Mechanicsburg petitions spark talk of school transfer to Athens
About 165 residents signed petitions at a Media meeting as Mechanicsburg considers transferring its high school students to Athens High School. County officials, educators, and residents debated state laws, tuition shifts, and potential deficits, noting shifts in funding and the need for a tax levy if merger proceeds.
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Athens
Athens City
Mechanicsburg
Raymond Lee
Fred Weber
Earl Hooper
George Christman
Lavelle
Christman
Lee
Athens High School
Athens Township
Tndicane
Theitizen
Hooper
Shade
Albany
R. R. Selleck
Ohio U
Mistry
Supt
Burg
New Acts in May Circus Planned for Athens Event
Lions Club reports new acts from Europe will join the Mills Brothers Circus set to perform in Athens in May. William Osborne, circus representative, announced details at the Hotel Berry meeting. The Mills Brothers, described as the second largest circus in the country, are being brought to Athens under Lions Club sponsorship. John Cline, Athens High School student, showed color slides from his Europe trip at the YMCA Paris conference. Harold Gottfried chaired in the absence of club president Gomer Jones.
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Lions Club
Athens
Mills Brothers Circus
William Osborne
Berry
Mills Brothers
John Cline
Europe
Ymca International
Paris
Harold Gottfried
Gomer Jones
Scout Leader Training Session Set by Hock-Hocking District
The second of six sessions for the basic training course for Boy Scout leaders in the Hock Hocking District will be Thursday at 7:30 PM in the Ohio University Engineering Building. Designed to aid scoutmasters assistants and troop committee members in directing all phases of leadership training. Course directors are F P Lynn and Maj T B Rothwell with the leadership training committee.
Meeting in Common Pleas Court Room Thursday at 7 PM
Announcement by arald Shields states Aanens Coting will meet in the common pleas court room Thursday at 7 pm. At the gathering, Feroup cam members will pick up tickets to the forthcoming Magirama show. Deputies sponsor the meeting in Columbus as Harold Gottfried of Commonwealth Telephone Co. attends with Ohio Independent Prephone Association supervisors planning the 1st annual OITA convention.
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Aanens Coting Can Epnies
Common Pleas
Arald
Shields
Feroup
Er Deputies
Columbus
Harold Gottfried
The
Commonwealth Telephone Co
Prephone Association
Local Men Discharged From Service
The Select Service Board lists 24 local men released from military service in December. Inducted personnel released include Robert J. Ward Chauncey and James Torch Guysville among others. Two from the Navy Ralph Koker Jr Athens Route 3 and Donald K Moleski Trimble. The other 18 served in the Air Force with releases from Athens and Nelsonville Coolville Mineral and other areas. Some discharge papers may not yet have reached the local office.
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Ime
Mimens Canny Select Service Board
Robert J. Ward
Chauncey
Ger TL. Chesser
Albany
James Torch
James D. Hayes
Guysville
Navy
Ralph Koker, Jr
Athens
Donald K. “Moleski
Trimble
Air Force
Dale M. Liggett
Jackie L. Burnside
William W. Covington
Paul M. Chapman
Vernon E. Stage
Thomas L. Bateman
Otto Riley, Jr
Charles Pyle
Johnnie L. Davis
Tommy L. , McMannis
Charles Fnton
Nelsonville
Robert E. Bolin
Fred A. Cole
Coolville
Arthur A. Mace
William ©. Brooks
Mineral
Roger &. Tinkham
The + Plans
Wilbur J. Blake
Glouster
Robert N. Andrews
New Marshfield
Servicemen News Ado George R Ford Returns From Sage Brush Maneuver
ADO George R of Mr and Mrs Ford Athens Route 4 has returned to Shaw Air Force Base South Carolina after participating in Oper ation Sage Brush joint Army Air Force maneuver. He was stationed at Blytheville AFB Arkansas during the exercise and later in Clark AFB Philippines. Par ns, son of Mrs Katherine Parkis Athens, serves in Germany with the Fourth Infantry Division as parts clerk for antiaircraft artillery. Parkis, a Athens High School graduate, has been overseas 13 months and is third class. His wife is with him in Germany.
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Ado
George R
Athens
Shaw Air Force Base
Sage Brush
Army Air Force Force Maneuver
Crawford
Blytheville
Afb
Clark Afb
Philippines
Ick
Parns
Katherine Parkis
Germany
Parkis
Athens High School
Ler J. Walker
Toledo
The
McBee Co
Packard-Studebaker Motors
Detroit
Shildren
Richard
Therese
Rotary magazine reviews at Athens meeting in Berry Hotel
Four Athens Rotary members reviewed Rotarian magazine articles at a Monday noon session in the Berry Hotel. Reviewers were Charles Ramseth Burton De Veau Gaige Paulsen and Frank Phillips. E P Lynn introduced them and E J Taylor presided in President Sam Altman’s absence.
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Athens Rotary
Berry Hotel
Charles W. Ramseth
Burton de Veau
Gaige B Paulsen
Frank L. Phillips
E. P. Lynn
E J. Taylor
Sam Altman
Wilful Absence Divorce Suit Filed in Common Pleas
Ease Henthorne filed a wilful absence divorce suit against Oliver B Henthorn in common pleas court citing marriage on October 29 1929 in Little Rock Arkansas and seeking custody of two minor children and permanent alimony. The report notes the inspection of Athens Chapter 28 Royal Arch Masons at the Masonic Temple with dinner at 615 pm and work scheduled at 7:0.
