Youth Overcome By Drug Tests In Athens Incident
Athens police investigate a weekend case in which a 15 year old boy was found unconscious in a car. He was rushed to Sheltering Arms Hospital where tests indicated drug intoxication. He later claimed intoxication from mixed drinks but denied drug use. The youth was released to relatives and the case remains under investigation. Police seek two adults tied to last weekend’s arrests of four juveniles from Athens High School. The four teens face Juvenile Court in February on delinquency charges. A 20 year old woman was questioned. she and the youths were released to their parents.
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Athens
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Athens High School
Athens County Commissioners Review Finances and Projects
County officials reviewed fiscal issues from the recent Ohio legislature session. They approved a limestone bid from Ball and Ball of Amesville at 2.50 per ton and 1.75 for berm material. Talk covered soil conservation funding, South Bridge repairs, shared office space at the Campbell Building, and potential court housing. An Ohio University student reported a 1967 motorcycle stolen from Berry Hall parking.
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Ohio
Athens County
Ball and Ball
Amesville
Harry Dust
Ball
Howard Stout
Paul Brown
Ohio University
Robert Morgan
Newtown
Berry Hall
Good Taste Lecture At Ohio University By NBC Exec Jahncke
Ernest Lee Jahncke Jr., NBC executive in charge of standards and practices, will speak at Ohio University in Ewing Auditorium at 8 p.m. February 4 on standards and good taste in television and self regulation of broadcasting. He has led ABC and NBC roles and serves on boards for Broadcast Pioneers Broadcasters Foundation and International Radio and Television Foundation.
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Ernest Lee Jahncke, Jr
Ohio University
Ewing Auditorium
Jahncke
National Broadcasting Co
American Broadcasting Co
Ohio
Jahneke
The
Broadcast Pioneers
Broadcasters Foundation
International Radio and Television Foundation
Girls Suffer Brain Damage From Glue Sniffing
In Jackson Mississippi two sisters aged 15 and 17 were ordered into Columbia State Training School after a state judge found they had brain damage from sniffing glue. The older girl was hospitalized after a glue sniffing party and doctors say the younger’s brain damage is permanent. Identies were not released.
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Jackson
Columbia State Training School
Police authorize tear gas pens for Bridgeport officers
Bridgeport mayor Hugh C Curran orders all police patrolmen on duty to carry cartridge pens housing pressurized tear gas. The new gear aims to aid officers facing unruly crowds and is not an increase in administrative workload.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Hugh C. Curran
Two Women Taken To Health Center After Illness
Fire department emergency squadmen carried two young women to Hudson Health Center after becoming ill at home. At 11 39 p m Miss Sandra Moss 19 of 105 N Congress St was taken to the center and at 4 19 a m responders aided Miss Rebecca Oroez 20 of Hayes Hall.
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Fire Department
Hudson Health Center
Sandra Moss
N. Congress St
Rebecca Oroez
Hayes Hall
NAACP Unit Organized In Athens
Harold C. Strickland of the Columbus NAACP outlines goals for the Athens County branch including a reconstruction of the Negro image and local solutions to problems rather than Supreme Court decisions. Ohio University President Vernon Alden urges a climate of opportunity and notes housing discrimination against Negro faculty and students. Irene Lucas elected president with Edgar Whan as vice president and Ron Williams as secretary. Llewellyn Kemmerle named treasurer.
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Harold C. Strickland
Columbus
Athens County
Mount Zion
Vernon R. Alden
Ohio University
Athens
Alden
Irene Lucas
Guysville
Edgar Whan
Ron Williams
Llewellyn Kemmerle
Patricia Neal to Return to Films in The Subject Was Roses
New York reports Patricia Neal resumes movie work after a three year break starring with Jack Alberson and Martin Sheen in The Subject Was Roses. The film adaptation is by Frank D Gilroy, produced and directed by Edgar Lansbury and Ulu Grosbard, partners from the stage original.
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New York
Patricia Neal
Jack Albeson
Martin Sheen
Frank D. Gilroy
Edgar Lansbury
Ulu Grosbard
Auto Crash Investigated In City Intersection
An automobile crashed at 2 a.m. Sunday at North Congress and Carpenter Streets. Charles J. Lee Jr., 19, of 169 North Congress Street, skidded on wet pavement and struck a parked car owned by Bernard Spaulding Jr., 97, North Congress Street. Lee was charged with unsafe operation of a motor vehicle. The 1968 model car was demolished.
