Drake Leaves Logan Schools for Strongsville Superintendency
Harold E. Drake resigns as Logan City Schools superintendent after two years to take the top post in Strongsville Ohio. He starts August 1 moving his family as housing allows. Drake notes better advancement prospects while Mrs Drake sang in Logan Methodist Church choir before moves from Elm Valley Ashley and education at Ohio Wesleyan OU. No replacement named.
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Logan
Harold E. Drake
Logan City
Strongsville
Cuyahoga County
Cleveland
Drake
Ag Logan
Methodist Church
Elm Valley
Ashley
Wallace Blake
Zanesville
Two Traffic Cases Heard in Hocking County
Two cases heard by Hocking County court involved John Patrick Cheshier who forfeited a $19 bond for failure to appear on improper passing and Cecil Burk charged with unsafe operation on Route 33. Burk was found innocent and the case dismissed after Patrol described two workers placing warning signs by a center line work zone.
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Logan
Hocking County
Vaughn Collins Monay
John Patrick Cheshier
Columbus
State Highway Patrol
Cecil Burk
Burk
Laurel Valley Boys 4H Club Meeting Minutes
Logan June 26 4H club meeting held at Laurel Valley Grange hall with all members present. President Danny DeLong chaired as Clayton Starr proposed inviting a foreign exchange student. motion passed. Adjournment followed by Mike DeLong and Clayton Starr. Next meeting set for July 10.
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Logan
Laurel Valley Boys 4H
Laurel Valley Grange Hall
Danny DeLong
Clayton Starr
Mike DeLong
Pvt Blosser Completes Eight Weeks At Fort Sill
Pvt Blosser of the U S Army has finished eight weeks of advanced individual training at the Field Artillery Training Center Fort Sill Oklahoma. His wife Janet resides Route 1 Shawnee and his parents Mr and Mrs William L Blosser live in New Straitsville. He is a graduate of New Straitsville High School.
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Blosser
U. S. Army
Field Artillery Training Center
Fort Sill
Oklahoma
Pvt. Blosser
Janet
Shawnee
William L. Blosser
New Straitsville
Pvt
New Straitsville High School
Sheriff Deputy Ed Smith Honored by Standard Oil
Logan Sheriff’s Deputy Ed Smith received a trophy from the Standard Oil Co. for exemplary police work in solving the Seals Market and Service Station robbery at the intersection of $3 and 595 on June 21.
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Logan
Ed Smith
Standard Oil Co
Hocking County
Prowler Haunts Farm Home Three Times
A 15 year old girl from Logan on Skinner Road reports a prowler appeared three times over the weekend. Deputies Thrush and Smith investigated the incidents with one sighting Sunday night and a second at 11 45 a m Monday. The intruder escaped when help was sought. The home was ransacked and the telephone left disconnected.
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Logan
Mrs. Kranitz Dies At 27
Mrs. Mary Kathryn Kranitz 27 of 739 Warner Ave died Monday at University Hospital Columbus after five weeks as a patient. She was daughter of Henry John and Bernadine Sparks and wife of John J. Kranitz. Survived by son Michael, brother Robert Sparks, three sisters, and maternal grandmother. Requiem high mass Thursday 9 a.m. at St John’s Catholic Church. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Friends may call Roberts funeral home.
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Logan
Mary Kathryn Kranitz
Warner Ave
University Hospital
Columbus
Henry John and
Bernadine Warren Sparks
John J. Kranitz
Michael
Robert Sparks
Nelsonville
Betty McKinley
Thomas Collins
New Straitsville
Darrell Boss
Haydenville
St. John’s Catholic Church
Charles P. Foy
Oak Grove Cemetery
Roberts Funeral Home
Ex Glouster Resident Dies in Columbus Home
Harvey G. Norris 73 of 917 W Town St Columbus died Tuesday at his home after a long illness. A former Glouster resident, he was a retired coal miner and plasterer and lived in Glouster for 20 years. He was a member of the Glouster Church of Christ and the American Legion McCann-Frederick Post. Survived by wife Vesta a daughter Betty Davis and a son Victor both of Columbus, two brothers Herb of Florida and Levi of Akron six grandchildren and one great grandchild. Arrangements by Wiley Funeral Home.
