Supreme Court Rules Against Mettler on Mandatory Appropriations
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled against Prosecuting Attorney Harry A. Mettler, limiting mandatory appropriations for county official expenses. The decision may affect common pleas and juvenile court funding. Commissioners later added full salaries for a stenographer and a secret service officer, but Mettler’s main impact concerns his office expense account.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Supreme Court
Ohio Supreme Court Today
Harry A. Mettler
Athens County
Associated Press
Columbus
Common Pleas
Court of Appeals
Mettler
John J. Woolley
Christmas Observances At University School End With Ninth Plays
University School children completed a Christmas observance with a third informal assembly featuring carols and stories from Old English to Americans Help One Another. Sixth graders presented nine one act plays about Christmas in other lands. earlier grades decorated rooms and trees and made gifts.
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University
Bahouska
France
Italy
Little Woolf
Germany
Secon
Frank RB. Dilley
Fourth tularemia death reported in Cleveland
Cleveland reports its fourth death this season from tularemia after a patient contracted rabbit fever. Officials urge precaution as health authorities investigate potential exposure sources in the area.
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Cleveland
County Group Hears Report On Land Uses
Athens County Land Use Committee heard a progress report for 1941 at Hotel Berry. Speakers included Frank Pugh and Wesley Green. the meeting outlined the land use map and program continuation with supervision by area township chairmen and county committee members.
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Athens County
Berry
Frank Pugh
Wesley S. Green
Ohio State University
Chester L. Roof
Grant Holman
McConnelsville
Merrill H. Chase
Albany
John Sheridan
Athens
Lee Glass
Sharpsburg
Fred Dorr
Fred Elliot
John Cowan
Shade
W. B. Spear
Stewart
Edgar Dixon
Frost
Austin Hawk
New Marshfield
J. E. Pitts
Coolville
Ed Howard
Nelsonville
Dave Sawyer
Glouster
W. C. Mingus
Millfield
Junior School Has Assembly
The Athens Junior High School held a Christmas assembly with Cleora Coppers presiding. A medley of Christmas songs was performed by the high school orchestra under Floyd Prince. John Caskey read Luke 2 8 16. The Girls Glee Club sang Silent Night and O Come All Ye Faithful. Dick Shoemaker gave the prayer. A piano solo Arabian Encampment was played by Donna Jean Buck. Two readings and a poem were presented. The Boys Chorus performed The Three Kings. An eighth grade double duet sang Away in a Manger.
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Athens
Cleora Coppers
Floyd Prince
John Caskey
Glee Club
Dick Shoemaker
Donna Jean Buck
Sam Davis
Thea Parestides
Jacquelyn Mathews
Dorothy Bean
Patricia Pestel
Beverly Davis
John Welch Safe After Philippine Attacks
Pvt. John Maurice Welch son of Mr and Mrs Raymond D Welch The Plains escaped injury during recent Japanese attacks in the Philippine Islands telegram to his parents states Welch is stationed at Ft Stotsenburg He has served since March 21 1941 and was previously employed at Athens State Hospital.
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John Maurice Welch
Raymond D. Welch
the Plains
Philippine Islands
Welch
Ft. Stotsenburg
Athens State Hospital
Panama Coed Address At Athens Rotary Club
Miss Gloria Paredes of Panama told Athens Rotary Club of the need for strong Western Hemisphere ties. Ohio University President Herman G. James outlined Panama’s size and its strategic role in the Panama Canal and regional defense.
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Athens Rotary Club
Gloria Paredes
Panama
Ohio University
Herman G. James
Paredes
United States
Panama Canal
James
Ohio
Edison Electric Institute reports power production reaches new 1941 peak
New York market shows selective bidding lifting stock prices. Edison Electric Institute weekly report flags power production at a record high with energy use up 18 percent versus the prior week and 14.2 percent ahead of last year. The Associated Press Index marks a new 1941 high. Grain and produce prices for wheat corn and various eggs butter and poultry are listed from Toledo and Cleveland boards.
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Edison Electric Institute
Associated Press
Lake Water Holds Steady At Four Degrees Celsius
In temperate regions the deepest lake basins maintain a constant bottom temperature of four degrees Celsius, equivalent to 39.125 Fahrenheit, regardless of seasonal air temperature changes.
Livestock Market Report From Cincinnati Auction
Livestock sales show values up to 20 cents higher with tops at 11.55 for 160 to 200 pounds and 200 to 225 pounds. Totals include 1140 for 225 to 275 pounds and 11050 for 274 to 300 pounds. Sows at 9.25. Cattle and calves on a strong, active market with steers and heifers at 10.50 to 11.50, best steers 12.25, cows 7.59 to 8.25, bulls 8.79 to 9.50. Dealers report strong demand, with gains up to 50 cents.
