Turnaround Highway Opens At Athens OU Era
A historical recap notes spring 1976 Messenger headlines from April to June. Key items include Ohio U budget approval, Athens County education and health shifts, road projects, and campus developments such as OU dean searches and ROTC returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Fulks
New County
Carl van Anda
Patricia Carbine
Ms. Magazine
A. M. Rosenthal
The
New York Times
Athens High School
Donna Brown
Athens County
City School Board
Bill Whaley
One Life or Eight: Sharpshooters Kill Ex-Mental Patient
Undersheriff says the choice of one life or eight led sharpshooters to kill a former mental patient who held seven hostages at a Wichita suburb home. Larry Leer, 30, was shot in the chest eight hours after detaining Bonnie Horinek and her four children with multiple weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haysville
Kan
Sam Davidson
Wichita
Larry Leer
Bonnie Horinek
Horineks
Leer
Lonnie Beam
Warner Eisenbise
Sedgwick County
Johnnie Carr
Horinek
Miss Beam
Harry Minor
Bernie Drowatski
Bryan D. Tracy
Charles W Pickared
Antiwar Group Appeals to Vietnam for End to Rights Violations
A 90 plus signatory antiwar activist group led by Joan Baez appeals to Vietnam at the United Nations to halt detentions of 20 000 to 30 000 people in re education centers since 1975 religious repression and other human rights abuses The plea urges Hanoi to avoid a repeat of liberation leading to new oppression and calls for reconciliation and tolerance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations, N.Y
Joan Baez
Vietnam
United Nations
Miss Baez
New York City Council
Paul O'Dwyer
Malcolm Boyd
Allen Ginsberg
Carroll Dozier
Memphis
Tenn
Arnold Wolf
Yale University
Daniel and
Philip Berrigan
Daniel Elisberg
Saigon
Hanoi
White House
Six Indicted in Athens County Burglary Case Summary
Athens County grand jurors indicted six persons in a joint case involving Art Kay David Richards and Dennis Novak on burglary related charges. Deborah Lee was accused of forgery Craig Randall Riley of breaking and entering Matthew Rowe of criminal damaging William Lee forgery case continued. Charles Waise faced no true bill for aggravated robbery. Arraignment date not set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
Art Kay
David Richards
Dennis Novak
Deborah Lee
Craig Randall Riley
Matthew Rowe
William Lee
Charles Waise
Contractor Ignites Trash Behind City Construction Site
A building contractor, Don Eskey, 55 Briarwood Drive, started a trash fire behind a Pleasantview Drive construction site on Wednesday afternoon. Athens firemen advised that burning is prohibited in the city. Eskey extinguished the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasantview Drive
Athens
Don Eskey
Briarwood Drive
Eskey
Escape charge against Akron man dismissed
Gary Boggs of Akron faced an escape charge for tampering with jail windows at the Athens County Jail. Municipal Court dismissed the case this week due to lack of evidence after deputies found windows damaged enough to nearly remove bars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Boggs
Akron
Athens County
Boggs
Wittenberg Names Two Local Students To Fall Dean's List
Harold B Kendall of 69 Morris Ave and Greg W Oakley of Nelsonville Route 2 are named to the fall term dean's list at Wittenberg University in Springfield. The Kendall and Oakley families are cited as being connected to the students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wittenberg University
Springfield
Harold B Kendall
H. B. Kendall
Morris Ave
Greg W. Oakley
Dorothy Kunzman
Nelsonville
Safety Poster Contest Seeks Ohio Entries for National Judging
Clarence Pack of the Automobile Club of Southern Ohio announces a statewide safety poster contest tied to the 33rd National School Traffic Safety poster contest. Area posters go to AAA Washington for national judging and Ohio grand prize winners receive Savings Bonds. Four grade categories, 1 3, 4 6, 7 9, and 10 12. Deadline February 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Pack
Automobile Club of Southern Ohio
Portsmouth
AAA
Washington
Christmas Dinner Gatherings Across Glouster Area Families
A Christmas dinner was held Sunday at the Wisecup home in Glouster Route 2 with many relatives from Dayton Columbus Waverly and Washington Court House visiting. Additional gatherings occurred at the Mulpas home in Jacksonville and with the Whites and Richards family, including Rex and Beverley Angie from Colorado Springs. Rex serves in the Army and extended family from Glouster joined in the Yuletide reunions across multiple local households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preston Wisecup
Jack B. Davis
Rhonda
George Snyder
Justina
Theda
Roger Miller
Dayton
Homer H Pierce
Barbara Jacksontown
Rex Rivers
Chad Tad
Brad
Thad Rockbridge
Dwight Snyder
Washington Court House
Tony Jacobs
South Dakota
Evelyn R. Davis
Glouster
Jacksonville
Clarence Mulpas
Donald Mulpas
Columbus
Grace Richards
Longwood
Fla
David White
Mary Baker
Cora Tucker
Florence
Walter Mason
Richards
Masons
St Clairsville
Rex and
Beverley Angie
Colorado Springs
Colo
Are
Carl Miller
Mary Smith
Eleanor Smith
Bill Koons
Becky
Barry
Bill Dunnette
Darin
Dease
Smith
Gerald Ball
Wore Ridge
Otis Ball
Wightstown
Darrell Ball
West Lafayette
Denny Ball
Manon
Dunnette
Miller Home
Hartford Dunnette
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Messenger
State Patrol
Athens Mental Health and
Ohio U. Trustees
Athens County 169
Beacon
AtCo Workshop
Neil Bucklew
Central Michigan University
Ohio
Frank Betts
Grand
Bill Collins
Athens High
Carol Harter
Ohio U.’s
Philadelphia
Clarence Miller
Congress
Appalachia
Ironton Academic Center
Stimson Avenue
Dan Dry
First Ward
Pete Lalich
Federal
Hocking High School
Mental Health and
Long Run Road
Albany
Mount St. Mary Hospital
OU Medical School
National Guard
Mo Udall
Ping
Sheriff Brown
Gary Elaw
Happy Haynes
Chillicothe
Barrett
Hocking Technical College
Harry Crewson
Faces
Race
Morris Udall
Ohio U
Mike Borden
Democratic Party
Jimmy Carter
HAPPY
Donnell
Haynes
Callicothe Correction Institute
Gail McGaffney
Associated Press
Porter
John Horinek
Bonnie
Horvick
George Jameson
Betts
Telephone
Kslic
Fedee Baong
Cee Om
Evelyn Davis
Jack B Davis
Ralph Schultz
Ralph Edward
Waverly
Joe Norns
Gallipolis
Elizabeth Gunther
Richard Gunnther
Bill Stephenson
Gilbert Bingman
Robert Angie
Rex
S Army
St National Bank
Nelsons Tlee
the Peoples Bank
Worle
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