Ohio University hosts all night science fiction conference
A Baker Center event draws attendees for a science fiction conference organized by 14 OU graduate students. Visitors enjoy Star Trek showings, film history, discussions with Dr Edward Mitchell and Walter Tevis, face painting, trivia, games, book displays and a multi media presentation. Three costumed figures mingle through the crowds including Darth Vader the Great Galactic Goose and the Hill Troll from Planet Zenith. The event had a sub $50 budget and aimed for 60 percent education 40 percent fun with broad turnout from teens to adults.
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Darth Vader
Hugh Black Space Chicken
Hill Troll
Planet Zenith
Willam Eadie
Interpersonal Communications Department
Tom Daniels
Judy Wall
Wall
Athens
Teachers Attend Workshop Across County
Twenty teachers from Alexander School District will join a three day workshop led by Waterloo Elementary School principal John Mullins. Tours include Hocking Technical College Yordy’s Machine Shop Athens Bottling Company Wildlife Center and O Bleness Memorial Hospital. A coal mine tour may be postponed.
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Alexander
Waterloo
John Mullins
Hocking Technical College
Yordy
Athens Bottling Company
Wildlife and Natural Resources Center
O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
Highway Funds May Go for Mass Transit
Columbus Ohio AP reports the legislature's urban crisis committee will reexamine using gasoline taxes and highway funds for mass transit. Richard G Sheridan director of the Legislative Budget Office cites a growing body of legal opinion challenging the traditional interpretation that gas tax revenues must support highways only.
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Columbus, Ohio
New Urban Crisis Committee
Richard G. Sheridan
Legislative Budget Office
Fire scenes and political talks mark Tuesday in Ohio
Firemen extinguished two box and oven fires in Athens including an apartment at Carriage Hill 904 where food caught fire, and a vacant house back porch on 75 N High St. The second issue involved a statewide Senate committee discussing mass transit funding and local government revenue. plans include possibly diverting highway funds and evaluating sales tax distributions to boost urban housing and inner cities.
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Athens
Carriage Hill
Stuhl Fauth ‘Auth
High St
New Life Assembly of God
Lancaster St
Ohio
Sheridan
Senate House Committee
LBC
William F. Bowen
D-9
Cincinnati
Frederick Stocker
Ohio State University
Bowen
Stocker
William A Losoney
Ohio Housing Development Board
Athens livestock sale prices for cattle hogs sheep and more
Prices at Saturdays Athens Livestock Sales Inc auction covered 738 head of cattle 175 hogs and 125 sheep with bids across categories including slaughter steers 36.50 to 37.10 per hundredweight slaughter heifers 34.25 to 35.75 feeder cattle and bulls prices ranged widely and cows calves and pigs also quoted baby calves 10 to 35 per head barrows and gilts 46.46 to 46.20. sows 34.85 to 38.75. boars 28 to 32.75. lambs 47.47 to 47.20. feeder lambs 41.75 to 44.25.
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Athens Livestock Sales Inc
Newly Bought House Burns in Glouster Fire
Glouster volunteers fought a 3:30 am blaze on Old State Route 78 that destroyed the newly purchased house of Jack Bragg and his family of Chauncey. The couple had been moving in after spending Monday night at their Chauncey home. The cause remains unknown.
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Glouster Glouster
Jack Bragg
Chauncey
Braggs
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