City Demands Unique Measures For Power Line Route
Athens officials filed a formal letter with Ohio Power Company requesting extra measures in routing a 69 000 volt line from Strouds Run substation to Clark Street Substation. City Council members joined residents in urging alternate routes to minimize residential impact and avoid legal action if necessary.
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Theolumbia Avenue
Second Street
Columbus
Ohio
Electric
Athens
Gerald Mollica
Strouds Run Rd
Peach Ridge Rd
Columbia
Second
Mollica
Strouds Run
Clark Street
Athens’ West Side
Electric Company
Chos
Columbia-Lancaster
Athens County School Board votes to not renew superintendent
Board President Clyde Pratt and fellow members Lewis Moore and Ed ward Thomas declined to explain their vote to not renew Supt. Robert L. Weinfurtner. Board member Charles Shaner supported Weinfurtner while Esther Dailey, absent, would have opposed the move.
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Athens County School Board
Clyde Pratt
Robert L. Weinfurtner
Messenger
Pratt
Weinfurtner
Lewis Moore
Edward Thomas
Moore
Thomas
Weinfurther
Charles Shaner
Esther Dailey
Jury Deliberates in Oliver Mills Murder Trial
A Vinton County jury in McArthur deliberates a first degree murder case against Oliver Mills 61 accused in the Aug. 31 shotgun slaying of Sheriff Harold Steele. The panel weighs verdicts from guilty as charged to manslaughter with mercy and faces possible death if found guilty of first degree murder without mercy.
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McArthur
Oliver Mills
Harold Steele
Vinton County Common Pleas
Robert Tague
Tague
Mills
Steele
Dave Wilbur
Creola
Wilbur
William H. Collins
Radcliff Route 1
Facemeyer Lumber Co
Pomeroy
Dale E. Zinn
Loisene Hoy
Stanley Markin
Radcliff
Free Will Baptist
Marguerite Lamb
Larry Brisker
Lula Catherine Clipner
Londonderry
Chester Hartshorn
New Plymouth
State Park
Jane Hubbell
Hubbell
Mattie Gilliland
McArthur Route 2
Perkins Pancake House to Open on U.S. 33 Soon
About a hundred applicants sought jobs for Perkins Pancake House to open next Tuesday or Wednesday after a city lift station for the sewer system is finished. The Plains owners Ted Rakowich and wife run the locally owned chain offering a full line menu from pancakes to steaks. The restaurant plans 6 am to 9 pm hours and expects to hire 30 to 40 people.
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Perkins Pancake House
U.S. 33
Perkins
Ted Rakowich
the Plains
Broncos Name Echoes Across Denver Sports History
The Denver Broncos NFL team shares a nickname with a 1920s minor league baseball club in the Midwest League, which was also known as The Broncos, highlighting a historic reuse of the name in Denver sports.
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Denver
Denver Broncos
Broncos
Bond reductions ordered for Crestline suspects in copper theft
In Athens County Common Pleas Court Judge John Bolin granted partial bond reductions for two Crestline men charged with copper wire theft from the C and O Railroad. Jack Armes and Chalmers Bowman saw bonds cut from 4000 to 3000 dollars on one of three charges each while another reduction was denied.
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Athens County Common Pleas Court
Crestline
C&o
Jack Armes
Chalmers Bowman
John Bolin
Hockingport Native Massie Elected to IEEE Network Committee
Keith L. Massie engineering operations manager for WWVU TV Channel 24 wins a seat on the Engineering Standing Committee of the Eastern Educational Television Network. The five member panel guides technical and production standards for 26 stations across 10 states plus Washington DC. Massie, son of Mr and Mrs Everett Massie of Hockingport, has served at WVU public television in Morgantown since May 1963.
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Keith L. Massie
Wwvu TV
Channel 24
Eastern Educational Television Network
Maine
West Virginia
District of Columbia
Massie
Everett Massie
Hockingport
West Virginia University Public Television
Morgantown
Lecture Set At Bentley
Public lecture by Prof Anthony Flew on A Quest for the Meaning of Life scheduled Feb 12 in Bentley Hall Room 20 at 8 p m. Flew is visiting professor of philosophy at SUNY Buffalo and taught at Keele and several other universities.
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Anthony Flew
Bentley Hall
Flew
State University of New York At Buffalo
University of Keele
King’s College
Aberdeen
University of North Staffordshire
University of Maryland
Home
Four-Way GOP Mayor Primary Sees New Candidate
John Cline, former Athens County commissioner, enters the Republican mayor race joining Roger Grueser Edward Van Dyke and incumbent Raymond Shepard. Kenneth Sands and John Summel file for city council posts as filings close at 4 with other petitions from Nelsonville showing Democratic and Republican contenders.
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John Cline
Athens County
Board of
Cline
Roger Grueser
Edward van Dyke
Raymond Shepard
Kenneth Sands
Athens
John Summel
Nelsonville
Landis Joins Athens Council Race
Fred Landis a Republican Athens auto parts dealer filed for first ward councilman challenging incumbent Democrat Jack Green. With auditor and solicitor still contested only a day remains before the filing deadline and the general election landscape remains unsettled.
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David M. Devore
Paul E. Stenson
John W. Brooks
Third Ward
Athens
Fred Landis
First Ward
Jack Green
Registrations Revoked By Athens County Elections Board
The Athens County Board of Elections canceled two Ohio University student registrations for falsification of the voter application. The board also rejected six other student applications and accepted one. Budget approval, contract bids, and summer registration plans were reported.
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Curt Heady
Ohio University
Athens County Board of Elections
William Howe
Rosemary Ann Herrmann
Walker Sr
Paul Scott Skalyo
Chauncey
Ohio University Registration Office
Howe
Election Board
Miss Herrmann
Skalyo
Gary Golden
Albany
Michael J. Brederman
Willam G. Pendry
Donna L. Hatder
Faith H. Teitelbaum
Paul J. Goldzun
Frederick J. Shayr
Jon Shallop
Peggy Combs
League of Women Voters
Ed Robe
National Graphics
Union Printing
Waterloo
York Townships
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Bentley
Montoya
Coats
Birdseye
Tne
Vy Price
Gauchos
Dacron
CPO
HUSKY
Bank Americard
North Court Street
America
Landis
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