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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1977
Page
7
A red tailed hawk with an injured wing found temporary refuge with a Hocking County family. The bird allowed care, eats chicken livers from a feeding box, and returns to its usual haunts as its wing heals.
The Hocking County Sheriff's Department investigates a break in on Rauber Road and a CB radio theft in Haydenville. Harold Strait reports an intruder entered his home and ransacked drawers and cabinets while scribbling on walls with charcoal and leaving apologies. Paul McDonald reports his CB radio valued at $200 stolen from behind his house on Saturday.
A Hemlock couple escaped as a Sunday morning fire destroyed their trailer home on Main Street at about 3 a.m. Shawnee and Corning volunteer fire departments fought the blaze but could not control it. The cause remains unknown.
A list of group activities in Athens County includes Order of Eastern Star meetings at the Athens Masonic Temple and Eomem Circle, Presbyterian Women with Mrs. Lackey, Kiwanis Club at Hotel Gordon, Democratic Women with speaker Martha Crewson on Life and Times in Malaysia, Junior Women at the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. office, Emblem Club at Elks Lodge, Paramathia Lodge 25 F and AM, Green and White Club at Baker Center, plus Al-Anon at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Loci Grange, Glouster Scouts, Then Chapter 192 CES, and Eudora Chapter 72 Eastern Star in Nelsonville.
The Southeast Ohio region expects snow flurries tonight and Tuesday with 50 percent and 30 percent precipitation chances respectively. Lows near 20 to 25 tonight and highs in the low to mid 40s Tuesday, with colder and snowier conditions through midweek and a return to lower temperatures by Friday.
Mason County schools were to resume today except in severe weather. All schools except Hannan High and Hannan Elementary would be back in session, though some secondary roads hindered bus routes to Mount Olive Wood and Broad Run Elementary. Hannan buildings lack heating fuel and have frozen water lines. A board member urged individualized instruction where class sizes are small. Parents were asked to bring children to school if buses are not running.
Wellston firefighters report two pigs died in a late night blaze at the Emory Dever residence on Berlin Corps Roads due to an apparent electrical short. A cat survived, found safe beneath a box. crew also responded to a boiler malfunction at the Wellston Nursing Home later Saturday with no fire.
The Ohio University Women’s Hobby Club meeting was postponed to February 10 due to weather. The United Presbyterian Women Tuesday Afternoon Circle meeting at Mrs. Ray Knudson’s home was canceled. Athens Logan basketball games were postponed with no makeup dates set. The Canaan Grange meeting for Tuesday was postponed. Water Commissioner Tom West urged Zaleski residents to let faucets drip to prevent freezing.
Logan area industries idle or curtail activity due to gas shortages. Some firms run on alternate fuels while others cut heat and close. Officials in Wellston and McNally- Pittsburg imposed extreme conservation. schools in Nelsonville York closed for water shortage. Logan city schools in session with reduced heating and afternoon heat shutoff.
A barn fire on Route 33 near Athens destroyed the Milford Bailey farm barn and killed 35 registered sheep. Loss estimated at 20000 with 10000 set for barn and 10000 for contents. Firemen arrived at 1 55 am after a motorist spotted flames and found heat lamp usage cited as possible cause. Another alarm at Beechwood Estates on Route 50 for smoke led to residents baking cookies as volunteers stayed to help.
State Highway Patrol reports 18 year old Michael D. Carter of Route 33 Nelsonville was hit by a car driven by 29 year old Albert J. Winchell of Nelsonville while walking in the northbound lane at 9 p.m. Saturday. Carter suffered a lacerated forehead and possible leg fracture and was taken to Mount St. Mary Hospital. No citations were issued.
Emergency runs include multiple patient ill trips from Lakeview Apartments to O'Bieness on Monday at 4 36 am and from Grosvenor Street to O'Bieness Saturday at 10 53 pm. A Saturday 3 17 pm report notes a patient injured in a fall from Court Street to O'Bieness. West Union recorded an $18 an hour rate for a Woodside Drive to O'Bleness ill patient. Athens firemen were called Sunday morning to a trash fire in front of 37 N Court St with damage reported.
Ruth N. Black, 50, of 1331 Fourth St., was injured when her car skidded off Route 33 and struck a guard rail. She was transported to Hocking Valley Community Hospital, per the Hocking County Sheriff's Department.
Mary Kalklosch of Wellston 92 died at Holzer Medical Center She was blind 78 years and survived by three daughters nine grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren She is buried at Ridgewood Cemetery Friends may visit James N Blower Funeral Home Wellston. Grace Dupler 74 of Murray died Sunday evening arrangements announced by Warren Funeral Home.
Multiple death notices from Wellston and surrounding towns list residents ages from 66 to 90. Names include Napper Varian Massie Hudnall and Stover with survivors, service details, and burial plans across Ohio communities.
Hospital notes mention James Riley Ethel Saylor Jonathan Cone John Halterman Deborah William Huber Deanna Ohler Kelly Meeks Mrs Bruce Lawrence and son Richard English Mrs Terrance Skinner and son Eber Linscott Barbara Cartwright Elliott Bedit Mrs Golda Weaver Mr PW Hanning Mrs Shirley Spier Mrs Charles Colburn Mrs Lauree Kirk and Mrs Sharon Baker.
Miss Becky Rosser Eugene New Jay McDaniel Mrs Letta Rankin Mrs Mary Sturgeon transferred to University Hospital Mrs Mina Withem Mrs Mary Keplar transferred to Kimes Convalescent Center Mm Debra Tackett Fred Six Mrs Mary Bailey Clyde Bobo Jessie Barnhart Paul Sowers Kristine Bostater Garrett Warren Harold Winefordner Michael Carter transferred to Berger Hospital Circleville
Pomeroy Village Council in a special session Friday night rejected all bids on a tractor backhoe and loader. Bids readvertised. Brown Tractor Sales bid 13 935 72 for new equipment plus 3 001 for old machinery. Southeastern Equipment Co bid 19 867 minus trade in and 7 117 for street sweeper totaling 12 750. Robert Aley Charleston bid 2 109 87 on the old tractor.
Wahama High School in Mason County was evacuated at 9 15 am after a bomb threat reported to police at 9 13 am Trooper J R Smith led a search of the buildings as snow from overnight is noted in the area
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