Hocking Commissioners OK Funds For Engineer
Hocking County commissioners approved a $50 000 temporary force account budget for the engineer department at Mondays organizational meeting. The funds will target bridge and highway improvements and repairs within the county. Additional items include sewer project plans for West Logan and reemployment of several county staff members with set monthly salaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Hocking County
Ohio Water Pollution Control Commission
West Logan
A. G. Hall
Water Pollution and Control Board
Burgess and Niple
Fatchion Mount
Charles Waugh
James Leonard
Fred Hugh
Old McArthur Road Crossing Is Started
Work began Monday on a temporary bridge over Clear Fork to replace the washed out Old McArthur Road crossing. County engineer George Mara said an eight foot boiler shell is in place while a permanent bridge is planned for next summer amid prior financing and legal disputes over a Mulberry Street Bridge contribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LOGAN
McArthur Road
Clear Fork
George Mara
Mara
Mulberry Street
Clyde C. Underwood
Underwood
Accidents blamed on snow slick roads in Meigs Gallia
Gallia and Meigs Counties saw four reported accidents due to snow covered highways. Chester Bennett backed into a parked car on Buckeye Avenue. Arthur Wheeler and Ervin Bush collided on highway 325 with Wheeler cited for speed. Eleanor Wellington lost control on highway 160 and hit a guard rail with no injury. John Shriver and William Greene collided on Patriot Cadmus Road with both cited for left of center. Other notes list officials planning a soil and water conservation meeting in McArthur at 6:30.
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Gallipolis
Ohio State Patrol
Meigs
Gallia
Gallia County
Houck
Arthur Wheeler
Vinton
Ervin Bush
Kettering
Wheeler
Bush
Eleanor Wellington
Bidwell
Patroit-Cadmus
John Shriver
Patroit
William Greene
Nelsonville man Dies in Front Yard Before Work
Donald E. Fisk 60 of 408 W Washington St Nelsonville died unexpectedly Tuesday morning while preparing to leave for work. He was maintenance superintendent at E M Poston Power Plant and survived by wife Laura, son William, daughters Joyce and Ellen, and seven grandchildren. Services Friday at 1 p.m. at Johnson Funeral Home with burial in Green Lawn Cemetery. Friends may call after 3 p.m. Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Donald E. Fisk
Washington St
Mr. Fisk
E. M. Poston Power Plant
Hocking County
Vern and
Sylvia Fisk
Laura
William
Joyce Hamer
Dayton
Ellen Fisk
Burglary at Athens Student Apartments Loses $900
Athens police investigate a $900 burglary at a student apartment house on 64 Franklin Ave. Stolen items include clothing electric equipment a camera a typewriter and a wristwatch from Larry Gladstone and Jim Takteh as burglars entered through a basement window during Christmas vacation from Dec 15 to Sunday.
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Athens
Larry Gladstone
Jim Tkateh
Franklin Ave
Ohio University
Bus and car collide on icy curve injures none
Mason County school bus carrying pupils collided with a car driven by 18 year old David Sigman on an icy hillback of West Columbia. State Police said Adrian Lathey drove the bus. Damage was estimated at 250 dollars.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
West Columbia
David Sigman
Middleport
Adrian Lathey
Fraley and Others Welcome Newborns at Holzer Medical Center
A list from Holzer Medical Center records births across families in Gallipolis Point Pleasant Wellston and nearby areas. Names include Mr and Mrs John D Fraley a son and multiple couples welcomed daughters and sons. Several individuals and spouses are named alongside towns such as Gallipolis Jackson Bidwell Vinton and Point Pleasant.
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John D. Fraley
Gallipolis
Roy E. Northup
Donald Downey
Jackson
Joe Canode
Hamden
Johnny L. Evans
Bidwell
Elmer Neer
Vinton
Calvin McDaniel
Point Pleasant
Robert Davis, Jr
James Saxton
Everett Phillip
Wellston
Don W. Knapp
West Columbia
Henry Bright
Columbus
Curtis Willis
Ironton
Brenda Mathias
Ernest Wheeler Blaine
William Proffitt
Wilbert Weaver
Mason
Mary Cox
Elma Hull
Crown City
Richard Hansen
Troy Oth
Charles Stover
Dreama Hayes
Dorsel Russell
Roy McCoy
Ira Beatty
Eldon Jeffers
Lillian Osborne
Marion Hutchinson
Ewington
John Mokas
Ashland
Harry E. Shoemaker
Mary E. Ashburn
Mark Cook
Coal
Elderly Man Injured In Logan Auto Crash
An elderly man was injured on W Hunter Street when a car left the road and struck him. Floyd Disbennett, 73, of Logan Route 1, is in fair condition with severe facial lacerations and a nose fracture at Hocking Valley Community Hospital. The driver, Steven H Molher, 17, of 345 Short St, was unhurt.
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Logan
W. Hunter Street
Floyd Disbennett
Hocking Valley Community Hospital
Paul Hartman
Disbennett
Steven H. Mohler
Short St
Mohler
Hunter
Gust Hanning services set for Wednesday at Van Fossen
Gust Hanning 72 formerly of Millfield died Monday. Services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Van Fossen Funeral Home with Rev. Paul Johnson officiating. Burial will follow at Hilltop Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home at any time.