Salable Livestock Market Report
Salable cattle 350 head active and prices 10 cents lower on some weights with ranges from 180 to 350 pounds. Calves 125 head active and steady with good to choice price around 150. Sheep 400 head active with prices steady and unchanged.
Immigrant Kolenich Recalls American Birth Day Tribute
Andrew Kolenich of 21 Columbia Ave moved from Austria-Hungary in 1906 and, at 61, voiced loyalty to the United States during a Monday tribute to the Bill of Rights. He and his wife Emma settled in Buffalo, then St. Louis, later Athens, and Columbia Ave. Their four children all grew up in Athens County as he praised freedom and property rights.
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Columbia Ave
Austria-Hungary
United States
America
Andrew Kolenich
Sam
Mr. Kolenich
Athens County
Kolenichs
Emma
Helen
Andrew, Jr
Betty
Two Athens Men Accepted for Navy Training at Great Lakes
Word was received that Delbert Hutchins of Athens and Gilbert Cavanaugh of Nelsonville have been accepted for the navy and are undergoing five weeks of training at Great Lakes Illinois. Four men volunteered at the Athens recruiting office Tuesday and 18 on Monday. Of these, six and two respectively were accepted locally and will be sent to the district center at Cincinnati soon.
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Delbert Hutchins
Gilbert Cavanaugh
Nelsonville
Navy
Great Lakes
Cincinnati
Racial Differences in Disease Resistance Hint at Biology
A discussion notes that while all men may be equal socially, biologically differences exist with some races showing varying susceptibility to certain diseases, implying inherent immune variation across groups.
Christmas Chorus Concert at Athens High School
Athens High School staged its annual holiday program with the Boys and Girls Choruses. The event featured multiple solos and ensembles including It Came Upon A Midnight Clear and We Three Kings, conducted by Floyd Prince with accompanists Pat Connor, Bob Sprague, and Jenny Sue Rousey.
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Floyd Prince
Pat Connor
Bob Sprague
Jenny Sue Rousey
Presidents’ Club
Vote Workers Checks Ready for Most Precinct Officials
County treasurer office will distribute checks to all precinct officials who served in the November elections except 14 Athens precincts four Glouster precincts and Amesville. Notices were mailed to presiding judges. Athens Glouster and Amesville workers will be paid within two weeks once arrangements are in place.
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Athens
Glouster
Amesville
R. J. Isselstein
Election Board
Isselstein
Brother of Teacher Is Killed in Pacific War
Miss Esther Blackburn a physical education teacher at Athens Senior and Junior High Schools was told by her parents they had received no Navy notice that her brother John 21 had been killed in Pacific warfare. He had been serving on the Utah. The parents Mr and Mrs J C Blackburn Columbus. Miss Blackburn went to Columbus today.
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Esther Blackburn
Athens
Navy
John
Utah
J. C. Blackburn
Columbus
Blackburn
Will Confer Degrees At Masonic Meeting
Athens council No 15 Royal and Select Masters announces its monthly meeting tonight at 7 30 at the Masonic Temple. Degrees will be conferred after the business session as master George S H Oldren notes.
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Athens
Masonic Temple
George S. Holdren
Local Hospital Handles Falls and Transfers
At Sheltering Arms Mrs. Anna Hill 85 of 26 FE State St was admitted after a fall caused a right hip fracture. Robert Glass 7 of Athens Route 3 was admitted for medical observation. Elsie Welch of Rutland was released and Tracy Leyda Jr a student was transferred to the University Infirmary Tuesday.
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Anna Hill
State St
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Robert Glass
Edna Glass
Athens
Elsie Welch
Rutland
Tracy Leyda, Jr
University Infirmary
Firms Selling On Installment Must Register
The Fourth Federal Reserve District requires all businesses selling consumer durable goods on instalment plans or making instalment loans to register with the Cleveland bank and obtain a license to operate after January 1 1942. Regulation W aims to curb consumer instalment credit for war materials.
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Fourth
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
M. J Fleming
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
West Virginia
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
United States
Fleming
Federal Reserve Bank
Fourth District
Colburns Await News of Son in Army in Hawaii
Mr and Mrs Clyde Colburn of Pratts Fork await word from their son Wiley stationed with the 1 S Army in Honolulu after no word since the war began. Wiley enlisted in May and went to Honolulu in August. Their other son Carl also serves in the army and guards railroads in Georgia after maneuvers in the Carolinas.
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Clyde Colburn
Pratts Fork
Wiley
1. S. Army
Honolulu
Carl
Georgia
Carolinas
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