Two New Deputies Join Sheriff's Staff as County Court Is Opened
Sheriff Harold Shields expands the staff to four deputies effective Jan 1, creating the largest force in the office. Carl Welling and Sam Buffington join Max Valkinburg and DeWitt Walker as deputies. Welling comes from a traffic police background and Buffington from courthouse custody duties. The additions aim to improve response and investigative work with the new county court opening Thursday. Deputy tenure will depend on court procedures.
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Harold Shields
Carl Welling
Sam Buffington
Max Valkinburg
Sheriff Shields
Dure
Welling
Sthens
Review of 1957 Athens News Highlights
Review continues listing key events in Athens and vicinity from September to October 1957. Items include Ohio University contracts and enrollment, city council actions, rabies cases, strikes, floods, fires, crimes, court actions, and local political events.
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Athens
Vicinity
Berry and Gall Law Firm Merger Announced
The law offices of Clair E. Berry and Homer B. Gall Jr merge to form Berry and Gall effective Jan 2. Berry, senior partner, started practice in Athens after 1949 OU degree and Cincinnati law degree. Gall, a 1956 Athens graduate, OSU law, previously clerked in Franklin County Court of Appeals. They will handle VA home loan work and Farm Service Agency matters. Berry previously served as Athens County prosecutor after March 1952 appointment. Gall joined Athens practice after bar admission.
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Clair E. Berry
Security Bank Bldg
Homer B. Gall, Jr
Cline Bldg
Berry and Gall
Berry
Athens County
Joel B. Draper
Lock Haven
Ohio University
University of Cincinnati
Gall
Athens High School
Ohio State University College of Law
Franklin County Court of Appeals
Veterans Administration
Farmers Home Administration
Mutual Home and Savings Association
Jury Drawn For War ner Case In Athens Municipal Court
A 25 name jury pool was drawn in the Athens Clerk of Courts office for the Jan 9 municipal court trial of Herbert L. Warner 32 Dayton on a city intoxication charge. Warner is held on a 300 bond after a one car Dow Lake project crash near the fairgrounds.
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Phyllis Cross
Herbert L. Warner
Dayton
John Call
Harold Shields
Francis D. White
Clerk Cross
Helena Whaley
Evelyn Goldsberry
Russell Dorr
Jettie Kel
Athens
Hazel Scott
Warner
Burch Construction Co
Dow Lake
W. Union St
Fairgrounds
Sharpsburg Man Fined After Police Arrest
Sharpsburg resident Zane Grey Harris pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to intoxication when arraigned Tuesday. He received a $25 fine plus costs and was held on $1000 bail on five counts related to a 1950 Route 50 A Sugar Creek crash that killed five people, later placed on probation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zane Grey Harris
Sharpsburg
Harris
Sugar Creek
Juveniles Held In Thefts At Mineral Church Robbery
Two juveniles aged 12 and 16 were arrested by Deputy Sheriff DeWitt Walker for damaging church thefts in Mineral. The loot totaling 8 dollars was returned and the attempted post office robbery was cleared by the arrests and turned over to juvenile authorities for disposition.
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Mineral Pilgrim Holiness Church
DeWitt Walker
Walker
Commissioners Begin County Budget Study
The Athens County board of commissioners and County Auditor James W. Whaley opened a study of the proposed 1958 budget at their regular courthouse meeting after routine business and bills were settled.
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Athens County Board of Commissioners
James W. Whaley
Traffic Case Taken Under Advisement in School Zone Charge
Judge John Newcomb in Municipal Court took the Lance E. Russell case under advisement Tuesday. Attorneys must file briefs within a week before the judge issues a decision regarding the location of school zone signs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lance E. Russell
Millfield
John Newcomb
December Rain Totals Compared With Prior Years
An observer notes December 1957 was the wettest month yet still below 1956 44.06 and 1955 36.19 and 1954 38.03. September 3.62 inches and November 3.64 inches helped lift the annual total to 35.84 inches, close to the 50-year October average of 38.4 inches.
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Colmer
December 1957 Ends Wettest Month Since May 1956
Four month pattern left December 1957 as the wettest month, with 4.91 inches of rain and snow, near the fifty year average. August was the driest month at .97 inches, the driest August in at least 57 years. By eight months, rainfall stayed under 21 inches, worsening farmer drought conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Colmer
U.S
Colmer
Ex Patrolman named bailiff for Athens Municipal Court
Robert E. Henderson 52 of 193 W Union St takes office January 2 as bailiff of the Athens Municipal Court. He retired in July after 20 years with the Ohio State Highway Patrol and filled the post during Ken Sands illness. The salary is 2800 a year under a new city schedule matching the court clerk.
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Robert E. Henderson
W. Union
Athens
Henderson
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Kenneth M. Sands
Arizona
Sands
Lancaster Man On Probation
Ronald Carruthers of Lancaster was placed on one year probation by Judge John Newcomb after a delayed arraignment. He must pay $450 in back non support by January 7, remit two monthly $25 payments starting January 1, and cover court costs within 60 days.
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Ronald Carruthers
Lancaster
John Newcomb
Carruthers
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