Community groups unite for Christmas aid across Athens area
Ohio University hosts a Christmas dinner for foreign students at Berry Hall. Over 30 local groups coordinate through the county welfare department to avoid double giving, supplying food clothing and toys to more than 300 families. The Salvation Army plans 175 food baskets countywide plus 176 sunshine baskets. Hospitals shelters and jails host festivities and gifts with caroling and minister visits accompanying turkey dinners.
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Berry Hall
County Welfare Department
Salvation Army
Athens
Glouster
Army
Athens State Hospital
Sheltering Arms Hospital
State Hospital
Yale
Sub-freezing Athens Christmas Eve Temperatures
Sub freezing temperatures persisted in Athens with a 9 am reading of 15 degrees above zero on Christmas Eve. The previous day's high reached 41 degrees.
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Athens
U. S
C. L. Colmer
Mrs Slater Dies at 71 in The Plains Home
Garnie E. Slater 71 died Sunday at her The Plains home after 19 years of ill health. Born in Winchester Ohio she lived in The Plains 20 years a Methodist Church member. Survived by husband Fred daughter Gail nephew Gene Howard grandchildren and sister Mrs Elizabeth Cooper. Funeral 1 pm Wednesday The Plains Methodist Church burial Green Lawn Cemetery. Visitation Hughes 7-9 pm Monday and 2-4 and 7-9 pm Tuesday.
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Garnie E. Slater
the Plains
Winchester
William and
Eva Callahan
Fred
Gail
Gene Howard
New Marshfield
Slater
Elizabeth Cooper
Columbus
Plains Methodist Church
Virgil Versteeg
D. M. Bryson
Green Lawn Cemetery
Hughes Funeral Home
Births and admissions listed at Sheltering Arms Hospital
Birth announcements report a daughter for Mr and Mrs Eugene Finke of Athens and a daughter for Mr and Mrs Harold Barker of Athens and a daughter for Mr and Mrs Glenn Linscott of Albany and a daughter for Mr and Mrs Harry Donaldson of McArthur. Admitted patients include Holly Rogers Glouster and others from Athens New Marshfield Chauncey Shade and Guysville. Dismissals list several residents of Athens Logan Chauncey and Logan. A theft report notes chrome strips loosened and gasoline stolen from a 1961 auto near Cincinnati Ridge Coolville.
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Eugene Finke
Athens
Harold Barker
Glenn Linscott
Albany
Harry Donaldson
McArthur
Holly Rogers
Glouster
R. S. Dinsmoor
New Marshfield
Raymond Ayers
Nora Allbaugh
Paul Reynolds
Charles Hillyer
Chauncey
Ray Smith
Cora Winning
Edward Boyd
Shade
William Whitaker
Guysville
Pamela Poston
Logan
Gary Crabtree
Thomas Russell
Mark Fiske
Joseph Essman
Edward Bush
Darrel Willy
Larry Sutton
James A. Buck
Lawson Beha
Kent
Sheriff’s Deputies
Cincinnati Ridge
Coolville
Burglary At Landmark Town and Country Center
Police report a weekend burglary at Landmark Town and Country Center Oak Street. About $4 in cash and a recently won sales trophy disappeared from a box while an open safe was ransacked. Entry gained by breaking a rear window.
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Oak St
ITV Testing Set to Begin at Ohio University Station
WOUB TV will start telecasting audio and video test signals after delays. Vincent Jukes says tests run 1 3 and 7 9 p m Wednesday to Friday with a circle pattern and 1000 cycle whistle tone. Channel 3 cable subscribers will receive the test, which aims to avoid interference as signals use ultrahigh frequency.
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Ohio University
Woub-Tv
Vincent Jukes
Jukes
Five Arrested After Circle Hill Inn Fight
Five men were arrested and one injured after a melee at the Midway Inn on Route 33 near Circle Hill early Sunday. Lewis Smith of Circle Hill had a right arm cut requiring 15 stitches at Shelter Arms Hospital. Those charged included Hubert Bobo 28 Chauncey Kenneth Arlie Morris 22 Athens Route 5 Charles Ralston Gross 27 Rochester NY and George Wesley Gross 18 Columbus. Also charged with disturbing the peace was Eugene Franklin Weekley 24 Athens Route 3. Charges were filed by Smith and Inn employee Maxine Preston.
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Midway Inn
Route 33
Circle Hill
Lewis Smith
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Hubert Bobo
Chauncey
Kenneth Arlie Morris
Athens
Charles Ralston Gross
Rochester
N. Y
George Wesley Gross
Columbus
Eugene Franklin Weekley
Smith
Maxine Preston
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Paul Efa
Cbrestirc
Athens Appliance CO
Athens, Ohio
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Harold Todd
Nelsonville
Charles W. Beverly
Happy Hollow Rd
State Highway Patrol
Beverly
Athens County
Plains Volunteer Firemen
Walter McDonald
ITV
The
the Security Bank
Circle Hill Inn
Aan
Royal” Agency
Washington
Tel. LY
Ohio
Donald K. Barstow
D. M. Goddard
Houck & Reed, Inc
Murphey Ins
Agency
Nelsonville, Ohio
Oakley Ins
the Saltz Ins
Earl F. Mathews, Inc
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C. M. Gill and
Dwight H. Rutherford ,Joseph Seiple
Glouster, Ohio
Richard Guinther
C. M. Gill & Company
Earl Mathews
Earl Hooper
Jerry Kyle
Security Bank Bldg
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