Rise in Unemployment Claims in Logan Area
The Logan Bureau of Unemployment Compensation report shows 58 initial and 510 continued claims for the week ending Feb 6, up from 45 initial and 477 continued a week earlier. Seasonal layoffs in construction drive the rise, with 9 workers laid off at William Wallace Metalbestos, and regional offices in Nelsonville Athens and Glouster reporting varied initial and continued claims. A four week study indicates a peak in week two with 146 initial and 1,169 continued claims, followed by declines from the peak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Homer Schein
William Wallace Metalbestos
Athens County
Nelsonville
Athens
Glouster
Ohio
Division of Research and Statistics
Ohio Buc
Linguist to Speak at Enterprise World Service Day
Logan Daniel Roman of Strasbourg France a language department assistant at Otterbein College will speak at the World Service Day service at Kline Memorial EUB Church Enterprise at 1030 a m Sunday. He is the son of an EUB pastor in Strasbourg and has completed high school in France. He also studies advanced mathematics English music and physical education and will assist in EUB camps this summer while touring the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Daniel Roman
Strasbourg
France
Otterbein College
Westerville
Kline Memorial
EUB Church
Enterprise
Roman
Otterbein
Gasoline Tank Rupture Clears From Sohio Station
Logan Fire Department responded to a disturbance at the Rieder Bros Sohio Station at 2 10 p m Wednesday after a storage tank being removed ruptured and filled the hole with gasoline. Firemen stood by in case of fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Logan Fire Department
Rieder Bros
Armstrong Named To Committee Ohio County Commissioners Appoint 1960
Logan Hocking County commissioner Harry L. Armstrong receives appointment to the Legislative Committee of the Ohio County Commissioners Association for 1960. President Walter North and Otto Shaw also named to the County and Regional Planning Committee. Roy Stillwagon announces the 24 appointees as the association studies legislation for Ohio's eighty eight counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Trustees Discuss Road Mileage in Hocking County
Trustees from 11 townships met with a state representative in the courthouse to review township road mileage. Porter Heigle, president, said state funds partly maintain roads and each township’s allotment is based on measured mileage determined by the state.
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LOGAN
Hocking County
Porter Heigle
Hocking Co Men Enter Armed Forces
Two Hocking County men left Logan by bus for Fort Hayes where they were inducted into the Army. Melvin Raymond Gierhart of South Bloomingville and Arthur Eugene Lehman of Logan are the new Army inductees. Eight county residents are in the armed forces, with others enlisting in the Air Force Army and Navy including Nina Lou Canter Jerry Lee McDonald Joseph James Sifferson Ronald Leroy Stevens Herman Reginald Stewart Thomas Lee Dupler and Philip Arthur Bolin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Hocking County
Fort Hayes
Columbus
Melvin Raymond — Gierhart
South Bloomingville
Arthur Eugene Lehman
U.S. Army
Logan Adult Education Club
Mary Sweazy
Selective Service Board
Motorist Fined For Speeding In Local Court
Two traffic cases heard by County Judge Vaughn Collins. James L. Carter 19 of New Plymouth was found guilty in absentia and fined 20 dollars plus costs for speeding on State Route 328 on February 9. Donald H. Strong 38 of Nelsonville pled guilty for failure to obey a stop sign and was fined 10 dollars plus costs. Luther Burch 65 of Elkin North Carolina pled guilty to unsafe operation after a February 11 accident at Rt 33S and Maysville Road and was fined 20 dollars plus costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James L. Carter
New Plymouth
Carter
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Donald H. Strong
Nelsonville
Collins
Luther Burch
Elkin
N. C
State Patrol
Maysville Road
Burch
Community club events calendar for February weekend
Logan area clubs announce Friday and Saturday gatherings. Laurel Valley Grange hosts Glennel Weaver at 7 30 p m. Natco Ettes 4 H Club sponsors a Green elementary school event 7 30 to 11 30 p m. Scotts Creek Social Club meeting delayed to Feb 19. Cosmo Club dinner at Blosser s 6 30 p m with a later meeting at Mrs Hildabelt s home. Saturday includes 1 p m Saturday Club at Brandt s Mec ca Room. youth chairman Mrs Wallace Beck of Ewing Grange 2082 leads a 8 p m home meeting. Bear Run and Webb Summit Farm Bureau Councils joint meeting at Roy Heidlebaugh s. topic Wills. Trinity Lutheran Couples Club meets 8 p m parish hall with officer elections and mission planning led by Mr and Mrs John Gafke and hosts Mr and Mrs John Myers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurel Valley Grange
Glennel Weaver
Lock
Green Elementary
Natco-Ettes
Scotts Creek
Cosmopolitan Club
Blosser
John Hildabelt
Brandt
Mecca Room
Winifred Engle
Ralph Poston
Wallace Beck
Ewing Grange No
Bear Run and
Webb Summit
John Gafke
John Myers
Union Furnace Man In Columbus Hospital
Logan Elbert Arnette, 80, from Union Furnace, is improving at Mt. Carmel Hospital in Columbus after eye surgery on Monday. Family says he will be confined about 10 days in room 526. He stays with daughter and son in law, 433 North Orchard Street, during winter.
Enter S Father-in-law Thomas Seriously Ill in Hospital
Nelsonville resident Chauncey Mason Thomas is gravely ill in the hospital. His daughter is Mrs. Fred Crabtree and her husband visited Tuesday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Mason Thomas
Nelsonville
Mr. Thomas
Fred Crabtree
Births Exceed Deaths In Hocking County January
Logan data show January births total sixteen with ten boys and six girls while deaths in Logan were nine and eight in county area. Names of parents with newborns listed. Logan Route 1 and 3 residents among mothers.
