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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1971
Page
7
Five groups and an architect met to align goals for replacing the razed County Children’s Home along Route 33 East Bypass. Revised plans aim to provide a suitable home, easing displacement of wards. Athens weather shifts from snow to sun as Punxsutawney Phil signals more winter, and a holiday weekend looms with Congress on break.
A terse quip about calendar manipulation and holidays. The speaker vows to stay at the typewriter despite Congress, noting a personal plan during what seems a festive period.
The Mark Master degree will be conferred at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Masonic Temple by Athens Chapter 39 RAM.
POMEROY Two defendants were fined 15 dollars plus costs and sentenced to 39 days confinement in the Meigs County jail after grand larceny conviction in Meigs County court before Judge Frank W. Porter Jr. on Friday. Theodore Martin and Joseph McCarty of West Columbia also placed on probation for one year. Nigel S. Dyer of Parkersburg bound over to grand jury on driving while intoxicated. Other fines included Michael W. Shafer Middleport 15, Jack Goode Rutland 10 for intoxication, Michael Von Reese Cheshire 332 with 280 suspended for overload. Phillip Fisher forfeited two bonds of 25 each for intoxication.
Meigs Jackson Vinton county bookmobile routes for Feb 15 week list daily stops and times. Key towns include McArthur Allensville Radcliffburg Ray Byes Roads Tuppers Plains Elmwood Alfred Burlingham Arnolds Rock Springs Brown Town Enterprise Harrisonville Radcliff Coalton Lee Green's Store Limerick Eastern Chester Old Chester Road Skating Rink State Garage Five Points Beacon Service Lick Winchester with specific morning afternoon slots across Mon through Fri.
Three men with different visions on black liberation will address Ohio University during Black Awareness Week. Claude Lightfoot Hosea Williams and Stanley Tolliver will speak at Baker Center Memorial Auditorium and Memorial Auditorium with events spanning lectures, poetry, dance, and film co-sponsored by the Center for Afro-American Studies and the Kennedy Lecture Series.
Sgt Major Oliver W. Peterson of Spokane received four World War II medals after 43 months of combat time. He had waited since the war for transfers to catch up, and ceremonies at an Army Reserve unit in Spokane honored him with a good conduct medal a service medal and two campaign medals.
Washington D C February 10 Miller re submitted legislation in the 92nd Congress to protect police and firemen by making it a federal offense to kill or conspire to kill an officer in performance of duties. The bill presumes interstate travel if assailants are not captured within 24 hours enabling federal investigators to join local efforts. The measure mirrors kidnapping statutes and follows a 39 police deaths in 1970. The package also seeks 100 percent tax credits for the first 200 spent on higher education, 25 percent from 200 to 500 and 5 percent from 500 to 1500 with income limits.
Ohio ranks 28th in Aid to Dependent Children ADC per a Health and Welfare survey cited by the Ola Citizen's Council for Health and Welfare The council calls for higher ADC payments to meet the state's minimum health and decency standard A family of four needs 258 monthly for essentials but current appropriations would provide 200 per month if raised to meet the minimum figure William D Ginn council chair urges Legislature to fund basic necessities for dependent children
John Snediker, chairman of the credentials committee, says a meeting open to all will examine board credentials Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Chauncey Senior Citizens Headquarters. Any board member not submitting his questionnaire should do so or appear in person.
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