Athens Urban Renewal Status Reveals $1.2 Million Grant Reservation
The Urban Renewal Administration reserves 1.2 million for Athens South Green project city led by Mayor Raymond Shepard. Budget details cover survey and planning, legal services, relocation, and land surveys as part of a seven stage program for a 34 acre area south of Ohio University. Ohio U will eventually develop the land.
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Urban Renewal Administration
Athens’ South Green
Raymond Shepard
A. Dean Swartzel
URA
Shepard
Columbus Planning
Ohio University
Ohio U
Athens County Considers Community Planning Commission
The Commission Studied Athens County Resource Development Council has been asked to form a study group to explore a community planning commission. Dr John B Mitchell of Ohio State University Extension notes 45 of Ohio s 88 counties already have such bodies and a local commission would map highways transportation land use and park facilities to guide growth.
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Athens County Resource Development Council
John B. Mitchell
Ohio State University Extension
Mitchell
Ohio
Bean Joins Foodland Store Group in Southeastern Ohio
Cliff Bean owner of Cliff's Supermarket at 284 E State St joins the Foodland voluntary group. The store is the second in Southeastern Ohio to join, joining a network with headquaters in Clover Farm Food land Cleveland. Bean plans more local Foodland stores. He did not name locations.
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Cliff Bean
Cliff
Excused From Juries For January Term Court
Jury excuses granted to 38 persons for the January term of Common Pleas Court. Names include Sol W. Goff Ralph Bryan Bill Docie Fred Colburn Mrs. E. G. Burt Ralph Hines and others. additional exemptions for statutory reasons listed. Some excuses due to nonresidency and recent jury duty noted. Municipal Court entries list traffic fines for several individuals including Estes Laverna Keirns, George Barnett, Eugene Van Cleve and Nelson Brundige with fines ranging from 11 to 31 dollars.
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Common Pleas Court
Sol W. Goff
Ralph Bryan
Bill Docie
Fred Colburn
E. G. Burt
Ralph Hines
Flossie Cope
Clarence Fuller
Howard Hunter
Anna Riley
John Sheridan
Paul Beckley
Clarence E. Nelson
Frank Higgins
Grace Sedwick
Marguerite A. Roate
Elaine Lavely
Raymond Humphrey
Leslie Dawson
Floyd Tennehill
Cecil Pidcock
Helen Pidcock
Sylvia C. Hoskinson
Nancy Bolin
Harry D. Russell
Stella Chambers
Howard I. Shull
Emma Allbaugh
Orville Crow
Emerson Ball
Bert Barnes
L. E. Carpenter
Robert D. Otto
Robert C. Mitchell
James Blazer
Esta Laverna Keirns
Millfield
George Leon Barnett
Cleveland
Eugene van Cleve
Indianapolis
Ind
Nelson Eugene Brundige
Athens
Area News Highlights Review Is Concluded
Chronology of area events from October to December including legal actions against Roberts for murder to assault, OU campus milestones, Athens city developments, weather events, and public works projects. Notable items include courthouse indictments, university dedications, bank and hospital plans, and a cold year-end with subfreezing temps.
Sheltering Arms Hospital Admits and Dismissals
City police report BB gun pellets used to break windows in three parts of the city. Windows were broken Sunday night at 56 Shannon Ave Athens Lumber Co W Union St and a rear car window on Lancaster St area resident.
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Shannon Ave
Athens Lumber Co
W. Union St
Lancaster St
Cars collide on Jeffers Road near Shade injure none
David L. Niggemeyer 19 of Guysville Route 1 and Herbert L. Norman 65 of Albany Route 2 were in a Monday afternoon crash on Jeffers Road near Shade one mile east of Route 33. Police said ice caused Niggemeyer to skid into Norman. Niggemeyer was cited into county court for conditional speed. Real estate transfer Blanch N. Blackstone et al to Chloe E. Rife of Buchtel for a tract in Buchtel.
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David L. Niggemeyer
Guysville
Herbert L. Norman
Albany
Jeffers
Shade
Niggemeyer
Norman
Psychiatrist Evaluates Steel Double Session at Courthouse
Ohio State University psychiatrist Dr. Dwight Palmer met with Gene Isaac Stees in Athens on Monday to conduct a supplementary examination related to Stees’s first degree murder charge in the death of his wife. Sessions occurred in the courthouse morning and afternoon after Stees’s 30 day observation at Lima State Hospital.
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DiSalle
Athens State Hospital
Ohio University
Steel
Banks
Cline
Whaley
Athens County
Space Arts
David Smith
John Galbreath
Dow Lake
City
Aba
Lima
Sheltering Arms Foundation
Dwight Palmer
Ohio State University
Athens
Gene Isaac Stees
Palmer
Stees
Lima State Hospital
Servicemen News: Tucker Returns From Leave at Patuxent Base
Radioman third class Gary E. Tucker returns to duty at Patuxent Naval Air Base Maryland after a 60 day leave with his parents. He spent a year on the ice at McMurdo Sound Antarctica. William Wilcox, son of Mr and Mrs James E Coen of Athens Route 5, has enlisted in the Air Force and gone to Lackland AFB Texas. He is a 1962 Athens High School graduate.
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Gary E. Tucker
Patuxent Naval Air Base
George R. Tucker
Kurtz Ave
McMurdo Sound
Antarctica
William Wilcox
James E. Coen
Athens
Air Force
Lackland Afb
San Antonio
Tex
Athens High School
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City Hall
Wilson Baker
Watchmaker
Berry Hall
N. Court
Economy Savings & Loan Company
N. Court St
Lynwood
Pomeroy
Nelsonville
Logan
Moore
Dalton
Kerr-Hunter
Bean
Foodland Store Group
Dorothy Shearer
Dale Wharton
Area News
Roberts
Stewart Area
Chauncey
Elkis
Grosvenor Hall
John Brown
William Saxbe
Kennedy
Cuba
Johnson
Gene Stees
Indiana
Athens Bank
Federal Comptroller of Currency
Athens Group
Blizzard Whips
Robert C. Weager
HHFA
Bern Township
Sharpsburg
USDA
Soil Conservation Service
Margaret Creek
John Dowler
State Highway Department
Youngstown
Athens Post Office
Council
Denver
U.S
C. L. Colmer
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Elizabeth Drake
Glouster
John Tall
Ed Shipley
Norman van Nest
Leslie Perkins
Lisa Bail
Callistone Water Conditioning, Inc
Stimson Ave
Dalglas
Hean& Barr
Wundertone
Logan Federal
N. Market St
Util Neon
Elasto Net
The
Gateway Motor Lodge
Monte V
Anne L. Davis
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