Athens County prosecutor weighs legality of firing school employee
County prosecutor Clair M. Ball Jr. said a decision on the legality of the Jean Perry firing would come early next week. Perry Heights assistant clerk Mrs Perry was ousted at a Saturday board meeting by a three to one vote. Weinfurtner asked Ball about contract obligations and the board’s authority to abolish the position. Ball advised keeping Mrs Perry employed while he studies the case.
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Clair M. Ball Jr
Athens County
Jean Perry
Perry
Perry Heights
Shade
Clyde Pratt
Lewis Moore
Edward Thomas
Charles Shaner
Esther Dailey
Robert Weinfurtner
Ball
Wein
Pratt
Weinfurther
Cyclist Hurt In Coolville Crash
A motorcyclist, 22 year old John E. Baker of Torch, was injured Tuesday on Coolville Main Street when his cycle hit a car driven by 45 year old Mildred Hodge of Vienna as she turned into a service station. Baker was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital Parkersburg with possible internal injuries and left leg damage. he was placed in the ICU with surgery planned. The crash remains under investigation and Coolville patrol notes his condition as satisfactory.
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Coolville
State Highway Patrol
St. Joseph's Hospital
Parkersburg
John E. Baker
Torch
Baker
Main Street
Mildred Hodge
Vienna
W. Va
Donors Can Name Monkeys and Apes at Denver Zoo
Denver Zoological Foundation invites donors to name a primate by contributing 27 dollars for a cotton top marmoset or higher for a gorilla or orangutan. Names and donors will be engraved on a permanent plaque in the new primate house, with tax deductibility noted.
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Denver
Denver Zoological Foundation
Foundation
Willian Kistler
Primate House
Kistler
Court Removes Snediker Money Claim From Suit
The Southern Ohio Federal District Court sustained Athens City School District’s motion to strike monetary damages in John Snediker’s suit over his son Tad’s suspended status at Athens Middle School for long hair. Tad faces another 10 day suspension ending March 4 as school principal Marion Wood notes.
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Southern
Athens
Snediker
Mollica
Princpal Marion Wood
Meigs Teens Adopt Retarded Boy For Experience
A group of 11 Meigs Local High School students aged 15 to 19 traveled to Athens to meet Dr. Melvin Witmer and Nancy Neaslo ney to plan activities for a young boy with developmental delays. Under the Ohio Association for Retarded Children and the Ohio Valley Mental Retardation Evaluation Unit, they aim to include him in walks and other activities while observing behavior patterns. The teens seek meaningful experience and to help someone in need, guided by their own judgment.
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Meigs
Ohio Association For Retarded Children
Ohio Valley
Pomeroy
Betsy Miller
Middleport
Barbara Scites
Abernathy Receives Swedish Donation During Abroad Visit
The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, leader of the SCLC, accepted a $50,000 donation from Swedish donors. Prof. Gunnar Myrdal presented the check at a government dinner in Stockholm. Abernathy, on his first trip abroad, will lecture at Gothenburg and Lund before departing for Atlanta.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Ralph David Abernathy
Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Abernathy
Gunnar Myrdal
Martin Luther King Foundation
Gothenburg
Lund
Atlanta
Driver Fined, Jailed, License Is Suspended
An Athens Route 2 man, Ted C. Kempton, 30, is serving a seven day jail sentence after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated. He was fined $200 and costs by Municipal Court Judge Franklin Sheeter, and his license was suspended for 60 days.
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Athens
Art Expert Will Speak At Bentley Hall
Art authority Professor Richard A. Wollheim will lecture at Ohio University in Bentley Hall Room 136 at 8 p.m. on Thursday February 26 on Painting Motive Meaning. He is a visiting Columbia University professor and head of philosophy at University College London. The OU philosophy department sponsors the February 26 28 visit.
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Richard A. Wollheim
Ohio University
Bentley Hall
Columbia University
University of London
University College London
Woolheim
The
Aristotelian Society
British Society of Aesthetics
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