Athens Council Approves 129 647 Budget for 1938
Athens City Council approved a 1938 municipal budget of 129647.49 dollars, about 24000 less than last year’s request, with funds split among general, streets, waterworks, and bond interest. Largest general fund revenues come from taxes liquor and sales tax, while state sales tax drop is noted due to food tax abolition. Public works include sidewalk mandates on WPA project and a planned sanitary sewer for Townsend Addition.
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Athens
County Budget Commission
Council
General Fund
Len B. McCune
Spring St
Grosvenor St
Townsend Addition
Life at Home Key to Education Says University Expert
Dr. Martin P. Chworowsky of the University of Pittsburgh told the Athens Rotary Club that pre school parent child relationships shape later schooling. He urged kindergarten and noted schools must address health and emotional life, not just the three R s. The club voted $25 to the Athens County Fresh Air Camp fund.
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Martin P. Chworowsky
University of Pittsburgh
Athens Rotary Club
Falk Elementary School of
Pittsburgh
Ohio University
Chworowsky
Rotary Club
Athens County
Storage House Fire Ends Athens Fire Dept No-Fire Streak
A fire of undetermined origin broke out in the former Swift and Co. packing house at the foot of the embankment end of Central Ave last night ending Athens Fire Department's streak of no fires since May 11. Firemen faced smoke and extinguished the small blaze at 10 35 p m with slight damage. The building, owned by Fred Kittle of 173 N Lancaster St, is used by The McBee Co. as a storage house.
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Swift and Co
Central Ave
Athens Fire Department
Fred Kittle
Lancaster St
The
McBee Co
Hog cholera first found in America ninety nine years ago
A historical note records the first detection of hog cholera in the United States dating back ninety nine years, marking a key event in veterinary public health and livestock disease history.
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America
Hatchet Is Exhumed Amid County Truck Repair Dispute
A local dispute resurfaces as the hatchet is seen unburied in a county government dispute. Engineer Ben F. Beckler Jr reports four trucks in the county garage with one beyond repair and three awaiting parts not yet provided by the commissioners. Beckler says he talked with the commissioners yesterday but received no resolution as meetings were planned.
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Ben F. Beckler, Jr
Beckler
Skeptics Question Confession By Fred Lehoe
Neighbors found Bodi's body July 28. Lehoe arrested July 29 after a robbery tied confession. A lie detector test in London showed he lied about accomplices while officials doubt the guilt of others. Lehoe favors Athens jail and faces murder arraignment planned for today.
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Bodi
Lehoe
Charles Bayless
George Bateman
Nelsonville
Bateman
Bayless
London Monday
Howard G. Robinson
Bureau of Criminal Identification
Ohio
Hebbardsville
Young People Meeting In Athens Tabernacle
The Olivet Trio from Olivet College will sing at a zone rally of 20 congregations tonight at 7 45 in the Nazarene Tabernacle Walker and State Streets. Speakers include Rev C A Gibson district superintendent Columbus Ohio and Rev J F Leist Olivet College representative.
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Olivet
Olivet College
Nazarene Tabernacle
Walker
State Sts
C. A. Gibson
Columbus
Ohio
J. F. Leist
Tests for drivers licenses to be given at state station
Tests for drivers licenses will be given at the State Highway Patrol station on Richland Ave. Thursday. Patrolmen from Athens headquarters will give tests in Gallipolis tomorrow and in Logan Friday.
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State Highway Patrol
Richland Ave
Athens
Gallipolis
Logan
62 Ath County enrollees join CCC and sent to distant camps
Sixty two Athens County men enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps after a July intake at Camp Nelson. Thirty four were assigned July 23 to camps including Hocking at Logan and others as far as Idaho and Washington. Most receive thirty dollars monthly, twenty two fifty sent to parents. Enrollees include Robert Auflick Nelsonville and James L Barron Nelsonville among others.
