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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1969
Page
3
Ten ice caused crashes reported in the Athens area this morning with two injuries. A 46 year old man Percy King of Athens was hospitalized with possible neck injury after his car struck a guard rail on Route 33 north of Athens.
The Bethel No 56 Chapter of the International Order of Jobs Daughters held a semi annual installation at the Masonic Hall in Glouster with about 75 attendees. Installing officers included Patty Byers as Installing Officer and Barbara Mingus as Installing Guide. New officers named were Janalee Brunton as honored queen Jennifer Jarvis as senior princess Cathy Andrews as junior princess Lois Lantz as guide and Debbie Parker as marshal. Other posts filled include Jane Simons chaplain Lindsay Alderman recorder Debbie Walton musician Becky Christman librarian Karla Geiger first messenger Lynn Gamwell second messenger Mary Morrison fourth messenger Betsy McAllister fifth messenger Linda Dew senior custodian Debbie Mingus junior custodian Donna Price outer guard and guardians William Irwin Thomas and Joan Price.
Chauncey sewage disposal plant is 78.2 percent complete after delays from floods. Construction by Kel-Par Construction Co. resumes in spring as weather cooperates and work continues under engineer Tom Underwood.
The Athens SDS holds its winter meeting outlining workshops in internal education corporate research racism dormitory organization guerrilla theater and draft resistance to undermine government structure. Participants discuss expanding membership to two million and recruiting youth while warning of a purge and planning a new campus newsletter.
The 1969 officers and board of Athens Kiwanis Club were installed at The Ohio University Inn. Earl Funk became president, with James Mason and Dale Leach as vice presidents, Dale Shultz as secretary, Waldo Bowers as treasurer, and Frank Harms as division lieutenant governor. The retiring president Haig Addison received a plaque for his year.
Two women were hospitalized after separate incidents Tuesday morning. Mrs. Margaret Coleman 65 sustained a left hip injury and facial laceration at the Phi Delta Theta house on 10 W Mulberry St. Mrs. Judy Channel 21 from Pomeroy Route 3 suffered facial wounds after an auto crash on Pomeroy Road and a later transfer near South Bridge. Fire crews also responded to a false alarm at Porter Hall and noted a building being wrecked and trash fires. About 22 Kiwanis members received perfect attendance awards during a ceremony attended by 100 people.
J Lyndon Johnson executive vice president and Athens office manager was elected to Logan Federal Savings and Loans board along with Earl D Later to succeed retiring directors. Johnson and Later join long time directors including W Denzel Weltner Walter A Leonard and Bruce Fickel who was re elected board president. Johnson a Lancaster native and former Fairfield Federal official has years of civic activity and church ties while Later serves as Izaak Walton League secretary treasurer and remains active in bowling and Nazarene Church.
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