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Ease Henthorne
Dhoree
Oliver B. Henthorne
Athens
Royal Arch Masons
Masocic Temple
Oliver. Ormiston
Bartlet
Wilfe
Ross M. Davin
Award Given OU Senior D Alan Mutt to Attend Education Meeting
OU senior D Alan Mutt, College of Education graduate student, won a OU Fund senior award last June. He will attend a week long education meeting February 1 1824 in Atlantic City New Jersey with guidance from the Committee for the Encouragement of Scholarship under Huff. The American Association of School Administrators meeting is his chosen event. awards cover travel and living costs as needed.
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D’alan
Mutt
College of Education
Ohio University
OU Fund
Committee For the Encouragement of
Huff
Chillicothe
Tree planting orders urged before spring shortages
In reforestation efforts the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and county extension offices report limited tree availability. George Lash announces orders must be placed now as past years saw orders canceled due to exhausted supply. Tree order blinks and pickup sites are at 13 N Lancaster St and Athens Post Office Building.
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la Conservaton Tfice
Court St
George Lash Han
Tate
Brinks
Ohio Department t'Natural Resources
Lancaster St
County A4 Ticuitural Extension
Athens Post Alice
Journalists and funeral home hires noted at Ohio events
Journalism director Joe r Berta will judge the Os 1an C Hooper Newspaper Show at the Ohio Newspaper Association convention in Columbus January 26 to 28. Athens Chapter DeMolay session at Masonic Temple 7 p.m. with refreshments. Bruce E Bingham joins Dowler Ferguson Hughes funeral home staff after Ohio University and Cleveland College of Mortuary Science training. Married to Martha Yeager, they reside at 18 Shannon Ave. Wolthard Baumgarter fined $5 plus costs for a driving without license violation. Warren D Williams fined $10 plus costs for speeding in Chauncey.
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Joer Berta
C. Hooper
Ohio Newspaper Association
Columbus
Bruce E. Bingham
Dowler- Ferguson-Hughes Funeral Home Tea Management
Bingham
Ohio University
Cleveland College of Mortuary Science
Army Medical Corps
Martha Yeager
Shannon Ave
Wolthard Baumgarter
Chauncey
Warren D. Williams
Ant City
Wadley
Highway Patrol
State Highway Patrol
Civil Service Act anniversary observed at service offices
The 1883 Civil Service Act re signing was commemorated Monday by anniversary celebrations in the central office and 11 regional offices. Charles H. Evans, in charge, reported two career employees received service pins at the Cincinnati regional office, which serves Ohio and nearby states. The release notes civil service now covers about 5 percent of the federal workforce of two million.
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Civil Service
Commission
Charles H. Evans
Cincinnati
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Winter Closes In As Mercury Fades Across County
Temperatures hovered around 10 above in the city while rural areas near Ham ley Run dropped to near zero. At 9 a.m. the reading was four degrees above, as operators reported most county schools reopening after downturn.
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Atkins
Hamley Run
Marshall Student Held In Larceny
A Marshall College student, George Barker 24 of St. Albans West Virginia, pleaded guilty in Munich Court to grand larceny reduced to petty larceny. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail and fined 300 dollars with 100 dollars suspended and six months probation. The case arose after Robert K. Vann of Newark accused Barker of stealing a suitcase full of clothes and a record player from his residence the night of the Marshall basketball game. Barker had come to Athens for the game, stayed at Vann's home briefly, and then fled with the items to Huntington.
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Marshall College
Munich
Hunt
Athens
Uity
George ‘Barter
St. Albans
W. Va
John F. Newcomb
Newcomb
Wricer
Newark
Robert K. Vann
N. Court St
Vann
Van
HOU Marshall
J. B. Grogan
Barker
Huntington
Daughters Born to Athens Couples and Dismissals Noted
Mrs. and Mrs. John Rowe of Athens Route 3 welcomed a daughter while Mr and Mrs Charles Jordan Stewart also had a daughter. Multiple admissions and discharges listed include Jack Henderson Alma Warner Mrs Richard Johnson Alma Baker Mrs John Hurd and Mrs Ernest Pritis in Athens and nearby areas with several mothers noted.
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John Rowe
Athems
Charles Jordan Stewart
Jack Henderson
Athens
Almeda Warner
New Marshweld
Richard Johnson
Donna Dane Fined for Passing at Intersection
Donna Dane of Nelsonville was fined 10 dollars and court costs in Municipal Court Wednesday after the State highway Patrol charged her with passing at an intersection.
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APPIC
Donna Dane
Nelsonville
Fair board approves playground plan for county fairgrounds
Athens County fair board completed plans for a county wide sports field at the fairgrounds. Secretary Emory Allen said officials favor the project proposed by county schools and commissioners. The playground would allow a lit infield for night sports and possibly night racing during fair time. The board acted at a special meeting to finalize details.
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Athens County
Fair Board
Fairgrounds
Emory Allen
Allen
F H Gifford Co Ad Promotes Amesville Hardware Deal
Local Amesville retailer promotes savings on paints plumbing supplies and lumber. The F H Gifford Co advertises availability in Amesville Ohio with phone contact 31 and emphasizes small town overhead and broad stock.
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Howe
F. H. Gifford Co
Amesville
Ohio
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