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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1965
Page
4
A state interview outlines plans to reorganize the Division of Mental Hygiene in Ohio. The changes would add psychiatrists at the central office in Columbus and expand services at Athens State Hospital.
Dr. Troy Organ, philosophy professor, receives a Fulbright-Hays grant for the 1965-66 academic year at Calcutta University, India. He previously earned a 1958 grant to study the self in Indian philosophy and plans to explore self-realization during the upcoming fellowship.
A graduation ceremony occurred Wednesday night in the Ath ens State Hospital auditorium for fourteen graduates of an eighty hour psychiatric aide course. The class included employees who had completed psychiatric aide 1 and featured remarks by state mental hygiene director Martin A. Janis.
Athens County residents donated generously to Heart Sunday with officials forecasting a record total. Co chairs Mrs Ray Spring and Mrs George McGarvey reported 1817.32 in complete returns, Nelsonville reached 459.29, other areas 204.78, county chairman Mrs Jesse Day urged late contributions.
Ohio University receives a 12234 advance contract from the Peace Corps to draft the fourth training program for Volunteers headed to Cameroon. Dr. Paul Roaden directs the project outlining planning, curriculum, and materials development for the requested program.
A Dayton testing firm Bowser-Morner drilled Wednesday to test the site on S Court St for a new F W Woolworth store. The soil borings seek bearing value to inform the building footer design. Core samples were taken from all corners of the site.
Gov. Hulett Smith will attend a Kootaga Area Council meeting in Parkersburg at 4 p.m. Sunday to hear a final report on the $275000 Scout Development drive, now $58000 short of its goal. The suit of Edward Ceyckoff against James R. Burts was settled and dismissed in Common Pleas.
U. S. Observer C. L. Colmer reports a Thursday cold front moving into Athens after winds and heavy rain. At 10 a.m. the temperature stood at 28 degrees, down 14 degrees in three hours, with 1.16 inches of rainfall. The Hocking River rose to 7.65 feet.
Cline Pharmacy at 15 S. Court St. becomes Full Walgreens Drugs under owner David Full a registered pharmacist. The store enters Walgreens agency network with 2000 agency stores nationwide and undergoes remodeling to expand merchandise by early March.
A list of patient and discharge notes from Sheltering Arms Hospital includes names such as Larry Blackford Glouster Mrs Nathan Noble Stewart Mrs Glenn Pinney McArthur Route 2 Mark Young Athens Mrs Virgil Gilkey Athens Route 2 Lawrence Caster Athens Route 1 Karen Bridge Athens Route 1 and dismissals for Doren Brill Athens Mrs Howard Welch Carpenter Mrs Hubert Wilhelm Athens Mrs William Peters Frost Route 1.
Richland volunteers responded to a fire at Lawson Furniture Store on Route 50 W. Damage was estimated at $1000 with living quarters damaged as ten firemen and two kitchen crews fought the blaze and it spread to the wall.
A list of individuals from Athens Sutton Sutton Millfield and surrounding areas appears in county court documents with charges including speeding unsafe operation defective horn failure to dim headlights passing on approach to curve and related offenses. Penalties include fines and costs.
A 16 year old girl admitted that her report of being knifed by three Ohio University male students was false. Police say the self inflicted cuts occurred in a Court Street restroom and she hoped to get even with the students. One student was jailed overnight while others were cleared. the girl and her sister had prior involvement with the trio at a Court Street building last October.
Cars driven by Herbert S. Fahlgren and George W. Troy sideswiped Wednesday while west bound on Route 50 a mile east of Route 690. Fahlgren 34 of Parkersburg cited for changing lanes without caution by the State Highway Patrol.
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