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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1969
Page
3
Surging prices and higher salaries push 1969 county appropriations to $2,025,657.40, up $66,377.96 from 1968. General fund climbs to $752,000 with major increases across 21 salary funds affecting about 100 officers and staff.
Stewart construction of Federal Hocking High School should finish by June enabling a summer move. Water mains will be laid by March under the Tuppers Plains Chester Water District. Heating water comes from a Brookover farm well, with three other wells on the site as backups.
Jane Spurgeon of 23 Franklin Ave arrested Friday on harboring a felon charge. Police say Mike Mixon, 22, Athens, was seized at the same address for illegal narcotics sale after a year’s pursuit. Spurgeon pleaded innocent and was released on own recognizance with a January 28 preliminary hearing. Mixon remains jailed on a $1,000 bond. he had previously faced narcotics charges and fled a $5,000 bond.
Temperatures Saturday through Wednesday will average near normal with highs in the 30s and lows in the 20s. A mild start gives way to cooler air and normal temperatures for the rest of the period, with precipitation totaling about a half to three quarters inch melted as rain on Saturday and snow flurries possible Sunday and Monday.
Ohio lawmakers plan two bills to move the Republican and primary date closer to the general election with August or September favored. Secretary of State Ted Brown noted about 36 legal changes would be needed to delay the primary and streamline campaigns.
County Treasurer Olive Rose announced tax statements will be mailed near end of January after the last duplicates were received. About 17 000 statements are expected and collection runs through March 15 with limited February business in Glouster Nelsonville Amesville and Coolville. residents may mail payments or pay at the Athens Courthouse.
County commissioners plan to apply for three new vehicles this year at about $2 000 each. J W Whaley the county auditor and clerk says the vehicles will replace a sheriff s cruiser the dog kennel truck and the county car used by the commissioners and the auditor s office Judge John Bolin must ratify the requests.
Firemen responded to a precautionary alarm at the new Ohio University library site on Park Place. Sparks from a cutting torch smoldered on the eighth floor causing smoke near an airshaft. no fire or damage occurred. A laborer accidentally dropped sparks to the fifth floor during installation.
A 35 year old Athens woman Leona M. Young was granted a jury trial on a driving while intoxicated charge. Judge Franklin Sheeter will set the trial date later after Young pleaded no contest and posted a $300 bond following Jan. 10 arrest by highway patrols.
A light rain was falling in Athens on Friday as U. S. Observer C. L. Colmer recorded 38 degrees at 8:30 a.m. up two degrees from the morning low. Thursday's high reached 48 as .13 inch of precipitation fell and the Hocking River rose to 2.92 feet.
A new Athens company Romine Plumbing and Electrics now operates on Route 50 two miles east of the Athens city limits. It specializes in commercial and residential plumbing and wiring, not plumbing and heating as previously reported in Thursday’s Messenger.
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