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Glouster
Harvey G. Norris
Town St
Columbus
Norris
Glouster Church of Christ
McCann-Frederick Post
American Legion
Vesta
Betty Davis
Victor
Herb
Florida
Levi
Akron
Wiley Funeral Home
Canasta Eight Club Hostess As Card Night Ends
Mrs Paul Moore hosted the Canasta Eight Club at her South Logan home. Prize winners were Mrs Ruth Hartman high and Mrs Joe Schrader low. Guests included Mrs James Walsh Mrs Forest Walton and Mrs Dallas Heft. Mrs Schrader will entertain next on July 17. Rummage sale set in Nelsonville by American Legion Auxiliary Glenford Dugan Post 229 at the Legion building. Doors open 8 30 a m Friday and Saturday. Meeting of Order of Rainbow for Girls scheduled for Wednesday has been canceled. next meeting set for July 18.
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Nelsonville
American Legion Auxiliary
Glenford Dugan Post 229
Legion Building
Order of Rainbow
Order
Glenford Dugan
American Legion
Dance Opens Independence Day Observance At Club
LOGAN A pre holiday dinner dance at Hocking Hills Country Club Saturday night kicks off the July 4 observance with a 7 30 to 8 30 a m breakfast for members and an Independence Day mixed two ball tournament. The Women golfers association plans a Champagne Flight tournament with Fire works at 6 30 p m followed by a dinner business meeting.
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Logan
Hocking Hills Country Club
Roscoe Mowers
Howard Blums
Barton S. Holls
Chris Wolfes
William Horns
John Wards
Nelsonville
Charles Huffmans
Claude Chrismans
Duane Shipleys
William Brookers
M. B. Haney
Charles Corrigan
Brookers
Hocking Hills Women’s Golf Association
Betty Butts
Mary Kuhn
New Rainbow School Named by Hocking County Group
Logan officials announce the Rainbow School as the new name for the men tally retarded children program to start this fall. The Hocking County Mental Health Association executive committee approves the name and names advisers James Gastin Mrs Katherine Siler Martin Sharrett and Mrs Fred Good for the advisory council. People interested in teaching the first class should contact James Gastin at EV 5 4374 for an application.
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LOGAN
Raiibow School
Hocking County Mental Health Association
Katherine Siler
James Gastin
Martin Sharrett
Fred Good
Hospital Notes From Mount St. Mary
The Mount St. Mary Hospital records births and admissions listing families and patients by name and home location. Notable entries include new babies for Anderson Sullivan Kastler Markin and others, along with several admitted and dismissed patients across Glouster Nelsonville Chauncey and Athens areas.
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Lloyd O. Anderson
Logan
Junior G. Sullivan
Sardinia
John Kasler
Glouster
Marion Markin
Corning
Verna Decker
James R. Tipton
Nelsonville
Frank Williams
Anna Brooks
Howard Keeton
Diana Thomas
Chauncey
Tammy Ritz
Hattie M. Harper
Bertha Knapper
Clara E. Fields
McArthur
Charles Faires
Charles Pratt
Athens
Nannie Jiiden
Jean Britton
Union Furnace
Carl Cox
Frank Gross
Wellston
Ethel Blackford
Dedee Jago
Linda Burchfield
Lucy Talbert
Logan Calendar Highlights From Local Granges and Church
Miller Chapel Grange hosts potluck at 8 p.m. with Hocking Grange members as guests. Ladies Bible Class at Union Furnace EUB Church 7:30 p.m. Coins collected. Lehman Leach reunion noon basket dinner at Kachelmacher Park for friends and relatives. Fourth of July ice cream social at Laurel Valley Grange hall starts 4 p.m.
