Humphrey and McCarthy Clash Over Open Convention
Vice President Humphrey and Sen. McCarthy trade opening rounds in Chicago amid delegate seating battles and a Vietnam plank dispute. Mondale argues for an open convention while McCarthy denies blocking delegates. Protests and labor support push both campaigns into a tense runup to the nominating event.
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Chicago
Hubert H. Humphrey
Eugene J McCarthy
Humphrey
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Vietnam
Afl-Cio
McCarthy
Dwight D. Eiisenhower
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Don McClure
Washington
South Vietnam
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
United States
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
Millfield man named deputy dog warden by Athens County
Athens County commissioners hired Herman Barnes 58 of Millfield Route 1 as deputy dog warden at 150 dollars a month to assist Dog Warden Bruce Mace. If approved by the Athens County Humane Society, Barnes would receive additional funds.
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Athens County
Millfield
Bruce Mace
Herman Barnes
Athens County Humane Society
Baby Care Study Starts Wednesday
A Red Cross program on mother baby care begins Wednesday night at Sheltering Arms Hospital in the nurses dining room from 7 30 to 9 30 p m Lectures continue weekly for six weeks and mothers should bring a bed pillow and blanket Admission is free Mothers must register via the Red Cross at 593 5273 or 593 6244
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Red Cross
Sheltering Arms Hospital
The
State Fair Beauty Test Judges Set
Judges for Athens beauty contest choosing a candidate for the Ohio State Fair were named. The event at 8 p.m. Friday in the old Athens High School auditorium offers a $50 gift certificate to the Athens winner and a $25 savings bond to the runner up.
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Athens
Dale Nitzschke
Jaycees
Tad Grover
Athens National Bank
Jack Boone
Woub-Tv
Kenneth Kerr
Keck Distributing Co
Jack Malone
Hocking Valley Bank
Athens High School
Columbus
Nitzschke
Raymond Shepard
Ohio State Fair Exhibitors Set Record
Fair manager Jerry L. Kaltenbach announced a new record of 6,805 exhibitors at the Ohio State Fair with items from bees to bulls and roses to cakes. The 1967 figure was 6,044. This year’s fair runs from Thursday to September 2, with regional counts listed for Athens, Gallia, Hocking, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, and Vinton counties.
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Jerry L. Kaltenbach
Kaltenbach
Athens
Gallia
Hocking
Meigs
Morgan
Perry
Vinton
New Manager Named for University Shop Athens Store
Wonder Hills is named executive assistant to oversee stores and act as sportswear buyer for the men s shops at the University Shop Inc Athens location. Tom Lynch will transfer to the Columbus main office. John Rowe, a 1967 Ohio University graduate from Toledo, becomes the new local store manager after six months with the firm.
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University Shop, Inc
Athens
Tom Lynch
Wonder Hills
College Towns
Lynch
Columbus
John Rowe
Carriage Hill Apartments
Rowe
Ohio University
Toledo
Athena Theater
Sheltering Arms Hospital Notes Entry of Local Residents
A listing from Sheltering Arms Hospital details multiple patients and family connections in Athens and nearby areas. Names include Mr. and Mrs. Richard Butrich with a daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Elkins with twins, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Miller with a son, and several other individuals from Athens The Plains Alba and surrounding routes. The record appears as a community roll or acknowledgment of patients and family members residing in local towns.
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Richard Butrich
Athens
Maynard Elkins
Albany
Byron Miller
Charleen Steiner
Marlin Steiner
Marietta Ave
Athens High School
Karen Beasley
Nora Andrews
Window Broken at Kerr-Hunter Hardware
A window at Kerr-Hunter Hardware, 36 S Court St, was broken when a brick was tossed through the front during the weekend. Two hunting knives valued at 16 dollars were taken. police are investigating.
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Kerr-Hunter Hardware
S. Court St
Probe into Shade air crash claims three lives
Investigators from the FAA in Columbus and NTSB Chicago study wreckage near Shade to determine the cause of the single engine Cessna 172 crash that killed William Blackburn Gordon Rainwater and Gwendolyn Rainwater. Witnesses have not been located.
