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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1968
Page
5
Ron Partridge explains the new discipline program at Athens High School to Citizens for Better Schools. The plan grants students more freedom with limits based on personal and peer impact, using individual case reviews and penalties from detentions to in school suspension for infractions.
List of defendants from Waterford Athens Parkersburg and other cities with speeding and traffic signal violations. Counts include Ronald D Radelie Ralph W Lott Douglas A Sinnett Joseph F Badalich Francis K Gerry Thomson Gambill Thomas A Miller David M Bolin Clarence R Biggins with respective fines from 14 to 48 dollars.
A three room one story unoccupied dwelling burned to the ground near Pratts Fork last night. Richland Area firemen learned of the blaze today after a passerby spotted the ruins at the Gilkey Ridge house in southern Athens County. The house, used as a summer home by Clifford Cornell of Columbus, was vacant and fully leveled before responders arrived. Chief Joe Jagers urged anyone with information to aid the investigation.
The first Kentucky ferry franchise went to Richard Callaway in October 1779 at Boonesboro. Today there are 20 ferries still in existence in the state.
In Albuquerque New Mexico West Mesa won the high school cross country dual meet over a shortened course after runners went the wrong way along the route.
In Albuquerque a box labeled free sample contained thousands of crickets offered to Rio Grande Zoo by a Louisiana cricket farm. Zoo Director Bruce Stringer said the shipments would be used as feed for the snakes and other animals.
A list of motorists cited for speeding, failures to yield, stop sign violations, and unsafe loads with ages and locations across Ohio and nearby states. The piece also notes Franz Gruber and Father Josef Mohr associated with Silent Night, and a brief historical aside on Julius Caesar and the calendar reform. It ends with Islamabad’s development plans per the National Geographic Society.
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