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Miller Chapel
Hocking Grange
Union Furnace Eub Church
C. H. Bennington
Charles Bowen
Lehman-Leach
Kachelmacher Park
Laurel Valley Grange
Auto Club In Parade
Sixteen members of the Athens County Antique Auto Association and their families met for a wiener roast at the city park. Milford Barker and Harold Wright were voted in as new members. The club plans to join the July 4 parade in Racine with West Virginia Vintage Auto Club members, leaving at 7:45 a.m. from Public Square. A picnic lunch and tour will follow the parade. The next meeting is July 25 at the home of Dale and Mrs Channel.
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Nelsonville
Athens County Antique Auto Association
Milford Barker
Athens
Harold Wright
Clarksburg
W. Va
Racine
West Virginia Vintage Auto Club
Dale Channel
the Plains
June Not a Bride Month in Hocking County Reports
Logan records show 16 marriage licenses issued in June, the lowest for that month since 1953 54. The yearly licenses follow a pattern with counts from 1949 to 1961, highlighting June totals and a drop versus past years. Also note: Auxiliary of Glenford Dugan Post 229 American Legion meets at 7 30 p.m. Thursday.
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Logan
Hocking County
Glouster Boy Wounded In Accident At Caplinger Home
Darrell Travis a 13 year old from Glouster was shot in the back with a shotgun at 1370 Cosgrave Ave Zanesville. Police say the accident occurred Sunday night while the boys played in the Caplinger residence with Travis placing the shotgun on a bed and Caplinger moving to put it away. Travis is listed in fairly good condition at Bethesda Hospital after emergency surgery.
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Zanesville
Darrell Travis
Bethesda Hospital
Ray Caplinger
Cosgrave Ave
Ralph Travis
Young Travis
Travis
Caplinger
Ex-Resident Peggy Cheeseman Dies at 56 in Toledo
Mrs Delma Peggy Cheeseman 56 of 827 Ketcham Street Toledo died Monday morning after a heart attack at a Toledo hospital. Former Nelsonville resident, she moved to Toledo 15 years ago. She is survived by her father Edwin Malone, husband Charles Cheeseman, son Richard Cheeseman, daughter Dorothy Richard, brother Frank Malone and six grandchildren. One daughter preceded her. Services Thursday at 2 30 p.m. at Flagler Lehman Mortuary Toledo. Burial in a Toledo cemetery.
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Nelsonville
Delma
Peggy) Cheeseman
Ketcham St
Toledo
Edwin Malone
New Plymouth
Charles Cheeseman
Richard Cheeseman
Dorothy Richard
Frank Malone
Flagler Lehman Mortuary
Miss Johns Secures Second Place in Marietta Invitational
Carolyn Johns of Hocking Hills WGA posted second low gross in the second flight of the Marietta Country Club women’s invitational last Thursday. She toured the 18 holes in 97 strokes, daughter of Warren Johns of N Mulberry Sr, Logan High School graduate, planning Ohio University studies this fall. Also competing were Alice Roberts and Mary Jane McKinley.
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Logan
Carolyn Johns
Hocking Hills
Annual Family Picnic Set for Murray City July 29
Murray City Ohio hosts its second annual family picnic for former residents at Wyoga Lake Park on Route 532 between Cleveland and Cuyahoga Falls. Attendees should bring food and refreshments to the event.
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Murray City
Ohio
Wyoga Lake Park
Cleveland
Cuyahoga Falls
Man Wrecks Rushing Woman To Hospital
An 87 year old woman was rushed by ambulance to Mount St. Mary Hospital after a crash on Watkins Street near Chestnut Street. Clarence M. Smith 41 of 1108 High Street drove west on Chestnut at about 75 mph and collided with a parked car owned by Paul F. Betts, injuring Lucy Talbert 149 Fourth Street. Talbert suffered facial and arm lacerations and pain in the hip and neck. her condition was reported as poor. Smith said he was rushing Talbert to the hospital when she became unconscious and fell to the floor. Smith was cited for unsafe operation and to be arraigned in Mayor Hoffman's court Tuesday.
