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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1964
Page
2
An unofficial city hall check suggests 1964 will set a new local construction value record. For the first 11 months the office issued permits valued at 6.69 million, up from 4.14 million a year earlier, with May and September the top months. </s>
Ralph Frash of Sharpsburg was re elected president of The Tri County Fruit Growers with Ward Layner of Little Hocking as secretary. The group held a fruit school at Amesville with Eldon Banta as principal speaker and Dr. Blair Janson discussing fruit disease control. Also speaking were Howard Wells Olive Parrish Mrs John Huffman Mrs Marvin Phillips and John Osborne. Forty one fruit farmers and guests attended. dinner was served by the Amesville Grange.
State Highway Patrol cited three drivers after a four car collision Saturday on Route 50 west of Athens. Clyde V. Smith 60 Athens Route 5 charged with failure to yield the right of way. Stanley E. Bolen 18 Albany Route 3 left of center. James E. Keck Albany Route 1 cited for failure to stop within assured clear distance ahead. Allen Coe 61 Albany cited for failure to yield after a two car crash Sunday in Albany.
Charles William Kyle of Park Place pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to driving while intoxicated after a Saturday accident. He was fined 125 dollars and costs, sentenced to three days in jail, and given a 120 day license suspension.
A panel of 15 teachers from Athens Chauncey Dover and The Plains will discuss flexible instruction methods at 2 30 p m Tuesday in the Athens High School Auditorium following a visit to Sylvania High School Moderated by Fred Chase district curriculum director the session targets district faculty members.
Birth announcements from Sheltering Arms Hospital list new daughters and sons for families in Athens, Albany, Millfield, Chauncey, Glouster, New Marshfield, and surrounding routes. Names include Loren Lee and Hammack families among many others.
A list of bond forfeitures includes James L. Trace 57 Glasgow Route 3 and William R. Capehart 27 Columbus for speeding with patrol fees 15 and 16 dollars respectively. Francis N. Christman 42 Dayton also fined 15. Dale F. Spencer 68 Columbus cited for passing at curve with 20. Jane A. Pigott 21 Columbus speeding 15. Monte W. Rhoden 37 Columbus speeding 15. John N. Funk 25 Logan Route 1 speeding 16. Clinton D. Fraley 29 Middleport speeding 55.
Athens area students Donna Marie Davis Ruth Petrel Feuerbacher and Sydney Baldwin have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Ohio University. Initiation will be in January. Davis is Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Lambda Delta member, Feuerbacher a math instructor, Baldwin a senior and Mortar Board member. Masons meet Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the Masonic Temple per Jack L Clark master.
Ohio University registrar Robert Mahn released a statewide enrollment report to the Association of Ohio College Registrars. The total lists 230 458 students with 154 722 full time campus students and 52 259 freshmen and 20 302 in branches. men are 61 percent.
Fire crews battled a blaze at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house at 57 East State Street after a paper fall caused a space heater to ignite a fire at 10 47 p m Sunday. The fire scorched a wood mantle and floor but was extinguished upon arrival.
Partly cloudy and continued cold air prevailed in Athens on Monday. U S Observ C L Colmer reports a 9 30 a m temperature of 26 degrees, two degrees above the early low, with Sundays high at 37 and a trace of snow observed.
The Athens County sheriff and local and Columbus agencies report nine burglaries solved. Three men are in custody with warrants issued for three more and one at large. Investigators linked incidents across Chauncey Glouster Columbus and Athens, with two suspects tied to a December 1963 Moose Lodge loot and an August store burglary.
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