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Glouster
Gust Hanning
Millfield
van Fossen
Paul Johnson
Hilltop Cemetery
Hanning
Logan County Court Dockets Drivers Fined and Bonds Forfeited
Logan resident Jon L. Chapman 22 was bound over from Logan Mayor's Court on reckless operation, fined 25 dollars plus costs by Judge James Stilwell, and later fined 150 dollars plus costs, jailed three days, and his license suspended 30 days for driving while intoxicated. Several others were fined for speeding, stop sign violations, and related offenses. bonds were forfeited by Jay Charles Juliusson 21 and Connie R. Mingus 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Hocking
Jon L. Chapman
James Stilwell
Robert Wilsterman
Barberton
Deborah J. Peters
New Plymouth
Roger Barton Hartman
Wadsworth
Pansy Mae Saving
Jay Charles Juliusson
Akron
Connie R. Mingus
Glouster
Births at Hocking Valley Community Hospital
Mr and Mrs Larry Elkins Laurelville welcome a son and Mr and Mrs Kenneth Bickel Laurelville welcome a daughter. Others listed from Logan include Linda Jarvis Alva Kuhn Floyd Disbennett George McDaniel Janet Cauthon Carolyn Brown Doris Conley Margaret Estep and women Mason Arrowsmith Raymond Stover Karl Schmitter Theodore Busch.
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Larry Elkins
Laurelville
Kenneth Bickel
Linda Jarvis
Alva S. Kuhn
Floyd Disbennett
George L. McDaniel
Janet Cauthon
Carolyn Brown
Doris Conley
Margaret Estep
Logan
Mason _ Arrowsmith
Raymond Stover
Karl Schmitter
Theodore Busch
Two Youths Caught Taking Gas From Bus
LOGAN Two juveniles from Columbus were caught taking gas from school buses at South Bloomingville School early Sunday. They are 16 and 17, handed to parents, charges likely filed. Police also report a gas heater burn incident in Logan.
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Logan
South Bloomingville
Hocking County
Truck Slams Car Killing Murray City Man on Route 216
A speeding tractor trailer skidded on ice and struck an oncoming car on Route 216 near Jobs two miles south of Murray City, killing John P. Popoczy 56 Murray City. The driver William F. Tye 25 Zanesville faces conditional speed charges as the investigation continues. Popoczy owned Johns Carry Out in Nelsonville and is survived by his wife two brothers a sister and is interred at Green Lawn Cemetery after services at St Philip Neri Church.
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Murray City
Route 216
Jobs
John P. Popoczy
State Highway Patrol
William F. Tye
Zanesville
Nelsonville
Popoczy
John’s Carry Out
Hocking Street
Hocking County
Joseph
Velma Popoczy
St. Philip Neri Catholic
City Of Logan Buys 205 Parking Meters From Koontz
Logan officials awarded a contract for 205 meters from Koontz Equipment of Pittsburgh. Mayor Merrill B. Haney and Service Director James Parkinson led the purchase with Board of Control members and Police Chief Roy Kelch after several meters failed. Kelch returns from vacation Monday and Parkinson resumes next week.
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Hocking Commissioners OK
Virgil Sheets
Vernie Stahr
Jim Skinner
Clinton St. Clair
Columbia Gas OF Ohio, Inc
Johnson Funeral Home
Roy Ballard
Green Lawn Cemetery
Ada Jane Lambert
McDaniel Crossroads
Patriot
Ash County, North Carolina
She
Jacob and
Candice Atwood Miller
The
McDaniel Crossroads Pentecostal Church
Grover Lambert
Clyde
St. Paris
Benny
Viola) Pennington
Ruda
Nora) Rutt
Christiansburg
Herman
Lena) Miller
Cass Town
Arnold
Grace) Rutt
Willard
Alberta
Harrison Miller
Cadmus
Sam Miller
Ted
George Miller
Detroit
Claude M. Miller
George
Eunice) Stewart
Amanda Roach
Willowood
Estelle Stanley
Salem Cemetery
Waugh-Halley-Wood
Dora C. Carothers
Coolville
Dighton
Mass
Dighton Nursing Home
James, A. and
Rachel Morris Carothers
Cutler
Ohio Hospital For Women and Children
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ohio Nurses Association
Miss Carothers
Centenary Methodist Church
American Legion
Panama Canal Zone
France
Army Base Hospital No. 45
Veterans Administration
Helen Rogers
Massachusetts
George Carothers
Ojai
Calif
Fred Deatherage
James Carr
Daniel Carothers
Toledo
Kenneth Carothers
Ridgewood
N. J
Roy Rose
Belpre American Legion
White Funeral Home
Holzer Medical Center
Ton
Freddie Spence
Mare A. Stewart
Junior McGuire
Roy Hayes
Grimms Landing
Charles Ransom
Racine
Shawn Bibert
Gallipolis Ferry
W. Alfred Holley
Gertrude Klees
Elmer Bailey
Michael Bailey
Homer Baker
Robbie Boggs
Harold Carsey
James Caufman
Arnold Bean
Basil Deweese
William English
Eldon Gaul
James Haley
Harry Kauff
Charles Landrum
Darin McKee
Jeffrey Meek
Lawrence Mooney
Donald Richards
Robert Rupe
Sherrie Shuler
Luther Spradlin Jr
Edwin Stein
Union Furnace
Julius Sword
Lancaster
Gaffney Co
Thomas E. Courtney
Alexander-Smith
Garpet
Vange-Leach Furniture State
ST. Athens
Hanning Services
Karla Smith
Joe Breeze
Harold Patrick
Logan—Common Pleas
Harley Meyer
Meigs County
Pomeroy
Dencil Jamison
Long Bottom
Bevich Jamison Sutton
Joyce Mohler
John Mohler
Dana Lewis
Clifton
W. Va
Roberta Roush
Donald Martin
Patricia
Hampton
Longsville
Ronald Pool
Upper Sandusky
Avi
John Poppery
Eagles Lodge
Gladys
Joe
Cleveland
Frank
Novelty
Ethel Powers
Ashley
St. Philip Neri
George Marzluff
Funeral
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company
Ebelk
South Court Street
North Court Street
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