Merchants Offer Reward In Anti Shoplifting Move
The Athens Retail Merchants Association announces a $50 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of shoplifters in member stores. Signs will be placed in stores to deter theft amid minor incidents and past high profile cases involving two 14 year olds and a university student's wife. Juvenile Court granted probation with no leniency for a second offense following court statements by the youths.
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Athens Retail Merchants Association
Athens
J. W. McBride
Ohio University
John W. Bolin
Four BIS Escapees Apprehended After Stolen Car Chase
Four hungry teens from Columbus Cincinnati Canton and Hamilton were picked up by city police at W State and Shafer after escaping BIS Wednesday. They had spent a day in the woods, stolen a car near Lancaster, and were later found near Chauncey and Athens. A motorist gave them a ride into Lancaster Street before authorities detained them.
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Lancaster
BIS
Columbus
Cincinnati
Canton
Hamilton
Chauncey
Athens
Lancaster St
Shafer St
C A Ewne Rites Monday
Funeral services for Charles A. Ewne Ewing 80 former Athens resident and retired carpenter will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at Dowler Ferguson Hughes funeral home. He died Wednesday night in Miami Florida. Survived by daughters Lola Horner Akron and Nita King Miami five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Burial at Hebardville.
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Charles A. Ewing
Athens
Southwest 12Nd St
Miami
Fla
Town and Country Lodge
Knights of Pythias
First Christian Church
Lola E. Horner
Akron
Nita E. King
Dowler-Ferguson- Hughes Funeral Home
Joe B. Maffett
Hebardville
Area Man Arrested On Desertion Charge
An Athens Route 2 man was arrested Thursday by the FBI for desertion from the Air Force. Jay Glendale Nutt, 18, had been absent from Dover AFB Delaware since Sept. 17 and was unemployed. He was jailed in Athens awaiting military authorities from Ft. Hayes Columbus to pick him up.
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Athens
London visit on Athens election fraud probe
Police Chief J. B. Grogan and Prosecutor Harold Rose returned from the Criminal Investigation Bureau in London where they declined to discuss the ongoing Athens November election fraud investigation. Ballots from Athens Ward 4 Precinct 3 were sent to London for handwriting analysis after “short pencilling” was found and verified by authorities. detained officials underwent lie detector tests as to recall of the grand jury remains uncertain.
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J. B. Grogan
Criminal Investigation Bureau
London
Athens
London Bureau
Board of Elections
London Crime Laboratories
Grogan
Rose
Shelterin g Arms Hospital Notes
A list from Shelterin g Arms Hospital records births and discharges. New arrivals include a daughter for Mr and Mrs David Rose of Athens and a son for Mr and Mrs David Hostettler of Athens Route 4. Several patients and guardians are noted with towns Chauncey Glouster The Plains Guysville Wellston Trimble and others.
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David Rose
Athens
David Hostettler
Emerson Guthrie
Coolville
Lawrence Dupler
Millie Osborne
Chauncey
Paul Williams
Mary Ann Shepard
Glouster
Russell Budworth
the Plains
Richard Reed
Everett Mansfield
Guysville
Dianna Carsey
Robert Fennell
Chauncey, and Son
Charles Weiss
Marvin Guiler
Theodore Winner
Trimble
Theological Education Sunday speakers from Athens and Jackson
Thomas Hughes of Athens and Donald Terry of Jackson will speak at Episcopal churches Sunday in observance of Theological Education Sunday. Hughes attends Bexley Hall at Kenyon College and will speak at Trinity Church London. Terry, a senior, will address the Church of the Good Shepherd in Athens.
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Thomas Hughes
Athens
Donald Terry
Jackson
Episcopal
Bexley Hall
Divinity School of Kenyon College
Gambier
Ohio
Hughes
Frank FE. Hughes
Trinity Church
London
Ohio University
Terry
Church of the Good Shepherd
Athens Mayor Race Secured by Sands and Shepard
A Republican mayoral primary in Athens will feature Kenneth W. Sands and Ray Shepard after filings closed pending the Feb. 6 deadline. Sands, a former police sergeant and juvenile court officer, joins petitioner Leo Dennison in contest. Mayor Peter B. Seel has yet to announce.
