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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1977
Page
3
Logan City Board of Education approved a tardy and truancy plan adding a demerit system. Tardies count as half a demerit and truancies as five, with detentions and parent notices to follow. steps aim to keep students in school amid clock and space issues.
Logan-Hocking County Commissioners set new meeting hours and elected officers at their organizational meeting. James McLain is president with Louise E. Taulbee Jr. as vice president. McLain praised outgoing president Otto Shaw. Salary increases of 8 percent were approved for several staff including clerk Blanche Mowery and Judy Miller. Rehires include Connie Ball Melody Brooks and Arlene Robb with increases. bee keeper Robert Hankinson Jr. appointed at 550 dollars yearly. Mileage rate rises to 15 cents. dog and kennel fund deemed insufficient. courthouse air conditioners to be inventoried. Next meeting Thursday at 9 30 a.m.
Meetings at the Meigs Senior Citizen Center in Pomeroy include an Ohio Health Department program on the Heimlich maneuver at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. A January 21 session covers the mental outlook on death and dying with morning grief and loss guidance and an afternoon aging session.
Middleport Village Council adopted the 1977 appropriations totaling 420644 for village operation at a brief meeting. The budget is 55635.39 more than 1976. Marvin Kelly was reelected as president and Bernard Fultz as village solicitor. Mayor Hoffman noted street salt use and praised crews. Hoffman's report of 1524.70 was accepted. Payroll amended to include the custodian's salary left out.
Logan Herman Lions of Laurelville reported to the Hocking County Sheriff's Department that his trailer and its contents were destroyed by fire. Two men had worked on the furnace Sunday. about two hours after they left the furnace caught fire and spread through the trailer.
Middleport Fire Chief Robert Fisher reports 583 fire and emergency alarms in 1976, including 86 fire alarms with 35 in town and 51 out of town. Building loss $178,635 and contents loss $76,175. EMS calls totaled 497, with 358 in town and 139 out of town. 22 were motor vehicle accidents. December saw six fire calls, 50 EMS runs, and four miscellaneous.
Mason County Sheriff’s office says 22 year old Thomas Oldaker Jr. of Mason was in a one car crash on Route 2 near Gallipolis Ferry at 2 15 am Sunday after falling asleep at the wheel. He was taken to Pleasant Valley Hospital by Point Pleasant Rescue Squad with a broken leg and head injuries.
The Meigs County Commissioners reorganized and set evening meetings at 6 30 pm at the courthouse starting next week to accommodate workers. The board approved a $14 934 95 engineering fee for current work on a veterans hospital access road and senior citizen multi purpose building, plus progress on house numbering and housing rehabilitation plans.
Meigs County commissioners and the Budget Commission approved an amended certification of resources totaling 2,674,1900 for the fiscal year. The plan outlines department allocations across funds including general, health, food service, public assistance, and federal programs with HUD reporting 310,325 in grants for access roads rural numbering and rehabilitation.
In McArthur the Vinton County Commissioners elected Ivan Bowman president at the organizational meeting. The regular weekly meeting was slated for Monday with a Tuesday session if a holiday falls on Monday. Trustees discussed Circle Drive maintenance in Elk Two subdivision after its township road acceptance.
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