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Logan
Lorena Larimer
Hocking County
Roger L. Frisinger
Ned F. Fickel
James W. Wilcox
Jack Smith
Alva V. Mahaffey
Wilkesville
Dwight Earlen Brown
Ashville
James C. Hall
Hamden
Thomas L
Kiwanis Ladies Night Observed in Logan Twenty-nineteen
The Rev. John Devol of Lancaster spoke on humorous ministry experiences to ninety attendees at Westminster House of the Presbyterian Church during Kiwanis Club ladies night. Logan High School Band assistant director Richard Buntz led a 12 piece orchestra with soloists Ben Kitchen and Becky Stuart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
John Devol
Lancaster
Kiwanis Club
Westminster House
Presbyterian Church
Devol
Richard Buntz
Logan High School
Ben Kitchen
Becky Stuart
Danny Devol
Tom Grey
Dean Collison
James Irvine
Tom Walsh
Don Braun
Sewing Circle Meeting at Mrs Dew's Home
The Chauncey group gathered at Mrs Mary Dew's residence for the Wednesday Sewing Circle. Members signed a get well card for hospitalized Mrs Blanche Champlin, collected dues, and asked ladies to bring sales tax stamps or leave them for counting at the next meeting.
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Chauncey
Mary Dew
Blanche Champlin
Logan-A divorce petition filed in Hocking County court
Alice Faye Anderson petitions for divorce from Thomas Lee Anderson on grounds of gross neglect of duty. The case seeks equitable relief and restoration of her name to Alice Faye Lanning, with Mary Anne Reed listed as next friend for the minor plaintiff.
Auditor to attend conference on oil mineral assessments
Logan County Auditor Carl Engle will attend a February 25 conference at the Central YMCA in Columbus on rules for setting up assessments of oil gas and other minerals for 1960. Hocking County commissioners approved expense funding for his participation and discussed the 1960 county property appraisal and sheriff's department car purchase with no action taken. An Appraisal Fund of about 4000 exists and revenue provisions are sought. An animal claim of 24 was paid for sheep killed and three injured by dogs. Other approved bills totaled 5000.51 for county offices 8717.66 for Auto Gas and 77.62 for Dog and Kennel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Carl Engle
Central Ymca
Columbus
Hocking County
Sheriff's Department
Joan Heigie
Dog and Kennel Fund
Cub Scout Pack 78 Plans Jubilee Year Events
Charter review meeting at the Parish House registered leaders for the 1960 Golden Jubilee of Scouting. Leaders include Kenneth Sedgwick Chauncey Christian Church Ralph Brown Don Richardson Ruth Kozma Violet Richardson and more. Plans call for a Golden Jubilee window display at Baughman Variety Store and a roundtable at Morrison Elementary with a Blue and Gold Banquet planning session set for Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Kenneth Sedgwick
Chauncey Christian Church
Ralph Sanders
Fred Landis
Carl Moody
Charles Richardson
Ralph Brown
Don Mathers
Helen Baughman
Ruby Newman
Dorothy Landis
Violet Richardson
Ruth Kozma
LaVerne Sanders
Ruth Ann Brown
John Baughman
Butch Brown
Mike Gretz
Bob Ley
Steve Skinner
Mike Ley
Billy Mingus
Earl Landis
Jim Staley
David Kostival
Don Richardson
Rodney Sanders
Jim Broody
Ronnie Kozma
Baughman Variety Store
Morrison Elementary School
Athens
Teacher Hired for Corrective Speech Class
Logan High School principal Logan-Harley Ellinger announced Richard Dean a student teacher from Ohio University will conduct corrective speech classes in the second term. Classes run in room 226 on Monday Wednesday and Friday afternoons under Dr Rice of Ohio University. Ellinger urged teachers to submit lists of students needing help by Monday Feb 15. Counseling slips will be used and scheduling aims for study hall or physical education periods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Harley Ellinger
Logan High School
Richard Dean
Ohio University
Driver Fined After Crash Near Route 33
Luther M. Burch 65 of Elkin North Carolina was fined twenty dollars plus costs in Hocking County Court after a minor collision on Route 33 one mile south of Logan. State Patrol said Burch tried to pass a southbound pickup driven by Donald R. Lytle 32 of Rockbridge as Lytle prepared to turn left.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
North Carolina
Hocking
Here
Luther M. Burch
Elkin
N. C
Vaughn Collins
Burch
Donald R. Lytle
Rockbridge
Lincoln Birthday Holiday Closures Across Logan County
State and County offices close in observance of Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Courthouse offices shuttered except Hocking County Schools Superintendent Frey, State Aid for the Aged, Bureau of Workmen's Compensation, and local Unemployment Compensation bureau. State liquor stores and Farmers and Merchants Bank employees also observe the holiday.
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Logan
Abraham Lincoln
Supt. Frey
Hocking County
State Aid For the
Bureau of Workmen's Compensation
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Farmers and Merchants Bank
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United States
Armstrong
America
BEL
BLACK
Carling
Srewing Co, Inc
Cleveland, Ohio
Valley Auto
Valley Auto Exchange
W. Hunter
Logan, Ohio
Peck Nash and
Dave Colliton
Hocking Co
Union Furnace
Columbus Hospital
Helen Rowe
Buckingham Palace
Queen Elizabeth
Morgan
William Morgan
Hocking Valley Hospital
Congo River
West Africa
Vulcan
Athens Messenger
Dollar Days
Altmans
Casey Jones
Zipper Fly Dungarees
Rockford
Work Sox
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Stevens
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