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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1976
Page
2
Rothoff International presents the world’s largest fair demolition derby at 8 pm in front of the grandstands following a 6 pm motorcycle rodeo. Wednesday includes senior citizens day with free admission for 60 plus and $5 all ride tickets 1 to 5 pm.
Firemen report a short circuit in wiring of a Citizens Band radio under the dashboard caused a fire inside a 1974 model car owned by Steve Plew in the Athens A&P lot. Damage listed at 800 dollars. A second blaze at the Spartan Inn storage room on Albany Road damaged a box springs and mattress with 50 dollars building and 150 dollars contents loss.
An early morning crash near Glouster sent 26 year old Danny Burns to O'Bleness Memorial Hospital with head and chest pains. Burns was a passenger in a car driven by 20 year old Paul Burns of Glouster on County Road 95 when the vehicle ran off the road and hit a tree stump. The State Highway Patrol reported details from a separate Saturday accident in Hocking County where 21 year old Arnold Grimes drove north on Route 374, left the road, fell down a steep embankment and struck a tree, with Grimes treated at Hocking Valley Community Hospital.
Thomas Rose of Athens helped stop a severe neck bleed after a July 23 motorcycle crash that injured 17 year old Bobbi Jo Mahomey of Guysville Route 1. His quick first aid and calm aid saved her life until EMS arrived, and she later recovered in Columbus hospitals.
The Agriculture Department reports a modest drop in government model grocery plans for a four person family from midsummer 1975 to June 1976, with the low and moderate cost plans down 50 and 80 cents. Production of 14 popular fresh vegetables rose 6 percent in spring 1976 in major states, suggesting potential bargains if savings reach shoppers.
Deputies investigated two break-ins at Del's Ford Tractor Sales over two days. In the first incident three batteries valued at 165 dollars were stolen from the business building. In the second incident money and other items were reported missing.
Charles Caniford, a West Virginia native, is hired by the Federal Hocking Local school board as superintendent with a two year, 22500 annual contract. He comes from Canton area Jackson Local Schools where he led a $9 million high school complex project and curriculum improvements.
The Federal Hocking Local School Board named middle school principal Robert Brennan as head football coach to start the district program. Other coaches were named Monday night with no salary set as the district negotiates a supplemental package. The board approved policy revisions and opened salary talks with the teachers association while addressing bills and upcoming bargaining with AFSCME.
Liberty Torch Bicentennial group of 30 students running 8800 miles from New York to Washington D C faced delays due to storms and detours. Runners pass through Lancaster Logan Nelsonville and Athens with local Athens students meeting them in Nelsonville. The voyage honors spiritual values and unity with water from the Atlantic and soil from each state to reach a final liberty tree planting in Washington.
Prices at Athens Livestock Sales Inc. weekend auction included feeder steers 22.50 to 35, feeder heifers 20 to 30.75, slaughter bulls 31.75 to 35, feeder bulls 22.50 to 33.75, utility cows 23.50 to 27.80, canner and cutter cows 19 to 23.50, veals 40 to 48, hogs 43.50 to 43.90, and pigs 15 to 34.50. Ohio Valley Livestock Co. in Gallipolis posted stocker steers 25 to 36, stocker heifer calves 21 to 33, canners 18 to 23.50, Holsteins 24 to 26.75, commercial bulls 29 to 35.50, veals 46 to 59.50, culls 45 and down, sows 34 to 37, stock cows by head 125 to 280, stock cows and calves 170 to 320, stock bulls 175 to 260, baby calves 15 to 50, top lambs 34 to 36.50, lambs seconds 31 to 34.
A brief note says there is no tax sheltered plan available for Modern Woodmen members, signaling changes in benefits or retirement options for the fraternal order's community.
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