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Shade
Federal Aviation Agency
Columbus
National Transportation Safety Board
Chicago
Charles Moore
FFA
Tional Transportation Safety Board
William James Blackburn
Ravenswood
Gordon Wayne Rainwater
Gwendolyn P
Ripley
W. Va
Blackburn
Ralph Guthrie
Shade Garden Road
G. W. Pearson
Columbus Ffa
Hot muggy weather continues with rising Hocking River
The morning temperature reached 75 after an overnight low of 66. Sunday's high hit 90 degrees in muggy conditions. The area reported .52 inches of rain in the past 24 hours and the Hocking River stood at 3.18 feet and rising.
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U. S
C. L. Colmer
Hocking River
Wallace Backed By Police Union Leader In Dayton
Philadelphia Police Sgt. John Harrington, head of the National Fraternal Order of Police, says he will vote for George C. Wallace. He tells Dayton he views Wallace as the only candidate with the nerve to address crime in the streets.
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Dayton
Ohio
Philadelphia
John Harrington
National
Fraternal Order of Police Association
George C. Wallace
Harrington
Alabama
Ohio Falls Victims Named in Vietnam War Deaths
Five more Ohioans are listed among Vietnam war dead. Army Spec. 4 Martin S. Gruber Jr. of Mason, Army Spec. 4 Christopher L. Rains of Columbus, Army Cpl. Allen J. Pretnar of Euclid, and Marine Cpl. David C. Keefer of Cincinnati were killed in action, while Army Spec. 4 Eugene M. Barnett of Cincinnati died of nonhostile action. Also in Toledo, Betty Ann Johnson, 18, was found dead near Toledo Express Airport, with a first degree murder warrant issued for her former husband Carther, 24, detained in Tennessee.
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Washington
Toledo, Ohio
Betty Ann Johnson
Toledo Express
Lucas County
Five Area Traffic Accidents Reported By State Patrol
State Patrol from the Athens post investigated five accidents Sunday with one citation and one major injury. Injured George C. Welch is in fair condition with eye and ear lacerations and abdominal pain after his car left U S Route 50 east of Athens. Others involved include Gordon Losey and Wendell Rose, with no injuries or citations in their incidents.
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Athens Post
George C. Welch
Frost
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Welch
U.S. 50
Athens
Gordon Phil Losey
Morgan County
Losey
Larry Eugene Arnold
Lawson Trailer Court
Wendell Rose
Arnold
Deputies Investigate Home Entry in Athens County
Athens County deputies investigate an entry at Walter Carsey’s home on Route 5. He says the unlocked house was entered while he was away between Wednesday and Sunday night and a television set a stand records a radio and a whip antenna were stolen.
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Athens County Sheriff's Deputies
Walter Carsey
Athens
Carsey
Five Day Forecast Since Saturday Through Wednesday
Temperatures will run near normal with highs near 80 in the north and mid 80s in the central and south. Overnight lows will be in the 60s. Rainfall averages three quarters to one inch daily as showers and thundershowers, with Sunday as an exception.
Bond Petition Seeks Lower Bond for Narcotics Suspect
Athens attorney William Lavelle asks Athens County Common Pleas Court to reduce Wayne Allen Davis’s bond from 8000 to 1000. Davis, 29, of Cleveland, was arrested March 10 on possession and sale charges after a February raid at 5 Palmer St. He allegedly sold marijuana to Robert Eugene Richardson, a Marietta sailor visiting Athens. Davis has no prior record and has shown prompt court conduct. a hung jury led to a June 24 acquittal by a 9-3 vote, with trial again set for September.
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County Welfare Department
University Heights
Athens
Gerald Mollica
William Lavelle
Wayne Allen Davis
Cleveland
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Davis
Route 3
Robert Eugene Richardson
Marietta
Washington, D. C
Lavelle
Boy Escapes Injury After Vehicle Bump
A seven year old boy walked into a car near 5 N Lancaster St in Athens at 6 35 PM Sunday. Fire department treated him. he was uninjured and stayed with his visiting relative Mark Bob Bagley from New York at 133 N Lancaster St. The driver was Robert Goyer 49 Mulligan Rd.
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Lancaster St
Athens Fire Department
Mark Bob Bagley
New York
Athens
N. Lancaster St
Robert Goyer
Mulligan Rd
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James Sturgill
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Athens-Washington County
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