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Athens
Kenneth W. Sands
State St. Lands
Ray Shepard
Peter B. Seel
Sands
Seel
George R Keeton Promoted To Airman Second Class
George R Keeton formerly of The Plains has been promoted to airman second class while serving with the Air Force at Hahn Air Base Germany.
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Paul M. Gould
Raymond C. Gould
Athens
Elizabeth J. Meek
Columbus
Maddox
May E. Golden
Guysville
3Rd Armored Division
Germany
Clifford W. Golden
Canal Winchester
Rome-Canaan High School
Army
George R. Keeton
the Plains
Hahn Air Base
Air Force
Cancer Unit Forms Plans for Campaign
Mrs Oral Daugherty of Nelsonville is named Athens County chairman for the cancer fund drive with Dr Lorin Staats of Athens as city chairman. The executive board of the American Cancer Society unit met at the Church of the Good Shepherd and outlined plans for a district Ohio division meeting on Feb 4 at the Hotel Berry. Mrs William Harman reported that volunteers have made and distributed over 3600 dressings to county cancer patients and urged residents to donate sheets or white shirts via Mrs Josephine Risch at 127 W State St.
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Nelsonville
Athens County
Cancer Fund
Lorin C. Staats
Athens
American Cancer Society
Church of the Good Shepherd
Society
Ohio
Berry
William Harman
Home Service
Athens County Native Floyd Oberholzer Dies at 59
Floyd E. Oberholzer, 59, native of Athens County, died at Good Samaritan Hospital Zanesville after a cerebral thrombosis suffered Oct. 3. An industrial arts teacher at Grover Cleveland Junior High Zanesville, he was born in Ames Township to William and Elizabeth Hixon Oberholzer. He taught in Athens and Columbiana counties before Zanesville. Survived by wife Kathryn, brother Carson of McArthur, sisters Mrs. Lee Harper of McArthur and Mrs. Charles Howard of Coshocton. Funeral from Hillis Zanesville to Fawcett-Stone Chesterhill. Service at Mound Hill Church Sunday 2 p.m. Burial in adjoining cemetery.
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Floyd E. Oberholzer
Athens County
Good Samaritan Hospital
Zanesville
Grover Cleveland Junior High School
Oberholzer
Ames Township
William and
Elizabeth Hixon Oberholzer
Ames High School
Ohio University
Columbiana County
Katheryn
Carson
McArthur
Lee Harper
Charles Howard
Coshocton
Hillis
Fawcett-Stone
Chesterhill
Mound Hill
L. F. Miller
Frozen Rain Pellets Turn To Light Snow In Athens
Tiny pellets of frozen rain shifted to light snow in Athens this morning as temperatures hovered around the freezing mark. Rural Hamley Run logged 30 at 9 a.m. after a low of 26 earlier. Thursday’s highs reached 34 and lows 12.
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Athens
Hamley Run
Drunk Driving Case II Continued in Court
William Sabo of Glouster faced a continued Municipal Court hearing on charges of driving while intoxicated. His attorney raised a jurisdiction dispute over whether the arrest occurred inside city limits. Sabo, age 43, denies the charge after being arrested by city police at the town’s north edge.
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William Sabo
Glouster
R. W. Finsterwald
Sabo
Fire department aid for pedestrian injury on Court Street
Emergency squadmen cared for 70 year old Mrs Grace Henderson of 313 East State Street after a pedestrian knocked her to the sidewalk in front of 6 South Court Street at 12 16 p m Thursday. Fire Chief Charles W Dalton said she would see her doctor about possible injuries.
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Grace Henderson
E. State St
S. Court St
Charles W. Dalton
Henderson
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