming his widow M J Wilson as contingent beneficiary and Lowlin V McClure's will naming her husband James H McClure as main beneficiary.
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Athens County
Elmus Wilson
M. J. Wilson
Lowlin V. McClure
James H. McClure
Athens Sees 78 Degree Day With 55 Night, Light Rain
Temperatures climbed to 78 degrees Monday in Athens and fell to 55 overnight. Readings from the Columbus and Southern Ohio Poston Plant noted light rainfall totaling 0.19 inches.
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Athens
Columbus & Southern Ohio
Poston
Police Probe Two Entries In Athens Restaurant and Boyd St Residence
City police continue investigation of two break ins in Athens. Hilltop Restaurant on Columbus Road was entered late Sunday night or Monday morning, $65 taken from the cash register. At the Robert Nice residence on Boyd Street vandals broke a window, several pieces of furniture damaged but nothing stolen.
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Athens
Boyd St
Joseph McBride
Hilltop
Columbus ,Road
McBride
Robert Nice
Exams Announced for Federal Posts in Washington DC
The U S Civil Service Commission announces examinations for chemist mathematician physicist and metallurgist posts in Washington DC Salaries range from 3825 to 10000 a year Full information and applications due by May 23 from local secretary F D Higgins at the post office per the notice.
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Washington, D. C
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Commission
F. D. Higgins
Commissioners Study Contract For Pipe Line
Athens County commissioners met with Prosecuting Attorney Gordon B. Gray to review a contract that would require Tennessee Gas Transmission Co to post a $5000 bond before crossing county roads. They previously rejected a similar agreement for lacking the bond clause. Also approved was a July delivery purchase of corrugated pipe from Republic Steel Co for county highways.
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Tennessee Gas Transmission Co
Athens County
Gordon B. Gray
Republic Steel Co
Athens man fined for intoxication after guilty plea
Laurence Scheffield, 49, of Athens Route 2, was fined $10 and costs after pleading guilty to intoxication. The arresting officers were city police.
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Laurence Scheffield
Athens
W. P. Mickle
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AGT
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New Marshfield
Constitution Lodge 426
F&am
E. W. Allen, Jr
Sharon
F. J. Beasley Co
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