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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1968
Page
2
Election costs for the November 5 vote totaled $21,356.39 to attract 16,644 county voters. Equipment and workers added $15,530, about 93.3 cents per voter. Democratic county candidates spent $5,581.15 versus $3,471.33 by Republicans, while six Republican committees outspent three Democratic groups $9,750.04 to $4,096.78.
Police court docket shows motorists fined for speeding and related offenses. Charles Patterson of The Plains paid $15, plus costs, for speeding. Thomas Zimmerman of New Marshfield paid $20 and costs for failure to stop within a clear distance. Roy Hochstetler of Apple Creek Route 1 fined $50 and costs for speeding and improper passing. Janis Somerville of Muncy Route 3 paid $15 and costs for speeding. Jack Lucas of Stewart Route 1 fined $5 and costs for no emergency brake. Thomas McGowan of Mason West Virginia charged $30 and costs for speeding.
There will be no social security representative at the Nelsonville contact station the first week of January. Regular scheduling will resume in Nelsonville on Jan. 15. The Social Security Administration conducts a regular contact station on the first and third Wednesday each month at 10 a.m. on the first floor of the Nelsonville Elks building.
In Kanauga near Henderson Ohio a cattle truck skidded on icy approach to the ferry and toppled onto an embankment twelve feet from the Ohio river. Driver Clarence Street, 39, of Charleston West Virginia, unloaded the cattle before recovery. The highway patrol cited six other ice related mishaps and the forecast calls for cold high teens to low 30s with daily chances of snow or flurries.
The U.S. Corps of Engineers announced bid advertising for the Athens flood control project to be opened February 6 with construction possible from late March. The project relocates part of the Hocking River around Athens, widening the river from White’s Mill to near the McBee Plant, with a total cost around 9.7 million dollars and a local share of 3.2 million. The Hocking Conservancy District will advance about 400 thousand toward early work, to be repaid when federal funds become available.
Engineering plans for a 550 000 gallon day water system to serve Athens Lee Alexander and Waterloo Townships plus Albany village and the Ohio University airport area will begin February 1 under George Mara of the Margaret Creek Conservancy District. The LEAX Corp system aims for a $1.5 million build with site 2 lake north of Albany delivering a 560 tap network. Tap fees rise to 200 after February 1, with 75 paid by those already subscribed.
Icy streets in the Athens area Friday night into Saturday morning sparked at least nine traffic accidents. Athens police logged six. State Patrol three. One driver, Darrell V. Fulton, 26, Athens Route 5, received a conditional speed charge after sliding on the South Bridge and hitting the raised sidewalk. The others involved two city crashes with no citations and several out‑of‑city wrecks without injuries as crews salted streets through the night.
In Sioux City Iowa an Ozark Air Lines DC9 with 62 passengers crashed on take off at the airport this morning. A tower spokesman said there were no deaths or serious injuries. The jet from Sioux City to Chicago crashed about 1 1/2 miles north of the runway. A witness reported the right wing dipped as it left the runway and the plane plunged into a grove of trees landing belly first in deep snow with the right wing sheared off.
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