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N. Congress and
Carpenter Streets
Charles J. Lee Jr
Congress St
Bernard Spaulding Jr
Lee
Censors Invite Agnew to View Obscene Movie
Annapolis Md governor Spiro T Agnew and aides were invited by the Maryland Board of Motion Picture Censors to view an alleged obscene film The board faces legislative criticism for being archaic after Supreme Court rulings An aide said Agnew doubted he would attend.
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Annapolis
Spiro T. Agnew
Maryland Board of Motion Picture Censors
Supreme Court
Agnew
LBJ Seeks 1 Million for Athens Hocking Channel Project
President Johnson proposes a 1 million dollar appropriation for the Athens phase of the Hocking Conservancy District as part of a broader state list of Army Corps projects. If approved, funds would allow the 4 million Athens project to proceed this year, relocating a new 200 foot wide channel with rip-rap banks and using excavated material for levee fill. Local appraisals and land negotiations continue, with work projected to start after July 1 if Congress acts.
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Hocking Conservancy District
Congress
Johnson
Athens
Army Corps of Engineers
Racine Locks
Corps of Engineers
Hocking River
White’s Mill
McBee
Donald Johnson
Nelsonville
Logan
Rockbridge
Chauncey
Conservancy District
Glouster Personal News Crowded with Visits
Glouster residents share travel and family visits from Big Run to Columbus and Akron. Ira Stansberry attended funeral services for Don Kendall in Big Run, Pa., en route home visiting with Frederick Stansberry in Chillicothe. Richard Byers and family visited Ernest Byers in New St. Westerville guests Beatrice Vaughn spent time in Columbus and Akron with relatives. Merle Danford returned home from Trimble after visiting Coshoc ton friends. Ronnie Watring, former minister, spoke at Glouster Church of Christ as guests from Cincinnati and Dayton attended.
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Ira Stansberry
Big Run
Mr. Stansberry
Don Kendall
Glouster
Chillicothe
Inlaw
Frederick Stansberry
Richard Byers
Westerville
Ernest Byers
New St
Everett Antle
Eldon Antle
Everett Antles
Vaughn
Akron
Alta Williams
Etta Worden
Mrs. Vaughn
Carole Jo Graham
Lisa
Florida
Merle Danford
Trimble
Charlotte Caley
Mary Caley
Coshocton
Rhys Evans
John F. McAllister
Columbus
Henry Hughes
Millard Easler
Don Goff
Ronnie Watring
Charles Nelson
Cincinnati
Ronnie
Bishopville
Sapp Withdraws From Athens County Commissioner Race
Arthur Sapp former Chauncey mayor withdraws from the May primary race leaving two Democratic incumbents John Law and Donald Poston plus Fred Burdiss as nominees. James Edwards commission president is among four undecided candidates.
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Athens County
Arthur Sapp
Chauncey
John Law
Donald Poston
Fred Burdiss
James Edwards
Commission
Glouster Groups Schedule Meetings This Week
Twig 2 meets Wednesday at 7 30 p m at Mrs Winnie White's Monroe Street home Elementary PTO meets Thursday at 7 30 p m at Hollister School WSCS of the Methodist Church meets Thursday at 7 30 p m in church social rooms with hosts Mrs Gary Walton and Mrs A E Moore and program head Mrs Ansel Gamwell.
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Twig 2
Winnie White
Monroe St. Elementary Pto
Hollister
WSCS
Methodist Church
Gary Walton
A. E. Moore
Ansel Gamwell
Rainy Mild Weather Holds Over Athens Monday
U S Observer C L Colmer reports Monday morning at 9 a m the temperature in Athens at 40 degrees a rise of three degrees from the overnight low weekend highs reached 50 and 51 inches of rainfall totaled .06 for the weekend and rain persisted through the morning.
