Year in review: Athens county town marks slides and shifts
Charles W. Reamer recalls a year of real and figurative slides in Athens with Monticello Village avalanches on Columbia Avenue and a heavy drop in fall university enrollment. Tax revenue stayed steady but merchants felt student dependence while the university faced tighter appropriations. A summer of development and a new bank building and publishing plant closed the year.
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Monticello Village
Columbia Avenue
City Hall
Athens County Board of Elections
Ohio University
Athens
City charts 1972 with new administrations and upgrades
The city began 1972 under a new administration facing key changes in fire and police leadership. It expanded departments, faced tax base limits from exempt institutions, and saw funds from federal revenue sharing and rising income tax. Plans included linking Route 33 East Bypass with Stimson Avenue bridge and a new east end recreation push, highlighted by May pool dedication and 1973 recreation expansion plans.
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Route 33 East
Stimson Avenue
University of Oklahoma Faces Enrollment Drop and Budget Cuts
Budget cuts and pruning belts tighten across the OU campus as February 1973 hearings loom after a statewide enrollment decline. OU reports a drop of more than 1,200 students, the second largest in its history, with dormitory conversions to other uses and planned leases of former airport land off E State.
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Athens
Rufus Putnam
OU Architecture Department
Berry Hall
E. State
Reedsville tree lighting ceremony holds steady year
Reedsville residents celebrated the Riverview Garden Club annual tree lighting at the Reedsville Belleville Dam Park with Warren Pickens as master of ceremonies. Mrs. Donald Putman and a school brass quartet helped illuminate the event amid a wet year with above average rainfall and a notable flood project nearby.
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Reedsville
Riverview Garden Club
Belleville Dam
Warren Pickens
Donald Putman
Eastern High School
Charles Wills
Maxine Whitehead
Riverview School
Elden Blake
Eden Church
Garden Club
Athens
Joe Carp
Pearl Buck Hospitalized After Gall Bladder Surgery
Nobel and Pulitzer prize winner Pearl Buck, 80, was admitted to Rutland Hospital for a checkup after gall bladder surgery. A hospital spokesman said she remains in stable condition following surgery at Vermont Medical Center in Burlington on September 29 and release on December 15.
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Rutland, Vt
Pearl Buck
Rutland Hospital
Miss Buck
Vermont Medical Center
Burlington
Local Soldiers Complete Training At Fort Leonard Wood Fort Jackson and Aberdeen Proving Ground
Army personnel from Ohio completed various training courses and basic programs this year. Pfc Charles J. Howard of Gallipolis finished a motorized grader operator course at Fort Leonard Wood with honors after basic training at Fort Knox. Pvt Kenneth 0. Chafee of Reedsville completed eight weeks of basic training at Fort Jackson while attending Eastern High School. Pvt James L. George of Athens finished a 14 week automotive repair course at Aberdeen Proving Ground after basic training at Fort Knox and is An Athens High School graduate. Pvt Jerry L. Rowe of Racine completed eight weeks of basic training at Fort Knox with Company A 11th Battalion 4th Brigade.
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Army
Charles J. Howard
Nellie M. Young
Fourth St
Gallipolis
Ft. Leonard Wood
Howard
Ft. Knox
Gallia Academy High School
James O. Howard
Pine St
Kenneth 0. Chafee
Keith D. Chaffee
Reedsville
Ft. Jackson
S.C
Eastern High School
James L. George
Re. Bee
Laurence O. George
E. State St
Athens
Army Ordnance Center
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Athens High School
Army Pvt
Jerry L. Rowe
John H. Rowe
Racine
SEOEMS seeks EMT trainees for seven county region
The Southeast Ohio Emergency Medical Service invites applications for 60 hour EMT courses starting January in Athens Gallia Hocking Jackson Lawrence Meigs and Vinton. Training leads to hiring as full time EMTs at 4 800 to 6 600 yearly with 17 stations 20 ambulances and 5.3 million funding.
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Southeast Ohio Emergency Medical Service
Seoems
Athens
Gallia
Hocking
Jackson
Lawrence
Meigs
Vinton
Ohio Valley Health Services Foundation
Ohio Department of Education
Ohio
Logan
Jim McLain
Blower Funeral Home
McArthur
Wellston
Oak Hill
Gallipolis
Pomeroy
Racine
Chesapeake
South Point
Ironton
Rome
Secems
Fund Set To Help In Quake Relief In Managua
Citizens may contribute to a special fund through the local American Red Cross chapter. A disaster team aids Managua after the quake, coordinated with the U S Agency for International Development. Do not send clothing or supplies due to shipping and handling issues.
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Managua
Nicaragua
American Red Cross
Red Cross
U.S. Agency For International Development
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Charles W. Reamer
Roger A. Wiseman
Paramythia Lodge
F&am
Robert F. Sympson
Sylvester I. Bastian
George A. Dresher
Glenn L. Atkinson
Richard L. Coffman
Frank Shumway
Don Newsome
George H. Perry
Chester L. Sininger
C. Keith Bateman
Tyler
James A. Brooks Jr
Ralph W. Clark
East End
Joe
EMS
Ania Ark
Sas
O’bleness Memorial Hospital
William Kerr
the Plains
Gerald Bail
Albany
William Collins
John Letty
Herbert Ohlinger
John Gorby
James Ely
Robert Dinsmoor
New Marshfield
Denise Hendricks
Flora Easler
Nelsonville
Clyde Largent
James Whaley
Nellie Horn
Lewis Meek
Howard Michael
Anne Michael
Carlos Shaver
William Seel
Clyde Ely
Walter Barrett and Son
Arthur R. Gibson Jr
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Coolville
van Fossen Funeral Home
Glouster
Benedicts
Sale
Men’s Store
Market Street
Parkersburg
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