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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1975
Page
5
A British ore freighter Lake Illawarra rammed Hobart Tasman Bridge near Hobart Tasmania at about 9 p.m. causing a 240 foot section to fall and likely trapping cars in the Derwent River. Ten or more believed dead, five crew recovered, others missing. survivors include captain and chief engineer.
Obituaries list multiple deaths across Athens Meigs and Gallia counties with ages from 71 to 101. Notables include Carrie B Pettit of Creole Route 1 a longtime teacher and Grange member, Guy Minturn of Leon, Charles Carey Curtis II of Amesville, Emma Casto Rollins of Leon, Oakley Price of Columbus and George Washington Corbin of Gallipolis. Funeral details list services dates locations and survivors.
Nelsonville police investigate a nighttime theft of two wheels and tires from a 1962 car parked on Second Street. The vehicle was jacked up and cement blocks used by suspects to remove the wheels. The owner, William May of 732 Poplar Street, reported the incident Saturday morning.
Racine couple Clarence and Mrs Bradford completed a month long 7265 mile trip through Utah California Nevada and Colorado visiting Salt Lake City Temple Square Sunnyvale San Francisco Santa Cruz Monterey Carmel Yosemite Las Vegas Grand Canyon Painted Desert Four Corners Pike's Peak and Colorado Springs en route home. They met relatives in Illinois Missouri and Florida and attended a Black Lung Association meeting in Glouster.
Gallia County deputies said no new developments in locating Larry Spry 28 of Sissonville after a U haul registered to him was found submerged in the Ohio River at Crown City. Dragging of the river has ceased. Spry left home December 31 for Detroit and had not called home. His car was firebombed November 11 amid textbook controversy in Kanawha County.
Ohio Common Cause to hold its first area wide meeting at 8 p m Friday in the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co meeting room 100 S May Ave where a 10th District poll will be taken A legislative representative will be chosen to attend Ohio Common Cause meetings The state group has $18000 from national headquarters to set up a governing board and will receive more to hire a state lobbyist The group studies reform on gerrymandering open meetings lobbying disclosure public financing of campaigns conflict of interest laws and tax reform
LOGAN The Hocking County Junior Leadership Club will hold its first meeting for 1975 Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Youth Center. Tim Sonnenberg invites all 4-Hers 14 years and older with at least one year 4-H experience to join. Gene Mathias will coordinate bi monthly recreational meetings through January to March with hayrides retreats dancing and events. Meetings Changed GLOUSTER Two club meetings were postponed. Chit Chat Club will meet Jan 14 and Progressive Study Club Jan 21 at the home of Mrs N R Maxwell.
Mayor M. B. Haney announced John Eberst as assistant to the city director of public service and safety, effective Jan 1. He will keep his sexton post at Oak Grove Cemetery, earns $138.48 biweekly plus $261.61 biweekly as sexton, with no overtime, and previously ran Keller and Welkner Monument Service before joining the city in 1969.
Erroll Pickett of Hollywood flew to Columbus and drove to see his mother Mrs. Laura Krebs and daughters Rickii and Rona. Dozens of relatives gathered from Pomeroy McArthur Marion and nearby towns for a holiday reunion. Middleport to pickup discarded Christmas trees Tuesday at curbs per Mayor Fred Hoffman.
South Vietnamese defenders of Phuoc Binh withstood a 21 000 round mortar barrage and fought advancing North Vietnamese tanks in the fifth day of heavy combat. In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge rockets struck Phnom Penh airport while rebels threaten western approaches.
A U S State Department official, William E. Bennett of Springfield Virginia, was killed in an explosion at his Tuy Hoa residence. James A. Rawlings of Hyattsville Maryland is missing after a C123 plane disappeared near Dalat to Nha Trang in bad weather.
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