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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1970
Page
9
Athens City Council moved toward a second urban renewal project to craft low and moderate price housing bounded by Congress Street and the Hocking River. The plan, four to five years from start, would seek federal planning funds with about 500000 needed for initial activities.
A petition with about 160 signers asked Athens City Council to abolish the city vagrancy and suspicious persons laws citing arbitrariness and potential discrimination. Edward R. Sanford presented concerns about enforcement patterns and the need for specific, evenly applied ordinances. The petition urges questions on whether unemployment or poverty should render conduct illegal and notes the ordinance’s broad definitions of suspicious persons. Council President Harry Crewson referred the petition to the codes committee.
Thomas W. Russell Jr. has been elected chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Abex Corp., succeeding William T. Kelly Jr. who retired.
John Cage and Merce Cunningham headlined the first Kennedy Lecturers of the year at Memorial Auditorium drawing over 2,000. Cage read thought poems while Cunningham danced in an informal dialogue of music and movement. Both emphasized freedom from hierarchy between dance and music as audiences watched a pioneering modern collaboration.
Mr and Mrs Andrew Cominsky hosted a weekend dinner with their daughter Andrea. Also present were Mr and Mrs Barney Molnar and family from Gahanna, Bob McHarg and Chuck Wolfe from Newark, and Foster Price of Columbus.
Albany officials explore tank trucks and milk trucks to augment water supply as three wells are drilled and a fourth started amid ongoing shortages. The move includes shuttle service by the Albany Area Fire Department and potential private haulers while schools face possible loss of $300,000 in state aid unless 180 days are met.
Wilfred Goodwin chief of the Columbus FBI district told Rotary Club members at Ohio University Inn that 1968 saw 4.5 million serious crimes, up 17 percent from the prior year, with trends suggesting a larger rise. He cited Supreme Court decisions and campus unrest as factors, described FBI roles, and noted new members and a member's pneumonia recovery.
Common Pleas Court granted an application by court appointed lawyer Erle Bridgewater to obtain a psychiatric evaluation of Mrs Barbara McBride accused of killing her two sons. The goal is to determine her sound mind at the time of the alleged murders and her competence to aid in defense preparation.
Proceeds from a public auction at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Junior Fair building will aid the Buchtel Pentecostal Church. Auction items may be dropped off Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning after the county fair board donated use of the building. Mrs. Nellie Blackford is to have hip surgery at Marietta Memorial Hospital.
The Richland Area Fire Department will hold its regular firemen's meeting at the station Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. The notice lists several residents from Athens The Plains Albany Millfield and New Marshfield among others.
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