Flood Control Pays Off in Leading Creek Area
Rutland and Langsville area residents see flood relief as debris clearing on Big and Little Leading Creeks reduces flooding. Route 124 saw only inches of water, roads stayed open. Project financed by Operation Mainstream cuts flood risk by about two feet. future dam and lake work will further reduce threat. Watershed Association earns over $1,000 from tree sales. park project on Harrisonville Rutland Road progresses with a bridge under construction. Botswana Bechuanaland note added.
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Rutland
Leading Creek Conservancy District
Langsville
Jack Crisp
Operation Mainstream
Crisp
Conservancy Office
Highway Department
Conservancy
Leading Creek Watershed Association
Conservancy District
Wayne Turner
Circleville
Watershed Association
Harrisonville-Rutland Road
Roy Cross
Leading Creek
Telephone Canvass Set For March in Pomeroy area
General Telephone Co of Ohio announced a March 4 start for the yearly business customer canvass in the Pomeroy area to review listings for the 1968 phone directory. The canvass runs to March 15 with a closing residential change deadline of April 19. Exchanges listed include Middleport Letart Falls Portland Racine and Rutland. The 1968 directory is slated for June delivery. Accidents last year killed an estimated 112000 people in this country.
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Pomeroy
General Telephone Co
Ohio
Robert L. Keatley
Athens
General Telephone Directory Co
General Telephone Exchanges
Middleport
Letart Falls
Portland
Racine
Rutland
Four Motorists Fined In Mayor's Court
In Mayor Charles Legar's court session, four motorists faced fines. George Hoffman aged 21 of Letart West Virginia paid 5 dollars plus costs for a defective muffler. Nick Lagaras aged 40 of Pomeroy was fined 10 dollars plus costs for reckless operation. Rossland Stobart of Pomeroy paid 5 dollars plus costs for assured clear distance. Jack Lane of Gallopolis paid 25 dollars plus costs for reckless operation.
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Pomeroy
Charles Legar
George Hoffman
Letart
W. Va
Nick Lagaras
Rossland Stobart
Jack Lane
Gallipolis
Gallipolis Motorist Charged With DWI
A Gallipolis man Harold E. McMillen 62 was arrested for driving while intoxicated after a single vehicle crash on Mill Creek Road in Gallia County. He was injured but not treated when his car veered off the road and struck a power pole hedge a mail box a TV antenna and a barnOwned by Raymond Furgeson and a tree owned by Vernon Myers. Patrolmen said his car was demolished.
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Pomeroy
Gallipolis
Mill Creek Road
George Creek Road
Gallia County
Harold E. McMillen
Raymond Furgeson
Vernon Myers
Rio Grande College to Stage Tiger at the Gates
Rio Grande presents the play Tiger at the Gates March 6 7 8 directed by Edward Roark of Gallipolis. Jean Girondeaux writes of Troy and the clash of peace and war in a theater in the round. Roark, a junior speech major, has directed Rio Grande productions and plans graduate study in theater teaching.
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Rio Grande
Rio Grande College
Tiger At the Gates
Edward Roark
Gallipolis
Jean Girondeaux
Troy
Roark
Alaska Governor threatens veto on game mask bill
Governor Walter J. Hickel in Juneau says he will veto the measure approved by the Legislature to authorize masking a game animal. He warns that if it becomes law, the state could as well pass a bill allowing people to shoot milk cows as a general act.
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Juneau
Alaska
Walter J. Hickel
Veterans Memorial Hospital Admits Five Patients
Rita Stump of Cheshire Ethel Elias of Mason West Virginia Richard Hatfield of Dexter and Harry Allen are reported admitted to Veterans Memorial Hospital in a brief hospital note detailing patient entries.
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Rita Stump
Cheshire
Ethel Elias
Mason
W. Va
Richard Hatfield
Dexter
Harry Allen
Racine Dismissals List Names Officials
The Racine dismissal list includes Gusta Ellis Nora Reuter Melvin Sydenbotham Walter Burke Carol Sayre and Stanley Misner. Authorities released the names as part of the action and provided no additional details on reasons or outcomes.
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Gusta Ellis
Nora Reuter
Melvin Sydenbotham
Walter Burke
Carol Sayre
Stanley Misner
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Bechuanaland
Republic of Botswana
Africa
Parkersburg
Boots & Shoes
Market ST. Parkersburg, W. VA
5Th St. Express
Greenbrier
Pullman
Veterans Memorial Hospital
Children’s Oxfords & Slipons
Carl
Family Shoe Store
Second Avenue
Xen
Elberfeld
Logan
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