Anniversary Celebration Plans Stir Hock Hocking Scouts
Athens area Boy Scouts announce February as Anniversary Celebration Month marking the 1910 founding by Baden-Powell. Events include Scout Sunday February 7, a district camporee February 18 to 21, and widespread window decorations February 6 to 15. The drive emphasizes service to community and conservation projects with 22 organizations, 36 units, 866 youths, and 290 volunteers supported by United Appeals Fund.
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Joe Brugger
Hock-Hocking
Athens
Robert Baden-Powell
Athens County
Phillip Kah Jer
Don Skinner
Fisher Road
Ohio
Camp Kootaga
Parkersburg
Automotive
Page Chevrolet
Athens County Bar Association
Post
Scout
Kahler
America
Boypower
Ateast
United Appeals Fund
Gordon T. Page
Paul F. Ploutz
Keith Butt
Bruce Tabashneck
Wallace Taylor
Morrison Elementary
PTA
Mack Ellis
John Hall
First Presbyterian Church
Bruce Bunch
Charles Hawk
First United Methodist Church
Marion Crawley
Jerry Steward
Central Avenue Methodist Church
Louis Sytsma
Athens County Association For
Stanley W. Lindberg
H. James Graham
Bethel United Methodist Church
Bill Bentley
John R. Burns
Athens County Bar ‘Association
Snow Plow Accident Delays Train Near County Road 62
Snow removal truck on County Road 62 blocked a B and O crossing after stopping to view scenery. Driver Marvin D. Barnhart of Coolville alerted a resident as No. 11 passenger train struck the blade, causing front-end damage. County officials hope for lighter snowfall ahead.
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B&o
Marvin D. Barnhart
Coolville
Barnhart
Rush Creek Channel Plan Is Stopped
Ohio orders a freeze on two stream channeling projects after a December public hearing in Findlay, with state funding totaling 31500 frozen pending environmental review due late February. The halt affects the Rush Creek project and the south fork of the Licking River in Licking Perry and Hocking counties, funded by Watershed and Flood Protection Act programs.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio Water Commission
Natural Resources
William B. Nye
Findlay
South Fork
Licking River
Licking County
Rush
Creek
Fairfield
Perry
Hocking
Watch Those Darts all-women's darkleague formed in hotel
An all-women's darkleague has been formed at a Johannesburg suburb hotel. Teams include the Vultures Eagles and Wildcats in this new darts league.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
The
Vultures
Eagles
Wildcats
Professor Fired Over Dual Teaching At California State College
In Los Angeles a mathematics professor, Ernest J. Eckert, 44, was dismissed after allowing a graduate student to teach a class while he taught at a private school. Trustees voted 9 to 2, a first for the state system under the single board. Eckert had 12 years on the faculty at California State College at Los Angeles, with tenure ending his job only for extraordinary reasons.
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Los Angeles
California State College
Ernest J. Eckert
California State College At
National Forecast Open with Rain Along Coast and East
The national forecast calls for rain Sunday along the Pacific Coast and the mid Atlantic states. Warmer in California and colder in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. High Friday 53, low Saturday 27. Precipitation Friday 0.17 inches. total this month 2.56 inches. normal 2.43 inches. Sun sets 5 48 pm. rises 7 37 am. Barometer 29.61 at 9 am Saturday.
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Pacific Coast
mid-Atlantic States
California
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Honor Society Names 38 At Athens High
Betty Watson reports Athens High inducted 38 juniors and seniors into the National Honor Society. New members were chosen for scholarship leadership service and character. Inductees include John Abel Margaret Baird Caroline Breitenbarger Daisey Crawley Signe Denbow Kathy Galloway and others. Mrs. Smith urged members to write to prisoners of war and missing in action in Vietnam.
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Betty Watson
National Honor Society
Robert Smith
Athens High School
Mark Swart
Larry Bratten
Bratten
Alex Couradis
Jo Wood
Linda McIntorf
John Abel
Margaret Baird
Caroline Breitenbarger
Daisey Crawley
Signe Denbow
Kathy Galloway
Marsha Goodman
Rebecca Hollinger
Peggy Kappes
Anne Klimko
Dana Lacy
Marilyn McHarg
Gary McVey
Emily Murphree
Solveig Overby
Bruce Phillips
Sue Sheridan
Stuart Smith
Roger Watson
Roy Wood
Robert Anon
Deborah, Armbruster
Jeanne Bochard
Roland Breitenberger
Laura Brookins
Norm Clearfield
Marsha Dougles
Teresa Dudis
Kathleen France
Jim Gilham
Robert Guinn
Robert Hailes
Craig Matthews
Jane McCarty
Mary Russell
David Sargent
Roxane Sheck
Anne Swardson
Mrs. Smith
National Honor
Spragues Delegates To Session
Dr and Mrs William E Sprague formerly of Athens served as delegates to the Fifth Inter American Conference of the Partners of the Americas in San Jose Costa Rica. About 500 members and reps of inter American development groups met to discuss private sector roles in hemisphere development. The Partners of the Americas spans 40 U S states and 18 Latin American nations and aims to develop technical assistance programs in economic medical educational agricultural and social fields. Dr Sprague a former Athens physician now in Grand Rapids Mich is co chairman of medicine for the Michigan British Honduras Partners of the Americas and is the son of Mrs J R Sprague and the late Dr Sprague. The conference ran last Sunday through Thursday.
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Washington
William E. Sprague
Athens
Partners of the Americas
San Jose
Costa Rica
American Hemisphere
U. S. States
Latin America
Sprague
Grand Rapids
Mich
J. R. Sprague
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