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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1961
Page
2
County commissioners will use a May completed job evaluation by Ohio University staff to shape the 1962 budget. The study analyzes 30 positions into 24 descriptions with education, experience and supervision criteria guiding department allocations. Also approved storm windows for the Children's Home at a cost of 823.50 from Athens Aluminum.
Firemen were called to the residence of Robert Mathews on Cable Lane at 7 p.m. Tuesday after occupants smelled wood smoke in the basement. There was no fire, possibly a draft from the first floor fireplace per Chief Charles Dalton.
Gladys I. Dearing, 39, The Plains, pleaded no contest in Municipal Court to a traffic light citation. She posted an $11 bond to appear Friday. The charge was filed by city police.
Three Stewart Route 1 men were bound over to the grand jury in Municipal Court for breaking into a Stewart home. Bond set for Bobby Dale Dalton at 5000, and 1000 each for Francis Tabler and Leonard Tabler. They admitted other burglaries including a home of Rev. Lawrence McDaniel in Guysville, a school at Cutler, and took meat, antifreeze, money, and foodstuffs.
Trailer taxes for 1962 are due at the county treasurer's office starting Tuesday according to county auditor James Whaley. The annual tax is due January 1, with a credit for those who paid January through March 1962. The tax is based on the trailer’s assessable value or purchase price, whichever is greater, minus depreciation, with a minimum of $18 and a daily penalty for late payment.
A cold rain began turning to snow on Wednesday with a 10 am reading of 36 degrees after a low of 38. U S Observer C L Colmer notes .08 inch of rainfall by midmorning while Tuesday's high reached 45.
Two drivers in Athens County Court were fined after highway patrol arrests. Clarence Bolin, 18, Athens, speeding, $10 and costs. Nile Hartman, 22, New Marshfield, left of center, $15 and costs. In Hocking County Court, William Kaplar, 36, New Straitsville, speeding, $15 and costs.
Birth announcements list Mr and Mrs Marvin C Bell Columbus a son. Mr and Mrs Glennis Bartlett Athens Route 2 a daughter. Mr and Mrs Harold D Swinehart Athens Route 1 a son. Admissions include Denzil Robinson Athens George Pennell Chauncey Mrs Erma Staneart Albany Route 1 Mrs Katie Parsons Stewart Mrs Dorothy Castle Athens Route 1 Russell Hall Athens 4 Mrs Donald Pierce Athens Cletus Mulligan Athens Mrs Victor Hudwell New Marshfield Patricia Horn The Plains Herbert Sharp Athens Dismissals include Mrs Blaine Sams Albany and son Cadda Davis Athens Charles Young Athens Blood used two pints.
Dolph C. Day, 46, Glouster, was fined $125 and costs in Athens County Court Wednesday after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated. He received a three day jail sentence after deputies said he was arrested over the weekend driving a pickup on Route 13 near Millfield.
Kiwanis members hear year end committee reports covering the Bet ter Calves Club visits and county fair shows, Circle K expansion at Ohio University, and a $600 combined donation to Youth Center and Shelterings Arms Hospital Guild. The club noted more than $1300 given to civic needs and praised the Athens unit for its community service.
In municipal court on Wednesday both defendant Robert McKnight and complainant Edith Clark were ordered to post $100 peace bonds. Judge John Newcomb noted disturbances by the pair as McKnight, 44, faced assault and battery charges and pleaded guilty, receiving a $25 fine plus costs while Clark testified to being struck.
Three motorists cited by the State Highway Patrol forfeited bonds in Municipal Court on speeding charges. Dillard L. Jiiden 41 Toledo and Ronald James Clark 23 Athens failed to appear, each forfeiting $21. David H. Rake 41 Parkersburg W Va also forfeited $26, while Charles R. Smith 34 Athens Route 4 gave up an $11 bond for a stop sign citation.
Common Pleas Court returned two confessed judgments in favor of City Loan and Savings Co of Athens. One judgment awards $1018.53 against Guy and Ruth Hill of Sharpsburg on a July 1960 note. Hill also faces a separate $1360.61 judgment from the court.
Ronnie Gene Workman aged 19 of Coolville serving in the U S Navy and Wilda Eileen Heck aged 16 of Frost student obtained a marriage license.
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