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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1961
Page
11
A total of 37 cases are prepared for the January term grand jury convening Monday morning under new prosecutor Homer B. Gall. The docket includes a first degree murder charge against Marion H. Pickett, plus numerous breaking and entering, larceny and forgery counts, with several defendants pleading innocent.
Athens County boards announce meeting dates and officers at the office of County School Superintendent George Christman. The county board meets on the second Saturday each month at 7 30 p m with Esther Dailey as president and Lewis L Moore as vice president.
Donna Russell of Coolville files in Common Pleas Court a $55,000 damage suit against Oscar Tolliver of Middletown. She alleges injuries from a November 20 1960 accident on Route 50 near Coolville when Tolliver drove from a service station into her car, forcing her head through the windshield.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Stedman of Athens welcome a son. Several admissions include Shirley Tucker of Glouster Route and Mr. Wilbur McCune of Millfield. Dismissals list Mrs. Raymond Dunfee and Charles Gillian of Athens along with Mrs. Kenneth Malone, Jack George McGarvey, Albert Perry, Edwin Secoy, and Mrs. Dale Moffet of Athens.
Deputy Warden M. J. Koleski will address the final session of the police refresher school at 7 p.m. Thursday in the city building. Police Chief J. B. Grogan said Dr. C. F. Patton, county coroner, will be the other speaker on tonight's program, fourth in the series.
A Wednesday afternoon traffic crash at the intersection of the New Concord and Millfield Jackson ville Roads left no injuries. Harold Richard Sayre 28 Trimble. Earl Newton Shafer 62 Chauncey drove the car and county highway truck respectively.
A 4 H enrollment committee to boost Athens County membership will meet Tuesday at the county extension office. Don L. Davis says the panel was appointed by Mrs Marion Blazier with a Feb 6 reporting session. Carla Coates and Dixie Wolfe chair the committee. other members are Don Hawk Gene Clyse and Tom Thompson.
Athens County transfers include Helen Ferguson to Henry Mayer in Athens inlet 1660 via Lena Strausbaugh. Paul Hawk gains four parcels in Athens. Jack Oakley to Simmons Beal for Nelsonville parcels 946 and 947. Walter Wolfe to Allen Barnhart in Nelsonville inlet 607. Bessie Cuckler to Mary Lou Cuckler in Athens six parcels. Faye Johnson to Athens Ohio Knight of Columbus Home Assoc. ten acres outlet 21. William Lawson to Nellie Lawson half of lot 881 in Glouster. Beatrice Vaughn to James Murphy three point eighty five acres in Trimble. Hazel Hersman to Relda Hersman three tracts in Troy.
In Athens County Court on Wednesday two drivers were each fined 15 dollars and costs for driving left of center after a traffic crash on a county road Tuesday. Jimmie F. Gentry 22 of Little Hocking and Albert J. McClain 31 of Cutler Route 1 were charged by the State Highway Patrol.
Richard Hinton 27 a railroad worker of Glouster and Rosemary Drake 25 of Amesville obtained a marriage license. The notice lists both as the eligible parties and records the ceremony eligibility.
Police hunt a light tan Studebaker Lark delivery wagon used by Abraham's Pizza House. The car with license X-157-L vanished from near Read Hall and then again during a delivery run, with officers continuing the search this morning.
The Clench family two story nine room frame house burned out of control threatening the Rankin residence. Firemen under Assistant Chief Phil Hess battled the blaze in cold, snow with steam rising from water on hot wood. No injuries reported as acetylene tanks and gasoil lines were secured.
James Robert Darnell of Athens Route 2 was fined $100 and costs Thursday in Municipal court. He received a two day jail sentence with the fine suspended, and was placed on 90 days probation.
Common Pleas Court vacated an order suspending for life the driving rights of Hobart Stanley of Athens Route 5. The suspension, imposed in October 1952 for driving while intoxicated and accompanied by a fine, included a suspended jail sentence due to health. The restoration followed a motion by Stanley’s counsel.
Two drivers arrested by the State Highway Patrol forfeited bonds in Municipal Court. John W. Sears, 21, Cincinnati, posted $26 for speeding and Gloria A. Swindell, 24, Shade Route 1, posted $16 for a stop sign violation.
Margaret Walker of Nelsonville files for divorce from Ralph Walker of Gore in Common Pleas Court alleging wilful neglect and asking for custody of their three minor children. The couple married November 4 1950 at Haydenville.
Forest Rose Foreman gains a divorce from Robert E. Foreman on gross neglect grounds. Custody of two children awarded to Foreman with the husband ordered to contribute to their support. marriage dated November 1952.
Fire department emergency squad attended the intersection of Morris Ave and Watt St at 10 13 a m Thursday after John Wyers 75 of 52 South Shannon slipped and fell He was picked up by a private car and appeared uninjured
Dixie Lee Wingett charges Charles Guy Wingett with gross neglect in a divorce petition filed in Common Pleas Court. The couple, married in December 1953, have no children.
Ohio colleges including Ohio University will move ROTC advanced course summer training from Fort Bragg to Fort Knox Kentucky for 1961. Virginia schools will shift from Fort Knox to Fort Bragg. Camps run June 17 to July 28 to cut transportation costs and train closer to home.
James Henderson aged 78 from Chauncey, a retired worker, and Lydia Chalfin aged 77 from Chauncey, a housekeeper, obtained a marriage license.
Snow nears one inch by 11 a.m. with accumulations of two to four inches expected in Southeastern Ohio as a winter system moves through the region. Temperatures drop to sub zero by Saturday morning after a high of 21 yesterday. University area observers report six degrees above zero and seven below on prior day.
Horton B Alger assistant state conservationist will be principal speaker at the 15th annual Athens Soil Conservation District meeting Wednesday. The 8 p m session in the Junior Fair Building on the fairgrounds will include supervisor elections and reports by the chairman and Ed Wagoner on the Margaret Creek Watershed Program.
The district men fellowship will gather at 7 30 p m Friday at the Church of Christ in New Marshfield with guest speaker Paul Bennett of Grundy West Virginia. Dean Mills says members should bring cookies and donuts.
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