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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1967
Page
4
Logan board defers ruling on seeking a May operating levy for schools. They will prepare cost estimates to reopen five outlying elementary schools and decide in September if the millage will appear on the ballot. The measure faces prior defeats and ongoing organized resistance.
Residents along the four mile Lake Logan Road petition to transfer jurisdiction from Hocking County to the State Highway Department. They argue the road connects Route 180 to Route 664 and provides access to docks, parking, and the lake beach, with growing traffic from a new four lane freeway nearby. County officials will act only after petitions are signed.
Thirteen people were fined in Judge W J McClintock s Perry County court for speeding and related offenses. Other items include divorces, continuances, and preliminary grand jury actions involving burglary and grand larceny cases tied to TV thefts in Thornville.
Logan and Hocking County officials formed a 50 member cross section committee to set guidelines for town meetings. The group voted Monday night to add four delegates representing city and county schools, government, teachers and other community sectors. Secretary Mrs. George C. Shaw and treasurer James Kinner were named. Al Powers leads planning for the first town meeting after Easter.
Mrs Agnes White visited her son and daughter in law James and Mary White and newborn Mary Beth. Several relatives from Columbus, Racine, Nelsonville, Dayton, Groveport, Huntington, Ravenswood and Belpre visited the Whites and each other during various days. Court notes: Nancy Pittman 21 Nelsonville Route 2 speeding $10. William Creals 21 Mulberry Street speeding $10. Oba Douglas 54 Athens Route 4 spilling load $15. Harry Nye 53 New Straitsville conditional speeding guilty $10 overload $60. Larry Pierce 20 Chauncey permitting minor to operate vehicle without license $25.
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