Patrol Nabs Youths After Wild 1949 Auto Chase
State Patrolmen Merle Robinson and Clark Hague captured Eugene Martin and Joan Owen Jones after a high speed chase near Chauncey and Mevers Crossing. The stolen blue 1949 car left a service station without payment, reached speeds near 100 miles per hour, crashed near an embankment, and the teens fled on foot before arrest.
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Parkersnar
Vous Eugene FP Martin
Joan Owen Jones
Merle Robinson
Flark Hague
Natiowly
Robinson
Hague
Chauncey
Poston
Route
Fragmented OCR Wins and Weather Clippings From Denver News
The clumsy OCR captures a mix of WWI veteran notes Captain Orspiulorofa C47, early ROTC member and graduate, plus reports on a cold snap at FT am and snow in various locales. It mentions the Pacific theater, Guadacanal, and Guim areas, and a rough forecast with temperatures near four degrees and 22. The piece blends military memories with a frigid weather update and a scattershot collection of clipped lines.
Constitution Meeting Set in Athens on Know Your Constitution Week
The Athens chapter AAUW hosts a Thursday February 7 meeting at 7:30 pm in Ewing Hall. Dr Jefferson Fordham of Ohio State University College of Law headlines on state constitutional revision and the 1959 Know Your Constitution Week proclamation. Public invited to learn about the November vote on a constitutional convention.
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State of Ohio
Athens
American Association of University Women
Ewing Hall
Jefferson Fordham
College of Law
Ohio State University
Gev Frank Lauseche
AAUW
Dorothea EB. Herbert
Prank Ends in Court Fine for OU Student
An Ohio University student’s prank with fraternity brothers to place a snoozing peer on an outbound Athens bus led to police intervention. Phillip Myce Athens accepted responsibility, paying a $1.5 fine plus costs before Mayor Peter Seel.
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Ohio University
Athens
Hum
Cory
Phillip Myce
Peter
Seel T
William Smith Declares Candidacy for County Commissioner
William Smith of Richland Avenue announces his Republican bid for county commissioner in the May 6 primary. A lifelong Athens County resident, he has worked in heating and roofing since 1920 with prior stints at Wheaton and Kerr hardware and a grocery venture on West Union Street. He is the son of the late M E Bolin and father to World War II veteran Arthur Smith, and he belongs to the Elks lodge Athens Grange Farm Bureau and the Methodist Church.
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William Smith
Richland, Ave
Dorn
Hollister
Athens
Wheaton
Kerr Hardware
West Union St
Brown
Hemained
Mae Bolin
M E Bolin
Athens County
Arthur
Smith
Elks Lodge
Athens Grange
Methodist Church
Births and dismissals listed for local hospital
The sheltering arms hospital notes record births for Mr and Mrs Willam Abdella Thauncey a son and Mr and Mrs Gerald Barnhart Thaunces a daughter. Admitted Louisa Steele Athens Mrs Georgia Resinger Albany Charles North Athens and dismissed Mass Herbert Gilkey Athens and a daughter Mrs Treva Kempton The Plains Rita Douglas Athens
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Willam Abdella
Thauncey
Gerald Barnhart
Thaunces
Louisa Steele
Athens
Georgia
Albany
Charles North Athens
Herbert Gilkey
Treva Kempton
the Plains
Rita Douglas
Oak Wilt Study Talks Slated
MT Vermillion Chip Lasversin assistant prefestga of botany will speak at meetings of two local committees named by the Oho Forestry Association for the study and control of oak wilt The Unversity professor will speak before the Athens area Group as an organization dinner meeting hese Jan 31 aml befae the Jackson-Challia-Laurence county group at a Feb 6 meeting in Oak Hill The areas in which each committee wil function will comprise these four counties each with committee members being foresters lumbermen pathologists farmers and others interested in this disease of the oak The Athens area includes Ath ens, Vinton, Horhking and Meigs counties.
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Vermillion
Chip Lasversin
Oho Forestry Association
Athens Area
Jackson-Challia-Laurence
Oak Hill
Athens
Vinton
Horhking
Meigs
Enlistment Curtailment At Athens Marine Recruiting
The Athens Marine Corps recruiting station posts notice of curtailed future enlistments due to a surge of new recruits. Enlistees will be sent home until after March 1 unless emergency cases or pre draft individuals are processed in the regular manner or sent to training immediately. Further details are available at the post office recruiting station.
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Athens
Marine Corps
Maine Corps
Eugene Franklin
VFW Week Proclaimed in Albany by Mayor
Albany mayor O D Pincell signed a proclamation establishing January 24 to 31 as National VFW Week. It urges all citizens to join in saluting the veterans and expressing appreciation for the VFW and its auxiliary. Dana WIlame is commander of the local post and Mrs Rett Vest is auxiliary president.