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Nelsonville
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Watkins St
Chestnut St
Clarence M. Smith
High St
Max Walkinburg
Watkins
Paul F. Betts
Walkinburg
Smith
Chestnut and
Grosvernor
Lucy Talbert
Fourth St
William Hoffman
Hospital ER Busy as Seven Treated Over Weekend
Logan Hocking Valley Hospital emergency room treated seven people over the weekend. Franks Gill six stepped on a tin can injuring his right foot. Cerana seven cut on the knee at the city pool. Leake fourteen had a fishhook removed below the right eye. Moorehead thirty nine had abrasions and a torn ankle ligament from falling from a moving fire truck. Cline forty burned hands washing a bottle. Williams three broke right arm from a fall. Householder ten punctured right foot stepping on a nail.
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Circleville
Jack N. Moorehead
Logan
Pansy Cline
James Eric Williams
James Williams
Columbus
Mark Householder
Walter Householder
Bremen
4 H Club Meeting Demonstrates Table Settings
The Rainbonettes 4H Club met June 26 at 7 30 p m at Laurel Valley Grange hall with four members present Eddie Beecher attended as a visitor Annajean Notestone demonstrated proper table settings and prepared a menu write up plus served refreshments The next meeting is July 10 at 7 30 p m at Laurel Valley Grange hall with Linda Weaver giving a demonstration and planning refreshments.
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Logan
Rainbonettes
Laurel Valley Grange Hall
Eddie Beecher
Annajean Notestone
Linda Weaver
Nelsonville Native Killed in Arizona Accident
James A. Register, 17, a Nelsonville native and last Troop 64 Life rank holder, died in a one car crash near Kingman Arizona Friday. Funeral services were held today in Kingman. His family had moved to Arizona two years ago.
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Nelsonville
James A. Register
Kingman
Ariz
Robert Lent
Young Register
William Nelson
John H. Coker
Boy Scouts of America
Tom Clark
Buddy
Register
Lent
Arizona
James O. Register
Hocking Valley Hospital Notes Bulletin
Mrs James L Woods Logan medical Mrs W R Fowler Logan surgery Elsa a Rockbridge medi Robert Webb Logan Hospital notes list local patients and procedures in brief.
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James L. Woods
Logan
W. R. Fowler
Elsa A Rockbridge
Westfall Declines York Executive Aide Post
Nelsonville guidance counselor Harry Westfall announced he will not accept the York Local schools assistant executive head job. He cited lack of Athens County Superintendent recommendation and not applying through that office. He notes the June 23 board meeting reports and confirms his decision despite the 11 month contract and $8000 annual salary.
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Westfall
York
Nelsonville
Harry Westfall
Logan City
Buchtel- York
Athens County
Buchtel-York Board of Education
Ralph Clum Named New Nelsonville Elementary Principal
L. C. Gray, the school superintendent, announced Monday the hiring of Ralph Clum of Athens as principal of Ralph Clum Elementary. Clum, 40, holds a BS in elementary education from Ohio University 1946 and is completing a master's degree. He has taught in Philo and Loudonville and worked in Chicago and in radio TV in New York and California. He was last a supervisor of elementary student teachers at Ohio University and will move to Nelsonville this summer.
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Nelsonville
L. C. Gray
Ralph Clum
Athens
Clum
Ohio University
Thornville
Thornville High School
Philo
Loudonville
Vocational High School
Chicago
New York State
California
Lowell Cole
Jaycees Will Have July Fourth Dance
Logan Jaycees sponsor a Fourth of July eve benefit dance at the Izaak Walton Clubhouse Lake Logan. Proceeds go to the Hocking County Mental Health Association. The Blazers will provide music for the 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. event.
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Logan
Logan Jaycees
Izaak Walton
Lake Logan
Hocking County Mental Health Association
The
Blazers
Williams cited for hauling trash without permit in city case
Logan Ernest Hobart Williams aged 52 of New Straitsville Route 1 was cited by city police for hauling trash without a permit on E Hunter Street at 9 45 a m Monday. He will appear before Mayor Delmar Freeman at a later date.
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Logan
Ernest Hobart Williams
New Straitsville
E. Hunter St
Delmar Freeman
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