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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1964
Page
11
The Logan Hocking Health Board asks Prosecutor Hubert Lappen to move the West Logan sewer hearing from December to an earlier date. Ten residents petitioned to halt the project, arguing assessment procedures and land value concerns. Officials warn delaying could jeopardize over 110000 in federal aid.
Judge Rhea Bangert Brown fined five juveniles for traffic offenses. Raymond G. Ticker 16 of 220 Zanesville Ave. received $5 for reckless operation after an accident cited Aug 2 on N. Spring St. Paul N. Strassels 17 of Ohio University paid $5 plus costs for left of center cited Aug 5 on Route 93. William H. Conrad 16 of Logan Route 2 was ordered not to drive for two weeks after a temporary permit violation. Edward E. North 17 of Murray City paid $7 plus costs for an unsafe vehicle with improper plates cited July 14 on Route 78. Thomas J. Tansky 17 of 525 N. Wood St. paid $5 plus costs for speeding cited July 29 on Route 33 in Fairfield County.
County commissioners approved an agreement releasing Harry and Cheryl Burgess from further claims in an accident with a county vehicle driven by Albert Seabright. Car damage paid. Then bills totaling 989.07 for county, 6555.76 auto and gas, 1241 tuberculosis. Birth to Harlan Cleavenger and Barbara Mack admission. Bert Arnold dismissal.
Logan-Hocking County Dog Warden James Leonard received 196 calls in July. He picked up 119 animals and investigated six dog bite cases. He handled two reports of dogs attacking sheep with four sheep killed and six injured. Totals show 2685 dog licenses issued this year versus 2700 last year.
Postmaster General John A. Gronouski expressed thanks to Hocking County Sheriff Paul Hartman and staff for the escort service during his Ohio visit. The letter arrived Thursday and praised the department’s assistance and professionalism.
A motorist who apparently dozed at the wheel was injured in an early Thursday crash on Route 216 south of Murray City in Hocking County. Larry Eugene Peacock, 19, of Glouster Route 3, suffered cuts to the right shoulder back and arms and was taken to Mount St. Mary Hospital by a passing motorist. He was driving south when he apparently slept, veered off the road and struck a tree stump. Peacock was cited for conditional speed.
Agricultural extension agent Don Young warns area farmers to watch for a corn virus that halves ear size and cuts yields. It is currently confined to the Ohio River region but may spread. farmers should contact Young at the courthouse if infection is suspected. The disease first appeared along the river last year.
County school board met in the James Frey courthouse office Thursday night and approved bus driving certificates for Paul Lively Dwight Huggins Harley Wing Walter Fast Ken Hinerman Max McGlothlin James Carter Curtis Hinton Merrill Karshner Don Thompson Ken Michel and Gertie Lehman. Openings for a music instructor at Union Furnace and an art and elementary instructor at the Rockbridge were reported.
Logan reports the Hocking County Common Pleas Court jury process under way for the September term. Seventy five qualified residents will be drawn, with twenty five grand jurors and fifty petit jurors to serve.
The Hocking Juvenile Court reported 174 official cases in 1963. Delinquency 73, traffic 69, dependency and neglect 6, special proceedings 8, and 18 adult cases. Probation totaled 56 at year start and 67 at year end with 1109 official contacts. Seven boys and three girls left probation. several youths were diverted to state schools or the Ohio Youth Commission after October 7.
Logan Hocking Health Department nurses made 65 visits under the Field Nursing Program covering tuberculosis postpartum infant school age crippled children cancer heart diabetes other chronic diseases mental health and office visits. Under Home Nursing Care 23 more visits followed with environmental sanitation inspections and sample collections including food service milk water camp and pool checks plus rabies pest control and nuisance investigations. Birth and death certificates numbered 26. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3467 hosts a Sunday horse shoe competition at Riverside, Logan.
The American Legion Glenford Dugan Post 229 Activities Committee will sponsor a teen dance in Nelsonville Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m. at the Legion War Memorial Building on the corner of West Columbus and Fulton Streets with the Columbus band The Chrystals providing the music.
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