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HANY
VFW
O D Pincell
Dana Wilame
Airs Rett
Vest
Middleport Man Ordered Out of City
Clifford Beaver, 42, of Middleport was ordered to stay out of Athens after arraignment. He pleaded guilty to an infraction charge and received 30 days in jail, suspended, with orders to leave the oil and stay out of town. Also, Janes Wongerd was fined $5 and costs for blocking traffic after pleading guilty in Major Peter B Seel’s court.
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Athens
Clifford Beaver
Middleport
Peter B Seel
Beaver
Jai
Jeff
Janes Wongerd
Wongerd
Peter B Seels
Court Rules for Clam Dog Claim Process
A court outlines the process for claiming a dog and the owner must prove ownership with a lie detector test per rules. Warden and court officials state that until a dog is claimed, the owner must show evidence and the court will consider an assessment. Home owners express lack of responsiveness to the animals despite wounds and fortifications.
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Abe eikerGle
Cour
Seem
Community Classes Set At Ohio U
Ohio University extension director Jo Ploxd Dixon announced spring term courses and an evening campus class session scheduled Saturday at 19 am in Idas Hall 215. Openings exist for residents and students. lists include Philosophy of Education and School Finance and Administration among others with dates in February.
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Jo Ploxd Dixon
Ohio
Idas Hall
Dison
Ellis Hall
Fox Shoemaker
Flementats Schouls
Putnam
Catherine Campbell
Alfred Foster Rites Saturday
Albany farmer Alfred Foster 71 died Wednesday at his home near Carpenter where he was born and lived. Survived by his wife, son Edmund of Dexter, and daughters Wilma and Zella of Columbus. Funeral 2 pm Saturday at Columbia Chapel Church, burial Olive Cemetery. Friends may call at the Foster residence Thursday evening.
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Albany
Alfred Foster
Carpenter
Edmund
Dexter
Wilma
Zella
Columbus
Columbia Chapel
Olive
Foster Residence
Albany Girl Wins Amateur Contest at Athens High
Denova Tasler, Albany vocal musician, won the amateur contest held last night in the Athens High School Auditorium and will join a televised Columbus show on February 10. Gerald Chesser, Albany, took second for a trumpeter solo. the Tallinis trio from Athens won ensemble honors with Larry Semven Toe Waffert and Jum Mitchell. About 700 attendees watched, according to George L. Smith of Sinclair Refining Co, sponsor.
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Denova
Tasler
Albany
Athens High School
Columbus
Gerald Chesser
Trumper Sala Chesser
Toa
Tallinis
Larry Semven
Toe Waffert
Jum Mitchell
Athens
George L Smith
Sin Cla: Refining Co
Trimble Driver Fined After Patrol Arrest
A 28 year old Howard W Beard of Route 1 Trimble faced arraignment before Mayor Thomas Clark of Amesiide on a charge of driving without license. Beard paid a $20 fine plus costs and was confined to county jail after the arrest by the State Highway Patrol.
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Howard W Beard
Thomas Clark
Amesiide
Ucense Ananle le
Beard I
States Highway Patrol
Game Protector Retires Wilbur A Morgan
Wilbur A Morgan, a game protector with 27 years of service in the Ohio Division of Wildlife, received a farewell party in Cambridge Thursday hosted by district personnel and Morgan Guernsey. The retirement followed an on duty auto accident limiting Morgan's ability to continue. A Disabled American Veterans Conrath-Bean Chapter meeting is set for Friday at 8 pm in the Armory with Commander C A Parker announcing refreshments.
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Wilbur A Morgan
Ohio Division of Wildlife
Cambridge
Morgan
Conrath-Bean
The
Disabled American Veterans
Armory C
Parker
Condemnation Proceedings Completed in Common Pleas Court
Condemnation actions against Murchisons by Tennessee Gas Transmission Co were completed Wednesday afternoon in the Common Pleas Court. The case, heard by Judge Jamea Ehinnhon, involved a pipe line easement across less than an acre of defendants property on New Marsinfield. The special master reported after about 1 hour 35 minutes, with defense represented by Parker Walker and AL Jones, and plaintiff by Samuel Fryykhine. Jury members were listed from Athens, Nelsonville, and surrounding areas.
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Strai
Vem
Lilan Hutchyson
Common Pleas
Murchisons
Tennessee Gas Transmission Co
New Marsinfield
Delineraton
Jamey Ehinnhon
Tagksan
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Ohio U
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