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Athens
U. S
C. L. Colmer
Federal-Hocking class earns second in parliamentary procedure
Federal-Hocking's vocational agriculture class won a second place award last week in a parliamentary procedure contest at Winton High School. Competing were Bryan Mansfield, president, Lester Tabler, vice president, Gary Storer, treasurer, Rick Timblen, secretary, Steve McKinley, sentinel, Harlan Jarvis, reporter, Don Bise, Mark Bartlett and Jeff Koehler.
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Federal-Hocking
Winton High School
Bryan Mansfield
Lester Tabler
Gary Storer
Rick Timblen
Steve McKinley
Harlan Jarvis
Don Bise
Mark Bartlett
Jeff Koehler
Three Hurt In Two Mishaps Near Albany and Athens
Two Saturday night crashes left three people injured near Albany and Athens Meigs County. Robert Starr, 27, driver, suffered a brain concussion and lacerations after his car plunged through a bridge railing into a creek. Delbert Redding, 45, owner, had head lacerations. Starr received a speed citation. In a second crash, 18 year old James Capacino, Murray Hill New Hampshire, injured shoulder and chest after a car driven by 18 year old Dan Love of Columbus veered off after an incident with another vehicle that turned left. The other driver fled the scene.
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Columbus
Albany
Athens-Meigs
Robert Starr
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Delbert Redding
State Highway Patrol
Starr
Carpenter Road
Ohio University
James Capacino
Murray Hill
N. H
Hudson Health Center
Dan Love
Love Start
Athens High Wins First In TV Show
Athens High School won its televised Academic Bowl contest presented by WHIZ in Zanesville, defeating Lakewood High School. Team members were Bill Huntsman science, Sharon Guinn English, Alan Shermer history, and Ron Lane math, all of NHS with adviser Mrs. Helen Porter. The winning team received $100.
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Athens High School
Zanesville
WHIZ
Lakewood High School
AHS
Bill Huntsman
Sharon Guinn
Alan Shermer
Ron Lane
Helen Porter
Porter
Band Meet Scheduled
Glouster High School cafeteria hosts a February meeting for Trimble Local fourth grade students and parents about joining the instrumental music program. A music company representative will demonstrate instruments and explain the trial plan. Parents should attend with their child if interested this school year.
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Glouster
Glouster High School
Trimble
Sheltering Arms Hospital Notes Admits and Discharges
Hospital notes list admissions including Edward Phelps Maurice Ayers and several Athens residents such as Mrs. William Drake and Roy D. Rowland. Discharges cover patients like Glenna Burt Brent Gillespie and Theresa Cornell, among others.
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Glenna Burt
Brent Gillespie
Audre Foucault
William Boggess
William Liggett
Theresa Cornell
Harry Brill
Probation Given to Indiana Man in Non Support Case
A former Athens County man now in Indiana appeared before Common Pleas Court Judge John W. Bolin and pleaded guilty to a non support charge. Bolin placed Jack L. Scott on two years probation. He was set for a jury trial Tuesday after an indictment by the January term grand jury.
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Athens County
Indiana
Common Pleas Court
John W. Bolin
Bolin
Jack L. Scott
Scott
Fireworks Incident Tied to Weekend Arrest
John A. Jordan, 21, of 5 N Congress St, pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to tossing a lighted firecracker from an automobile on E Union Street. He was fined 25 dollars plus costs. Sgt. Ted Jones, who followed the car, made the arrest.
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John A. Jordan
N. Congress St
E. Union Street
Ted Jones
Jordon
Monsignor Kish Investiture Set Feb. 4 Reception Planned
A reception for Monsignor Jan B. Kish pastor of St Pauls Catholic Church will be held Sunday Feb 4 from 3 to 5 pm to honor his elevation to domestic prelate and Papal household membership. Formal investiture will be held Tuesday at the cathedral in Steubenville.
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Msgr
Jan B. Kish
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Monsignor Kish
Steubenville
Two Charged In DWI Cases In Athens Municipal Court
Two drivers faced DWI charges in Athens Municipal Court. Michael B. Jones, 21, of 75 W. State St., pleaded guilty, fined $200 plus costs, seven days in jail, and a six month driving suspension. George Perry, Athens Route 1, pleaded innocent and his case was continued to February 7 with a $300 bond.
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Athens
Michael B. Jones
State St
George Perry
Athens Route 1
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