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Idaho
Washington
Camp Hocking
Nelson
Nelsonville
CCC
Athens County
Hocking
Logan
Fred C. Shafer
Athens
Shafer
Robert Auflick
James L. Barron
Lee Bell
Albany
Carl E. Bennett
Harry Blimes
Ernest E. Bolin
Albert Bretz
Arley E. Brooks
Andy Brozak
Glouster
Frank Cloid
Murray City
Herbert E. Corwin
Millfield
Ira E. Corwin
Wilford J. Devore
Clyde V. Ely
Mineral
Alfred E. Evans
Everett Gandee
Byron E. Gaston
Morris E. Gaston
Raymond M. Gibson
Frank C. Hemsley
Robert F. Insche
Robert E. Jones
Alfred J. Joy
Brose Leach
Orville W. Levering
Charles R. Marks
Raymond W. Marquis
Clyde H. Perry
Orville A. Pierce
William F. Richards
Hollister
Herbert A. Riley
Leroy Simms
Eugene J. Sollie
John E. Wadling
Edward Agan
the Plains
Denny Ashcraft
Guysville
Dale Baughman
J. Pershing Bobo
Albert J. Burns
Charles H. Calvert
Buchtel
John Doughty, Jr
Arthur D. Bisnaugle
James A. Evans
Sheldon A. Glass
New Marshfield
Clifton V. Hawk
William L. Inscho
Meredith L. Lehman
Robert L. Lent
Jack L. McCreanor
Gail McNamee
Calvin Mace
Carbondale
Wilford E. Mathews
Fred Nelson
Walter M. Orndorf
Reece C. Ritchie
Ernest Rowland
William F
Ashadian Club Plans Ice Cream Social
The Ashadian 4-H Club of Shade met at the Lodi Grange Hall to plan an ice cream social for August 5. County extension agent Ross Wright spoke on the County Fair camping and 4-H activities. The next meeting will be at Margaret Pearman’s home.
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4-H Club
Shade
Lodi Grange Hall
Ross Wright
Albany Lucky Leaf Stitchers
Christine Dorsey
Margaret Pearman
Divorced Couple From Sugar Creek Granted by Judge
James Shreeves of Sugar Creek was granted a divorce from Rosa in Athens Common Pleas Court this morning on gross neglect of duty. The couple, married in 1929, have no children. Shreeves testified Rosa was frequently seen with other men.
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James Shreeves
Sugar Creek
Rosa
O. F. Rowland
Athens
Legion to Meet at Post Hall Wednesday Night
The K. T. Crossen Post of the American Legion will hold a regular meeting Wednesday night at the Legion Hall on S. Court Street.
Trustees Urged to Organize Federal Food Distribution
Athens County trustees are asked to aid in distributing monthly federal surplus food valued at 4 000 to 5 000 dollars. A meeting of representatives from 14 township boards is set for Thursday at one o clock in the Athens County Courthouse. R W Wilson, clerk of the commissioners, issued notices. The WPA has eliminated the program, leaving the county to arrange distribution to needy families with no funds.
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Athens County
R. W. Wilson
WPA
School Board Reinstatement Bid In Tolliver Case
Judge Rowland told both sides in Gordon Tolliver v York Township School Board to file briefs on why Tolliver was ousted for absence from 90 day rule. Tolliver claims he provided adequate excuse and attended at least one meeting. The board removed him after January to May absences. briefs due August 5 and response by August 10.
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Gordon Tolliver
York Township
O. F. Rowland
Tolliver
Toliver
Fines in McCune's Court on intoxication cases
Three Athens men pleaded guilty before Mayor Len B. McCune after arraignment. George Frazier paid $5, George Carsey $25, and Harley Brown $10 plus costs. Carsey and Brown were jailed in default. John Gabriel Jr. of Athens R D 6 paid a $5 fine for reckless driving.
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Athens
Len B. McCune
George Frazier
George Carsey
Harley Brown
Athens County
John Gabriel, Jr
Athens R. D
McCune
Will Rebuild Route North of Chauncey
The State Highway Department plans reconstruction of a quarter mile of State Route 13 about a mile and a half north of Chauncey to remove a slip from last winter's floods. Sun day Creek will be relocated a quarter mile. Bids due August 24 to John Jaster Jr. The project costs about 29606 dollars and features a 20 foot roadway and 37 foot wide pavement. Completion in 75 working days with unskilled labor via the National Reemployment Service.
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State Highway Department
Chauncey
Sunday Creek
John Jaster, Jr
National
July collections set county clerk record in Athens
Ruth Burdette reports July receipts of 1364.51 dollars to the county treasurer, with fines split between state and county. The month also saw 928 automobile bills of sale issued, including 119 for new vehicles, and licenses totaling 30 hunting permits and 11 fishing permits.
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Athens County
County Clerk of Courts
Ruth Burdette
Miss Mary Frances Groves Returns From Trip
Miss Mary Frances Groves completes a month long vacation visiting Cleveland and Jackson Michigan. In Cleveland she stayed with Miss Virginia Shumate. The final two weeks were at the Alpha Gamma Delta Summer Camp on Crespell Lake near Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. F L Groves drove to Jackson to bring her home last Friday.
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Nelsonville
Mary Frances Groves
Cleveland
Jackson
Mich
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