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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1967
Page
9
Auditor Glenn L. Peters announced a 22 percent increase in true property value after the 1967 reappraisal by Allied Appraisal Co. of Bowling Green. The auditor and staff handled office work to cut costs, with total appraisal under 12 000 dollars. Tax rates typically drop when valuations rise, so most owners pay a modest increase.
Vinton county deputy sheriff Robert Kight investigated two burglaries in Vinton. At Swan school entry was gained through a side window and foodstuffs including 10 cans of frozen orange juice tomato paste kraut kidney beans and honey were stolen. A later breach at Cavanaugh hardware in Zaleski yielded $34 in merchandise including $12 in pennies, drinks and candy bars.
Union Furnace summer band practice for Starr Washington senior and junior bands is set at the high school band room. Senior group meets 1 to 3 p.m. Monday Aug. 7, while juniors practice 1 to 2 30 p.m.
Wallace Rosander, a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad engineer, is charged in Municipal Court with operating a locomotive 35 mph in a 25 mph zone. The tracks run down the middle of a city street.
The Racine Sunday School classes, Methodist and Happy Hustlers, held separate picnics. The Methodists went to Camp Ashbury near Rio Grande for a worship service and lunch, then swam. The Happy Hustlers and Racine WSCS visited Oak Grove near Grange Hall with husbands as guests of their wives.
Nelsonville entries push total to four as Const ance Midkiff Athens Jeanette Throckmorton Albany Sharon McClellan Amesville and Ronna Burchfield Nelsonville join the contest. The queen candidate filing deadline is Tuesday.
Honolulu millionaire Stewart E Fern plans to move his family to Caroline a cluster of 24 islets near Tahiti to farm copra and perhaps run an exclusive escape resort. He leases three islands from the British government under South Seas Copra and Navigation Co aiming to market copra with potential self funding in five years.
A McArthur area man, 46 year old Raroh E. Davis, was arrested in Adrian, Michigan, and returned to Vinton County after taking a used 1960 Ford from Dodrill Ford Sales on a February trial ride. He faces auto theft and bad check charges and is wanted in Hocking County on a bad check case. Davis claimed to seek a coal mine near Lake Hope and allegedly drove the car to West Virginia and Michigan before being apprehended.
Mrs Marjorie Grimm led devotions at the B M Sayre Missionary Society meeting in the Baptist Church with The Stewardship of Time as the theme. Mrs Jean Sidell Mrs June Klees Mrs Janice Gibbs and Mrs Sarah Fowler of Middleport Baptist Church reported on the Women's Conference in Granville. The guests also presented a play Speak Without Fear.
Point Pleasant Lions Club sponsors a parade and talent show opening Mason County Fair days. Talent show Thursday at 7 p.m. requires Mason County residents ages 1 8 and amateur status with pre event registration by Saturday. music limited to classical or pop. Lion parade Wednesday at 2 p.m. for Mason County residents 14 and under. contact organizers by Tuesday. Trophies announced for best antique car, best commercial float, best junior and senior decorated floats and bikes. Parade forms at 1 p.m. at Second and Main Streets.
Benton resident John Lovett asks a friend about New York after his first trip. The friend enthusiastic about shows museums and attractions admits he was overwhelmed by options and ended up with shoes half sold.
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