Logan area hospitals and banks face year of change
In 1969 Logan's finances grew with Logan Federal Savings and Loan assets rising to 17 million and Farmers and Merchants Bank near 185 million. Citizens Bank climbed to 5.3 million, moving to a new building in November. Hocking Valley Hospital battled labor strikes, physician disputes, and staff resignations, then steadied as osteopathic and medical groups reached a truce. Route 33 bypass nears completion, promising flood protection and traffic relief. downtown parking remains a concern with experimental Market Street parking and talk of razing obscene buildings to improve downtown visibility and parking.
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Bruce Fickel
Logan Federal Savings and Loan Association
Ralph Moorhead
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Gage
Logan Area
General Electric
Logan J
Logan
Hospital Notes Sheltering Arms AL and Athens Births
Admissions include William Simmons Stewart Route 1 James DeWeese The Plains Frank C Betts and Mrs I A Wolfe Athens and others. Discharges list Crystal Flowers Mabel Davis Louise Davis. Names span Athens Nelsonville Albany Jacksonville and Henderson areas with multiple residents and infants noted.
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William Simmons
Stewart
James DeWeese
the Plains
Frank C. Betts
I. A. Wolfe
Athens
Josiah Allen
John Donaldson
Charles Courtney
Reva Keiffer
Crystal Mowers
Anna Parish
Nelsonville
Emma Lou Althouse
Pearl Ann Althouse
Albany
Master Grant Williams
Helen Hutchison
Lyra McCaskey
Jacksonville
Elizabeth Sabo
Buchtel
Crystal Flowers
Mabel Davis
Louise Davis
Hocking Valley Hospital and Logan Holiday Visitors
A list of patients at Hocking Valley Community Hospital includes Mrs. Leonard Bush and several Logans residents. Dismissal note for Mrs Edna Pierce. Holiday guests travel reports include Thomas Young and Robert Rogers family in Nelsonville, Gerald Widermut h in Gallipolis, and Reverend Stanley Plattenburg with May Meadows Leon Meadows Edith Reed visiting the Reed household.
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Leonard Bush
Rockbridge
Jack Proctor
Gore
Russell Mason
Cleetie Wright
Margaret Burt
Johnny Allberry
Logan
Edna Pierce
Pomeroy
Thomas Young
Robert Rogers
Nelsonville
Gerald Widermuth
Gallipolis
Theodore Reed
Stanley Plattenburg
May Meadows
Leon Meadows
Edith Reed
Tent Home Becomes Summer Lodge for Lutheran Pastor
Reverend David W. Gieschen and family moved from Manhattan Kansas to Philadelphia to lead a Lutheran church. Unable to find housing they lived in a tent. They plan to stay through most of the summer before seeking a house.
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Philadelphia
David W. Gieschen
Manhattan
Kaw
Christmas party honors veterans at Murray City Legion post
Twenty six members attended the Awallary Unit of American Legion Post No 420 Christmas party at the Murray City Post home. A covered dish dinner followed invocation by chaplain Mildred Lanning. A candle honored Vietnam service members and prayers were offered. Dellah Cook won the door prize. The article also notes a historical claim about Columbus naming Indians in 1492.
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Murray City
American Legion Post No
Mildred Lanning
Vietnam
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Hocking
Brown
W. Columbus St
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Marshall Haggerty
Din Mlonk
Paul Frum
Denver Young
Larry Reich
Melissa Ann Russell
Daisy Clark
Bertha Knapper
Stanley Lindberg
Alton Patterson
Earl Barnes
Wilbur Drake
Pleasant Valley Hospital
Gilman Grimm
Jacqueline McNeely
Point Pleasant
John C. Miller
Johnnie Patterson
Henderson
James Jeffers
Glenwood
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Hocking Valley Community Hospital
Pomeroy Personals
Foster
On West
Washington St
Nger
Ohio
Yale
Dellah Cook
New World
India
Covery
the People ’S Bank
F.D.I.C
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