Kentucky Gets Center Nipped in Letter Campaign
A plan to flood the White House with Athens residents letters to urge a data processing center was halted as Rep. Brent Spence announced the center would be built in Covington, Kentucky. The decision ends a contest with Cincinnati, backed by Rep. Walter Moeller, amid regional job concerns and site advantages in Athens.
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Brent Spence
Cky
Washington
Covington
Cincinnati
Walter Moeller
Athens
Civil Service
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
Virginia
West Virginia
Raymond Shepard
Kennedy
Milk Grades Established For Athens County
Jan 1 to July 1 milk grade rules announced by the Athens City County Health Department. Dairies and processing plants are graded on production and handling conditions. Local tests sample raw milk and pasteurized products with Ohio Health Lab in Nelsonville assisting. Grade A permits issued to Fairmont Foods Inc Hope Dairy Easler's Dairy Athens. Broughtons Marietta Belpre McClelland Jackson United Dairy Waterford Producers Coop Parkersburg Deeds Nelsonville Meadow Gold Lima Ideal Dairy Portsmouth Crystal Dairy Marietta.
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Athens City-County
Health Department
Ohio Department of Health
Nelsonville
Athens County
Fairmont Foods, Inc
Hope Dairy
Easler’s Dairy
All of Athens
Broughtons
Marietta
Belpre
McClelland
Jackson
United Dairy
Waterford
Producers Coop
Parkersburg
Deeds
Meadow Gold
Lima
Ideal Dairy
Portsmouth
Crystal Dairy
Acceptance of Building Postponed in Athens Area
County commissioners released 5.87 acres along Peach Ridge Rd to the city of Athens and postponed accepting the new sheriff's residence and juvenile quarters until several items were corrected. They also approved trading a county road on Ten Hill at The Plains for Angel Ridge with Athens Township, totaling just over a mile.
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Alton Hanning
Peach Ridge Rd
Athens
Claude
Virginia Kantner
W. H. Wakefield
James Edwards
Ten Hill
the Plains
Angel Ridge
Plains
Injunctions Sought Over Athens Sewer Assessments
Three Athens men request a Common Pleas injunction against County Treasurer Kincade to stop collecting current Sanitary Sewer District 1 assessments after failed council talks. The suit cites excess of benefits, value disparity after improvements, and lack of uniform plan, with revised figures for Briarwood Heights acreage and adjacent lots. Rose Rutherford joins in seeking similar relief with identical grounds and a separate petition. The revised parcel totals 28.49 acres with a $10 717.20 assessment.
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Athens
Peter F. Good
Dwight H. Rutherford
Fred H. Johnson
Treasuer
Rose Rutherford
Kincade
City of
Births and admissions at Sheltering Arms Hospital
Birth announcements list Mr and Mrs Dana Sheets of Athens Route 3 with a son, Mr and Mrs James Miller of Athens Route 2 with a daughter, and Mr and Mrs Owen McVey of Guysville Route 2 with a daughter. Admissions include Bruce Chapman of Guysville Route 1 and several residents named Mrs Bert Grafton, Mrs Fay McKay, Mrs John Shields, James Stalder, Mrs David Blake of Huntington, and Mrs Harold Darnell with an accompanying daughter.
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Dana Sheets
Athens
James Miller
Owen McVey
Guysville
Bruce Chapman
Bert Grafton
Fay McKay
John Shields
James Stalder
David Blake
Huntington
Harold Darnell
Athens School Lunch Workshop Highlights State Guidance
Athens City Schools lunchroom staff attended a high school workshop with Wade B Bash of the Ohio School Lunch Program. He stressed the lunch system as a major public service and noted it provides about one third of daily minimum nutrition.
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Athens City
Wade B. Bash
State Department of Education
Bash
Ohio
Bush
Mary Waddel
Father Files Suits For Land Partition In Athens
A father seeks partition of land in Athens that he owns jointly with his two daughters Kathy aged eight and Linda aged eleven. The land was inherited by Virgil B Dowler Shade and his daughters from the Erma M Dowler estate in November 1959. The two daughters reside with Pauline Cruickshank in Chauncey per the petition.
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Common Pleas Court
Athens
Virgil B. Dowler
Shade
Kathy
Linda
Erma M. Dowler
Pile Torture Soothed in Few Minutes
Relief ad for Peterson's Ointment promises fast relief from piles with a cooling astringent formula. Claims thousands benefited over 40 years. relieves itching quickly. Sold by druggists in 60 cents for box, 85 cents for four-tayer tube with money back guarantee.
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Peterson
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White House
Internal Revenue Service
Moeller
Spence
IRS
General Services
Firestone Champion
Firestone
Briarwood Heights Addition
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Nancy Jeffers
Dri
Sherwin - Williams
Kem Glo
Gilbert Shannon
Firestone Dealer
West Union Street
Athens, Ohio
Rubye Macauley
Ohio University
Maxwell Ferguson
Athens City School
Morrison
East
West Elementary
Athens High School
Pauline Cruickshank
Chauncey
Pinwale
Roy
Fea
Ture Price
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