Soft Christmas Music on Court Street Draws Complaints
The Retail Merchants Association installed loudspeakers on Court Street poles to play holiday tunes. Dave Parsons reports volume cut after complaints from downtown workers, with music continuing 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and later until 9 p.m. as hours lengthen. One speaker near City Solicitor Lawrence Grey was turned off.
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Court Street
Retail Merchants Association
Dave Parsons
Parsons
Parson’s Cornwell and Sons Jewelers
Court
Union
Lawrence Grey
Grey
Conservation Awards Given at Logan Banquet
LOGAN The Hocking Soil and Water Conservation District held its 32nd annual banquet at the Logan High School cafeteria. Chairman Herschel Bensonhaver opened the program with award presentations and essay contest winners announced in junior and senior divisions.
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Logan
Hocking
Jim Kuhn
Sohio
Landmark, Inc
Sears and Roebuck Co
Hocking Valley Feed
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Logan Federal Savings and Loan
Citizens Bank
Jackson
Hunter injures arm in wooded area near Athens County
David Carruthers 60 of Canal Winchester shot himself in the arm Thursday morning while in a wooded area in northern Athens County. He drove to a gas station and attendant Arthur Gilcrest took him to O'Bleness Memorial Hospital for treatment, before he was transferred to Riverside Hospital in Columbus. A New Marshfield woman, Sherian Elaine Jackson 26, was hospitalized after her car on Route 56 west of Route 682 swerved to avoid an oncoming car and crashed into an embankment then rolled over. Her injuries were not specified.
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Athens County
David Carruthers
Canal Winchester
Arthur Gilcrest
O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
Carruthers
Riverside Hospital
Columbus
Marshfield
State Highway Patrol
Sherian
Elaine Jackson
Jackson
Lancaster Man Cut in Two Car Columbus Road Crash
Virgil Bickel 58 suffered face and hand cuts in a two car collision on Columbus Road near Bauer University Volkswagen. Montgomery Moyer 32 of 227 West Washington Street also involved. Both cars were left of center at about 6 15 p m. Bickel was treated at O Bleness Memorial Hospital. Firemen flushed spilled gasoline from the street.
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Lancaster
Columbus Road
Athens
Virgil Bickel
O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
Bickel
Montgomery R. Moyer
Washington St
Bauer University
Volkswagen
Two West Virginians Await Sentencing on Kidnapping Charge
Thomas W. Kitchens Jr. says Charles Ritz 26 Coal Fork Station near Charleston and Harriet Lilly 28 Charleston await sentencing in Columbus jail after pleading guilty and a related kidnapping of Jonathan Rutherford 18 St. Albans. FBI notes maximum life terms possible and sentencing in the near future.
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West Virginia
Columbus
Thomas W. Kitchens Jr
FBI
Cincinnati
Charles Ralph Ritz
Coal Fork Station
Charleston
W. Va
Columbus District Court
Harriet Ethel Lilly
Jonathan Rutherford
St. Albans
State
Gallipolis
County City Study Public Defender Plan In 1976
Athens County Commissioners and City Council members weighed three methods to fund a 1976 public defender amid new state law. Options include a county public defender commission, a private attorney rate schedule, or a joint regional commission. The city may fund defenders for city ordinances, while current per case costs run about 100 dollars and a rotating private attorney plan could rise to 250 dollars per case.
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Peg Parker
Athens County Commissioners
City Council
David Frey
The
Legal Services Association
Frey
Pat Gys
Phyllis Katz
Pete Couladis
Legislative Conference
James Rhodes
Public Defender Commission
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Install Officers At Open Meeting Of Constitu tion Lodge 426 F and AM
Officers to be installed include Rolland Llewellyn worshipful master Walter Hawk senior warden and Ray Hart junior warden along with other officers. Installing officer will be Ray mond Brooks with installing marshal William Llewellyn and installing chaplain Francis Efaw. Pot luck refreshment will follow.
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Constitution Lodge
F&am
New Marshfield
Rolland Llewellyn
Walter Hawk
Ray Hart
Raymond Brooks
Dale Hawk
Wilson Carr
Clyde Jarvis
George Carter
Francis Efaw
Clarence Shaw
Tyler
James Gilham
Francis Clark
Francis
Torch Home Destroyed in Fire at Coolville Troy
Fire of undetermined origin gutted the home of Mrs. Maye Kerns early Thursday. Her son Lawrence, 52, was asleep inside and escaped as neighbors discovered the blaze. Coolville Troy firefighters responded, but the structure was left only as a frame.
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Maye Kerns
Memorial Committee Election Set for Millfield Mining Days
The Millfield Mining Days Memorial committee schedules a Sunday meeting at 1 p.m. with a potluck at Bob Guess residence Ten Hill Road The Plains. Myrtle Law reports on secretary duties and officer nominations will occur with any Hocking Valley resident eligible to run Tapes from the Old Times Day and 3rd annual memorial observance will be shown Lowell Thomas, famed traveler and commentator, was born in 1892 in Woodington Darke County Ohio.
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Millfield Mining Days Memorial Committee
Bob Guess
Ten Hill Road
the Plains
Myrtle Law
Hocking Valley
Ohio
Lowell Thomas
Woodington
Darke County
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Container Corp. of America
Virgil Sheets
Fred Burdell
Bensonhaver
Carl Risch
Charles Mathias
Vernie Stahr
Ed Hankison
Soil Conservation Service
Robert C. Kapper
N. Richard Mowrey
Louise Smith
S. James Palmer
Hunter
Self
Public Defender
Lowell Howard
Masons
William Kortlander
Nick Parkis
Angel Ridge
Paul Hudnall
John Sheridan
Tick Ridge
Kortlanders
Parkis
Michael Nolan
Glouster
Webbe den
Robert Brooks
Front St
State Auditor's
Sally Schaaf
Ohio University
Homer Bradshaw
Torch
Buckeye
Marietta
Ohio Lottery Commission
Putnam St
Ohio Lottery
Abdella’s Steak & Sea Food
Converse
St. Chauncey
Clark's
Converse St. - Chauncey
Emerson's Variety Shop
High St. - Glouster
Deli
Court St
Fairgrounds
Plains Super Market
the Mine Tavern
Nelsonville
Sayre’s Grocery
Uchtel
Kaillac
Cadillac
Santa
Karr & van Zandt
Bank Credit
Pomeroy
Rutland
Toppers Plains
Pomero Nationa Bank
the Bank of the Century
City
the Messenger
Athens Messenger
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