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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1936
Page
5
Athens officials report yearly fire insurance costs amount to about 35000 due to inadequate equipment. Plans by city engineer Dowler call for fire house fronting City Hall and WPA project status. Committees examine fire equipment costs and bond options while extending WPA funding efforts.
The document outlines lighting rates and charges for individuals and businesses in Athens under the Ohio Electric and Southern Company. It details kilowatt hour tiers, monthly minimums, penalties for late payments, and adjustments based on changes in taxes, fuel costs, and expenditures.
Councilman Bert Russell proposed a fundraiser to supply Athens volunteer firemen with essential clothing. Funds are needed due to city budget limits. A March 17 benefit ball at Hotel Berry was approved with Russell Haney and Laughlin named to run the event.
Councilman Good cites Ohio Inspection Bureau findings after engineers visited Athens in 1934. He argues current fire services are under equipped raising insurance costs by about 35000 annually. Proposals include motorized pumping, more hose, longer ladders, night staff of four, with WPA help to remodel the City Building into a new fire house lieu of the caboose top structure.
The city council authorizes reduced electricity rates for residents and businesses in Athens Ohio ensuring immediate financial relief and public welfare. The ordinance takes effect after passage and acceptance by The Southern Ohio Electric Company, dated February 8 before the mayor and council clerk.
Members of Troops 50 and 56 earned advancement at the Hock Hocking District Court of Review held Monday night in the First Methodist Episcopal Church scout rooms. New ranks include tenderfoot second class and star, with examining questions on first aid snakebites and signaling. The event began with Scout Oath and Law and closed with taps.
Thomas McHugh of Athens Cos camp and Joe Estep of New Marsh field were fined and cost each after pleading guilty to all charges before Magistrate T. B. Bennett. Both were released.
Dr Asher Isaac of the University of Pittsburgh told the Athens Rotary Club that public health and economic recovery are linked and warned against overreliance on unproven cures. He compared New Deal remedies to risky treatments and urged prudent policy as Uncle Sam reaches middle age.
Ohio University will award degrees and diplomas Friday to 57 graduates in the first semester without a graduation ceremony. Final exams run through Thursday. second semester registration begins Monday morning Feb 10 in the Men's Gymnasium. Degrees include 24 BSE, 16 BA, 5 BA in Commerce, 3 MA, and nine two year diplomas in education with specialties in elementary education county education and kindergarten primary. Named graduates include Virginia Mae Colbert and G Allen Conn among BSE recipients. William Emerson Cale and Edith H Cowles among BAs. Samuel Cohen and Robert Logan Hartford among commerce. Denis Keates Cope and William Williams among MAs.
Trimble Grange will host a Valentine dance and board party at the Grange Hall on Thursday night February 13 in honor of newlyweds Mr and Mrs Hyatt Pettit. At the Grange meeting Saturday night the Third and Fourth Degrees were conferred on Arza Kasier and Catherine Kasier.
The Maya in Yucatan hold that aged vultures enter armadillo dens and transform into armadillos, a folkloric claim noted in regional lore.
The Athens area saw a ten degree fall in two hours with a high wind sending hats flying. Noon temperature reached 81 degrees noted by weather observer Mrs C N France. Rain eased flood threats and forecasters expect fair and colder weather Wednesday after a low of 34 degrees last night.
Co. L 166 Infantry led by Lt. L. V. Murphy held first official rifle marksman ship practice of the season at Athens Armory. Murphy, ex national rifle team member, will select ten men and two alternates for the regiment and brigade matches in March. Five new privates joined during a recruiting drive.
Mrs. Bertie Warren Lewis aged 68 died Monday afternoon at her daughter Mrs John Gabriel's home in Athens Route 6. Husband D A Lewis died Jan 3 1935. Survived by three children Aaron Lewis Mrs John Gabriel and Mrs Freda Smith, sixte en grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral Thursday 2 p m Chauncey Church of Christ. Burial Nye Cemetery Chauncey.
Sam Lowry 21 and Goldie Hudnall 16, both of Shade, are listed as time keeper and applicant in a joint entry. They are described as son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Lowry and Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hudnall respectively.
Athens County will hire a new extension agent after Friday meeting of the county commissioners Grange and State Extension Service officials. The former agent Hartman has moved to a Soil Erosion Service post in Zanesville. county now funds increased extension expenses to maintain the program.
William J. Muldoon of Athens has been promoted to district manager of the National Reemployment Service at Painesville. He now oversees Ashtabula Lake and Geauga counties. Muldoon is an Ohio University graduate who joined the service three years ago as Athens office statistician, later becoming district statistician at Lancaster and statistician in Columbus.
Harley DeLong of Sugar Creek was fined 25 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to intoxication before Magistrate T R Bennett. Twenty dollars of the fine was suspended on good behavior and he was released. Deputy Sheriff Karl Gardner made the arrest.
Athens County Budget Commission used inflation fig uring to bridge a gap between estimated income of 140 400 dollars and expenditures of 168 995 72 dollars. They added seven revenue items including delinquent taxes sales tax and dog licenses to balance the budget and plan new appropriations for the final nine months. The panel, including Auditor Gibson Treasurer Gorham and Prosecuting Attorney Rose, met with officials to identify possible expense cuts.
Gov Herbert Lehman of New York calls for a 50 mile per hour speed limit to curb traffic accidents and improve road safety across the state.
WPA supervisor Ray Noble announced that 1,546 workers were employed on 41 projects in Athens County for the week ending February 1. In eight counties of the district 8,954 people worked on 265 projects, with the state total at 181,173 employed on 3,641 projects, about 70,000 fewer than initial estimates.
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