Paper Work Drives Athens Flood Control Efforts
Roy Cross explains that by Athens fourth year the Conservancy District aims to move from studies to action with the Athens levee and Hocking River relocation under way within 18 months, following US Corps reviews. Officials cite Muskingum progress as a benchmark for timely dam projects and outline benefit assessments based on the 1964 flood and Athens County reappraisals.
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Roy Cross
Locking Conservancy
Conservancy
U. S. Corps of Engineers
Navy
Athens Levee
Hocking
Conservancy District
Conservancy Office
Athens
Muskingum Conservancy
Muskingum
Johnson
Athens County
New River Ber
Corps of Engineers
Common Pleas Court
Rockbridge
Logan
Nelsonville
Chauncey
Hocking Conservancy District
Don R. Johnson
Virginia Romine
Messenger Newsphoto
Early mine wage talks reveal 3.12 a day top pay in 1912
Nelsonville correspondent recalls 1912 Hocking Valley scale ratified in Columbus on May 1 1912. The top inside pay was 2.84 and the first blacksmith earned 3.12 a day under outside classification. The eight hour day persisted. later seven hours. Hull and 21 others served on the miners negotiating committee.
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Nelsonville
Hocking
United Mine Workers and District
T. Zane Hull
Hocking Valley
Columbus
Hull
United Mine Workers
Carbondale
Chittenden Hotel
Indianapolis
Dew House
Messenger Newsphoto
Christmas shopping risks and consumer tips from Athens police
Athens Police Chief Joseph B. Grogan warns shoppers and merchants to stay alert during the holidays for shoplifters, short change artists, bad checks, and door to door scammers. The Better Business Bureaus of Ohio cautions buyers about fleeting sellers, COD deliveries of unordered goods, and deceptive toy pricing.
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Athens
Joseph B. Grogan
Grogan
Better Business Bureaus
Ohio
BBB
OU Students Experiment With ESP Findings In Campus Test
Ohio University students conducted an ESP study with over 30 volunteers in Porter Hall room 116. Three students led experiments on thought transmission, with tests designed to measure learning transfer between individuals and groups across planned sessions after the holiday break.
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Ohio University
Paul Bing
Sandusky
Lee Task
Dayton
Dennis Spate
Cleveland
Ring
Spate
Task
Porter Hall
Lee
Roger Bennett
Jones Elected Minority Leader in West Virginia House
Jones, 27 from Point Pleasant, was chosen as West Virginia House minority leader, unseating George H. Seibert after a decade in the post. The youngest leader in state history, he addressed GOP wins at a victory dinner on the Ohio University campus.
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Brereton C. Jones
Point Pleasant
House
West Virginia
the Messenger
Jones
George H. Seibert
H. M. Boocks
Hocking County
Health Board
Athens
Ohio University
Board of Trustees
General Telephone Co
Logan
McArthur
Wilkesville
John Andrews
Ohio
GOP
Washington
Clarence Miller
Athens Board of Education
H. D. Palmer
N. College St
Pearl Harbor
Sayre
Buchtel
Viet Nam
Hucking
Clyde Underwood
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Zane Hull
By Wilbur Mender
Naion
N. D. Monsarrat
D. H. Williams
Harry Kelley
F. §. Knox
P. C. Morris
J. W. Miksel
Hugh Mallon
G. W. Arnold
James Pritchard
John Moore
Ohio Miners Organization
G. W. Savage
H. A. Lanning
James Allen
George Branigan
Os Albaugh
Ed P. Murray
Lafe Gaston
August Olson
Sanford Snyder
Knox
Monsarrat
Joseph Richards
M. H. Doolittle
Spanish- American War Veterans Organization
Soil Conservation Service
R. V. Oakley
the Sunday Messenger
Bing
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