DWI Charges Top Docket In Court
Athens County Municipal Court docket centers on driving while intoxicated cases. Three men pleaded guilty and were fined 200 dollars plus costs, seven days in jail, and 60 day licenses suspension. Bruce Bigart Reynoldsburg 28, Douglas Lash Pomeroy Route 2 63, Robert Ley Columbus 64. Roger McCulloch Nelsonville Route 1 pleaded innocent to the same charge and resisting arrest with bond of 350 dollars. hearing set for Jan 4. Other actions include Dr David Caul forfeiting 25 dollars bond for allowing dog to run at large. Larry Hashman Glouster forfeited 33 dollars for intoxication. Geraldine Hooks Valley Acres Trailer Court pleaded guilty, fined 5 dollars and costs for an unsafe vehicle.
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Athens County
Bruce T. Bigart
Reynoldsburg
Douglas Lash
Pomeroy
Robert M. Ley
Columbus
Roger D. McCulloch
Nelsonville
David Caul
E. State St
Five May File For Commission In Athens County
At least five candidates have taken out petitions for Athens County commissioner seats. Incumbents Republican Jack White and Democrat Jim Edwards seek re election and must designate which term they run for. Others include Fred Weber II and Paul Ploutz with Charles Ben Laughlin also filing but not yet circulating. New law requires term designation on petitions so signers know opponents.
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Athens County
Jack White
Jim Edwards
White
Edwards
Ohio
Athens
Paul Ploutz
Ohio University
Charles Ben Laughlin
White Funeral Home
Coolville
Weber
The
Messenger
Laughlin
William Howe
Ted Brown
Howe
Ploutz
Secretary of State
Hit Skid Accident Reported on Kurtz Avenue
Athens police investigate a hit-skip on Kurtz Avenue. Kathleen Urbach, 17, found her car front end damaged with an estimated 75 dollars between Friday and Sunday after parking in front of her home at 17 Kurtz Ave.
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Athens
Kurtz Avenue
Kathleen Urbach
Kurtz Ave
Nixon orders large scale air strikes to choke North Vietnam
AP reports rising air war as U S intensifies attacks on the Barthelemy and Mu Gia passes while North Vietnam boosts antiaircraft defenses. The Ho Chi Minh trail begins at Mu Gia, with U S officials warning against full scale escalation though delivering a broad protective reaction.
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Saigon
United States
North Vietnam
Laos
South Vietnam
Barthelemy
Mu Gia
Cambodia
Barthelemy Pass
Highway 7
Hanoi
Demilitarized Zone
Plain of Jars
U.S
Barthelemy and
Southeast Asia
Nixon
Athens Drivers In Safe Holiday Weekend Traffic
State Highway Patrol reports a safe Christmas weekend in the Athens area with only minor injuries from several single vehicle crashes. Johnny H. Barnhart 18 Coolville suffered a left knee laceration but was not treated after a late Christmas Eve crash on Main Street. Sandra Marie Bumgardner 18 Nelsonville had forehead contusion after a Route 278 crash near the Athens County line. Neither driver was cited. Earlier, Friday afternoon crashes left five with minor injuries.
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Athens
Johnny H. Barnhart
Coolville
Barnhart
Main Street
Dale Reed
Sandra Marie Bumgardner
Nelsonville
Athens County
Hocking County
Pressmen at McBee seek decertification election
The NLRB will investigate if conditions exist for a decertification vote at the McBee plant after a petition by 56 unit members. Terminated workers complicate the case, with union officials seeking reinstatement and ongoing contract talks shaping the dispute amid broader Litton Industries layoffs.
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Clyde Bronson
The
Messenger
NLRB
Orville Andrews
Athens
Andrews
McBee
New Deputy Joins Athens County Sheriff Staff
Foster Coe is hired as a deputy sheriff for Athens County under the Emergency Employment Act. A lifelong resident and Athens High School alumnus, Coe formerly ran a barber shop and held roles as a firefighter and auxiliary patrolman. He will start January 1, 1972 after selection from 14 applicants.
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Athens High School
Dan Dry
Seventeen Magazine
Dry
the Messenger
Claud Dry
Shannon Ave
Athens
Athens County
Foster Coe
Athens Route 3
Coe
W. Union Street
Garden Club Holds Annual Yale Party
Reedsvile Riverview Garden Club held its Christmas party at Mrs. Denver Weber’s home with co host Mrs. Ernest Whitehead. Devotions were led by Mrs. Walter Brown and a group gift to Mrs. Sheillie Petty at Christian Anchorage Nursing Home was purchased by Mrs. Gene Wilson.
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Reedsville
Riverview Garden Club
Denver Weber
Ernest Whitehead
Walter Brown
Gene Wilson
Sheillie Petty
Christian Anchorage
Marietta
Garden Club
Roger Dillon
Clarence Rutherton
Elden Blake
Dohrman Reed
Bill Orr
Harliss Frank
Mr. Willis
Eastern High Band
Girl Scout Troop 67
Maxine Whitehead
Roy Buck
Belleville Locks and Dams
Community Builders Club
Athens Mental Health Center
Ronald Osborne
Osborne
Roy Hannum
Carl Buckley
Williams-Balderson Home
Donald Putnam
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DWI
Highway Patrol
Larry Hashman
Glouster
Geraldine Hooks
Valley Acres Trailer Court
Fred Weber II
Tennessee Valley
Watchmaker Jeweler
Wilson Baker
Berry Hall
N. Court
Complete Insurance Service
Don Reed
Bob Baur
Reed & Baur, Inc
Ogden
Utah
Yale
Jaynes
Big Quality Store
E. State Street
Marting’s
N. Court Street
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